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#political_shit
Nov 16, 2021 3:24 AM
BlueDubPirateBDP
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#political_shit
awesomazing89
yeah its getting out of hand on this site. You know you're all preaching to the choir right?
Inarticulated
Complaining about it in the comments:
TheEliteInvaderZim
Is there a limit to muting? I've muted so many political posters.
SnackMasterRanger
Just mute the tag politics
Flapjackal
I've done this and it's wildly changed imgur for the better for me. I made a post about it tho and mostly got pol posters angery commenting
magicmartyn86
DrFredrick
Honestly I wish we could get that same level of coordination. I had to delete this app for some time because it was always making me upset
Chirikain
political stuff made me quit browsing imgur all together, i want funnies and cat stuff. now i only use to host imgs, drop by once in a while
anotherprosaicusername
Thank you! Now the bad news: I stole your meme, likely to repost it.
magicmartyn86
Repost away friend.
Kopar
I actually like arguing with people with bad arguments and shit takes, not to change their minds, which is unlikely, but to reinforce good
Kopar
2/ concepts with the average person reading through discussions. Most hyper negative pointed comments are just way ridiculous, but trying to
Kopar
3/ reasonably go through the point and really take it apart likely won't change the position of someone who didn't logic themselves into the
Kopar
4/ position in the first place, but it CAN reach people on the fence trying to understand different positions.
GuyleDoucheFieldReporter
Alenelvans
Half the time it’s just used to get the last word
goudist
95% of the time.
OmgOptimized
It should just disable the notification. That they've chosen to block the response as well is baffling to me. The abuse potential is obvious
TheBlueMuppet
Muting pro tip: Say something really shitty to someone, then mute them so they can't respond. Its super cool.
RunsWithBullShit
I dunno... Some of the people whom I dislike the political posts from, I do like the non political posts from.
spudule
I operate a one strike policy, Imgur is fun again!
DeborahMullen
I’m just muting those gross cheeseburgers ?
mcapozz3221337
I wish I had the courage to try one. I feel like I would probably sleep for two days afterwards.
adzc1987
I muted the political tag, had to do it in pc. I almost never see them now
smooshiebanana
Also block the current events as most are political
HelgenBorderPatrol
Ok, now when you say political shit posts do you mean bad takes, or like actual shitposts that are taking the piss and being purely ironic?
4b6e6f747779726b696e
The most pathologic have learned to not use the "politics" tag. If their history is for shitposting, I just start a chat and mute them.
WeaponizedJerk
Last time I asked those guys to add the tag I got downvoted to oblivion.
d3jake
Yeap. Many leave their shit untagged knowing folks can't easily block their content without muting them.
Volpe42
Learned not to? They never did to begin with and didn't before the tags were a thing
DogTaxEvader
I didn't understand the "start a chat" part. I am Imgur ignorant. Is it necessary in order to mute someone?
IHateToTurnUpTheVolumeOfMyTvBecauseMyCatIsSnoring
No it's not. On the app, you can do it on their profile. On desktop look at their comments, click the dots, mute user.
metroid2
I found it easier to block the politics tag and covid19 tag and covidiots tag. It makes imgur more like it used to be
m00tz
Can't mute sponsored adds.....
Eomund521
I mute users every day.
MrJwinkyface
Took me a while to block all the Brock Turner post. Like Imgur jumps on a bandwagon and never leaves it
kingrd
That and the "burgers I want inside me" guy. My imgur life has been better once I started muting people
LordAsshurt
Doesn't work for me :( dm me your secret
BlueDubPirateBDP
I think it takes a couple of days to sink in.
LordAsshurt
ITS BEEN MONTHS ?
Rheios
Somehow this never occured to me to do. The repeat offenders of not tagging are those showing up. Doy.
johnvictor
There's also a hell of a bot/troll problem on here as well that will politicize ANYTHING if someone makes a minor critique of one party.
ArchEnemyDemon
Thank you for letting me know this. I swear Imgur was fun last year but since election, its turning into Twitter/Facebook
WhosYourKittyTitty
And since Covid
khakzoy
Oh it is the best. All the political, woke, anxiety and depression crybabies. Blocked. Makes imgur fun again.
TheMouseOfMadness
The fun part about these is by trying to virtue signal to other selfish assholes, you warn the rest of us that you're not worth talking to
Saismirk
It's a psychological thing, people taking pride for being assholes, makes their monkey brains activate.
TheMouseOfMadness
and just to be clear, I mean you whining about "woke" people
WeaponizedJerk
Aaand another muted user to the collection.
DrClaww
Thanks Karen, you're making this easy
sarkonas
You can pretty much fix Imgur just by filtering #politics. Now only if people could get banned for posting politics without #politics
squidPilot
No you can’t, they stop using politics tag and uses funny tag to spread their shit
sarkonas
Don't know about you, but it's been months since I've seen more than 1 political post a week, seems to be working so far
squidPilot
I see them daily, and when I go check it’s sometimes from an already muted user
sarkonas
That's weird. Maybe it's a usersub/most viral difference? Or difference in parameters for what we consider a political post?
IAmTheRealTurinTurambar
Tons of them daily for me,
sarkonas
and have you filtered out #politics?
IAmTheRealTurinTurambar
Yep and I've muted about 10 or so political posters. Still see 5 or more political daily.
BojackTheHorsemanDontActLikeYouDontKnow
Holy fuck I'm doing this starting now
SnackMasterRanger
Block the tag politics and its and instant fix.
Bestiarium
Can you do that on mobile? If so, how?
WeaponizedJerk
Almost an instant fix. Some idiots either purposefully omit the tag or forget to do so.
BojackTheHorsemanDontActLikeYouDontKnow
Commented in a few that I'll be muting political shit posting & pretty much got blamed for Jan 6!!!
WeaponizedJerk
Yeah, I once asked an OP to not forget about the tag and I was pretty much labeled as an enemy instantly for whatever reason.
Usernameisalreadyregisteredwasalreadyregistered
That's pretty much how it goes here - you're either 100% on the "good" side, the enemy, or okay with the enemy existing.
BojackTheHorsemanDontActLikeYouDontKnow
Some people are so incensed about politics - but what especially bothers me is the fan-boy shit - factless praise of some politician... Nuts
GhostOfDolomite
I've muted 6 users and it has reduced the posted bullshit by 85%.
HelpfulCorn
Muting tags is awesome too. Now if everyone would just consistently tag their soft core porn shit
Kopar
UNMUTE ME COWARD
Kopar
/s. Hidden here for fun.
chupakorbendallas
Just wait a few days. Its an ongoing cycle.
OddSoull
real downside is 50% of the political posts make it to front page, I JUST WANT memes and good vibes not trump pastas
JavaCofe
I no joke have about 80 profiles blokes. As soon as I see yellow font on black they're straight in the bin. Wish you could share lists lol..
ProppaGanda
Am I on the list?
NorthmanoftheNorth
I keep seeing shitposts from the same people I've already muted :/
Kriogan
How is it you mute a user? I can only see it in comments, don't know how to do it with posts.
cheddarhat
Got a list?
sQuimby
I'm probably at a dozen. So few good shit posts these days..
JavaCofe
Here yah go™
Encrux
AuntieCoddswaddle
Paretto principle!
30H1PPU5
I’ve muted 16 and happy to say politics post are almost 0% of my feed now. It’s lovely. If anyone needs the list, PM me.
Dumaresquiche
Please provide a list. Share your wisdom
exniceguy
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KnuckleDeepInAKangaroo
https://docs.google.com/document/d/162s_wKEoTuBL07tt2VVyNMyO59oO71YTU5qe-AVQfZU/edit?usp=sharing
LoicoAhegao
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kislotniq
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ILikeRespondingWithWillSmithGifs
datpo
And why is it always RawStory as the source?
AncientSeraph
Because bias and ragebait are delicious.
mto96
Thank god that i learned about this now
RealLoadingue
You can also filter out politic post in the filter bar... It's even better :)
gaidinbdj
The problem is a lot of people try to circumvent it by labeling political posts "current events" Easier jut to block the karma whores...
gaidinbdj
...and downvote the remaining political bullshit.
gaidinbdj
Came back to say there's two posts later in my feed is another untagged politics post.
mto96
Oh boy back to imgur making me happy and not mad/sad of foreign politics
Lucky246
On the other end i have muted over 20 and theres still so much crap, who the fuck did you mute
KnuckleDeepInAKangaroo
https://docs.google.com/document/d/162s_wKEoTuBL07tt2VVyNMyO59oO71YTU5qe-AVQfZU/edit?usp=sharing
jokexplainer
Can someone post a similar list of anyone posting boobs? Asking for a friend.
Omnipotence0
I muted anyone posting just a twitter screencap of someone being political usually that jeff fellow and its cleaned up significantly for me
RealLoadingue
Try the politic filter. It work like a charm
squidPilot
No guide or help other stating something random doesn’t help
RealLoadingue
Looool, went to your account and you're a politic poster.. MUTED!
RealLoadingue
Oh I'm so sorry buddy... Filters are top left....
Ozhound
ive muted so many users for news posts etc that i only see about 100 memes on the front page every 24hrs.. bliss
1Rogue
I'm there with only 41 muted. On mute page run this to count them: $$('div.muted-users > ul > li').length
Ozhound
You evidently have a far higher tolerance for peoples posts than I my friend.
Ozhound
Just counted, 344 muted users. i didnt think it was near that much
squidPilot
I got something around 20-50 and still get muted users posts up
ThePakistallion
Which 6.
yeahnahgoonthen
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breathofthewilderness
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damion20xx
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revengespooner
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RealDMurda
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MasterAndPaquete
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VincentV189
Thank you!
thatsmynewusername
Thanks a lot!
BoredJoshIsBored
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lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
Some of us do want to see them even if they are inaccurate. Our democracy is on the verge of collapse, it needs to be talked about
jherazob
I don't come to Imgur for doomscrolling, there's enough of that poison everywhere else, i come here for shitposts and funny stuff.
AsamiS
Well you still see it. But those of us who don’t want to anymore, don’t get to. It’s a win win. Albeit, win for us, lose for everyone who-
AsamiS
Is doomscrolling through oblivion every single day.
eightyearplan
way more productive to work on good projects with people and professionals who agree, than to argue with internet numb nuts.
ClarkyCarrot
Lots of people also aren't from america and don't care :')
Grenateh
From USA a sincere fuck you then.
WeaponizedJerk
“Fuck you” for not wanting your shit politics plastered all over Imgur that we use for entertainment? How fucking self-centered are you?
AsamiS
Self centred. From the rest of the world, get the guillotine out or stop your bitching about your political leaders.
LuminoZero
Ignorance is bliss for some.
30H1PPU5
Getting politics/news from Imgur IS ignorance lol
LuminoZero
If the post doesn't have a source, sure.
30H1PPU5
If you exclusively get your news from Imgur, you are getting a 1 sided viewpoint literally meant to be inflammatory and generate clicks that
30H1PPU5
Is ignorant. Your phone is a modern day library of Alexandria. Download some apps. Buy some news papers, and not just the ones that you
LuminoZero
Imgur is like Wikipedia. It's not a good Primary Source, but it's an excellent Secondary Source to make you aware of things to look up.
Callistan
Then you should be happy that the people who aren't interested in politics are muting. It means you get to see more of the political stuff
Callistan
because those posts will receive fewer downvotes (and get bumped more by the algorithm) because the muting users aren't seeing that content.
Callistan
(And muting users or applying the "no politics" filter does not necessarily mean those individuals are disinterested in or ignorant of
Callistan
politics, merely that they do not believe Imgur is the best way *for them* to engage in political discourse).
WeaponizedJerk
Not my fucking problem, Imgur is an international user base and I couldn’t give more of a fuck about your failings as a country anymore.
Imgerruinedimger
Yeah but the single greatest majority of users by a very large margin are American. What do you expect?
WeaponizedJerk
Which is why I’d rather mute than try and stop it from happening, but I don’t like the attitude that it’s somehow the most important jsssue
WeaponizedJerk
People on here care about. You’re right that it has a majority of Americans, but your majority is of 35%. To act as if that should dictate
WeaponizedJerk
What content matters or not on this website is incredibly fucking self centered.