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For example the recent article about Stallman is tagged "Misc", which is a bit broad and encompasses a great deal of gaming related articles.
I've been looking through the list of available tags and the most similar to what I'm thinking is "Political", but of course it still doesn't actually fit.
Probably the most obvious tag would be "Non Gaming", as someone suggested?
For example, we sometimes post distro news, and while we have a tag for that what if we also added the Non Gaming tag and you're blocking it?
What are your thoughts? This is why I added the All News tag to temporarily remove filtering on the home page but still let's have a chat about it.
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@ageres
For heaven sake man, you said exactly what I was thinking but never dared to say it out loud :)
The problem is, you might not know before hand if the topic deserves that tag.
But yeah, you've been in my head, get out.
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A possible solution would be to have a scale for each tag, e.g. ranging from:
"Never show" would be the equivalent of the current system, where the article is not shown at all (even if every other tag is "Try to show"), the other tags are used to calculate a score for the article. If the article has a positive score, it is shown, otherwise it is hidden.
This would probably cause a lot of extra load on the server though.
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But honestly a Drama tag is also what first came to mind when this came up in the Stallman article.
As far as a drama tag or not goes, how hard is it to not click on an article you don't want to read? I do it all the time with game articles that don't look like something I'm interested in at all.
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I admit that I basically do exactly what you say, I never used tags for filtering out articles, but rather for searching.
Still, the setting "Do not show articles with any of these tags on the homepage:" is already there and in this particular case (non-gaming articles) I would personally use it. There's no harm for anyone else if that tag exists, is just an extra tag among the others (there's a lot of them, I dunno, maybe a hundred).
Edit: All of that provided if a suitable tag is found and indeed doesn't confuse the things even more (as Liam pointed out).