>>forgot+M2
I don't have any experience with writing Firefox plugins, but a port should be pretty easy to implement.

All the logic is included in a simple JS file: https://github.com/morgante/hn_blocklist/blob/master/src/inj...

>>te_pla+w5
It's mostly to avoid getting dragged into pointless arguments: https://xkcd.com/386/

>>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?

>>limeli+A7
Rather than an approach like this, which can only serve to produce an echo-chamber effect, can I recommend the Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...)? It remembers the upvotes and downvotes you cast per-user, which provides a very quick at-a-glance reminder of your past opinions of a given member's contributions, and allows you to make a more informed decision about whether or not to engage with them.

This is coming from someone with showdead on, FWIW. I rather like seeing the things that others have deemed "not worth seeing".

>>gravyp+Ya
> It's a funny trend in recent years

It's funny what you consider "recent": http://catb.org/jargon/html/K/kill-file.html