Oops. I just saw this thread. I'm pasting what I said in the other thread here. Okay - so - serious answer. We knew this day would come. We need to either find a way to extend ignore to comments or a way to implement an automated global-mute that is similar to global-ignore. I have qualms about global-mute mostly because it's filtering comments and the people posting the post don't know that those comments are being automatically hidden from their posts. Having "ignore posts" and "ignore comments" functionality might work - and come in handy for other cases besides spam. Perhaps I like a user's comments and conversations but hate seeing their endless and badly tagged posts about particular styles of music in my feed. Right now there is no way to ignore a user's comments from appearing but we've obviously reached a stage where having that available is necessary. We've also talked about thresholds for new users as well as for the global ignore automation. I don't know if thresholds for posts or commenting is necessary yet but it probably will be as we grow. Also, someone who is on Hacker News a lot should let us know how their hiding comments automatically experiment is going. I still really dislike the entire concept but there may be some aspect of it that is a good idea that we could evolve/change for Hubski. There was a lot of discussion on the what hubski can learn from forums thread about implementing features like these.