OK folks, Current Events have occurred so let's please remember the CW button is there for a reason and use it liberally for the next few days
@glyph TBH I’m not crazy about these oblique references. I don’t know if you are worried about summoning Reply Guys or something, but I’ve got filters set up so that it is increasingly rare that I have news, drama or politics in my feed, but stuff like these oblique references manage to get through.
@pganssle If I have to choose between mildly annoying you with vagueness or really upsetting someone with specificity I'll go for the former every time. If I had a surefire way to not do either, I'd go with that, but I can't really think of one. (It's 100% about upsetting people. Mastodon search makes topic-based Reply Guys not really an issue.)
@pganssle There are like… five? six? things in the news which probably qualify here right now though, the warning really is general
@glyph I mean if you include #usnews or #news or something, it would allow me to filter it out automatically.
I’m not bothered by the fact that it’s vague, I’m bothered by the fact that the vagueness prevents be from filtering it out, which imposes upon me the knowledge that something unpleasant is in the news.
@glyph Unfortunately no one right now (Fedi or Twitter) has a good system for plugins to allow you did reorder or filter your own feeds (other than implementing your own client, which is way overkill and requires multi-platform support), or I’d be training a classifier to remove even vagueposting. One day, maybe…