# How can I hide the 'Our Moderators' section?

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**Created:** [18.Май.2019 18:37:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-hide-the-our-moderators-section/118104 "2019-05-18T18:37:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [19.Май.2019 15:58:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-hide-the-our-moderators-section/118104/5 "2019-05-19T15:58:22Z")

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I think you’ve misunderstood what was meant by that.

A long time ago Google didn’t check if an element was visible prior to indexing it, which encouraged webmasters to insert all kinds of extra junk in their page in the name of SEO.

Today Google **doesn’t penalise sites** for hiding elements, there are lots of legitimate reasons to do so, they just downrank the content which is concealed.

> Hiding the content with a `display:none` might backfire on you. We are giving hidden content way less weight in ranking.  
> [Gary ‘Methode’ Illyes - Google](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31521462/search-engine-indexing-of-single-page-applications/31535615#31535615)

So unless your moderators are mission-critical SEO, this is perfectly fine to do.

Hiding their ads on the other hand? They’ll come down on you pretty hard for that.

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