"Emergency Hide" for user

[jilly]

My site is a closed site (i.e. have to register to view posts) and is on a sensitive women's health topic. I have situations at my site where users have people find the site, and they do not want these people reading their posts - things like boss or co-worker, friend or family member, ex or current partner, stalker issues, etc.

The current way we handle this is we have created an option in usercp where a user can go and put themselves in or out of tachy goes to coventry, and we call it 'emergency hide' - this way it gets all their posts immediately out of view, without them having to edit or delete anything. Then in the future, as soon as the crisis is solved (1 day, 1 week, 1 month, whatever), they take them back out of tachy, i.e. 'out' of emergency hide.

This also is useful for members who get mad and in a fit of anger, want to leave the site. So they just go hide all their posts, leave, and then usually withing a day or two cool down and come back. In the old days, they'd go around deleteing their posts and then once they were back from being upset, were even more upset that they had deleted posts and lost a lot of info. This way, when they come back they just 'un-hide' their posts and they are very glad they didn't mass delete stuff while they were angry. It also makes them happy to 'instantly' hide all their posts when they are mad.

However, when you are doing things like searching for posts, or looking at the list of new posts, you can still see their username - but when you click on the post, you see the hidden post message.

It woudl be nice if there was some sort of option that a user could pick to instantly hide EVERYTHING from view, i.e. their name in the list of new posts, searches, memberlist, blogs, Social Groups, etc.

Basically a 'global' emergency hide.