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Imported: Advanced filtering system #43

Open wtl420 opened 8 years ago

wtl420 commented 8 years ago

Missing post where its suggested to be able to hide posts if they contain certain words

Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:14 PM Re: More advanced filter system by JoshJDubya:

I don't agree with it. The posts appearing where they do now when filtered remains consistent with the flow of the topic. Updating the foe system is no substitute for self-control. If you don't want to read a hidden post, don't click it. Also hiding every post that uses words of your choosing is silly.

Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:19 PM Re: More advanced filter system by Draku:

JoshJDubya:

Also hiding every post that uses a word of your choosing is silly.

it's just an option, though it may be a tad hard to do (idk)

4chan X has a similar filter system to what's being suggested outside of moving where everything hidden is and its pretty nice

Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:21 PM Re: More advanced filter system by JoshJDubya:

If it's completely optional, sure I guess, but definitely do not allow the hidden posts to be moved out of their actual position in the topic.

Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:24 PM Re: More advanced filter system by JoshJDubya:

imo hiding a bunch of posts through the foe list and a swear filter will ruin topics, you'll have people responding and discussing things already discussed and resolved by people earlier in the topic, also are we really active enough to need such a filter?

Sat Mar 02, 2013 11:25 PM Re: More advanced filter system by JoshJDubya:

Teddy:

Also I think I phrased the "moving posts" thing wrong. The way hidden posts work right now is that you click a link and it refreshes the page with a new action telling it to display the posts. What the option I add would change would be where those links are, so you don't see "This is a hidden post" in the middle of the topic between other posts, but when you click the link near the top that says "there are x hidden posts on this page", it would let you view the thread as normal.

I don't want to view all hidden posts at once. I want to view the specific ones that I click.

Sun Mar 03, 2013 04:33 PM Re: More advanced filter system by Kyori:

I think it all works well enough as it is, and with how skittish the filter can be I think it would actually get in the way if it's hiding innocent posts that happen to include a word somewhere in their text. The post hiding system needs improving, but only in the sense that it's annoying to reload the page just to view the posts. I think there are also issues on the moderator side, and it could be a bit easier for mods to hide posts. Those are the things that are worth focusing on IMO.

You kind of have to think about whether this actually improves the system for people using it. If you can't be absolutely sure that it does, then there are things more worth doing.