[punee]

This stuff is why HN commenters are the Adolf Hitlers of the internet. Etc. Etc.

P.S. Can we get a Hacker News ignore function? Is there a chrome extension that offers that?

[dang]

It's pretty core to HN that everyone sees the same stuff (modulo 'showdead' in profiles)—same front page, same comments. There's no question that this brings many local annoyances, but it also has some global advantages. So we're reluctant to change it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073237 and marked it off-topic.

[rm_-rf_slash]

There's a brain function that lets you ignore things that you don't like, if you choose not to think about them.

[punee]

So not thinking about things you don't like makes them disappear?

That's odd, because I spend about 0% of my time thinking about dumb Hacker News comments, and yet I can see them right there, and before you know it, I've read them and wasted my precious time. How come?