executive editor, barbell quarterly: I thought about doing this lol. Just make it clear that the entire label is simply me giving accounts a thumbs down for inscrutable personal reasons

starting a new labeler for people I don't like

I thought about doing this lol. Just make it clear that the entire label is simply me giving accounts a thumbs down for inscrutable personal reasons

Tbh I think this may be the actual model for labelers - individuals or groups of friends banding together to make totally biased “fuck this” determinations

no explanations or categories, just "nah"

Yeah, I think that's the game, really; it's an editorial feature about what gets published to your TL, not an analytical one where everything is objectively determined.

this is why I just named my mute list "shit I don't want to see" or something. there are no misconceptions here. i simply do not like or want to see you.

i wouldn't block on basis of list like this and i would feel stressed/bad about my decision to block someone having leverage where other people necessarily also autoblocked them, but i think it'd be a really useful label

like if five people i think are pretty levelheaded already found someone blockable, that's going to make me block a lot faster

yeah it’s just speeding up the process of finding people you probably aren’t going to like

i need to mess with labelers a bit, that'd be handy

now i'm wondering if a small-scale liquid democracy-determined labeler would work or would be a shitshow

That's pretty much what my jagoffs list is bsky.app/profile/did:...

Jagoffs

List by @justostrich.com

Users that are just little shits

this is a killer feature of RES when you browse reddit. I have all sorts of tags, variously inscrutable, that only really matter to me — "oh, this guy is a landlord. probably safe to disregard his opinions about telenovelas!"

This is also how blocklists work.

"Realtime lists the subscribers can apply realtime hide/warn/show to" is basically all they are, yeah, with some integrated appeal functions for the ones labelled and any app (like "BlueSky") being able to disable including a labeller THEY decide is abusive.

Frankly I would consider subscribing to labelers like these, in "warn" mode. I don't trust any individual's judgement but if one user has 5 "asshole" labels from different people they're probably an asshole.

"show badge" mode rather, not warn

hi do u want me to add such a label to my arsenal

Do it!

i will do it as soon as i fix my broken ozone instance

what if a bunch of your friends made their own list of people they dislike and the labeler just tells you what percentage of these lists the account is in

You could use magic cryptography (private set intersection?) to make it so that dislikes remain entirely private until the threshold is met

Interesting

MWU for mixture of experts

i feel like the attempted (and perceived) minimizing bias approach aegis tried is probably not going to carry over for future popular labelers and they’ll just be a bunch of various ‘i did a vibe check’ labelers

Limit on the number of labeler subscriptions is a bitch though

"gamer in bio" "podcaster" "press X to doubt"

only if you give your own account a thumbs down

would subscribe tbh

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