Add option to hide contributor indicator completely

Question

I found this question: Add a little 'x' so users can close the new user contributor indicator. But it's about a specific user question.

This indicator only distracts attention from the question itself. So, would be great if we could hide/disable this indicator completely. For example, you can add such option on the profile settings page.

As a workaround just for now, script for Tampermonkey:

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Contributor indicator cutter
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @author       Suvitruf
// @match        *://*/questions/*
// @match        *://*/review/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==


(function() {
    'use strict';

    var doc             = document;
    var newNode         = doc.createElement ('style');
    newNode.textContent = '.new-contributor-indicator {display: none;}';

    var targ            = doc.getElementsByTagName ('head')[0] || doc.body || doc.documentElement;
    targ.appendChild (newNode);
})();

Answer 1

We won't consider adding an option that disables this completely. It would kind of defeat the purpose of even having the indicator at all if users can just go turn it off globally and never see it again, particularly for those users who definitely should be seeing it. If the indicator becomes too problematic to the point where we'd even consider this feature, we might as well just ditch the feature entirely.

By all means, users who really dislike it that much can modify the page to remove it, like any other element on the page one might find annoying. But we're not going to complicate the user settings page to make it easier for them to do so.

Answer 2

As a workaround for until this is implemented (if ever), you can add the rule

##.new-contributor-indicator

to your favorite ad blocker to hide both the indicator beneath the usercard and in the answer field.