@Read.Cash
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Blocking users
It's not a fun topic to write about, but these things happen. Some user bugs you and you just don't want to see them anymore. We have implemented blocking. Just click the user's username and go to his/her page:
Confirm and that's it.
You won't see this person's articles or comments, all of the blocked user's comments will be hidden from your articles, and the person won't be able to see your articles too, seeing this instead:
Not much to say about this feature. Sad, but necessary.
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Great news!
**Note: blocking the user, who blocks you, also hides this user's comments from your articles.** It hides only from my point of view, or alltogether? As the comments are still there if i check it when i am not logged in.
It should hide the comments from everyone. If it's not - then it's a bug. We'll check it once more.
Its a bug then, the comments are still visible from private mode or from other browser.
Try again, it should be fixed.
Nice work, now it works properly. I hope my bugreports from the past days was usefull, and i wasnt too annoying.
Sure! Thanks for these. Any bug report is always important.
There's no way to downvote. Front page is a limited resource.
It kind of makes no sense to downvote, because we can't subtract money... I mean then we'd need to show "how much money did the post make", "how much money did the users sent to downvote", etc... It doesn't make much sense. However, we're almost done with the "Communities" feature, which should really solve the problem of the overcrowded main page. (Even though, I see the crowded main page as a good problem to have, empty one would've been much worse 😁) Give us a few days to finish it.
Other sites usually solve this problems by having a keyword system thats easily accessible from the main site. The most popular keywords are accessible by a click, so by clicking through your favorit topics, you can learn whats going on.
Something like that, yes. It's going to be very similar to Reddit's subreddits with a few twists.
Why can't I downvote with money? No need to subtract it - if I believe that this content is deserving of negative representation, then I should be just as willing to prove that financially as I am to prove financially that content is deserving of praise?
Here are two situations: 1) you and other people can only upvote content. That's cooperation. You're working together. Feels nice. 2) you and other can upvote and downvote. That's competition. Doesn't feel that nice anymore, because suddenly somebody with more money can belittle or totally destroy the results of your efforts. You wouldn't even want to upvote next time. We want to build something where people cooperate on stuff, not try to undermine each other's effort. This is counterproductive. "If you don't like something, go build something you'd like" - I really liked that idea from [Falkvinge's memo](https://falkvinge.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/letter-from-the-ceo.pdf): > It means we don’t berate others for doing what we don’t like, but either choose to ignore it, or do something we like instead, which others are free to follow in turn. > (In a way, this is just condensing the Internet’s Golden Rule: “If you see something you don’t like, write something else that you do like.”) What we really need is a way for people to concentrate attention on things they like - i.e. personalization of the feed, creating "communities", where only relevant content is published. So it's possible that we'll implement something like "Show less content like this", but it's very unlikely that we'll make a "Downvote for all" feature.
This is the better answer. should've lead with that :)
Who gets the money if you downvote? If it goes to read.cash that may be a sustainable biz model! ;)
Totally agree, sad but necessary as the site grows we'll need something to block out toxic users and low quality bulk posters
Yep, all that and also without resorting to full-blown censorship campaign.
A feature I’d like to see: being able to sort articles by Tip amount, Post Date, Topic Tags, etc..
Go to the main page: click "Top" - that's by "Tip amount, click "New" - that's by "Post date", click the topic name - that's the topic. I'm not sure how to "sort by topic name", since each article has at least 10 topics..
It is very interesting! Anyone that is not adding value to my life will surely be blocked. "I always avoid distractors and timewasters".