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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
by 3pt14159 6y ago
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.
- abnry 6y agoHide 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.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoSeconded. I hide threads I know I won’t be able to have a productive conversation in.
- nitrogen 6y agoThis may have been referring to the "hide" link on the HN homepage, rather than collapsing threads.
- debaserab2 6y agoHide 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.
- jt2190 6y agoSo 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.
- ma2rten 6y agoI wish you could hide stories by keyword or by domain.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI feel like that should be doable with a ublock rule