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Feature request : option to hide downvoted posts (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello. Like many of you I am here from Reddit. A very old and not well known feature of Reddit was to hide posts that you had downvoted. I was a fan of this feature, and it's not available in Lemmy.

Why is this great ?

This is a way to get a fresh view of your homepage. If you are infuriated because one of your favourite subreddit has too many posts about one subject, just downvote posts and forget about them.

Do you think that this could be easily implemented?

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

This should be a fairly easy addition. I've added it to the TODO list!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks !!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A hide feature is pretty standard, but I disagree with the downvote encouragement implementation. A few people “hiding” annoying posts can quickly destroy the quality of highly ranked posts on small channels.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, it's a feature available on Reddit as an option. It can be an option too, disabled by default.

We could debate, but I think that on the contrary, it's what can keeps people without agendas in communities instead of quiting them. I keep curating the communities I like by downvoting content that should not be in these communities, and forget about it. If one post is controversial, I don't downvote it since the comments are interesting and I don't want it to be hidden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn’t realize Reddit had that option.

Thanks for being a friendly internet person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think down voting is the right approach. I do think we need someway of not having our feed filled with stuff we don’t necessarily care about. Having said that, I also don’t like the idea of having to specify what I don’t care about. Maybe hide all read, but never hide Anything Up Voted.