Feminist Pub XXI - The Pub with No Name

[erinaceus]

Welcome, everybody.

Happy Friday.

It absolutely wasn't a criticism of you or anyone else, Devi, I am just as likely to respond to intentional goading as anyone else. Hopefully, they will get bored and wander off to whichever part of the internet that they came from originally and we can actually discuss women's issues again without endless "what about the menz" -ing happening.

On no I didn't take it as criticism don't worry
I wanted to start a thread about some stuff I heard on R5 yesterday about porn addiction but I can't stand the thought of the guys mansplaining why porn is ok to me

SGM button, Devi?

Sorry don't get it!

Ooh I know!

There was a poster with the initials SGM who suggested to MNHQ that there should be a hide poster button but it was rejected by MNHQ. So instead it was agreed that we could just pretend to hide the poster.

I think you should start the thread Devi. I'm interested in porn particularly it's influence on adolescent sexuality.

Carry on, Devi, as if you have a virtual hide poster button. You can't see them. Their posts are invisible to you, blending into the background. Like tears in rain.

That's male tears in rain, natch.

Ok I will start it tomorrow if I'm not too hungover

Can't imagine what could cause deletions in here how strange.

Anyway, I can't have my usual pre-Sunday lunch gin & tonic as I'm doing dry January, and it is pissing me off. I'm having a virtual one in here instead - chin chin!

Um, I think Devi referred to a poster on another thread.

Ophelia speculated as to a reason why a particular poster acted as they did and I agreed as did prawn I guess someone took exception to the speculation. I don't think it was an attack but others might have. Never mind.

There once was a forum for women
To discuss the sexism we swim in
Then in flooded men
To tell us again
Of the hatred with which we are brimmin'

sigh

Good one I might do name changing to mess with their heads. Do you think that's against the rules?

I went on the porn thread, saw two of our be-testicled members going at it, and tiptoed carefully away - in that 'toddler just fell asleep in the middle of the floor after being a nightmare all morning' way...

I'm very guilty of being drawn in normally... but that one was just easiest to avoid.

Me, I'm not saying nuthin...

They really hate both men and women, don't they?

Sad.

(I now sound like Trump ffs)

Errr... I've just been experimenting.. if anyone's interested, you can hide a poster using a chrome extension and the right XPath expression...

I just blocked Helen (temporarily!) using the following:

'CustomBlocker' chrome extension (just search the Chrome store)

then, when on mumsnet, click the funnel icon in the top right.

Edit the target site, putting a star where you want a wildcard - so I've only blocked in FWR, so my URL becomes:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/*

Then, in the 'Elements to Hide' section, click 'XPath' and enter the following:

//DIV/SPAN[SPAN='HelenDenver']/../..

(substituting the nick you want to block - Sorry Helen! You were just in the middle of my screen when I tried this!)

click save, and now, when you load an FWR discussion, it'll do a little hiccup and hide anyone you've added a rule for...

to add more rules just click 'new rule for this site' and do the same.

I promise I've removed my Helen block now

PM me if you have hassles, I could probably do some kind of screen recording thing or something (I'm techie by trade, yet have big blind spots around fax machines, and other popular tech!)

Very good choc! The virtual hide poster button made real

I have been thinking about shifting to chrome (firefox ain't what it used to be), and if I do, I'll try it.

Wow! Need to try it

I bet there's plugins for other browsers (not the app unfortunately) - I used to use one on FireFox when I used it.

Choc

How awesome!

I forgive you for hiding me!

Thanks Helen - it was a temporary sacrifice I assure you.

For Firefox, there's 'Yet another Remove it Permanently' plugin (and so, presumably, a 'Remove it Permanently' plugin) that takes XPath block expressions.

It also seems that AdBlockPlus might be able to do XPath blocking too (although it's more involved) if anyone is desparate.