Not a fan of /s/WatchPeopleDie, but not a fan of banning subs? Filter it out!

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

This is kind of the intent of how we originally designed the subscription system. Everyone is subscribed to everything, then they just filter out the ones they don't like, similar to how RES does it. I guess it's not quite as fluid because there's no in-line unsubscribe buttons like there is on RES.

[–]go1dfish 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

TIL, that's a cool approach.

IDK how doable it is here, but I think there is value both in that model (blacklist) and a whitelist model of subscriptions.

Would be cool if you could select to start from either extreme for your account.

Edit: Does it not apply to subs created after you join? I just had to subscribe to WPD manually.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Would be cool if you could select to start from either extreme for your account.

We're also working on this, it's mostly done. When you create your account, you're subscribed to everything. But in your user preferences there is an 'unsubscribe from all' option. So you can build it in a blacklist/opt-out way or a whitelist/opt-in sort of way, whatever you prefer. It could probably be a little more streamlined and obvious though.

[–]KnightWhoSaisKnee 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Actually, for some reason, my adblocker (uBlock origin) hides the unsubscribe buttons. Maybe this helps. Or did I get you wrong?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This has happened before, you're the 3rd to report this. Not sure why it happens. Thanks for the report though.

[–]KnightWhoSaisKnee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So I p layed around a bit and it seems to be a cosmetic filter applied by ublock origin. Here is a screenshot of the DOM inspector of ublocks logger.

https://ibb.co/QHsxjRn

I couldn't find out (or don't know how to read the screenshot XD) how the cosmetic filtering works exactly, but maybe this helps.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks for the information! From a cursory glance it looks like the phrase "subscription-box" was flagged by it as being an ad, so it blocked out the buttons. /u/d3rr might find this interesting too. Thanks again.

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

Don't mention it. I'd love to see this community prosper and I'm happy to do my part.