Is there any less political content here yet?

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[–]magnora7 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's a good idea, I'll have to think about that one. Would it be if just one person ever flags it as political, then it's official? Or would it require a certain number or percentage before it's officially flagged as "political"? Like only the 80% most-marked things for the day are officially flagged?

Also this is kind of what we made the 'fun' tab for. It sorts by fun votes instead of insightful votes: https://saidit.net/fun/

But it still has political content. But people have varying definitions of what qualifies as "political" you know what I mean? So I'm just thinking about the algorithm of how that would work exactly

[–]Papitas 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How about letting us users decide that? For example, some setting like "Consider political content after <n> marks". That way, some people could consider a post "political" after, say... 5 people flagged it as such, while people who are really fed up with political bullshit (like me) could filter posts marked after the first person did it.

It's just a rough idea, of course.

[–]Canbot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was thinking just one flag should be enough, but anyone can "unflag" and then it goes by popular vote. This way you don't need a lot of participation, but if someone tries to abuse it the community can come together and fix it.

As much as I don't like the language the left has invented I have to admit that it seems to be more fitting to call it a safe space button and the flags as trigger warnings.

But at the same time I'd be worried that those people who do want to abuse it would claim that not enough material is flagged so the bar has to be set lower and lower. Always insisting that they are genuinely triggered. It does often seem that the language is specifically tailored to make everything sound subjective so no consensus can ever be reached, allowing the loudest to "win" any argument.

But of course the first step is just to put something forward and just see what happens and then make improvements.