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Discussion on: Lesser Known Features of DEV — Ignoring a Tag via Negative Follow Weights

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Jeremy Friesen

Hey, I'm one of those members meeting. A quck question, are you ever seeing posts that only have JavaScript tags.

The fact that there are four possible tags means we may be eliminating a tag from being considered, but other tags are still considered.

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MiguelMJ

I think that might be the reason. It's true that I don't see those tags alone.

In this very moment, for example, I've browsed my feed looking for examples and I've found in the first posts one about React. However, the post also had open-source and webdev tags. Those tags don't have a weight in my configuration, I'm not following nor anti-following them... but maybe they bring the post again to considered posts.

Thanks for your feedback, Michael and Jeremy! I hope the meeting bring some good new ideas ^^

PD: I have a quick idea in a similar line: Some mechanism to mark a post as "bad tagged" could help to bring the attention of tag mods (specially in popular tags that now are used only to improve the position of your content)

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Michael Tharrington

PD: I have a quick idea in a similar line: Some mechanism to mark a post as "bad tagged" could help to bring the attention of tag mods (specially in popular tags that now are used only to improve the position of your content)

This is a pretty cool idea and definitely worth considering! Thanks for bringing this up. Any chance you'd like to start up a GitHub discussion on this in our repo? Alternatively, I could start the discussion and reference your statement here. 😀

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MiguelMJ

On it! Thanks for the suggestion ;)

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Luke Westby

I’ll add to this experience report that I have #blockchain and #web3 anti-followed but I still see plenty of posts with either or both of those tags.

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Michael Tharrington

Good to know! Appreciate that feedback, Luke. 👍