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In theads like those tagged `ask` the only replies that matter (at first) are those at the top of the tree (the roots of the comment trees, per graph theory). It is mildly annoying (specially on mobile) to scroll past 20 replies to the first comment, then another 15 after the second one, and so o...

Recently I caught myself worrying about karma points when submitting a new comment. They seem to induce a state of competitiveness for me, making me come up with things to say that may be popularly received. This is not fully coincidental with the general positive attitude that accompanies the excel...

It felt good to be able to `#karma {display: none;}` in Refined Hacker News to hide the meaningless Internet points. It would be great if there was an option to do the same on the Lobsters settings page, without having to install an extension or keep track of site-specific CSS.

It would be very convenient if I could choose to hide individual submissions from the home page. I've read the article, it doesn't interest me, etc and I'm just tired of it filling up the page. I don't believe it needs to be stored server-side, perhaps just stored as a cookie and the affected posts ...

I feel like I'm beating a dead horse, but it seems that new users *still* can't figure out how to say "I don't like this post and I wanted to let you know". I'm assuming this is true, because I still see downvote reasons that make absolutely no sense. Is there something we can do to help new users u...

A pretty simple userscript that adds an expand/collapse button that shows/hides children comments. I built it because I've noticed that as more users actively participate in discussions, it can be a little annoying to scroll past some of the bigger comment chains (like the main one on [the ruby c...

One of the things that I love about Lobsters is the fact that you can attach meaning to downvotes. However, too often I will see people derail conversations with straw man arguments, even when it's fairly obvious that they've missed what the other person was saying. Straw man arguments balloon...

[This comment](https://lobste.rs/s/3b73rt/one_year_later_followup_i_quit_tech/comments/4wb5vy#c_4wb5vy) on the _One year later (followup to "I quit the tech industry")_ is an interesting example of a comment that itself doesn't add much and has a negative score. Yet, the comments _in response to it_...

In the past couple days, I've seen several users point out that there's no way to flag story as incorrect, whereas we do have that option for comments.

There are certain blog-posts that I would rather not see at all in my feed. Is it possible to killfile a domain?

A while ago, [Lobsters started hiding "fresh but boring" comment scores](https://lobste.rs/s/yrb1ja/experiment_with_hiding_fresh_boring). Personally, I haven't found this change to be great, for a couple of reasons: 1. It really doesn't make sense that I can't see how my own comment is doing f...

See title. :-)

Just as we can filter tags here, is there a way to filter domains? Specifically, medium .com? I really dislike the reading experience there and would like to be able to filter submissions here. Vote with my wallet aka attention as they say.

It seems that the limited downvote options are very good at preventing superfluous downvoting, and in my opinion the list of options should be kept as short as possible. Any new option must prove to not be a specific case of an existing option. It seems that the "Parent Misunderstood GP" use case...

Seen lots of meta posts recently, I have an idea, avoid inadvertently giving people highs from the magic internet points by delaying the updates to karma or hiding it altogether, could be optional and disabled by default? The karma is mostly a distraction and if I'm honest I end up getting caught...

I'm probably not the first one to do this -- I wrote some CSS that hides all instances of popularity (i.e. karma and comment counts) on lobste.rs, HN, and old.reddit. What motivated this? It was my tendency to ignore possibly-bespoke submissions simply because they had less than X points. Hiding ...

I'm annoyed by all these "What are you doing this XXX" threads. Is it possible to automatically hide them? They are usually tagged with "ask" and "programming". So hiding all "ask" and "programming" threads in my settings probably would do the trick, but then I'd also miss the interesting que...

I think what makes lobste.rs unique is that the community is generally thoughtful. Low effort comments that are snarky or negative will degrade this over time. I propose adding a "low effort" tag to identify these comments.

Hello, I wanted to share some examples of how to hide stories from view using uBlock Origin's filtering syntax, since the site does not implement custom filters. You'll need to enter these filters, one per line, in uBlock's Origin's settings, under the tab **My filters**. You will need to select ...

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I’ve seen this come up in a few different threads and there doesn’t seem to be a consistent way of handling it. * “Misleading”: the story is relevant to Lobste.rs but it is misleading (particularly its title) about the truth of the situation. This is not an applicable flag for subjective/opinion ...

I sometimes want to hide comments I've already read so that it's easier for me to find the unread comments of a story I revisit. I made a bookmarklet for this: ```js document.querySelectorAll(".comment:not(:has(.comment_unread))").forEach((comment) => comment.style.display = "none") ``` Woul...

I've seen the discussion at https://lobste.rs/s/4ixrx6/tag_proposal_atproto, so I'm acutely aware that this is not going to get a tag, but I also don't know what else to do but write about my feelings. Considering the risks of delving deeply into the nitty protocol discussions, I want to apply a ...

Since this tag has no actual meaning here is an uBlock filter to hide it: ``` lobste.rs##.tag_vibecoding.tag ```