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Lemmy Client Idea - Recommend blocking communities after consistent downvotes (hackertalks.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:

Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.

This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Seems odd to me, but then I rarely downvote anything.

Being able to block German and French instances easily might be helpful though. I can't read them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IMO, it’s a mistake to be shutting out other cultures because of these easily-fixed technical issues.

Personally, I’d rather a translation option was added like they have on Mastodon. I’d miss out on some smart people if I blocked all German and French posts from my feed. Those just happen to be the best languages for high assurance engineering talk (which is basically all I care about).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

That's fair and I've suggested the same before as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

but then I rarely downvote anything.

Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy already has a feature where you can define the language of a post and potentially filter by that property, but it's pretty much useless because most just leave it on "Undetermined". I believe clients should make a best effort guess about the language (maybe based on a dictionary analysis of the text body or WHOIS of a linked website) and offer it as the default choice instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

it's pretty much useless because most just leave it on "Undetermined"

Can't mods remove "undetermined" from the list of options for a community, forcing posters to set the language when they post?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I only downvote things if I think they are bad for the platform, not just because it's something I personally disagree with.

However, that isn't how many people use voting.

Everyone should be setting their posting language right? Or does language filter just not work at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I've had no problems with it