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comment by jadedog
jadedog  ·  2909 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Feature Idea: Follow a user's posts but not their shares

I'm not sure how this changes things. Right now, when a couple of popular people comment in a post, the shares are very high. Since those posts generally hit the front page, you would see them by default. That also means that only those posts that popular people comment on are seen.

From what I've seen here, posts are either very popular or not responded to at all. That's a generalization. There are a few posts that have a moderate interest. But most seem to fall on one spectrum or the other.

I was hoping for a way to follow someone(s) to see all of their posts, regardless of how popular it had become. That would allow me to see the unpopular posts of the people I follow. The only way I can do this now is to go into global mode and look for specific people's posts while trying to filter out the spam.

I don't know anything about coding, so I don't know if this would be difficult to do. I also don't know the user base that well, so I don't know if anyone else is interested in this.





mk  ·  2909 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can see that. I was just talking to b_b, and he thought the approach I suggested was too complicated. I think we should start with a 'posts' and 'posts and shares' toggle for the feed, and we can see how it feels.

jadedog  ·  2909 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for your response and your responsiveness. I hope I'm not coming across as demanding. As a noob here, I don't have any right to be. I'm not expecting any changes on my account. I was just hoping to describe accurately what I was envisioning the new feature would look like. I apologize if it came across any other way.