1d ago

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?

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It doesn't now, but I'd be willing to add that to Tesseract. Seems easy enough to implement.
Edit: It's not fully plumbed in yet, but the settings to configure it have been added to the filter policy framework. Will probably also do a similar setting for comments. Shown enabled here, but disabled by default, naturally.
Edit 2: Plumbed in and working now in the dev build. Can also completely hide those, but that doesn't exactly work for a screenshot.
- Very nice!
I wouldn't mind if it's opt-in.
I certainly don't want the average internet user having any more control over what I see than they unfortunately already have.
- Oh yeah. It would be fully optional and user configurable ideally. On Reddit you could enter any number you wanted. I usually kept mine set on -2 back in the day
I requested this (user configurable threshold options added) on Boost a few months ago, don't know if it's going to be put in.
Why is this idea down voted?
I think hiding that posts should not be the default. Maybe the moderator could get notified if the posts surpases the threshold and perhaps some sort of indicator for the posts so that clients can manage them to preference(hide or give a warning).
I agree, that does seem like a useful feature, though I hadn't thought of it before. Thanks for sharing the idea, hopefully someone important noticed.
Pretty sure that's a thing on piefed
By low quality do you mean any unpopular opinions ?
- I mean like when people post pseudoscience to a science community or something that's completely off topic. Or maybe a poor stick figure being submitted to an art community. The community voting filter is integral, and if you don't like it you should just use Mastodon rather than Lemmy
  
  Is every unpopular opinions about something serious as giving psuedoscience trash?
  Denying scientific science or saying uncientific science is not opinions it's objectively false claims

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