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Setting downvote thresholds to hide low quality content? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ZephyrXero@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

[cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34912083]

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

IANAP but it seems like it would be trivial for a client app to do. Look at the combined vote weight (e.g. -8 + 4 = -4) and if it's below user inputted threshold, don't display it.

That said, Lemmy isn't Reddit. When I see a post with a negative score, I can sometimes see why it's not popular, but it's seldom straight up garbage, and I can still vote accordingly. Never used the feature on Reddit because I've been brigaded by entire communities for acknowledging that their favorite show's latest season exists (it's not Game of Thrones, but similar energy), and I don't think people should have the right to censor others; I believe each person should have the right to choose what they see.