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user-inactivated  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit censors big story about government manipulation and disruption of the Internet

TAG THIS REDDIT SO I CAN IGNORE IT IN PEACE





user-inactivated  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

EVERY TIME YOU CHANGE THE COMMUNITY TAG BACK TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN 'REDDIT' IT REAPPEARS IN MY FEED

kleinbl00  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk - our boy doth have a point.

mk  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

True. flagamuffin, your best bet is to hide stubborn posts. I'm always open to suggestions, of course.

kleinbl00  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you have any granularity on past tags? seems to me that "visible" and "invisible" tags would solve the problem, but only if you're storing everything anything has ever been tagged, like the NSA.

mk  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Previous community tags? Yes we still have those. Do you mean that a post might be ignored based on invisible (previous) community tags, or something else.

Posts have their tags associated with them, and vice versa.

kleinbl00  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So imagine something like this:

1) Someone tags this with #reddit. flagamuffin is ignoring #reddit.

2) Someone else changes that tag to #redditsucks.

3) It pops up in flagamuffin's feed again.

4) flagamuffin changes it back to #reddit.

5) someone else changes it to #redditrules.

6) flagamuffin changes it back to #reddit and gripes.

Now - if you're tracking all tags, this thing has been tagged #reddit, #redditsucks and #redditrules. If you're tracking all that, flagamuffin should have it ignored the first time it pops up #reddit, despite the fact that someone changed it back. No?

user-inactivated  ·  3948 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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mk  ·  3949 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wonder if it would confuse people even more, -the tag being either in their feed or ignored for an non-obvious reason.

Also, flag can just change the community tag once. Everyone gets just one suggestion. So he gripes at #3. We track the tags so it defaults to the most suggested.

One possibility is that the behavior is either the current tag, or the one you suggested, if you did suggest one. That might be even more confusing.

kleinbl00  ·  3949 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think most people wouldn't notice, but your point is taken.

user-inactivated  ·  3950 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, in a broader sense I'm not sure community tagging is really catching on in any helpful way. But this isolated problem isn't really a problem, I'm just pissed at all the chaff.