Comments on: Product Recommendation: FB Purity

By: im

im — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:19:05 +0000

LW women submissions are innane? Bullshit. It’s mostly the back-and-forth in the comments that’s innane, or maybe the intended conclusions.

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By: Berry

Berry — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:54:14 +0000

This would be amazing.

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By: Brian Delwiche

Brian Delwiche — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:35:11 +0000

That’d probably cut the site activity in half. Conservatively.

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By: Deiseach

Deiseach — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:16:07 +0000

What I would love is something to wipe off all the bloody “Hey, why don’t you friend these people?” suggestions and the “Why don’t you try looking for more friends?” notices.

I’ve friended all those I want to friend, and I don’t need sixty different strangers gawping out at me, thanks all the same.

Though speaking of which – shameless plug for my cousin’s venture into screen-writing: if you’re on Facebook and you see a thing called “Lord of Tears”, give it a like, please?

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By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:31:17 +0000

I like the politics stuff, myself… I’ve “liked” Huffington Post, for example.

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By: jaimeastorga2000

jaimeastorga2000 — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:16:17 +0000

No more faraway Meetup announcements, commentless Seq Rerun posts, or inane LW Women Submissions either. Sounds lovely.

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By: sixes_and_sevens

sixes_and_sevens — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:38:18 +0000

You know what I’d like? Machine classification of Facebook content along axes that I care about. I quite enjoy some of the pictures my friends share. There are just specific families of Facebook post that annoy the ever-living piss out of me.

Specifically, I would like to teach a machine to recognise:

– Poorly constructed infographics
– Schmaltzy / twee / power-of-positivity content (This is a remarkably coherent cluster in my head, and probably in most other people’s heads, but I find it very hard to define specifically)
– Any photo with a politician’s face in

I think knocking all three of those out would reduce my blood pressure drastically.

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:44:38 +0000

Wait a minute, did you read the comment thread? The story is a lot more balanced that Facebook being evil. In particular, the app used to be called Facebook purity, which facebook (understandably in my opinion) didn’t like.

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By: Misha

Misha — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:15:29 +0000

You really don’t need an app. Facebook has all these settings baked in already if you know how to use them. If you click the arrow next to someone’s post you’ll see an option to hide, and in that pulldown it’ll let you select what kinds of posts you can see from a person, or if they show up in your feed at all.

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By: JJJ

JJJ — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:59:30 +0000

They need to make a version for Less Wrong. No more meta posts, half-baked solutions to Pascal’s Wager, orphaned links to SMBC comics, or armchair psychologists.

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