I often click it by accident and was curious to know if anybody uses the HN hide button to hide posts. If so, why?
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#2if you have read posts, or find they are not topical to your interest in a thread, hide them and it will help avoid confusion, or posting misfires.
it also speeds up ocular search results.
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#3I often see posts that I know are going to be full of comments that will just irritate me, so hiding the post is the easiest way to not accidentally wander into a sea of comments that I’d rather not see.
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#4I hide the yc jobverts
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#5I use it all the time. I hide stories that don't interest me, which makes it easier to scan through the list later to see what I missed.
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#6When you keep refreshing the home page and are sick of half the articles that you don't care about, hide it!
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#7Only by accident. I figure if I'm seeing a story so much that I'm sick of it, I'm using HN too much.
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#8Yes, every now and then to hide topics that I find depressing. Usually the ones that deal with loss of habitat and other human-inflicted issues affecting animals. Or around mistreatment of children.
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#9Yes, I use it on links I’ve read, or to hide topics I’m not interested in. Makes skimming the front page faster.
Please don’t take it away dang!
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