Sounds like a job for an extension, honestly. Something to remove entries which link to URLs which match a regex.

Interested? I could probably make one when I get some time, though my knowledge is currently limited to Chrome.

Spammers (er, social media experts) don't use anti-spam browser extensions. Let's fix this on the server side.

Clearly the plugin he's talking about is for people like you to hide these submissions from you - not in the hope that spammers will install it themselves and find themselves unable to submit.

Ah, I didn't think about it that way. Then you're back to Usenet killfiles; just hide the bad stuff (driving away newcomers who haven't learned to killfile yet) instead of getting rid of it.

i'd go for greasemonkey myself since that will work in chrome and firefox if done right. I think it can also work in safari, but i don't know about any others.

I think now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that blacklisting low quality "link bait" sites was once suggested (and implemented) by pg.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704

I for one much prefer the uncensored HN so I can keep up with the latest salacious silicon valley e-gossip.