> killfiles, and you are done. no, that didn't work. and that's a lot of the reason that usenet died. no matter how many of the regulars in any given group mi

> killfiles, and you are done. no, that didn't work. and that's a lot of the reason that usenet died. no matter how many of the regulars in any given group might killfile the local trolls, there was always at least a few people that did almost nothing but spar with them, filling the group with information-free dross that nobody sane was interested in. and there was nothing stopping the trolls from mutating their email addresses frequently, in an attempt to evade killfiles. hacker news is more-or-less drama-free because the mods have the power to remove disruptive users. if you'd try to apply a killfile-like solution here, HN would be long dead by now.