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Lemmy Client Idea - Recommend blocking communities after consistent downvotes (hackertalks.com)
submitted 3 weeks 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] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If would be more productive to encourage blocking by making it more powerful/less of a chore.

  • general categories/tags to filter out (plus allow-list) rather than manual blocking
  • put 'block community' in more options so blocking can be done with less clicks (/for nsfw comms)
  • a way to limit how many posts from a community are shown on the same page, or from the same user (maybe an option like only show most relevant post per hour/half-hour etc)
    • ideally communities would allow setting how posts are sent to all, even if it's just a post setting
    • or posts could be more aggressively grouped, similar with crossposts (or things that were not detected as a crosspost but likely should've been)

Also honestly once a block list is 50+ it already seems like named blocklists are needed to properly manage things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What are the advantages of downvotes anyway? If somebody breaks the rules, you can report them. If nothing is done about it, you can leave a community. If you dislike most of the content of an user or a community, you can give your negative feedback or block them. If you think somebody is wrong on some subject, you can correct them.

Sure, to be honest it feels good to press the downvote button on a comment or post I dislike, but I could live without it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I mostly downvote when I think the comment is so wrong or bad but I have a feeling that commenting a response means a long drawn out back and forth that ends up being unproductive and me taking a lot of abuse.

I don’t have votes visibly on my app client though so even when I do it I don’t actually see the vote totals.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

but then I rarely downvote anything.

Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks 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] 5 points 3 weeks 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] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

I've had no problems with it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I suppose it could also apply to users - You have downvoted 100% of this user's posts, would you like to block them?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

@[email protected] would you like to block me instead?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Posts like this just make me see the OP as incredibly insecure.