I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengage...

		aaanotherhnfolk on July 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: HN Demetricator – An extension that remov... I've worked on some rules for this in my similarly motivated extension Disengaged[0]. Another thing it does which I think helps a lot is automatically collapses subreplies. [0] https://github.com/a13o/disengaged

This looks incredibly interesting. Going to give it a try.