Toggle Button For Work & Home - Option To Hide Keywords and Hashtags That May Offend You
I'd Like To Add The Feature Of Hiding Content Based On A Keyword Or Hashtag
While I love the decentralization of steemit and the ability for everyone to post without censorship, I believe each idividual user should be able to choose the types of content they wish to see.
In the picture above, I created a quick mockup of a syatem that allows you to turn off content you may find offensive or annoying
One feature would be to have a simple button you could click to turn on work mode that would hide content with keywords and hashtags that you would deem inappropriate for work. Instead of constantly turning a canned filter on and off, you could instead use a suggested guideline and tweak it to your own personal beliefs.
For example some people may find breastfeeding articles, videos and photographs completely harmless, but another user could choose to hide the keyword breastfeeding and the (hashtag)breastfeeding tags.
This could also be used to prevent children under a certain age from seeing content that a parent may disapprove of, while still allowing them to participate in the the steemit platform
I also feel the #NSFW content here is treated unfairly and has to be searched for. #NSFW content should be able to trend, but you would have the ability not to see it if you were to choose that for yourself.
To click a button to toggle between work and home content you wish to see would make it much easier browse safely in places that monitor your browsing.
Not only will this hide content that may offend you, but if you are tired of seeing (hashtag)pokemongo then you could add it to the list of content you wish to hide
@thedashguy proposed mini-feeds here --- Can we get some sort of "multi-feed" concept please?
I think the same sort of keyword/hashtag feed should be allowed to be created. If you love photography and cars, why not allow the user to create a feed that sorts those two categories in one place based on popularity, or time etc like the follow feed does
Like most of my posts, I encourage thoughtful feedback, but if all you are going to write is "great post" with nothing else, I ask that you refrain. If you want to like the post but have nothing to say that adds to the conversation please only upvote. But if you can critique or give your own insight into my proposal, please weigh in and hopefully many great minds will help to form a consensus
Very much agree!
Good to know. I really feel that the current system makes #nsfw have an unfair disadvantage, and would like it to be easily visible to people who wish to see it, but also allow users who do not wish to see it the ability to not have it appear. I think it would be the best of both worlds.
I certainly hope that the developers are working towards this. Unfortunately, just a couple weeks ago a lot of man hours had to be dedicated to dealing with a major hack and its aftermath... A week or two was spent just dealing with the fallout from that and trying to move on. Since then, we've been enjoying near daily improvements in the site interface. Personally I agree that nsfw content should be an immediate priority.... I also really like your suggestion of user-defined profiles that customize site content based on user-defined rules. I can envision several use cases for that functionality, especially in unison with @dantheman's delegated voting proposal.
I thought so too and am glad that you see the same customization being important. I know there are some incredibly important features that probably deserve more urgent development (notifications, ios android app) but would love to see this since the framework that allows the feeds that we now have seem to be in place to roll out this feature without extreme difficulty.
But sometimes things that seem incredibly easy to fix wind up taking much longer than expected. I try to give out as many ideas as possible because I think that even if I don't get rewarded directly for it now, it will make steemit better for the future and that is what I care more about than short term gains (although I will not turn them down).
I'm willing to put in the work to make sure steemit stays a great place to post content and engage with other users.
Interesting idea. Upvoted :-)
Thank you. It shouldn't be a crazy feature to implement when the developers have time to address it.
That would be a nice addition. I think you can already do that using Steemwatch for now.
Thanks @thecryptofiend ! That's a great website/application (I don't know what to calls these programs sometimes).
Maybe that developer could work to get the feature implemented directly into steemit and add a few of the other features suggested.
Do you have any additional things you would want to see in a feature like this that I may not have touched on?
I think a simple settings page where you could check a box to allow NSFW content would be a simpler solution. I do like the idea of being able to hide tags your sick of seeing though.
Yes a blanket #NSFW with certain terms and tags able to be hidden is a simpler solution, but I feel some people might view something like erotic photography different than violent content even though both may fall into the same category #NSFW category.
A list of suggested types of content you could put checkmarks by that you could toggle individually would be something that would customize steemit to your individual beliefs/preferences.
And since this is a decentralized platform, I feel you should be able to see as much or little as you wanted.
You could potentially turn off every other category besides crocheting and photography if you really only wished to see that content.
Just a baby idea, but thanks for your input @phoenixmaid! Hopefully others wish to weigh in as well and get this feature implemented.
I don't think being able to turn of everything bar one or two topics would be a good idea otherwise we could quickly descend to the same place as face book and twitter which have essentially become echo chambers robbing us of the joy of discovering new content, thoughts and ideas.
True, but I think that everyone should be free to do as they wish. You can already basically do that by going on steemwatch and only selecting a few topics. I doubt everyone would do this, but it might cater to a few people who would only really want to see others photography, and I believe they should be free to do that.
The majority will continue to enjoy new content and create
But a musician may wish to only see other music content and still be a part of steemit and contibute in a way like this
Some people just want to consume and vote on content so I feel as long as they are engaging with steemit in a positive way, they should be able to treat it as they wish.