Lemmy Client Idea - Recommend blocking communities after consistent downvotes
It might be nice if lemmy clients (voyager, default client, etc) would make a suggestive pop-up:
Would you like to block this community? Your downvote ratio is 100% over the last X days/Y posts.
This is good for lemmy because it will let users have a more positive experience, its helping guide people to get better use of the user interface.
Seems odd to me, but then I rarely downvote anything.
Being able to block German and French instances easily might be helpful though. I can't read them.
Lemmy already has a feature where you can define the language of a post and potentially filter by that property, but it's pretty much useless because most just leave it on "Undetermined". I believe clients should make a best effort guess about the language (maybe based on a dictionary analysis of the text body or WHOIS of a linked website) and offer it as the default choice instead.
it's pretty much useless because most just leave it on "Undetermined"
Can't mods remove "undetermined" from the list of options for a community, forcing posters to set the language when they post?
but then I rarely downvote anything.
Same, I either upvote, ignore or block.
I only downvote things if I think they are bad for the platform, not just because it's something I personally disagree with.
However, that isn't how many people use voting.
Everyone should be setting their posting language right? Or does language filter just not work at all?
I've had no problems with it
IMO, it’s a mistake to be shutting out other cultures because of these easily-fixed technical issues.
Personally, I’d rather a translation option was added like they have on Mastodon. I’d miss out on some smart people if I blocked all German and French posts from my feed. Those just happen to be the best languages for high assurance engineering talk (which is basically all I care about).
That's fair and I've suggested the same before as well.
What are the advantages of downvotes anyway? If somebody breaks the rules, you can report them. If nothing is done about it, you can leave a community. If you dislike most of the content of an user or a community, you can give your negative feedback or block them. If you think somebody is wrong on some subject, you can correct them.
Sure, to be honest it feels good to press the downvote button on a comment or post I dislike, but I could live without it.
I mostly downvote when I think the comment is so wrong or bad but I have a feeling that commenting a response means a long drawn out back and forth that ends up being unproductive and me taking a lot of abuse.
I don’t have votes visibly on my app client though so even when I do it I don’t actually see the vote totals.
If would be more productive to encourage blocking by making it more powerful/less of a chore.
Also honestly once a block list is 50+ it already seems like named blocklists are needed to properly manage things.
I suppose it could also apply to users - You have downvoted 100% of this user's posts, would you like to block them?
@demesisx@infosec.pub would you like to block me instead?