A “Black Label” feature

[piersto]

It would be great to have a “Black Label” feature on Codewars that allows users to mark certain Katas they don’t want to revisit.

Some Katas can feel like a waste of time—especially when failed test cases provide no useful information and debugging becomes nearly impossible.

Having a way to tag or flag these would help avoid repeatedly returning to them by accident.

[hobovsky]

The general idea for handling this kind of kata is to have them fixed. You are right that there are many kata, especially old ones, which provide user experience so bad to the point of being discouraging. However many of them (but unfortunately not all) can be fixed, and that's what many active users do: they improve organization of tests, add test titles, failure messages, redact descriptions. If you have some particularly bad experience with some kata, feel free to report it in the #fixing channel of Codewars Discord together with a link, attempted language, and description of your problem, and someone eventually will take care of it, or we could think of completely removing such kata if it cannot be fixed.

If you do not want to join Codewars Discord, you can raise an issue in kata discourse. These can also be handled by menders and users doing kata maintenance, but you'd have to put some details in such issue so they know what has to be fixed.

Still, some users might not like some kata for reasons different than bad quality, and I agree, an option to "ignore" or "hide" some kata could be useful.