• extremeboredom@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Glad you posted this, it reminded me to update my Lemmy content filter! Up to now, I’ve just filtered out any headline including the word “slam, slammed, or slams.” Because those headlines are garbage. Now I’ve remembered I need to add the word “blast, blasted, and blasts,” because those are garbage too. Thanks!!

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      4 months ago

      Cool. Wait until you realize some of those garbage headlines represent great articles though. Obviously not all of them, but it seems very weird to filter out so many words

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        4 months ago

        Nah op is in the right here, it’s a really reliable indicator of ragebait, tabloid and/or amateur journalism

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        4 months ago

        Nahh, an article can present a point of view we deem to be “correct” while still engaging in clickbait and sensationalism. I’m not interested in clickbait or sensationalism, so I find that my filtering methods do a pretty good job of getting rid of most of the trash.

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      4 months ago

      woe woe woe. lemmy has a content filter. I liked kbin and was going mbin but I would really like a filter for certain key words.