I think the "hiding" process is a bit too heavy handed, what I'd like to see is a dislike button that only affects your feed. So a person would never actually s

I think the "hiding" process is a bit too heavy handed, what I'd like to see is a dislike button that only affects your feed. So a person would never actually see that you disliked their post, but facebook could use that data privately to help you curate you feed. If you keep disliking someone's posts (and possibly even comments) facebook would show you less and less of them until they were completely gone from your news feed ... Not sure it would work so well in light of a recent article on here (I think) that showed that people in social networks like/upvote things and order of magnitude more than they dislike/flag things, but I think it would be interesting to try.