Whenever a big game or controversy hits, some sites seem to post far too much about it. I know I’ve unsubscribed from blogs where they have written annoyingly more than I thought was necessary about one particular subject. As such, I should have predicted how some NG readers would likely not be too pleased with today’s unusual quantity of MW2 posts.
After a tweet from one of our readers pointing out that today we’ve (almost accidentally) posted far too much about that game, I have made a filter. If you want to view Negative Gamer, but don’t care for warfare that is modern, add ?not=MW2 to the end of the URL, like this; http://negativegamer.com/?not=MW2 and it should be filtered out.
Being able to filter any old thing out of the front page isn’t going to become a regular addition to the site, but it will probably become a feature that’s used whenever stuff like this happens (massive and annoying controversy, hyped game launch .etc). Let me know if it breaks or if there’s anything else you really want filtered out.
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Could the ?not not be expanded to simply not display posts with that tag? You already have a tagging system in place, it should be fairly trivial to expand upon it, surely?
I thought that was what was happening, unless it would be something like ?Tags!=MW2
ParaParaKing moans about everything.
@PY: that’s one option, but the tagging system we use is rather vague. At the moment my code sees if you want MW2 blocked, then has several tags it checks against.
I think this method just keeps things nice and simple. If many different people ask to have many different things blocked, then I’ll see about sorting that extra level of customisation as an option, but at the moment it’s not needed.
Wow, this is a really, really awesome idea, John. This would make avoiding spoilers so much easier. You have just blown my mind!