Jerks are everywhere, StackOverflow is no exception. There are idiots who wear their political badges everywhere, who take to their SO usernames and avatars to deliver their crappy political propagenda, and in some cases they succeed in distracting me from the programming questions I'm looking at. (I don't give a s**t to profiles. It's fine as long as it's out of my way.)
SO moderators keep saying you should report instead of finding a way to blacklist. I call bullshit. First, there's no consensus on whether political propaganda should or should not be allowed in SO usernames and avatars. Secondly, what I find annoying or distracting might not be so to others, and certainly may not be violating community guidelines (re no consensus). Thirdly, arguing with moderators is time consuming, and who knows if reporting sensitive matters would lead to retaliation or not. Therefore, the perfect solution is to exercise power and judgement on the client side, at the cost of some CPU cycles and memory.
This script hides the usernames and avatars of users of your choice from all questions, answers, edits, and comments. All content about programming is left untouched, so it has minimal side effects on things that you actually care about.
This script uses feross/standard style: https://github.com/feross/standard.
This script is licensed under WTFPL v2.
Usage
See in-script comments. Basically you add numeric user IDs to the array userIDs.
