Suggested by Sumana in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69404

To help the user ignore specific other people (to avoid friction), I'd like an ignore option -- that is, if a Flow board includes messages from specific users that the reader is trying to avoid, Flow would perform some kind of display suppression, such as initially not expanding those posts, and making the user choose whether to view them.

(inspired by http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-August/078050.html )

Danny:
This is an interesting idea; I want to hear more about the use cases, and talk to Nick about it. Is there an equivalent on talk pages? Is there a risk of someone ignoring an admin who's trying to help?

I understand the "good person avoiding persistent harassment" use case. I just want to think through how a "bad person" might use this feature...

Sumana:

Thanks for the note, Danny. I understand that it's important to think through how both good-faith users and malicious users could end up using something like this.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/494928 has some more thinking on the topic.

You're absolutely right that there's a risk that a user could ignore someone who is trying to help them.

I think the community liaisons would be able to give you better and more use cases; if you'd like to ask for the stories of people who have to see sexist, homophobic, and transphobic language in onwiki discussions right now, you might want to consult:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

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