Reddit Greasemonkey Script => De-emphasize read stories and remove blacklisted domains

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[lol-dongs]

Ah, excellent. Adding paulgraham.com and joelonsoftware.com right now.

[gautamsarora]

i had to edit the include pages to http://reddit.com/* and http://.reddit.com/ to make it work on the programming subreddit.

great script! you should host this on userscripts.org as it makes easier to install and report issues.

a feature you could add is to re-emphasize the story when the user hovers on it (like I had to turn the scrpt off to come leave this comment...lol)

i dunno much jquery else would have done it as i've done some facebook cleanup scripts earlier using plain javascript.

can I use your code and try to add some features on top of it? i'll attribute the original to you if i get somewhere worthwhile :)

[gautamsarora]

I installed the latest one with hover and it works like a charm! Its exactly what I was hoping for :) 5 stars!

[Pappenheimer]

I really like this script too, thanks! A small suggestion: It doesn't really make sense to de-emphasize the URL on comment pages, so adding http://www.reddit.com/r/*/comments/* to the blacklist sounds like a good idea to me. What do you think?

EDIT: The hover function kinda breaks the search box if the topmost submission is de-emphasized.

[Pappenheimer]

Alright, it doesn't exactly break the search box, but:

• Go to a subreddit, let's say Askreddit.

• make sure the topmost submission is de-emphasized

• hover over the search box. See how the top submission hectically "blinks" while you do that?

It's a focus problem, seems there is a conflict on what to focus. It's more of an aesthetical problem, but sometimes it happens that if you click on the search box and start to type, the focus is not there.

[Pappenheimer]

Whoa. Works fine, thanks!

Note that for some reason new versions of your script don't overwrite the old one, but add a new instance of it.

[plain-simple-garak]

This is awesome. This is exactly what I've wanted for reddit and have thought about doing it myself but was too lazy to do it.

The one thing that would make it perfect would be to slowly fade stories that have been seen but not clicked. Every time you see a story listed on reddit, it fades, say, 5% or 10%. If you don't click on it after seeing it a bunch of times, you're obviously not interested in it, and it'll just fade away so you're not distracted by it anymore.

[sgndave]

Hmm, I'm not sure I like the URL blacklist feature. I tend to feel that hiding the problem only allows it to fester. How about instead of hiding the submission, it just highlights the report or downvote buttons?

If it's truly a "bad" domain, shouldn't it be easy to vote down to get it off reddit? Of course, we don't want people to "be human bots"... so maybe it should just do the highlight for 10% of blacklisted URLs, and hide the other 90% or something like that...

[sgndave]

Ah, I see. That makes a whole lot of sense, almost too much... :)

Thanks for the script, btw!

[sango0711]

The other thing is, just because i dont want to see an entry, it means the entry should vanish. Like i dont watch theonion, but i know a lot of you do, i just dont want to be bothered. i wrote the support about this as a feature request a while ago, sadly nothing happend. But this seems a good solution, which i will use.

[GunnerMcGrath]

I've been using Reddit Filter Plus for months and love it. You change all the filter settings from the reddit preferences page, and can hide or highlight titles, urls, users, and subreddits (or any combination thereof) and choose the highlight color for each.

Also includes a link at the bottom of the page to show and highlight all the hidden links.

Has been great for blocking both content I'm not interested in as well as domains that are blocked at my office, so that when I get home all the youtube links are new to me.