Setting downvote thresholds to hide low quality content?
Is there still no way to have your feeds filtered to not show any posts with a score below a certain threshold? This is particularly of interest for posts with negative scores. This was a basic feature on Reddit, and it's something I can't believe Lemmy is still lacking. So maybe I've missed it somehow?
This would make community moderation much better as low quality content could be easily hidden from user's feeds without need of intervention from a mod. When I see a post with a negative 50 score it boggles my mind why my time was wasted in seeing it at all.
I've looked all through the settings in the web UI and in Voyager and have not found a way to enable this. Any ideas? Do maybe other apps have that ability?
[cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34912083]
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IANAP but it seems like it would be trivial for a client app to do. Look at the combined vote weight (e.g. -8 + 4 = -4) and if it's below user inputted threshold, don't display it.
That said, Lemmy isn't Reddit. When I see a post with a negative score, I can sometimes see why it's not popular, but it's seldom straight up garbage, and I can still vote accordingly. Never used the feature on Reddit because I've been brigaded by entire communities for acknowledging that their favorite show's latest season exists (it's not Game of Thrones, but similar energy), and I don't think people should have the right to censor others; I believe each person should have the right to choose what they see.
Piefed does
If you don't like it fork it. Or add the feature and open a pull request 🙂
That's not a reasonable thing to ask the average user to do. Get off your high horse and be a better person
I wasn't suggesting any kind of moral superiority. Lemmy is open source. If anyone, yourself included, wants a feature, you can make it. That's what makes FOSS great.
You mentioned Aaron Swartz in the thread. He was self taught, and his activism was driven by his skill as a programmer. Given tumultuous time we live in, programming a valuable asset even if we don't attain his level of skill.
Lemmy is meant for all users. Get that bullshit out of here
We should be a better community with better norms, but the software should be at parity with what we had in 2008
Lemmy's user base has been stagnant at half a million for over a year now. Something needs to improve. We're still too small to have vibrant niche communities. I don't necessarily want the kind of garbage that came in over the past 10 years or so here. I was already looking for an alternative to Reddit for quite a few years before the big Lemmy migration occurred 2 years ago. But I think we need to hit at least a million users to have the same quality and breadth of content we used to enjoy on the old site before Aaron died.
Or write a browser extension.
i, too, would like to automatically filter out your posts
Good news, the block user feature has been around for a while
What's with the toxicity? Don't make Lemmy a shitty place.