[email protected] writes:
>Me, three. Which brings up a feature request which I submitted to
>Support, so presumably the people combing Support for good ideas will
>find it, but I figure I'd plug it here.
>It would be really cool if sets of filters could be user-defined such
>that membership of a trusted/watched user was required of
>one-and-only-one filter. This could be done entirely at the interface
>layer for managing groups and adding/modifying friends
>(watchees/trustees), and be implemented by a convention that uses a
>prefix and a dot to group filters.
I don't like it, but I think you're trying to solve the same problem I
want to solve with a different, never quite articulated feature req:
You should be able to specify watchlists, and trust lists, as
combinations of other filters or watchlists (depending). As it is,
people can fall "through the cracks" as you forget to assign them to
any cateogry and then don't see their posts (or vice versa) for months
or years before you get things straightened out. But...to take my
model:
Root-level Watchlists:
Close Friends
Loud Friends
Comics
Actual desired readlists:
1 Comics # this I'll always read
2 CLose Friends # catchup list
3 Loud Friends # timekiller
4 all-(Loud Friends+Comics) # normal non-comics read-list
5 all-(Loud Friends+Comics+Close Friends)
# for when I've caught up, and want to skim the non-loud, non-close
# friend posts I missed.
As it is, to get #4, which is my -normal- readlist, I need to maintain
a separate "non-comics" filter that has all my close friends -plus-
anyone I want to normally read. And sometimes I make mistakes and
someone isn't on that filter and I don't read them and wonder why.
Moreover, to get #5, I'd have to do even more work, and maintain a
"non-comics - close friends" filter. I don't, making fill-in reading
after a catchup far more of a chore.
But if filters could be expressed in terms of other filters, I'd only
have to maintain the root lists -- people I never want to miss a post
from, feeds, and people I usually don't want to read but sometimes
might, and be sure that anyone I didn't -expressly- put in those
filters could be gotten with inversion.
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