I really like free speech, but am sick of race and women hating obsessions of 4chan and voat.

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[–]Invicta 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The reddit software (which saidit runs) is not optimized for dealing with this situation. Reddit wants to force users to moderate content with votes instead of blocking users.

On a free speech site it should be easy to block users you don't want to interact with.

This is something Gab got right. There are users on Gab that endlessly post nazi stuff or use slurs in every post, but it's easy to block them. It does not take long at all until your feed contains content you're comfortable with. I am personally surprised that it works so well, so fast.

I think saidit should tweak this codebase a bit and put a "block" option next to every username. The other side of the "free speech" coin is the freedom to not listen if you don't want to - without compromising others' ability to listen.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know about blocking that seems dangerous because someone who at one point posts shit and retarded pseudonazi stuff all the time may at some point have something insightful and interesting to say. The option to apply filters should instead be implemented as is possible on 4chan. Just filter the word "jews" or "race" and you'll get more of what you're looking for and less of the same old tired shit everywhere has

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just looked and it seems like you can use RES which would allow filtering.

says here:

Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) : builds, git source (official)

 WARNING: stomps your RES for Reddit settings

[–]Crystalmenthol 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just because an idiot is right once in a while doesn’t mean you’re net-negative if you block them totally. Even if you have keyword filtering, they’ll start using new code phrases and keep popping up with the same stupid arguments said differently.