Ignore user from a feed without having to block them

[pavelloz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I knew this day will happen, i just hoped someone else will have to create this issue (maybe it already exist, i couldnt find it).

Because of rules, or lack of on what people can write and share on dev.to there will be a lot of crap (subjectively, what im not interested in and want to filter out - not objectively of course :) ). There is a lot of crap. Its getting very expensive to get through self promoting 3 paragraphs articles to fish out something valuable.

In the past couple of days we have an user that is basically the only thing i see on the feed, as a result i just give up and go away, because im not interested in the topic (cannot unfollow tags, still) and especially opening the post, seeing its basically a manual forward, and going to his blog to find out if it has any value.

Describe the solution you'd like

Let me block users that i dont want to have anything to do with. Since i can follow them and get notified about their writing, i want to have a choice to curate what i see further.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Banning users who go overboard.

Additional context

This is my feed, its very similar, for the past couple of days.

It has 5 links to outside page per one paragraph post. Every time. If its even content its a subject for another discussion. But the point is, i (and propably a lot of other people because im not a snowflake) want to avoid seeing it in the future, i think ive seen enough.

This is whats inside every single one of those posts.

Nothing personal, its just one of many people doing it, maybe first example that IMO went so far that its unbearable to use dev.to for me. On twitter its very time consuming to stay in the loop if you are not interested in drama/spam, but at least its possible. On dev.to its currently not possible at all.

[rhymes]

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[rhymes]

Hi @pavelloz, I understand your frustration, have you tried in the meantime to block the user directly?

You can go on their account and block them like this:

[pavelloz]

I havent tried that. Im not necessairly against his comments, PMs - its just the feed that im trying to clean up from posts from
a) tags that are really not in my area and i dont like,
b) people who treat dev.to as republishing / ad platform for their blog

Having said that, ill try that and see what happens - ATM im out of options anyways :)

PS. I just came up with a dream feature, straight from twitter - muted words. If a given word is in title (on twitter its in the tweet) then it doesnt appear on my feed. Ah, dreams.

[rhymes]

Thanks for the details @pavelloz! I updated the title to make it more specific :)

[pavelloz]

Cant wait :)

With the bugged tag ignore feature it is very hard to use feed sometimes.

[cmgorton]

Thank you for opening this request.
Features tend to be subjective and might spur some debate. This one has been around for a while with out much traction.
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