There’s so much spam, and people diligently downvote. But the posts are still shown, with -53 votes or something.

When a post is clearly unwanted, could it be hidden?

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    “Reddit is fun” had a feature with a vote threshold, it was something like “don’t show posts with a score lower than ___.”

    This would be tremendously useful to have in Voyager. As an improvement, that setting could have a sub-setting, a list of communities where this setting does not apply.

    • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      7 months ago

      I would probably want this in some sort of score/percentage mix. Like if a post had 15 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I would probably still want to see it as it just means it’s something controversial rather than low effort/quality. However going off of percentage alone wouldn’t work well in the beginning if it was immediately downvoted two or three times.

      So probably more like:
      score lower than {user_defined_low_score} AND score % less than {user_defined_low_percent}

      We could also probably apply this to comment scores as well so we can avoid having to look at 2 users being petty towards each other… like what played out in one of the other replies to this comment.