There are a lot of categories of posts on here that I would love to block. I hate the customer service ones also. Especially where people complain about their account being banned and whatnot.

But the effort required to shift the opinion of the entire community to get an entiery category of posts banned is a lot of work, and might even be a waste of time.

Instead, what I do is I only look at this site via RSS. Then my RSS reader I have various rules I've configured to filter out posts. I gotta start working on some rules to filter out the "I got scammed" posts.

Actually if they could be categorized somehow, we could selectively filter and that would solve a ridiculous number of problems.

Including the folks who complain because conversations they care about get flagged. They could simply be categorized instead of flagged.

It certainly wouldn't need to be a perfect system to be a better one.

I think that will have to happen with a new forum site, though. HN has worn paths in the carpet treading the same path so frequently.

I like these kind of posts same with the I got blocked. I have compassion for these people, the internet is hard

Send me some gift cards and we can solve this.

Should we penalize titles with 'scammed' in them? Or even 'scam', which would match a lot more?

They're certainly mostly bad, but then most articles are; it's more important not to miss the few interesting ones.

I don't think the issue has risen to the level where such a step is warranted. But a good solution if it continues to trend upward.

"scam" AND "scammed" FTW!