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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
This is most certainly on our radar. How would you like to see this work?
Comment by [deleted] at 20/01/2022 at 16:57 UTC
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Can you also work on restoring an option to fully remove a blocked user from view like before? I don't want to see a collpsed "blocked user" and be tempted to read something from someone I decided isn't worth discussing with.
Comment by SoundOfTomorrow at 19/01/2022 at 14:56 UTC
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Blocking a subreddit should not show me its existence.
Also, there should never be a limit on the number of subreddits I can block or hide.
Comment by KnightJowy at 19/01/2022 at 12:16 UTC
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Droping in to say that if this gets implemented it should also block crosspost to others subs. Maybe it can auto hide the post but that may be to much workload
Comment by CockGoblinReturns at 19/01/2022 at 10:34 UTC
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I would love to block myself to commenting and posting to subreddits, to help my with reddit addiction
Comment by biznatch11 at 19/01/2022 at 05:39 UTC
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Isn't it already implemented on old.reddit.com? I use it on there and it seems to work fine. Why not just add that interface to new Reddit? I suppose the only change would be to allow a user to block more subreddits. Personally I've only blocked like 15-20 but I guess some people want over 100.
Comment by GONKworshipper at 19/01/2022 at 04:10 UTC
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Thank you, I've been struggling with this for a long time.
Comment by MrIcyx at 19/01/2022 at 03:31 UTC
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I sincerely hope this becomes a function, it would greatly improve my experience with Reddit, especially given the last few noticeable updates to the mobile app have just hindered my experience.
This alone would honestly make me quite happy
Comment by jedberg at 19/01/2022 at 02:28 UTC
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How would you like to see this work?
vote on subreddits.
Convert everyone's subscriptions to upvotes.
Comment by xXyeahBoi69Xx at 19/01/2022 at 02:18 UTC
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Exactly how it does on the boost client and others. I simply click three dots, filter out, and the sub
Comment by thed0000d at 19/01/2022 at 01:09 UTC
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Idk about the original commenter, but there are certain subreddits a I find objectionable/hurtful/offensive, and a simple filter functiin on r/all and other collective subs (popular, random, etc) that simply blocks the display of content from the user-defined subreddits.
Comment by clemenslucas at 19/01/2022 at 00:49 UTC
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porting the filtering a subreddit out from r/all to new reddit (It can be just in the user settings in my opinion)
Also an option to apply that list to r/popular.
Comment by Alert-One-Two at 18/01/2022 at 22:13 UTC
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We get requests from users to ban them from our sub as they think it will mean they see less covid stuff on Reddit. Users seem to expect bans to fully hide content when it doesn’t but blocking to act as a filter certainly would solve that problem.
Comment by [deleted] at 18/01/2022 at 20:52 UTC
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A button next to "Join" that is "Block". When pressed, you can still search for the subreddit in the search bar but no content from it will appear in your feeds.
Comment by Pyrobob4 at 18/01/2022 at 20:16 UTC
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It should be as clear and simple as subscribing to a subreddit.
All related subreddit content should no longer appear across the WHOLE site. No exceptions. Cross posts should only be filtered if the blocked sub was the source, not a tangent cross post.
If you navigate to the subreddit directly (through external links, or manual url) you should be greeted by a warning message that you have the sub blocked (similar to quarantined or private subs). This warning can be bypassed at user discretion.
Comment by [deleted] at 18/01/2022 at 19:32 UTC
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Rif has always been able to do this, do what they did.
Comment by GuitarFreak027 at 18/01/2022 at 19:23 UTC
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Something similar to how RES works would be nice. But instead of just hiding them on the page like RES does, remove them from the feed altogether like filtering /r/all does.
Comment by DocmanCC at 18/01/2022 at 19:08 UTC
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Most responses so far would have a sub-reddit block work in a global fashion, ie eliminate from /r/all, /r/popular, searches, suggestions, etc. Not sure how one would block cross-posts when linked within comments, but it looks like there is demand for that, too.
What I haven't seen yet is incorporating blocked subreddits into the ranking algorithms and suggestion engine. A highly popular subreddit that also has a high number of people blocking it (just think of your political foe for examples) will naturally have fewer aggregate downvotes than a less frequently blocked sub simply because there are fewer users who would downvote it's content. If the block ratio on a sub doesn't already negatively influence the system's reputation of that sub then it really should. IMHO a block is analogous to a super-downvote, which is valuable data to mine in the opposite way that subscribing to a sub is a super-upvote.
Comment by TheCocksmith at 18/01/2022 at 18:43 UTC
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RES makes it work rather easily.
Comment by flaim at 18/01/2022 at 18:29 UTC
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I've messaged the admins multiple times over the years about this - literally just increase the /r/all filter cap (from 100 to even 150, but preferably more).
Comment by engin__r at 18/01/2022 at 18:00 UTC
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I’d like to be able to mass-block anyone who participates in a particular subreddit.
Comment by GoOtterGo at 18/01/2022 at 17:51 UTC*
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Go take a look at how r/BoostForReddit does it, it's very good.
In gist, any posts in subs in your ban-list in all browsing views (All, Best, etc.) are removed from the feed during content load. You never see them.
The browser does one better and allows you to also block content containing keywords in post titles ('suicide', 'trump', etc.) and post links from specific sources (foxnews.com, nationalenquirer.com, etc.).
It's quite seamless and really helps clean up what some might consider clutter, inapplicable to them, harmful, etc.
Comment by Leoparda at 18/01/2022 at 17:48 UTC
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Adding another comment of support for subreddit blocking. Too many communities that are just baaaarely SFW that show up in all or popular, and I’d rather just not see them. For the mobile experience, the ••• drop down menu already includes a block user option, could add block subreddit there and maybe a pop-up box to confirm.
Comment by LurkerRushMeta at 18/01/2022 at 17:47 UTC
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A button. "I do not want to see content from this Subreddit." Done, simple.
I'm tired of seeing randoms popping zits on Popular or bloodied animals or very clear hate Subreddits.
Comment by whereismymind86 at 18/01/2022 at 17:32 UTC
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maybe something along the lines of preventing it or related subreddits from showing up in the suggested feeds. The fact that I liked my local football team, should not result in reddit recommending the other 31 teams to me on a daily basis.
Comment by RadleyCunningham at 18/01/2022 at 17:29 UTC
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First, thanks for linking me to this thread.
I think an easy solution would be to add a button next to the Join button when you visit a sub.
Scrolling through popular brings up a lot of stuff some people don't like. If I select that sub and see a button to block, I think a lot of people would be happy to use it.
You could then create a list of blocked subs for users to manage the same as users. You could have a confirmation button to press before blocking an entire sub, but I am confident plenty of people would be grateful to have this opportunity.
And as an added bonus, with certain subs taking up space, I feel like it would allow for other, lesser known (but still popular) subs to be seen!
Most of the time I go to popular as a way to find what I like. I will probably join just as many subs as I block.