But EarlG has said that on DU4 there will be a symbol in the title that will tell us if it's a twitter post. He said that, so far, DU4 will not have a function to trash threads with the symbol but he will look into adding that down the road.

He wields control over the TWITterverse, but my sphere of control over my DU account here can relieve me of constantly reading about his ego trips.

I’ve had “Trump” on my trash word list since before he ran for president. It’s one of the very first words I ever put on there and it’s never left. Does that mean I’ve never seen a thread about Trump in the last ten years? No. I just don’t see threads with “Trump” in the subject line. It really cleans up the mess, especially on days when he says something real fucking stupid and fifty DUers have to post identical threads about it.

and enter "Musk" or whatever your current annoying issue/name/association.

No offense to the OP, but all of these complaining posts are becoming at least as annoying as the tons of TFG, or MUSK posts.

EarlG, Elad (and Skinner) gave us this ability. Let's start using it.

I now have keywords that cause threads to be trashed

My post was kind of tongue-in-cheek... I saw two threads just this morning complaining about the topics being discussed on DU. I have seen people explain the feature ad nauseam over the years, but I guess many still do not know that it exists and/or how to use it!

(Ignore and trash thread come in handy, too!)

Trump, Musk, Elon and Twitter are onine

I have found ignore very handy tho.

I have 25-30 people on ignore (some of them are probably ffr). During the primaries, that number goes up!

Trump, Donald, Elon, Musk, Tucker, Carlson, etc.

I

by eliminating a significant amount of the complaining for its own sake or verbal wall punching, or does it help interesting topics gain visibility? Or?

By comparison, my tech news aggregator is Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com ) and I choose "newest".

It is dispassionate, and there are about zero clickbait leads (as in "Wow" )

I pushed pretty hard on GOTV stuff when others were decrying the sky falling.

Just not interested in griping for the sake of griping.

Want to use DU as an aggregator for topics that interest me, and post (mostly) things I find useful to others, or nice photos.

in the past for is to make visible a more thoughtful discussion community, rather than selected for topics.

However, I did wonder what results you might see since some topics are no doubt more likely to attract contributions on the order of "Democracy is dead" and "Republicans HATE children!!!!

Thanks for posting the link to Hacker News. Just learned my husband and I are with the times instead of hopelessly behind -- in THIS respect at least:

Like if Trump gets arrested, you won't see the discussion here.

I sometimes click on the DU "Home Page" where my filters seem not to work.
I also check DailyKos (I appreciate the GoodNewsRoundup ) and scan the top 18 or so. Easy to scan.

And anything as big as an indictment will show up even on Hacker News.

Def not burying my head in the sand. More like shielding from the sandstorm.

It would get me banned.

One of these days…lol.

Without it I DU would jack my blood pressure.

Keeps me out of trouble

Edit; thanks for the reminder I had two in there that I no longer need trashed, and therefore. No current list.

My list:
tiedrich
Tweet

As those tended to be the most annoying. I try to use it somewhat sparingly. I could probably add a few more, but nothing has hit critical mass for me yet.

HTH