How Often Do You Use the Hide Thread Feature on DU?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

Poll question: How Often Do You Use the Hide Thread Feature on DU?

[mainegreen]

1. Round about once a month.

Mostly for news stories about terrible things happening to children. I just can't bear to even see those threads.

[zanne]

6. Same here. Children and animals.

I avoid them whenever I can. It's just too much and those stories stay in my head, especially at night when I'm trying to sleep.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i used to not use it at all. but use it frequently these days.

its kinda nifty.

[terrya]

3. Never.

Actually, I'd like to limit my time here. So, that the need to hide threads and ignore people won't be an issue.

I'd like to limit my time on DU. Don't know if I will, though. It's easy to say that you won't spend a lot of time around here.

[Blue-Jay]

4. All the time.

[bigwillq]

5. Multiple times a day

I hide every copy cat thread.....so that adds up to quite a few.

[I Have A Dream]

19. Yes, that's what I do also. n/t

[reyd reid reed]

7. I've used it...

but rarely. In the past year, maybe only two or three times.

:shrug:

[JackBeck]

8. I never use it.

Nor do I use Ignore.

[ThomCat]

9. Never. If I don't want to read a thread I just don't.

I don't need to hide them if I don't want to read them. :shrug:

[Raffi Ella]

10. In G.D. all the time -

Here in the lounge the topics don't get to me like that.

[BarenakedLady]

11. Never.

It doesn't take much effort to scroll past anything I don't feel like reading.

:shrug:

[trackfan]

12. Once - for the kudzu thread

[Jamastiene]

22. I'm bullish on kudzu. It's going places.

Bwahahahahhaa. I couldn't resist. KUDZU LIVES!!! :P

[Richard Steele]

13. I never used it once... until Anna Nicole Smith died. Used it 15 times a day for a week there.

Not so much lately.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. hey i did that to the anna nicole threads too

[idgiehkt]

17. that's how I use it

for threads that have the same topic when there are about 20 of them, for for when there are about 20 copycat threads. I use it when people post bodily function threads that I think are just gross (I have a week stomach and don't wanna hear about someone's diarrhea or whatever). I also use it for obvious flamebait I don't wanna get caught up in. I haven't hidden many threads in a while, but there have been times when I've cleaned out my cache of hidden threads and there have been 50 or 60 in there. I highly recommend ignore and hide thread, especially when there is stuff people are hanging onto that is months in the past and they just can't or won't let it go. Life is way too short to be bothered by that kind of garbage, and it's not what I come here for, yanno?

[wildhorses]

15. i had to vote ...kittens are cute especially since it is

green line and green is my favorite color...truth is, i used the hide thread feature when i first joined here but, then i went back and unhid them and now i never use it


i was such a noobie that i thought hide thread meant that it hid it from everybody:blush::rofl:

[skygazer]

16. I've never used it

I'm too damn curious. I don't use Ignore either. I have to see what sort of numb remarks people are making.

[IronLionZion]

18. I've never hidden a thread or ignored anyone. and I think puppies are cuter than kittens

Surely some kitten lover will ignore me now! ;-)

[Jamastiene]

21. No, some of us are just suckers for both

kittens and puppies. That would be me. Keep the puppy pictures coming, I'll awwwwww over them too. :D

[Zavulon]

20. Just about every time I see a copycat thread which I think is stupid.

That's a whole lot of copycat threads, BTW.

[NMMNG]

23. Rarely

It's not often I'm that bothered enough by the title of a thread that I have to hide it.

[crim son]

24. Probably once a month, no more.

Usually I just overlook them.

[Zavulon]

25. Just used it on some disturbingly-titled threads about Carrot Top.

Whatever those threads were about, I have better things to do.

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. I used to use it all the time.

Now I just put people on ignore. That's how I got such a long list. :D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. this is what i dont understand about you. arent i on your ignore list?

so how can you post in my threads? its confusing. i am officially confused by you.

:hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

28. I like to confuse people.

We are allowed to take people OFF ignore, you know. :eyes:

;)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. this is true.

:p

i guess i am less confused now.

[Magrittes Pipe]

30. That spoils my whole plan.

x(

[belladonna]

31. Never

I don't use ignore either. I like to know what everyone's up to, even the assholes. Here lately, especially the assholes.

[ProfessorGAC]

32. I'd Guess Four Times A Day

Really long threads that i think have been pretty much beaten to death get hidden. I'd rather have something else move onto the first page than something i know is just going to be a series of flamewar subthreads.
The Professor

[Breeze54]

33. Never.

It's just an exercise in futility, imho.

I just don't log in, somedays, and wait for the deluge to subside.