I've noticed my twitter feed is better on average than my HN feed these days. For a brief moment I considered that the quality here is going down or that there it is going up (imagine! lol).<p>Then I realized it's all about my abiltiy to filter there.<p>There is a somewhat small but vocal and obvious contingency of HN posters who are just repeatedly arguing in bad faith or making low effort comments.<p>They are also often found discussing almost exclusively political topics and have very little to offer in terms of technical expertise.<p>I think my experience would be massively improved by being able to filter them out.<p>I see filtering as a kind of distributed community vote, and eventually if the majority of the community starts to filter out certain members, the net effect is like a distributed shadow ban. Those people won't be engaged with and will probably leave for somewhere they can get reactions.<p>I'm guessing this goes against HN culture and won't be accepted, but I thought it was worth discussing, because my ability to filter has left me with a pretty delightful experience on an app otherwise not known for them, so imagine what it could do here on HN.
Nope, but you could probably write a browser extension for this pretty easily. Hell maybe you could even add an entry to an adblocker like UBlock Origin for each username.