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Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by solveit on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:34PM (#21277750)
Everyone was fine with chronological order.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by motivic on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @08:47PM (#21277858)
In that case one can just spam the same (or similar) post every second and your feed will likely be filled with that post.

I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here but my point is even chronological order can be exploited.

Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by jsjohnst on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:41PM (#21278467)
> I know I'm setting up a bit of a straw man here

Especially as this thread has already mostly said spam filtering (which your example would easily trigger) isn’t in opposition towards a goal of neutral status.

Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by leereeves on Thursday October 17, 2019 @02:06AM (#21279339)
And if you did that, people would unfriend/unfollow you. Problem solved.
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work by Fnoord on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:14AM (#21279104)
> my point is even chronological order can be exploited

The question is, how easy can it be?

The straw man, is indeed, that you can filter such, client- or server-side. If you see the same shit the whole time, you ignore it all. Easy; even IRC clients with scripting had such features in the 90s. Here is a list of techniques used in e-mail filtering [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_filtering#See_also