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I think the real problem is Twitter refuses to make sophisticated filtering available to users. Simple mute, block, and keyword filtering are inadequate.

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I was wondering today why Facebook et al. don't break their share functions into emotionally binned categories.

"Share because it makes me angry" etc

Seems like they'd get amazing whole text training sets, as well as a signal to better guide their platforms (e.g. under-weighting negative emotions in share velocity).

that's cute that you're assuming they would want to do that.

People would quickly realize that if they share it under a negative category their share velocity would be hit. A better approach might just be to sentiment-detect negative emotion in Tweets and adjust share velocity accordingly.

They're designing for engagement and/or revenues, not for outcome; we (hopefully) don't raise our children to be as hyper as possible as a leading metric.

I wonder if it's already possible to do this without a new button.

If a lot of people close to you in your social network react "angry" to something and you choose to share it, there's a good chance you're sharing it because it makes you angry too.

Graphs are cool

Good filtering has traditionally been one of the killer features of userscripts for enhancing imageboard experiences. Things like filtering by image hash, regular expressions and recursive filtering (also filter content that engages with filtered content; repeat) are pretty powerful tools for fighting abuse or, at minimum, making the daily grind not quite so terrible. Stuff like that is generally accomplishable client-side, so as a non-Twitter user I'm a bit curious why this isn't already a widely used thing.

Makes me want to mess around with a browser extension that uses perceptual hashing to filter smug frog images or whatever.

I've found keyword filtering to be very effective, but they limit your filter list to 200 keywords and they don't apply to ads (so I can't block ads about blockchain stuff).

They don't even have to be that sophisticated: just me automatically block accounts with no phone number and/or were created recently.

You can do that for 'no phone no.' accounts, people can still reply to you but you'll see no notification

Great, didn't know that. Thanks

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