I would like to simply have the option to permanently hide stories, see a list of hidden stories, the same for marking them as favourites (so people who care ab

I would like to simply have the option to permanently hide stories, see a list of hidden stories, the same for marking them as favourites (so people who care about a submission can more easily carry on the discussion for a bit longer than the brief time it's on the front page).. and then be able to collapse comment threads and remember their state (save it in local storage), and the option to sort comments by date, maybe mark new ones since last visit lightly. I.e. I don't want an echo chamber as such, but some tools to not have to wade around things I already saw and don't further care about would be awesome.