One of the most frequent complaints I hear about the STEEMIT user interface is how come **resteems** can't be separated out (or **toggled**) from a user's own content.  This can be especially frustrating when you're trying to catch up on a person's own posts, or even evaluating if you want to **follow** a person in the first place!  We really don't need one more impediment in the already fragile process of acquiring new interest to your STEEMIT "presence".

I've thought about trying to tackle the issue myself, although most recently, I've been a bit tied up with some other "fun" side-projects, including the Discord WhaleBoT, <a href="https://steemit.com/beyondbitcoin/@alexpmorris/steemit-world-meet-the-discord-community-s-latest-member-whalebot">which I wrote about in my last post</a>.  

Then, in the past week, @itchykitten came up with a <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@itchykitten/extreemit-chrome-plugin-to-hide-resteems-on-profile-pages-original-by-itchy">slick solution in the form of a Chrome extension called **exstreemit**</a> that would add a "show / hide resteems" button to each profile page that you view.  However, I anticipated from my own habits that not everyone would be all that comfortable installing the feature as an extension, even if @itchykitten <a href="https://github.com/ratacat/exstreemit">released the complete source code on github, as you can see here</a>.  From some comments I've seen, it does seem that at least a few people would rather not install this feature as an outright extension. 

So, as an "alternative solution", I decided it would still be useful to throw together another version using <a href="https://tampermonkey.net/">TamperMonkey</a>, a very popular userscript manager.  It's also available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox.  So while some people may not be so comfortable adding an entire extension to add one small button to a website, such functionality can easily be added to your TamperMonkey "Dashboard" as just another script to run, complete with source code as well so you can be quite certain there's no "funny stuff" go on.

# The Script
Once the script is installed, you will find a new "show resteems" / "hide resteems" button that will **toggle** the status of the resteems on the profile page you're looking it.
<center>![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQYXHkLv4A3h8pZ1ntQM1FTTT6knt5EaVUo7hdj2nNAcR/button_hide-resteems.png) ⟷ ![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmaRcPxCKNV45aPVaWMbBkP7WvJatgkKqtih7ZCfVsLs4r/button_show-resteems.png)</center>


For those who are already familiar with **TamperMonkey** and want to try jumping right in, just "Create a new script" with TamperMonkey, and paste in the following code named **"Hide ReSteems"**:

```
// ==UserScript==
// @name         Hide ReSteems
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.12
// @description  Button to Toggle ReSTEEMs from a User's STEEMIT.com Profile and Feed Page
// @author       @alexpmorris
// @match        https://steemit.com/*
// @grant        none
// @require https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js
// @require https://greasyfork.org/scripts/6250-waitforkeyelements/code/waitForKeyElements.js?version=23756
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    var isHiding = false;

    waitForKeyElements ("#posts_list", addReSteemToggleBtn);

    function addReSteemToggleBtn(userDiv) {

        var validUrl = document.URL.replace("https://steemit.com/","");

        if ((userDiv !== null) && (validUrl.startsWith("@")) && ((validUrl.indexOf("/")==-1) || (validUrl.endsWith("/feed"))) ) {

            isHiding = false;
            var zNode       = document.createElement ('div');
            zNode.innerHTML = '<button id="rsButton" type="button"><img id="rsBtnImg" src="https://steemitimages.com/DQmQYXHkLv4A3h8pZ1ntQM1FTTT6knt5EaVUo7hdj2nNAcR/button_hide-resteems.png"></button>';
            zNode.setAttribute ('id', 'rsContainer');
            zNode.setAttribute ('style', 'width:120px; margin-bottom:5px;');
            userDiv.prepend(zNode);

            //activate new button
            document.getElementById ("rsButton").addEventListener (
                "click", ButtonClickAction, false);

            function ButtonClickAction (zEvent) {
                if (!isHiding) {
                    $("#rsBtnImg").attr('src', 'https://steemitimages.com/DQmaRcPxCKNV45aPVaWMbBkP7WvJatgkKqtih7ZCfVsLs4r/button_show-resteems.png');
                    if (validUrl.endsWith("/feed")) $(".PostSummary__reblogged_by").parent('').hide(); else
                        $(".PostSummary__reblogged_by").filter(function () {return ($(".UserNames",this)[0] == null);}).parent('').hide();
                } else {
                    $("#rsBtnImg").attr('src', 'https://steemitimages.com/DQmQYXHkLv4A3h8pZ1ntQM1FTTT6knt5EaVUo7hdj2nNAcR/button_hide-resteems.png');
                    $(".PostSummary__reblogged_by").parent('').show();
                }
                isHiding = !isHiding;

            }

        }
    }

})();
```
#
# Where's the "Button"?
After copy/pasting the script above into a new TamperMonkey script, you should be set to go!  You'll know you're on the right track when the next STEEMIT profile page you visit looks like this:

<center>
*before hiding...*
![hide-resteems1.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXhVrG3jan2iWUXz9MgRpoiY7MJq3oxrXTZHHTNipZcEz/hide-resteems1.jpg)</center>

<center>*AFTER hiding!*
![hide-resteems2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmfAfFF9TCipdqRAr8k5uFs4uZybeRvxVw6fQ6C3JCv4QH/hide-resteems2.jpg)</center>


# TamperMonkey VIDEO HowTo...

For those of you unfamiliar with **TamperMonkey**, this terrific 2 minute video overview should get you right up to speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_CVBkg4HPk

# Finally...

You can also find the script code on **github.com**: https://github.com/alexpmorris/HideResteems

And on **greasyfork.org** as well: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/31120-hide-resteems

It's always possible I've missed something, so if you have any issues, or even just to share your experience with the "Hide ReSteems" script, please be sure to comment below!

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*As always, I appreciate your upvote, your follow and all your comments!*
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