Is there any less political content here yet?

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[–]Canbot 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

People find the political stuff more important so that is what they upvote. But it would be great to have a button, like the white/black one, that will flip off the political posts. Then everyone can flag posts as political so the button knows what is what.

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

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.