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Please don’t accuse people of being trolls, it goes against the HN Guidelines:

>” Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.”




HN desperately needs personal block lists.

[EDIT] OK, some explanation is in order: because it's very bad at curbing posters who are either trolling or just very bad posters but it's not clear which (which is, precisely, what a classic troll is, when this is achieved on purpose), and its anti-poster-recognition design makes that even worse. Just let me block the ones who I find consistently posting what are either super-ignorant takes or are trolling, because it doesn't really matter to me which is the truth.


A friend made a trivial extension like this https://www.overmod.org/

No promises that it still works since he abandoned it to go work on other things.

I wrote some of the code so I could probably port it if it's broken.




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