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by stonecharioteer 62 days ago
What's a killfile?
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Like a personal blocklist, so you don't see certain commenters/threads/etc.

Personally I don't see the value, but some people are less resilient (or more weak-willed) at seeing words they disagree with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file a mechanism to increase signal to noise so that you don't have to waste time on low-value text

Here are a few things I find boring: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#My_Stuff

One of the things I really like is to have a high-ratio of good content to slop content and I think manually curating out slop authors is the way to go for that. You'll see that my lists include things that other people seem to really enjoy.