User blocking doesn't appeal to me, I just ignore and move on. But maybe I'm just not that sensitive.<p>The only HN extension that has withstood the test of time for me is a thread folding one, <a href="https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027" rel="nofollow">https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/130027</a>. I imagine there are other variants. It let's you quickly ignore those giant flame-war or off-topic threads.
Interesting, Fark has this built-in and it is sometimes really useful, but it does cause problems in some threads.<p>I've been thinking about something that would allow you take notes about other users and have those notes pop up when you hover over their name[1]. It is sometimes hard to remember who is who. It would probably be helpful to have a way to save comments that you thought were pretty cool.<p>1) I also thought this would be a great Google Glass app for older users (note about person or place appears when seen / there), but without facial recognition it wouldn't work.<p>[edit: with -> without]
I don't really pay attention to names and have never felt a desire to block or even ignore anyone.<p>Now that I think about HN extensions, I could really use something that correlates articles and HN discussions in both directions.<p>More than once I've read something sourced elsewhere and ended up doing a site:news.ycombinator.com search to look find discussion for the same.
I hereby christen this extension, "Weenie Ware."<p>Why?<p>Only a true weenie would feel the need to block someone on a global scale.<p>More reasonable users simply ignore what they don't wish to read.
I've been working on the same thing for firefox as a userscript. It's certainly more equitable then hellbanning, and inane threads about how subject x is turning hn into reddit.
awesome. so how about the ability to add regexps(?) so that we filter people based on content? mentioning no names, but some users are great when they're talking about technical issues, but not so great on the social / political side...<p>also, have you consider trying to unify user ids across websites? <a href="http://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.acooke.org/cute/Automatemy0.html</a><p>oh - and another feature (now i open the site on my laptop) - sharing across computers!
Reminds me of the a scene from the '50 first dates' movie where Adam Sandler asked Alexa a question, and replied, "Then again, there are always ways around such things, for example, if I promised a woman's father I would not see her, I would simply shut my eyes while she serviced my manhood.".<p>Those people are real people not bots and spammers, blocking them are simply an absurd way to do it, or 'shutting your eyes to get around with it'. A quick solution, but you are not solving the root of the problem.
I fear now we'll be having a lot more inflammatory, useless, space-filling remarks like "I can't see what he just said I have him on ignore".<p>My philosophy is to simply ignore trolls without any extension (since fortunately there aren't many on this site, it's not hard), so I'm not really sure if this extension is so necessary.
For those of you wondering why someone might use something like this, I had someone who made a fake account to follow me around on HN and insult me for a while. They got shadowbanned, but I like to keep showdead on, because it's interesting, so I still had to read it.<p>Woulda been nice to be able to just block them, but luckily with no responses they moved on to twitter (!) to harass me instead.
I'm glad you spent your time making an extension so I can block people on this superficial website. Are you going to pitch it to investors? If it doesn't work are you going to publish an article name: "Here's how not to start a startup."