LWN feature request:: FlorianFilter

Posted Apr 11, 2011 15:59 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: LWN feature request:: FlorianFilter by corbet
Parent article: Groklaw shutting down in May

Unfortunately, it's useless for my needs; the resulting filtering only applies to my view of the page, not the view of other people who I might send a link to. While this article happens to be one where I'm not likely to link people to it, I still can't justify paying for LWN when I can't send a safe link to an article to a colleague, without risking one of these useless flamewars breaking out in the comments and reflecting badly on me.

Perhaps you might like to consider providing a way for subscribers (maybe even just the top tier) to send a link to any LWN article complete with their filtering pre-applied? If you did so, I would be in a position to reconsider my decision to cancel my LWN subscription.

LWN feature request:: FlorianFilter

Posted Apr 11, 2011 17:49 UTC (Mon) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

Or perhaps something much easier: an article view without inline comments *at all*. You can kind of get that already by adding /rss to an article url; however, it doesn't work for long-form articles. Those only show the article summary, not the whole thing.

I still don't really understand the big deal though; I don't know anyone sensitive enough that they'd care (or consider it reflecting badly upon me) that the informative and interesting article I sent them had some random comments attached to it. Unless I was a participant in a flamewar in the attached comments, perhaps. :)

I mean, even mainstream news sites have comment threads inline these days, and those...wow...those can get nasty. But I simply don't read them unless I'm in the mood for abuse.

LWN feature request:: FlorianFilter

Posted Apr 17, 2011 17:17 UTC (Sun) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link]

You could always print to PDF and send them that instead. Send them the link too with a proviso that it hasn't been pre-filtered, and trust them to be competent enough to sort wheat from chaff.