The hide button will not work for long. It is an attempt to treat the symptom and not the cause. I run large communities, and I've implemented "hide" and "ign

The hide button will not work for long. It is an attempt to treat the symptom and not the cause. I run large communities, and I've implemented "hide" and "ignore" functions for pretty much everything in my time. People rub each other up the wrong way, so they want to ignore anything the other person says. People get rubbed up by all threads on a certain topic, so they want to ignore the topic. When a topic hits the news in a big splash and half the front page is the same thing, they get annoyed and want to ignore the whole of that topic for a short while. Failing to hide/ignore all of that stuff results in them lashing out to the detriment of all. But, if you indulge it by providing the hide/ignore all you've done is hide the symptom. Now people think it's cured and it is not. The problem here isn't the content, it's the reaction to the content. The problem here is with the reader and contributor, not pg and the code base. The problem is that there needs to be a shift in attitude and etiquette from a lot of users. It's a people problem, and people need to be shown what isn't an acceptable way to behave.