I suspect that I would value LW more if I had the ability to conceal-by-default comments by certain users here.
My LessWrong Power Reader has a feature that allows you to mark authors as liked/disliked, which helps to determine which comments are expanded vs collapsed. Right now the weights are set so that if you’ve disliked an author, then any comment written by him or her that has 0 points or less, along with any descendants of that comment, will be collapsed by default. Each comment in the collapsed thread still has a visible header with author and points and color-coding to help you determine whether you still want to check it out.
My LessWrong Power Reader has a feature that allows you to mark authors as liked/disliked, which helps to determine which comments are expanded vs collapsed. Right now the weights are set so that if you’ve disliked an author, then any comment written by him or her that has 0 points or less, along with any descendants of that comment, will be collapsed by default. Each comment in the collapsed thread still has a visible header with author and points and color-coding to help you determine whether you still want to check it out.
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You are my new favorite person.
I am, admittedly, fickle.
And for discussion and top-level posts, there is already the friends feature:
http://lesswrong.com/prefs/friends/
(You can also add someone as a friend from their user page.)
There is something that appeals to me about this “roll your own exclusive forum” approach.
I am ashamed to say that I had no idea about the Friends feature. Thanks !