In late 2016 HN tried for a week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 It didn't even last for a few day

In late 2016 HN tried for a week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404 It didn't even last for a few days and made things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785191 In 2012, I wondered if HN could go 2 months as a meta comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3807875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3807875 I'm totally not still at least a little exasperated by the few downvotes at the time and the subsequent changes in the 10 years since. Point is, it's not going to happen. Try to avoid looking at it (I don't even know what antiwork thread you're talking about), and if you look at it try to avoid engaging. If you do engage, do so with a persistent username to resist a throwaway troll (and if you get banned reflect on how you're making things worse) and also maybe things will be a bit better if you try to only engage from a history-looking perspective or even a meta perspective and not per se an arguing perspective. I once collected a bunch of HN names of people I like reading and put them into some site that tried to intermingle them, sorta like twitter, but I think the site died and anyway without context it's hard to read all at once like a feed and there are other issues. Still, something like your own self-curated list of accounts to be your entry points to either comment trees or whole posts would probably be helpful to avoid seeing stuff you hate engaging in.