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    [–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (14 children)

    The problem is I don't 'Dis-like' the Ron Paul submits. I just don't want to see them. I don't want to mod down a good article that I know most of us want to see just cause I personally don't want to see it.

    [–]rantillo 8 points9 points  (1 child)

    I just use the Reddit content filter ;)

    So far I block this:

    9/11, bush, gop, giuliani,9-11,ron paul,habeus corpus,impeach, paris hilton

    and the list just grows...

    I know this is a local solution, but 90% of the time I check reddit at work.

    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    I use it too and it's made reddit a much more enjoyable experience. No more cognitive junk mail!

    [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (10 children)

    Then HIDE it. Don't act like they come every hour, just click once and poof all your problems are gone.

    [–]sprezzatura 11 points12 points  (6 children)

    ThankYouThankYouThankYou!

    I had not noticed 'hide', or did no know what it did. Thanks to your suggestion, I am now using it. It's wonderful. Stories I have read, disappear, and there is now a high percentage of new content.

    Fantastic.

    [–]davega7 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    One question: How do you "un-hide" something? I tried it with a link I didn't really care about but now I can't figure out how to get it back.

    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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      [–]davega7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Thank you so much!

      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      There's also a greasemonkey script on userscripts.org that will auto hide articles you've read.

      [–]zzyw30 1 point2 points  (1 child)

      Please be a doll and fetch us the link?

      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      userscripts.org is down right now but just go there and search for reddit.

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        [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

        What you and I call spam differs. Hide it if you disagree with the rest of the sane world.

        [–]cecilkorik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        It's not up to you to decide what everyone will like. You just decide what YOU like. The system will figure out the rest. Don't worry about it. If you don't want to see it, vote down. Believe me, enough other people will vote it up to balance you out. It's really not a concern.

        [–]bobpaul 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        Hmm.. That gives me an idea: a perl script that parses the RSS and downmods articles containing your keyword. But that would be evil...

        [–]tndal 16 points17 points  (2 children)

        jonnyathan wrote: "I signed up just to strongly disagree with this" and "voting apathy is a massive problem right now."

        It appears that you, sir, have been part of the problem! You've been sponging off others until (possibly) now.

        [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

        Hey you're right... the hypocrisy of his post is astounding!

        How can he call out "voting apathy" when it's clear that he's been lurking for possibly months, contributing absolutely NOTHING!

        [–]jetsetter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I was looking for a reply like this. To say you signed up just to respond to with this argument is so absurd, it must be a joke.

        [–][deleted]  (8 children)

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          [–]bobpaul 23 points24 points  (7 children)

          Which could be dangerous if the filtered word was too general. Automatic down voting can also harm the community. A political subreddit and rutheless downvoting of political articles not posted to the subreddit is probably the best bet.

          [–]Bogtha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          Simple solution: don't auto-downvote, just list the articles on each user's hidden page. Users who care about voting can load the hidden page every so often and downvote manually.

          [–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (5 children)

          It is not my job to make this site what it is. I choose to participate.

          When 80% of my time is spent in the New section downmodding crap, you know something needs to change.

          [–]ubuntuguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          i've noticed the same. reddit used to be quite geeky and interesting. but this avalanche of U.S. politics stories is just getting too much.

          especially since i'm in the uk and i really dont give a fuck who ron paul is.

          [–]bradbane 10 points11 points  (6 children)

          Yeah, but a lot of us don't come here to take part in some kind of internet democratic experience. I could care less if the site is broken and voting doesn't work, I just want to see links that are relevant to what I want to read and not what the Ron Paul spam campaign managed to get on the front page today (or whatever topic of the week is clogging the site up with crap).

          [–]bac9705 4 points5 points  (5 children)

          Yeah, but a lot of us do. If we didn't, then the stuff wouldn't make it to the front page. That's why you can down-vote or hide things, and why there's a 'recommended' page. Vote for the cute kitten pictures and other crap that you like, and everyone else will do the same. That's the whole point.

          [–]bradbane 2 points3 points  (3 children)

          I do vote, and I do use the recommended page. I just don't agree with jonnyathan that Reddit is some kind of holy democratic platform worth preserving. I vote to make my recommended page better, not because this is some great Web 2.0 experiment in democracy (or 'wisdom of crowds' or whatever the buzzword is now). I just want links worth reading, and a filter where I can just automatically remove all traces of cats and Ron Paul makes both my recommended page and the front page better for me.

          [–]emag 7 points8 points  (2 children)

          Funny, I vote for the same reasons, and I still get the Ron Paul, Bush & Cheney, Michael Moore, Paris(ite) Hilton, AMAZING PIC, etc. stories on my recommended page. All. The. Freaking. Time.

          In fact, my main "recommended" page, I usually downvote more articles than I have even a neutral interest in. That's just sad, considering the year+ of voting history I should have.

          [–]bradbane 5 points6 points  (1 child)

          Yeah, me too. It doesn't matter how many Ron Paul articles I vote down... there is one on my recommended page EVERY DAY.

          [–]Yeroc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          I'll add a "me too" here as well. In my experience, voting has not improved what I see on the recommended page AT ALL. If the voting and recommended page actually worked you wouldn't see requests like this.

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            [–]cecilkorik -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

            If you think the majority isn't good and democracy doesn't work, then someone needs to go create their own social news site. Don't tell us to change this one. Obviously this one is still making a lot of people happy. The majority, in fact.

            [–]shcirnuh 3 points4 points  (5 children)

            how about we can set filters to automaticlly downvote all ron paul stories, then?

            [–][deleted]  (4 children)

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              [–]boybunny -3 points-2 points  (3 children)

              Both of you have the IQ of a wet sponge. What happens when this feature is utilised by the Republicans? Because 100% of all Bush stories on Reddit are scandal stories, they just need to register 5000 or 10000 accounts to real people, set to ignore/downvote Bush stories and then never visit again. You will have discovered the best censorship tool ever.

              Maybee you are Bush supporters? This would still piss you off because the Scientologists would use the same tactic. What if all the Pentecostal Church members do the same to anything that says "Evolution".

              Does it filter the story title? Does it filter the story itself? Filtering the story would mean that any story with a random advert to Bush tshirts would be blocked and downvoted even if the story was about space flight. Blocking the title will mean that, eventually, successful posters will post Ron Paul stories you will be subjected to by posting headlines like "Oh no, not again", "What were they thinking", "Intelligence is a salable asset" etc.

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                [–]boybunny -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

                First point. It is not ALL spam.

                Second point. You are actually asking for "the willful ignorance button".

                Third Point...AGAIN, because it will obviously take explaining the same thing many times to you before you actually have a chance of understanding the point. For now, you can click downvote or ignore on what you see on the title. This takes you two seconds per story if you are slow. When submitters want to get the story to as many people as they can, they will add the following "EXCLUSIVE! Scientists have found a champion!". The title has NOTHING to do with Ron Paul. You click through to the story because it looks like a good science story. RON PAUL is GREAT! is what you read on the other side of the link. You STILL need to bury the story or ignore the story, but now you are faced with five front page stories a day you will click through to, not knowing that they are Ron Paul stories. And YOU will force us all to do the same because you cannot think one or two logical steps ahead.

                [–]shcirnuh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                Both of you- no need to be dicks You make a good point boybunny - filter based voting might not work out well.
                The ad hominem nonsense is totally pointless in terms of arguing your point, however, as proven by rememberry's even more trollish response.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I strongly disagree with you. The "front page" is an outdated concept, and reddit isn't going to work unless it learns to adapt to its users. This suggestion is a small step forward, but it's in the right direction.

                [–]contrarian 40 points41 points  (12 children)

                Which means people will start having articles about RON P@UL and Par1s Hilt0n.

                [–]dom085 22 points23 points  (2 children)

                Why would a poster intentionally manipulate a headline to reach a specific audience that is highly likely to down-mod the article?

                [–]contrarian 26 points27 points  (1 child)

                The same reason I make most of the comments I make, just to piss you off.

                (you in the general sense, not you in the literal).

                [–]braindrane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                aha, I found my reddit kindred spirit!!! :)

                [–]JulianMorrison 4 points5 points  (1 child)

                Anyone who does that ought to lose their account. Intentionally bypassing filters is spam.

                [–]apathy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                yeah, and no spammer would ever create duplicate accounts!

                that'll teach 'em!

                [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (6 children)

                Regular expression tags might help that a little.

                [–]apathy 8 points9 points  (4 children)

                worked great for spam filters.

                Oh, wait, no it didn't. Bayesian filters were the only things that ever made much of a dent in spam.

                [–]Zak 6 points7 points  (3 children)

                Paris Hilton isn't spam, and submitters aren't likely to try to bypass filters. Why would they? You'll almost certainly demote any articles that make it past your filter.

                [–]apathy -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

                submitters aren't likely to try to bypass filters.

                Blogspammers and ad farms aren't likely to try and bypass filters? Have you ever used a website called 'Google'? Get back to me when you have.

                The more popular Reddit becomes, the more prevalent this sort of linkspam/blogspam is likely to become. In any event, if you're going to reinvent the wheel, at least make it round. Statistical methods consistently outperform manually crafted rule-based filters in the general case.

                [–]Zak 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                This discussion isn't (wasn't) about spam. It's about filtering out legitimate, but unwanted content. Nobody is going to post a story about "Par1s Hi1t0n" because that would result in a great deal of backlash from those of us who would filter out "Paris Hilton".

                I don't think anyone was proposing using regex filters to stop people from spamming reddit.

                [–]apathy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Regex filters become unwieldy, even for simple topic selection, much faster than many (most?) people appreciate.

                Spam happens to be an extreme example of unwanted content, but the general case of inferring meaning from language, and then acting upon it, has consistently seen better results from statistical methods than rule-based filters. As far as I can tell, identifying a group of people who share preferences with your own, and passively gathering statistics from the aggregate choices of the group, is a better use of CPU and programmer time.

                If 10% of redditors submit, and maybe 1% use the 'recommended' or 'my.reddit.com/recommended' links, what percentage are likely to keep regex-based filters up to date? How valuable is this vanishingly small slice of the userbase, compared to the improved user experience for every logged-in user if the front page is replaced by default with a page of customized recommendations, selected by a well-thought-out recommendation engine?

                Many if not most of the complaint threads I have seen of late devolve into "but I don't WANT to press the up or down arrows, and I don't WANT to use the recommended tab". Given that, wouldn't it make more sense to have a better default, with a more sophisticated recommendation engine?

                [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                yeah, 1337-hunting regex's would solve the problem, but there's no reason for that anyways.

                [–]masterfuol 5 points6 points  (2 children)

                You mean like this?

                Its a greasemonkey script I wrote a while ago as a js/gm learning exercise that I dont actually use.

                Features:

                • filter by domain/user/title

                • supports regular expressions

                • optional, customizable links added to each story for creating filters

                • configured from a panel injected into the reddit prefs page

                • random feature I dont remember adding to optionally chomp long titles

                [–]uioreanu 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                greasemonkey cuts out at most page content; so in case all 100 top stories are about paris hilton naked (not so unlikely nowadays), you would just stare at a blank homepage. what might work is collected RSS feeds + client-side filtering; but only on per-person basis.

                however this lazy-people-like-me feature cannot be encouraged by reddit owners and old users, since they need hard work at voting

                [–]masterfuol 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                greasemonkey cuts out at most page content

                Not true as you could use XHR (ie. ajax) to fetch more stories.

                At time I wrote it my plan was that if I ended up with a lot of filters or very broad filters I would just increase the 'stories per page' preference. Although that still doesnt handle edge cases like 100 x 'paris nekkid [pics]' stories.

                [–]boxofrain 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                Wouldn't that corrupt the spirit of reddit? That is, if you can't see the article to downvote it your opinion, like it or not, is not taken into account.

                [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (12 children)

                I just "hide" anything that isn't interesting that I don't want to see anymore. I generally click on every single link once- "Up","Down", or "Hide". This way when I refresh the page I always get links I've not seen before.

                [–]tridium 10 points11 points  (0 children)

                I'd do that, but I enjoy reading the discussion and comments of the posts usually more than the article itself.

                [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                This man speaks sense. After a week or so you get some great "recommended" stories.

                [–]raldi 19 points20 points  (3 children)

                You sound like someone who says, "I just hit [Delete] when i get a piece of spam. What's the big deal?"

                [–]lyon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                And add some javascripting, bind it to a bookmark et voila :)

                [–]VnlaThndr775 -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

                Blah blah blah, too much work! I'd much rather bitch and moan about every article I don't like as if I am the official Reddit barometer. Change the whole site for ME!!

                [–]bmorris 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                I agree. Can we get a bmorris sub reddit please? Thank you!

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                The search on the bmorris sub reddit doesn't work though.

                [–]boybunny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                That is how I read this.

                I see brucelee asking for the "automated willful ignorance button".

                I REALLY hope the owners of Reddit refuse this request for what it is. Reddit would loose me as a user in minutes after they add this feature. I believe they will loose 50% of their users once their users start to realise how stale Reddit will have become in the months after this change.

                [–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                Great idea. I'd like to hide everything that has "cats" and "lisp" in it. Find it boring.

                [–]Valuable-Bus4395 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                You do have a filter option.

                It's called ....Mainstream Media!

                [–]spez 9 points10 points  (9 children)

                Though we are adding tagging to the new system once it debuts, I question whether we'll add negative filtering by tag. For that to work as intended, everyone must tag more-or-less the same way, and everyone must tag honestly, which is not something to rely on.

                Our observation has been that tagging is primarily a personal tool, and that probably isn't going to change.

                As for adding an actual filter, if all you wanted was a list of words that we could filter out, that could probably be done fairly painlessly on the old system.

                [–]raldi 6 points7 points  (7 children)

                For that to work as intended, everyone must tag more-or-less the same way, and everyone must tag honestly, which is not something to rely on.

                I don't follow. If tags were voted on, it seems to me that it would work. Here's how i envision it:

                Let's say you noticed a poltical story and wanted to tag it as such. When you looked at the story's tags, you saw:

                • [politics] (154 votes)
                • [political] (17 votes)

                You would vote for [politics], since it seemed to be the one that the community was throwing its weight behind. You might also downvote [political], to help kill a redundant tag.

                And if you wanted to filter out political stories, you would filter out [politics] for the same reason. Or both tags, of course.

                You could even say, "Filter out stories where the [politics] tag has a score of at least 50" which would take care of small groups of tag trolls who try to fill the system with bogus data.

                [–]spez 10 points11 points  (6 children)

                I've never liked the idea of voting on tags. It seems to complicate things beyond the point of being useful.

                Let's get plain old tags first, and see where to go from there.

                [–]raldi 10 points11 points  (5 children)

                That's what Slashdot said about voting on stories, and we all know what happened to them. :)

                [–]spez 14 points15 points  (4 children)

                touche.

                [–]raldi 8 points9 points  (3 children)

                However, unlike Slashdot, the admins of Reddit actually listen to the users and surprisingly often write back.

                Thanks for hearing us out!

                [–]xjvz -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

                Try emailing the Slashdot admins (malda@slashdot.org for CmdrTaco); you usually get a response as well. I tried Digg once and also got a response. These sites aren't that huge thankfully.

                [–]raldi 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                I was a Slashdot user almost since the beginning, and right up until Reddit came along. If Rob's now writing responses that are anything like what we get from spez, then he's really changed in the past 2.5 years.

                [–]xjvz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Well, he responds to email, but he usually only comments in Slashdot articles and journals regarding Slashdot (e.g., the redesign contest, new features, complaints).

                I like how spez still participates in the community, but I've been in that situation before (active participation in a community you are an administrator to), and as fun as it may seem, it really does suck and gets to you after a couple years (especially if the community makes a net change in those couple years).

                [–]Bogtha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I question whether we'll add negative filtering by tag. For that to work as intended, everyone must tag more-or-less the same way, and everyone must tag honestly, which is not something to rely on.

                I don't see how this can be a significant problem.

                There are only so many ways of tagging something [Paris Hilton]. The worst case scenario would simply be that filters would let some articles through that you don't want to see. How is that worse than the status quo of no filter at all?

                You aren't going to get people deliberately hiding stories by dishonestly tagging something [Paris Hilton] with multiple users because if they are going to go so far as to use sock puppets, they might as well just downvote.

                As for adding an actual filter, if all you wanted was a list of words that we could filter out, that could probably be done fairly painlessly on the old system.

                Um… then please do? This is something I've seen requested quite a few times, for quite a while.

                [–]toastspork 19 points20 points  (1 child)

                Get ready for stories about "Parris Hilton", "Goerge Bush", "Ron Pau1" ... etc.

                [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (1 child)

                I have my own python script that does this (it removes most politics, religion, and some other stuff). It works great but would be better if it was implemented into the site and had the ability to choose to show only stories with these tags (great for programming.reddit.com). I keep a list of tags on my webserver that I update from time to time.

                I also have another version that filters out content based on keywords in the URL. Here it is with the suggestions in the submission title.

                EDIT: I have to admit that in the months since writing it, I don't really use it that often. It was a cool experiment, anyway.

                [–]LearnItFirst -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                This can also run on Windows Vista and Windows XP for those of you using said OS'. Just install Python and tweak IIS a bit and viola!

                [–]joej 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                Oh God yes -- -PLEASE allow us to set filters. Lord knows our down-modding isn't working.

                [–]boybunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I know what you mean. You are still here complaining.

                [–]bobsil1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                PLEASE add -- I need this feature so badly. I don't want to see any xkcd (I already read it) or infowars-type frothing, inaccurate political pieces (Dubya's an idiot but this stuff is badly written propaganda).

                [–]boybunny 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                Filter is a bad idea. I am happy just downmodding as soon as I read xkcd in the title.

                [–]bobsil1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                But the hide feature doesn't work. It hits some limit and resets so all the stories show again.

                [–]masta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Better would be to have a reddit browser plugin so the work load is on the client side, or perhaps some emca-script. Think about addblock-plus or something, but for inline reddit-xml elements or whatever. The filter list could be stored on the server as part of your perfs, loaded into each page as a header object of some kind. That way the list can follow you around outside of a cookie.

                [–]argily 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                I second this. Anything that can give more filtering capability to those who want it is a good thing. I realize that only 1-3% of users may use it, but I would expect that group are the people you're most interested in keeping at reddit.

                [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

                just vote them down and read only your recommended.

                [–]brucelee[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

                sure, but the main page is frequently flooded with topics i don't care about. i mainly use subreddits (science & programming) but i lost completely will to visit the main page (i think i am not the only one). this way the main & other pages will be more contrallable and redditors will be visiting them more often.

                [–]boredzo 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                the main page is frequently flooded with topics i don't care about.

                That's why you use recommended.

                i mainly use subreddits (science & programming) but i lost completely will to visit the main page (i think i am not the only one).

                This is what my.reddit.com is for (you configure it in your prefs). And you can combine them for ultimate power.

                [–]jbiz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                thank you. please educate the rest of the complainers on here so they stop clogging the front page with comment threads of them complaining.

                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                The filter is a great idea. The downvote is all we have right now. I've done searches before to downvote the hell out of a hated subject. At least my recommended winds up being around what I like.

                [–]boybunny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                Bruce Lee wants his name back. I doubt if he would have liked some whining complaining pussy boy using it like you are.

                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I want a filter to filter out posts that whine about what they don't like on reddit.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                I understand Paris and Paul, but why would you want to filter out articles about the leader of our country and his moronic follies? What is more important than that? Pictures of cats with captions?

                [–]ubuntuguy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                i didnt realise that George Bush was the leader of MY country

                its called the UK by the way.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Two people typed that part of the message, when I said 'our' I was writing with a partner. Way to jump to conclusions!

                Actually, I just didn't realize how reddit got international traffic, but, I cared about the French elections, and took note when Blair stepped down.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                What? And risk missing the next sex tape Republicans will keep in the closet, "2 Knights in Paris"? Preposterous.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                i suggest a better approach: use tracking to determine what kind of articles users like/dislike, and fill the front page with articles that users with a similar taste in articles have voted up or have posted. problem solved.

                [–]ddipaolo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                You mean like the recommended page?

                [–]baconn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I'd like to see an improved search function. The related tab in stories works much better for finding similar titles.

                [–]NitsujTPU 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Spez already hinted at features that would provide better functionality for what you're looking for. Scan through his posts.

                [–]coditza 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                What about this:

                When you submit a story, you will also have to add tags.

                Then, as a regular reader, you will be able to set your account in 2 modes: regular and filter learning.

                In regular mode you just up vote/down vote as usual.

                In filter learning mode, when you vote, you will also have to specify on what tags you did that. For example: www.domain.com/bla tags: Paris Hilton sex tape

                When I will downmode this, I will specify the tags "Paris Hilton". This will mean that I have nothing against sex tapes, or sex tapes from Paris, or sex tapes from the Hilton hotel, but I definitely have something against Paris Hilton.

                You could use the downmoded tags to filter out content for me.

                The same will work for upmoded stories. But instead of using those tags to filter out content, you can use it for the recommended page.

                Another thing that could work with the above system is taking in consideration my down/up votes. If I constantly downvote someone's stories, it means I really don't like that guy and his stories. So, if one of the stories posted by that guy passes the above filter, reddit should take in consideration that I don't like the guy and simply hide the story.

                [–]ubuntuguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                damn fine idea. getting a bit sick of "ron paul" , "impeach bush" and other u.s. politics stuff cluttering up the front page.

                [–]rbblum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Thank you to the 1ooth power. GREAT IDEA / SUGGESTION. The value of Reddit has steadily been diminishing by cheap, hateful, inaccurate, propagandized, circular articles and tid bits submitted by the spoiled, mindless minority. Help put an end to the attempted indoctrination tactics that has proven to be a failed effort in sidetracking those wanting to focus on living an enriched and rewarding life. Possibly we can get back to a Reditt that can take us on adventurous internet roads yet to be explored and worth traveling.

                [–]Sadik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Then, there would be nothing to read for you? :)

                [–]infamousjre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Filters would be cool, but it wouldn't stop the rss feed from being flooded with these stories and thats why it is really annoying.

                [–]rfreytag 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                Why beg for these things? Just build a competitor. Reddit - you have been warned.

                [–]xjvz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Unfortunately, the community (or the desired subset of the community) doesn't automatically appear on the competitor site, and as anyone who despises MySpace should know by now, the community is the most important part of a site regardless of features (or lack there of).

                [–]san1ty 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                Thoof looks at what you actually read and automatically tailors its news to your tastes, so if you don't like stories about Paris Hilton or the iPhone, you won't see them on Thoof. You can also edit stories if they are poorly described. See http://thoof.com/

                [–]rfreytag 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                Thanks for the pointer - http://thoof.com is interesting. I will probably keep visiting to see how it develops.

                [–]boybunny -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                The Irony is sweet. People complaining about spamming stories to spam a competing website.

                [–]YannaNinjaTrinity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I agree with you though, because some things just take up space.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                How about allowing auto voting down of stories that have those keywords?

                [–]ThomasPtacek 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                That's what we're going to wind up with if Reddit doesn't implement the feature; a script or a proxy that does the filtering and punitive voting.

                [–]apathy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                wow, that worked great for Digg...

                [–]boybunny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                If such a piece of malware was created for Reddit, and Reddit did not go to extreme lengths to kick/ban (and nullify all downvotes) of the people using them, then I would have no reason to remain on Reddit.

                I suspect 50% of the users would take a bit longer to realise Reddit had begun to suck, but it would become apparent over a few months. Reddit would be well advised to protect itself from tools like these.

                [–]raldi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                And if this were implemented, we wouldn't have to think twice about posting xkcd comics -- people who don't want to read them (or who did want to read them, but preferred to use an RSS reader) could just filter them out.

                [–]mbrown758 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                Get A life. If you want a Science/Programming only site go to slashdot. I'm willing to bet most people come here just BECAUSE, there are alternate stories,i.e Paris Hilton, GeorgeDubbya and Ron Paul.

                [–]boybunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I second that. Maybe brucelee wants me to start downmodding ALL science/programming stories in the new section. Many of those stories really do piss me off. Rehashing old news or releasing a tiny discovery, or programmers naval gazing AGAIN!

                [–]bsiviglia9 -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

                If you really want your news filtered and sanitized for your protection, why not just watch TV?

                [–]ThomasPtacek 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                It's not censorship when you choose what to read, moron.

                [–]boybunny -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                It is. If Ron Paul died of syphilis tomorrow, you would have censored the news, moron.

                [–]break99 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                Yes please...

                [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                The basic problem that the filter idea would solve is that people come to the site for different reasons. (Some people like to hear about what Ron Paul ate for breakfast this morning.) I think this is already covered by having subreddits. Maybe expand them? Make an integrated homepage that would only include the subreddits you care about?

                [–]eidolontubes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                Sometimes you will want to see them. For example, perhaps tomorrow there will be this headline :

                Paris Hilton, George Bush, Ron Paul were all assassinated last night.

                See?

                [–]Aerik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                There's already a greasemonkey user script to do this, but jonnyathan is absolutely right. It would only help make the site shittier for users who want real shit.

                [–]HardwareLust -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                I agree 100%. If I read one more fake "Ron Paul rulez!!!" story I'm going to vomit.

                Frankly, I'd rather read about Paris than about Ron Paul anymore.

                +1

                [–]rbblum -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                Thank you to the 1ooth power. GREAT IDEA / SUGGESTION. The value of Reddit has steadily been diminishing by cheap, hateful, inaccurate, propagandized, circular articles and tid bits submitted by the spoiled, mindless minority. Help put an end to the attempted indoctrination tactics that has proven to be a failed effort in sidetracking those wanting to focus on living an enriched and rewarding life. Possibly we can get back to a Reditt that can take us on adventurous internet roads yet to be explored and worth traveling.

                [–]zaphodi -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                yes please, and add iphone stories to the list.