It's not too hard to write your own extension for this. I did this myself, but I'm hesitant to share it as I fear lots of people using it will result in everyo

It's not too hard to write your own extension for this. I did this myself, but I'm hesitant to share it as I fear lots of people using it will result in everyone hiding the same band of assholes, their comments not getting flagged, leading to a sort of "broken staircase" effect. That said, I would not be able to use HN without it. I find some prolific people on HN completely and utterly insufferable assholes. Currently the variable name is "bozo", but originally a different four letter word, and was written in a fit of "anger-driven development" after I decided I have zero interest in ever talking to a particular person ever again (the context was that they seriously straw-manned my "I think it's a complex trade-off with up- and downsides" opinion as "zomg you're saying it's impossible, you're stuck in the past!!11" over several threads even after I carefully tried explaining the nuance; I have no problem if people disagree with that, but this person is either not capable of reading the English language or is only interested in bullying their opinion on others – whatever the case, I have no interest in engaging with that). "You're also posting good comments, so I won't ban you yet" is the policy I disagree with the most on HN. Especially for some prolific people it means at least one, and often several, bad comments per day. These people should be held to a higher bar, not a lower bar. I don't care if you also post good comments about other topics if you lose your shit every time {certain politics, religion, Go, systemd, X11, Google, JavaScript} gets mentioned and you shit up every fucking thread with the same stupid bullshit. The occasional bad comment is normal; I probably have a few of those and no one is perfect. But I can name a few accounts from the top of my head and can virtually guarantee you there are going to be flagged shitty comments right on the first page. It baffles me some of these people aren't banned. Some other people on my list shouldn't be banned necessarily, but I just don't enjoy talking to them for whatever reason. Easiest for everyone to just hide it.