Matt

Hooray. That should reduce my irritation quotient considerably. In the meantime, so as not to poison the system too much, what should we consider spam? Does big-upping your own blog count? It does to me but I know there are those who disagree.

Or is it a case of “Don’t worry, the algorithm’ll sort it out”?

coxy

Yay! That’s cool. I hate spam and thoof needed something like this.

Now you need some users who will tag up stories efficiently / correctly.

scott

What to classify as spam can be a bit of a judgement call. We are adding our posting policy as a FAQ entry very soon, but our own rules are that if a post is directly or indirectly selling or promoting a product or service, or is directly or indirectly benefiting the poster financially, its Spam.

This can be tough to spot for blog promotion, but becomes more obvious if the poster is posting over and over just to drive traffic, rather than posting what they find interesting. And remember, posts can be unmarked spam with enough votes.

Also, as you point out, if you don’t read a spammers posts, the algorithm will figure this out and downplay those posts as well.

Derami

It would be awesome if there were a way to block an entire domain from view. Right now there are a lot of stories from Linkinn at the top of the front page (for me anyway) and those are almost always unattributed copies of images or even entire articles. Linkinn is a site where users get paid a portion of Adsense revenues for submitting content. As you might imagine, that leads to a lot of illegally copied content. I would like the option of excluding their or other selected domains from view and would also recommend, in this case, banning the entire Linkinn domain. Thanks! I love Thoof!

John Pozadzides

Now, we just need the ability to exclude entire domains from our personal view and I’ll be happy.

I don’t ever want to see articles listed for the Scraper site linkinn.com, and no matter how many times I mark articles “not interesting” from adelineandhazel.com the system continues to present me more. I am not at all interested in celebrity gossip, so please Thoof… stop showing it to me! :-)

Hey, I just had a thought. Why not come up with a series of rating questions and let us answer them to help the system know more about our preferences?

Give me a 1 to 10 rating system and ask questions like:
Are you interested in celebrity gossip?
Do you enjoy watching videos online?
Do you enjoy seeing silly / funny photographs?
How would you rate your geek factor?
Etc.

Oh, and you’ve gotta do something about the URLs for the blog here. ?p=45 isn’t going to get you any Google love for sure. You need to use the article name in the URL, so turn on your permalinks!

John P.

Matt Cox

I agree with John Pozadzides; it would be nice to see the ability to block domains or all links by a certain user. Or even better, report the user as a spammer.

For example, it seems 99% of maxspeed017’s thoof articles (of which there are a lot) are all from linkinn.com which is an awful website.

Ban request, please.

Scott

Matt and John: We’re building a “Never show from this (submitter, source” feature as we speak.

Thanks for your feedback.

Matt Cox

Thanks for the response, Scott. :)