NOSTR Client Improvement Idea:
Blacklist Search Terms. Persistent Global Blacklist Terms.
Someone else brought this up as negative search functions
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"Jack Spirko@jackspirko
· Apr 22
💡 It occurred to me that it would be valuable for clients to not just adopt following hash tags, some do some don't right now.
It would also be good to allow negative filtering. Meaning if there was a topic I just didn't give two fucks sideways about, I could neg filter the hash tag or even a word itself.
Both options would be great, max flexibility.
To me this is less about a user not seeing something they don't want to and more about maximizing feed value.
We all have lives outside of the internet, we take time to use social media to learn, connect, build networks, etc. So it should also be very easy to see your filters, positive and negative to review and modify them.
Content is like music, it isn't good or bad just subjective. Sometimes I am in the mood for old corny 80 hair band rock, most of the time I am not. It is kind of like that. #grownostr"
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That is a step in the correct direction. I think it would be cool to have a personalized setup available to black-list certain hashtags from ever showing up in you searches and global feed unless you specifically search for them. I am referring to posts that are explicitly TAGGED as "xyz"
Also for even more offensive or undesired content, have the same capability to black-list terms found in the content AND hashtags.
Example 1:
I don't want pornography popping up on my feed or in my searches without me going looking for it.
Have a menu in a client that you can put in hashtags like "#tits" or "#porn" to filter your feed without having to type them in as "-#tits" or "-#porn" every time you put a new search in.
In this instance posts that have the hashtag #tits would not show up, but a post talking about how someone's tits hurt, without the hashtag, would still show up.
Example 2:
same as above but
Have a menu in a client that you can put in terms like "tits" or "porn" to filter your feed without having to type them in as "-tits" or "-porn" every time you put a new search in.
In this instance posts that have the word tits either in the content of the post or as a hashtag would not show up. In this case, a post talking about how someone's tits hurt, without the hashtag, would NOT show up.
To be clear, I am not suggesting censoring what people are allowed to post or see. I am looking for a way to help me not see what I desire not to see.
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