The formula is still a bit of a black box, but it includes how often you interact with the person or page posting the item, your relationship to the poster and whether you've liked or hidden posts in the past from that source.
But the options to "hide post", "do not show in news feed", "show only important posts", and hide specific story types are hidden within drop-downs, hover cards, and the "Friend" button on people's profiles.
If you've got nothing to hide, post your social security number and credit card information online, leave your curtains open at night, and see how that sits with you.
Every time we click "Hide post" on an article about homophobic mobs in Uganda, or about gay boys hanged in Iran, it's a way of easing the daily reminder that so many people in the world still hate us so viciously.
Among those core "News Feed Values" that the company listed was "You Control Your Experience" and the promise that, through your actions — such as hiding posts from a particular person — the service would figure out "what content is most important to you".
The lack of this data prevents Google+ from properly promoting and hiding posts in its feed.
The only solution is to hide posts from lists one by one when they appear in the main news feed.
Facebook explains how to hide posts you don't want to appear on your Timeline (click the pencil to hide, delete or edit a post).
In addition to these options, they can also keep customizing News Feed by visiting News Feed preferences to choose which posts they want to see first, or hide posts they don't want to see".
That doesn't mean that Twitch will tolerate hateful content in the sub-chats, but it could help by hiding posts that may have otherwise been misinterpreted by casual viewers who didn't understand the context.
