A particular user left many low-signal comments on this post, which was distracting, so I wrote a small userscript to remove the comments of arbitrary users. S

A particular user left many low-signal comments on this post, which was distracting, so I wrote a small userscript to remove the comments of arbitrary users. Sharing here in case anyone else finds it useful. // ==UserScript== // @name Mute users // @namespace Violentmonkey Scripts // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/item // @grant none // @version 1.0 // @author - // @description 12/18/2021, 9:43:19 AM // ==/UserScript== const mutedUsers = ['usernamehere']; // <== CHANGE THIS window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', mute); function mute() { for (const mutedUser of mutedUsers) { const result = document.evaluate(`//*[@class="hnuser" and text()="${mutedUser}"]/ancestor::*[contains(@class, "comtr")]`, document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE); for (let i = 0; i < result.snapshotLength; i++) { const el = result.snapshotItem(i); el.remove(); } } }