DW Feature: Can I Use Tags to Avoid Posts?

[jesse_the_k]

Following up on yesterday's post, I think I can follow other's peoples' tags using post notifications. I don't think if I can suppress posts.

To follow, I turn on post notifications by example.

1. At a relevant post, click the "alarm" or "track" link.

2. In the pop-up "email me when" click the "more options" button

3. At the resulting "Manage Message Settings" screen, the bottom offers
Track Entries to this Journal
Notify me in my DW Inbox when
One of the options will show
$name_of_journal posts a new entry tagged and then pick a tag from the dropdown menu.

Is this correct? Is there a way to suppress a post based on its tags?

Comments

[goss]

I've never used the feature myself, but the DW FAQ on Filtering your reading page says that you can if you have a paid account:

Currently, paid accounts can use the following advanced filters:
- Tags: Show only content that is labeled with a certain tag, or only content that is without a certain tag.

[kaberett]

I am commenting in the interests of UPDATING THE DAMN' FAQ TO BE CLEARER. I am not yet clear on how to do this and I am definitely not editing FAQs at gone midnight, but if anyone wants to Encourage Me then please by all means respond to this comment (preferably with detailed steps because this seems Non-Obvious to me).

[jesse_the_k]

I hope my comment below encourages you on that path because ughhhh the FAQ is so ... not helpful.

[kaberett]

I have now, finally, done so -- better? (I was wary about messing up, so unfortunately it's had to wait until I had the brain to be sure I wasn't...)

[jesse_the_k]

Replying to say I did see this and I will report back with (I hope good news) soon.

[jesse_the_k]

Sorry for the massive delay in my response. I just read your prose. wow it’s great thanks so much.

[kaberett]

I've been replying to posts from September this evening <3

meta question & answer

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for your instantaneous reply! (Did you use the FAQ search box for this? I had zero results searching on "tags" or "filter" and I must not be using the right approach.)


Ahhh! I see it now. There are several steps for us paid account users.

It all happens at the Manage Subscription Filters page
http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/subscriptions/filters

1. create an "avoid" filter
2. add journal name whose content you want to block
3. select one journal name, and many "Options" fill the third column

Select "Show only content that" and then "the entry is tagged with" NONE of the tags and click on however that journal tags the current crisis in politics.

BUT

Can I filter my reading list with more than one filter at a time?

Re: meta question & answer

[goss]

(Did you use the FAQ search box for this? I had zero results searching on "tags" or "filter" and I must not be using the right approach.)

Ha! Um, I did it the old fashioned way. I just Googled "filter tags dreamwidth" and the first on the list was a direct link to that part of the DW FAQ.


Can I filter my reading list with more than one filter at a time?

Err...no idea, sorry. :/

Re: meta question & answer

[jesse_the_k]

Google does it all, eh? Perhaps DW could install a custom Google search field?

I will suggest it.

Re: meta question & answer

[susanreads]

I don't think you can use more than one filter at once. I don't know how typical my use case is, but I have a number of reading filters and everyone I subscribe to is in one or two of them. Then I check them at different intervals (I should rearrange them, actually, because posting frequencies have changed so much). Where I don't want to see all of someone's posts, I use the tag filtering option you describe above, but if I loaded my whole reading page instead of one filter at a time, I'd still see all that account's posts.

I have a politics tag, but as you've probably noticed I post very little about anything these days.

Re: meta question & answer

[azurelunatic]

You should be able to add multiple users to the same "avoid" filter, with the appropriate tags for each journal individually.

Re: meta question & answer

[jesse_the_k]

Yes, this seems to work. Unfortunately my droll is full of creative people, so I first have to find how they're tagging the stuff I wish to avoid.

The final touch is naming this long list of "don't shows mes" as "Default," so that way it's automatically loaded when I choose my readling list.

[sqbr]

I've never used it but there's a chrome extension called DW blocker that I know a lot of people use to block dreamwidth content. I think this is it.

[jesse_the_k]

Holy molybdenum that looks great (if it works)! Will report back.

[jesse_the_k]

That's not the right tool. This Chrome extension provides four functions that I don't really understand:

1. "Action tag" which inserts HTML for smaller text within brackets.
2. "Autoload comment pages on scroll" which may recreate Tumblr's endless scroll navigation
3. Define a CSS-type style for "text tags," which I think affects <tt> and <code> content
4. Imgur album specification, which is totally mysterious.

Darn.

Oooh! This may be the right one

[jesse_the_k]

Dreamwidth Blocker Userscript

https://dwblock.neocities.org/dwblock.html

claims it's compatible with Greasemonkey (FF) and Tampermonkey (Chrome). Now to see if it works.

[jiawen]

Good to see that it looks like there's a way (or two)!