Reminder: comment filtering

Posted Jan 22, 2016 22:21 UTC (Fri) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: Reminder: comment filtering by liw
Parent article: The State Of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong

> Unfortunately, this type of filtering works about as badly as it does for mailing lists or Usenet groups.

You mean it works very well, has a plethora of advanced, time-tested tools available (as well as tons of accumulated community experience) *and* leaves control in the hands of the ones actually affected by the filtering, namely the readers? Sounds awesome.

Reminder: comment filtering

Posted Jan 22, 2016 22:32 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link] (2 responses)

> ... *and* leaves control in the hands of the ones actually affected by the filtering, namely the readers? Sounds awesome.

Speaking as a reader who approves of putting those most affected in control, it would be nice to have sufficient control over the filtering to dynamically filter based on patterns (such as the number of other users explicitly blocking the account) rather than just a static list of usernames to block.

Reminder: comment filtering

Posted Jan 22, 2016 23:04 UTC (Fri) by andresfreund (subscriber, #69562) [Link] (1 responses)

What I'd really like is to fold threads in the unread comments view, or even better mark them as uninteresting. A topic or two aside peer week the reader and commentership here's intelligent, well informed and so on. Being able to hide the insane topucs would make it easier to see the signal.

Reminder: comment filtering

Posted Jan 23, 2016 1:22 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I too think this would be a good idea, I've mentioned it before, but I recognize that this kind of feature is not for free, it costs more db/server processing.