What Would You Pay to Never See Obama-McCain-Hillary Stories on Reddit Again?

April 18th, 2008

If you answered $0, here’s the solution: Greasemonkey and the Reddit Content Filter script for Firefox.

You can easily eliminate a lot of the cult/imbecile spam on Reddit with those tools. Here’s my filter string for titles:

obama, hillary, clinton, mccain, pic, photo, vid, debate

And look, the Politics subreddit is usable again.


Priceless

The filter also displays a satisfying count of the number of stories that it blocked on each page. It does wonders for the main page, too.

Thanks Greasemonkey and Reddit Content Filter authors.

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One Response to “What Would You Pay to Never See Obama-McCain-Hillary Stories on Reddit Again?”

  1. cheeba says:
    April 19, 2008 at 12:44 pm

    This actually seems kinda profound. For years most of the soft-tech innovation has centred around increasing connectivity, access to data, cross-linking functions and sources, etc. I suspect that we are going to see a lot more growth in filtering functions from now on as people begin to recognise that more data is not more useable information.

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