# Posts linked to Pit Threads

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**Created:** [July 14, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-linked-to-pit-threads/915314 "2020-07-14T14:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/posts-linked-to-pit-threads/915314/17 "2020-07-18T23:41:49Z")

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I had mentioned this in the other thread, “[Please STOP suggesting threads for me to look into](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/911918/46)”. I thought a [CSS rule](https://meta.discourse.org/t/99635/2) might hide suggestions from the Pit category. Such a rule could be incorporated as part of the default theme.

The meta.discourse topic discussed a rule to hide “suggested topics”, which are the ones at the very bottom of the thread. Links underneath a post are called “post-links”. Upon examination, post-links don’t have category information embedded in them like suggested-topics do. That means, as far as I can tell, we can either hide them all or hide none (or rewrite the backend).

This CSS will hide all post-links, effectively disabling that feature.

```
.post-links-container .post-links {
	display: none;
}

```

Now, you _could_ do a mouseover spoiler by which the post-links only appear when hovered over. I don’t think that’s a good idea but it is possible. It would be sort of like this, except instead of clicking to reveal the spoiler, you would only hover:

> **Hover over blurred text below** :
> 
> - Dummy Link 1
> - Dummy Link 2

CSS for that mouseover-unblur effect:

```
.post-links-container .post-links li:not(:hover) {
	filter: blur(0.5em);
}

```

~Max

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