[visarga]

I'd like a system to filter out fluff threads on reddit. It would reject easy-consumption content such as images, gifs and short vids, or anything shorter than 60 seconds; also, low quality comments (short, aggressive, memes, etc).

Reddit is a gold-mine of interesting content, but it is flooded with fluff and garbage to the point where it becomes a problem to find the good parts.

I'm wondering why they don't use more machine learning magic on the site. There are multiple machine learning papers based off the reddit comment corpus.

[arkitaip]

Vanilla Reddit is almost garbage because of how default subreddit posts take over your front page.

What you need to do is to unsub from all default subreddits, subscribe to niche ones you like and use Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) [1] to contain the default subreddits to what RES calles the Dashboard (basically a page where you can add lots of subreddits as individual widgets).

[1] https://redditenhancementsuite.com/

[make3]

your best bet is to filter out meme subs

[visarga]

There is also a need to find interesting threads outside a known list of subs, or to filter out some parts of otherwise good subs.