Most-favorited Hacker News posts

Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by 3pt14159 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:13AM (#24353440)

Removing "hide" is the wrong call. People, especially in work environments, need to be able to hide links for all sorts of reasons. For example, if you work at Apple and there is an inflammatory article or if you've recently lost a family member to suicide and there is an article on a famous figure in the tech community committing suicide like Aaron Swartz, you probably don't want to see that on the homepage of HN for the day. It's one of the best features of Reddit and HN, imo.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by debaserab2 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:44AM (#24353762)

Hide is super useful for threads you want to read but have the typical knee-jerk flamebait war responses at the top that turn into massive comment trees that you want to skip.

A lot of times the good stuff is at the bottom.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by jt2190 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:59AM (#24354478)

So much this.

The population of commenters seems to be dominated by those whose goal is to argue and win, rather than to understand and learn. So many times I see comments that make no attempt to take context into account, and instead conflate all sorts of things, making it impossible to comment productively. (Basic example: Top comment has not replied to the thesis of the article, but to something else.) When one of these types of comments is at the top of the comments list I just hide the whole story, because there’s literally nothing to see but people talking past each other.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by abnry on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:36AM (#24353691)

Hide is important to me too. I don't want to be worked up by the threads that I know will br charged that I'm tempted to click on.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by toomuchtodo on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:14AM (#24354031)

Seconded. I hide threads I know I won’t be able to have a productive conversation in.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by nitrogen on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:23PM (#24367057)

This may have been referring to the "hide" link on the HN homepage, rather than collapsing threads.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by ma2rten on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:26PM (#24355526)

I wish you could hide stories by keyword or by domain.

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Re:Most-favorited Hacker News posts by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday September 03, 2020 @01:03AM (#24360933)

I feel like that should be doable with a ublock rule

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