Filter out community entries by flist or custom fgroup membership

[pauamma]

Title
Filter out community entries by flist or custom fgroup membership

Short, concise description of the idea
Offer a way to view your friends page, or community journals, that restrict displayed entries to those posted by someone you friended, or in a specific custom friends group.

Full description of the ideaAt times, the volume of entries posted

Comments

[ex_uniquewo]

This would mean all the people whose posts you're interested in are already your friends so it would be of very little use to me but why not?

[pauamma]

It wouold also allow you to use your flist (or a custom fgroup) to filter either your fpage or a certain community by poster instead of filtering it by journal. (That is, this entry would normally appear on your fpage because suggestions is on your flist. However, when using that option, you wouldn't see it because pauamma isn't on your flist.)

[ex_uniquewo]

That's still limiting it to friends and this is just no useful to me. I don't read communities because of certain posters, I read them because I like what the whole comm is about. However, you gave me an idea for another suggestion. Thank you. :)

[rebelsheart]

I can see people using this.

[adudeabides]

Makes stalking easier. :)

[snarkbite]

I'm likely just being slow today, but how is this different than just viewing any of your custom groups directly, the way you already can? [http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml] If you have a group that's just 'these certain people, no comms' or whatever, then viewing the filter will show you just those people, etc.

[lovefromgirl]

That was my first thought as well -- I use filters for more than just custom security.

[gerg]

I think the difference is that he'd want the ability to also see posts by those people that are in communities he's watching.

[pauamma]

Prozacly.

[ursamajor]

So what you're saying is "prune my view (on my friends page, or at the comm itself) of the communities I watch to only include people I've friended, or custom-grouped"?

I would love both of the following to come true, native to either the comm itself or to one's friends page:

1. The "I don't want to see comm entries by X, Y, or Z" - "make trolls go away" approach.
2. The "I only want to see comm entries by X, Y, or Z" - "comm is too busy for me to keep paging back, just show me entries by these people whose entries I've liked in the past" approach

It'd have to be something that could be toggled off and on instantly - either on the page itself, or within an appendage to the URL.

Another problem is that sometimes, I want X, Y, or Z to include people I don't want to friend, for whatever reason.

My implementation could get messy, especially given a different "wanted/not wanted" list for each comm ... but I'd still like that level of flexibility available if possible.

[pauamma]

Option 1 is harder to implement, because there's no user interface at this time that lets you define groups consisting of "everyone except A, B, and C". Granted, you could define a friends group consisting of "A, B, and C" and say "everyone except people in that group", but that only works if A, B, and C are in your flist, which is unlikely to be the case if they're trolls.

So in the interest of keeping it easy to implement, I limited it to option 2.

[7rin]

It sounds like it'd probably be a right royal PITA to get sorted, but once sorted, I could see myself using this.

+1