Blocking users

You could filter the nft 'topic tags' via the sidebar menu, at the bottom.

This option might not show by default if you have the option to see topic tags set to off in your personal settings.

Related Gitlab Issues:
Add "block user" feature
Add "filter topics by user" feature

By looking through ~tildes history, it becomes apparent that that's a somewhat desired feature. I would most certainly make use of something like that, but maybe the greatest benefit for me would be to know that no one is being forced to see anything I write, which might aggravate them for one reason or another.

I remember I saw some discussion on how it would be implemented, meaning "precisely what should this feature block? How deep should it go?".

Personally, I'm of the opinion that user-blocking should be implemented soon, since it will probably improve the experience of a lot of users, and maybe even prevent troublesome interactions which require mod intervention.

As a non-programmer, please forgive me if I'm saying some absurd, but could this be made by using tags? I mean, suppose each post had a secret tag containing the username of the person that created it. Would it be possible to block their posts from our view the same way we have ignore a tag?

There are two scripts inside the drop-down that you could import into an extension which would block whatever user is defined in the variable username. It only supports one user and I don't plan on supporting this tiny thing.

Higher level, if your browser doesn't support UBlock Origin, it probably doesn't support ViolentMonkey, TamperMonkey, or whatever the 3rd one is. At that point, you're kinda boned apart from blocking the tag like mycketforvirrad said.

// don't run both of these in the same userscript. Top should apply to comments in a topic
// bottom should apply to posts on main tildes page

// Because it was obvious who you were talking about.
var username = "KilledByAPixel";

// apply to https://tildes.net/**/*
var foo = document.getElementsByClassName("link-user");
for (const a of foo){
  if (a.innerText === username){
  	a.closest(".comment-tree-item").style.display = "none";
  }
}

// apply to https://tildes.net
var bar = document.getElementsByClassName("link-user");
for (const b of bar){
  if (b.innerText === username){
  	b.closest(".topic").style.display = "none";
  }
}

I will now get on my soapbox, for a quick rant.

I'm afraid I can't help you, but you've made me curious.

How would you accomplish this using uBlock Origin? And what situation are you in where you can't run a browser that supports the extension?