I subscribe to two paid blogs on substack and read and comment on them regularly. The comment sections get pretty lively at times. 98% of the commenters are sincere and post interesting opinions, sometimes quite informative in their own right; that's the benefit of the $50 or $60 a year filter, I suppose.
Nonetheless it would be nice to provide a mute/block feature, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. There are a couple of commenters who are rather insufferable, and there's no way to downvote them or put them on ignore. I guess it's a relatively tangential use of substack, which is presented as a blogging platform first and foremost, and it certainly succeeds in that. But a bit of user control over their comment stream would be a nice-to-have.
Nonetheless it would be nice to provide a mute/block feature, to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. There are a couple of commenters who are rather insufferable, and there's no way to downvote them or put them on ignore. I guess it's a relatively tangential use of substack, which is presented as a blogging platform first and foremost, and it certainly succeeds in that. But a bit of user control over their comment stream would be a nice-to-have.