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>>limeli+(OP)
It's a funny trend in recent years that people are so offended by the opinions and ideas of others that they cannot bare to expose themselves to anything that person has to say.

Discourse and logical thinking are the basis of modern society and all of it's afforded comforts. If the inventors of the past had coddled themselves in a hugbox for their entire lives we would still be saying things along the lines of "A train can never go more than 10 miles an hour", "there wont be a market for more than 10 computers in the world", and "you wont ever need more than 64k of ram" because there would have been no one who would have heard--or even said for that matter--"No!"

If someone disagrees with you, just explain your points rationally and calmly. If it something you are passionate about, like the OP has pointed out in https://xkcd.com/386/, then isn't it worth the 15 minutes it will take to explain your viewpoint as I am doing here?

>>gravyp+Ya
killfiles have been around for a couple of decades now, actually. I think they would have been around 100 years ago if technology permitted. I don't think it's necessarily evidence of a troubling trend. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

(That said, I don't personally see the need for it on HN. The obvious trolls get killed, and it's easy enough to ignore people who are simply annoying.)