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Is it possible to add a HN filter (hide) all paulgraham.com posts? I'm not interested in his posts and they pop up very often on HN.
by tutfbhuf 5y ago
Is it possible to add a HN filter (hide) all paulgraham.com posts? I'm not interested in his posts and they pop up very often on HN.
- hutrdvnj 5y agoI'm not sure what you are down voted. It's a very legitimate question.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoPeople ask for the same thing for politics, and for various subjects. So how many different "hide" filters should we create? Then there's the classification problem. Is post X really about politics? It's not binary. The only solution that would even approximately work would be to add a block list of domains to peoples' profiles. That way, if you don't want to see anything from paulgraham.com, and I don't want to see anything from HuffPost, we can each do that. But even that only approximately works. I've seen articles posted here that are Twitter comments on Paul Graham articles. Or, the absolute simplest solution: Skip over the articles that don't interest you. It's really easy to just move your eyes to the next line.
- tutfbhuf 5y agoIt could be very easy. Just hide all posts from that specific website, a very easy filter, not classification problem. > It's really easy to just move your eyes to the next line. Well if it's that easy, then why is there an hide button on HN in the first place?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoIt really is that easy. And, I don't know why there's a hide button. I have never used it that I recall; I had forgotten that it existed.