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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: This time it's personal

I can see the use, it's just not an approach I've taken before. Hang on...

Okay. It wouldn't occur to me to follow #relationships, but #relationships.nowaypablo maybe. We'll try that. He's posted once, though. #relationships.theadvancedapes seems like a good "ignore" candidate simply because he's posted from Buzzfeed and collegehumor... but I've got things dialed to the point where I don't see buzzfeed and collegehumor.

So I wandered into a tag I've filtered - #feminism. And what I see is not so much that there are people who I want to filter out of #feminism, what I see is that there are lots of useful interesting articles in #feminism but I don't see any of them because they've been tagged #feminism. Which is stupid:

- I follow #grrrlski

- I follow _refugee_

- but if ref posts something in grrrlski and someone else tags it #feminism it vanishes.

I filtered #feminism because lorelai was using it on blast. She's long since gone. I can unfilter #feminism. But it's gonna be a lot handier for me to filter #feminism.jezibel than #feminism.userwhoisnowgone. I can ignore everything lorelai has to say - I'd really rather ensure that I don't have to deal with gawker anything.

Here's where it gets really dumb - for some reason, this post shows up under #feminism, which means I didn't see it, even though it isn't tagged #feminism.

So yeah. I can see my way towards greater granularity, but the greater granularity I want you ain't givin'.





mk  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Here's where it gets really dumb - for some reason, this post shows up under #feminism, which means I didn't see it, even though it isn't tagged #feminism.

That, is a riddle I need to solve. It would be great if we could identify post content so well, but that's not what is happening. I'm nearly certain it previously had the community tag feminism, and we are pulling it by that previous tag in the list.

kleinbl00  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That makes a lot of sense. I'm not sure what the best solution is... but it certainly illustrates the perils of filtering with wanton abandon.