New Functionality: Unsee

[morganafromka]

Title
New Functionality: Unsee

Short, concise description of the idea
The idea is to introduce a new button 'Unsee' for the users to be able to make invisible unwanted posts/threads/comments in other users' journals if they want to (in order to protect themselves from negative information)

Full description of the ideaLJ could add a new button 'Unsee

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

A similar suggestion from November 2007:
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/779609.html

[morganafromka]

Actually, I had no idea. This is the first time I post anything in 'suggestions'.

My point was to selfguard against trolling and haters. :)

[trixieleitz]

I am not a mod, but I think that entry is just linked there so that people discussing your suggestion can see what was said the last time. If the community moderators had thought your suggestion shouldn't have been posted, they wouldn't have approved it for posting :)

[morganafromka]

Thanks). It helps to see the background :)

[morganafromka]

No, the idea is much more specific: it's a way to ignore threads in my friends' journals, communities, etc. To make invisible certain comments in others' journals if I don't want to see them (as I cannot edit others' journals, but at the same time there are threads/comments/users whom I would prefer to ignore/not to see, while staying online with my friends).

[charliemc]

Actually, though there's no 'button' to do this (reminds me of Facebook options), there is a simple way to do this...

LiveJournal has excellent ways for us to filter how we view Friends. I've been using these filters the entire time I've been here. Generally I'll filter someone out if they make a habit of not using lj-cuts (I hate having my view broken, forcing me to scroll right). But from time to time I've filtered out a person who has been negative in some way.

Also, if we don't want to view someone, we can always Unfriend (or Leave a community), so there are options in place.

I suspect there's some WORK involved to code this sort of thing, by the way.

Anyway, I doubt I'd use it if we had it -- and it wouldn't be at the top of my list for things I'd want LiveJournal working on...

[morganafromka]

I do not befriend negative people and I do know how to filter LJ by adjusting my own filters. However it does not protect me from the negative threads and comments in the journals of my friends, when they are trolled or in case of 'holy wars'.

As to the work you are mentioning - every coding involves work, I assume. However this feature is likely to generate additional profit, I am sure some users would prefer to join the paid users in order to be able to avoid the hate comments/insults (directed not necessarily to them) they read in their friends' journals.

As to whether you would use it or not, it's up to you. My friends liked the idea, and it is a suggestion, not an order. :)

[charliemc]

Saying whether or not we will use a feature is a normal part of reviewing any given suggestion. I get that you're suggesting this as an opt-in. I'm just stating a fact (and I tend to always say when I wouldn't use any potential feature -- not just in this case

[morganafromka]

Actually, my response was not personal or negative in any respect, sorry if you took it that way :). I was just clarifying why we need this feature, that's all.

Being an ERP analyst, I do know the implications of additional coding, but IMO this very option is not time and/or resource consuming. As to the list - everyone has his own, and priorities are different for different people, so no offense taken. :)

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[just_chiara]

I don't really see it being useful for me. If I don't like an entry, I'll just scroll down and be done with it (or use filters/unfriend/unwatch if I have a problem with the user/community). Once I've seen it, what's the point of hiding it?

Re: -1

[morganafromka]

In case you see a fight starting, you would be able to make it invisible and not to come across it, if you don't want to :)

Re: -1

[just_chiara]

I can't think of a single case when I personally would have used this function. I'm not saying other people wouldn't find it useful, just that I wouldn't. ;)

Re: -1

[morganafromka]

I see :)

Just a bit of detail regarding the origins of the idea:

I am a movie fan and my LJ is mostly focused on movies, therefore most of my friends are movie geeks, fans, etc. The movie fans community is rather large and diverse, and therefore it is impossible to avoid interaction with those you don't like only by selecting your friends carefully. Anyway you are likely to come across the comments/threads you would prefer to avoid. The same refers to LJ communities, if they are not moderated properly.

Things are different if you are keeping your pesonal diary where your followers are your actual friends/

[damnitnicole]

Once I've seen a comment, I don't really see the point in hiding it from myself. I can't imagine ever using this.

[morganafromka]

Thank you for your opinion :)

[vvalkyri]

I could see it as a killthread option, a la usenet. Some communities certain threads get really long, and occasionally that'll happen in a journal too. On the actual post that can get to be a lot of scrolling, and woe betide if you've tickyboxtracked the entry.

I tracked comments to a post that got around 5000 comments. In that particualar case most of them remained interesting to me (although it wasn't clever to devote quite that much time). If 4000 of the 5000 comments were on subthreads I diddn't care about but I still wanted to see new threads, it would have been nice to hide/unsubscribe to only the identified nevermind ones.

Ngah. need more coffee.

[morganafromka]

Thanks. It is another application of the suggested functionality, which could be of value for the users - quite often, when you read popular bloggers, you have to open and close multiple threads, that make you scroll and scroll down.

:-) Thank you for your support!