I don't want to see politics on the front page feed

[macintologist]

Could you please enable a feature to allow me to filter out any political news stories? I have gone on a diet where I no longer check news sites because I don't want to see any political news stories anymore. So then you think "Well I can still go on Macrumors which is fun and has lots of Mac content" except it has been an onslaught of one political story after anymore.

Please just give us the ability to filter those stories out if we are logged in so I can still go to Macrumors.com in peace without having to see all that crap.

 

[M.Brane]

There is a checkbox in your preferences to ignore the politics forum. If you're referring to the main site that's tougher I think, but I have no problem ignoring stories I have no interest in.

 

[icanhazmac]

If the functionality exists, then why not, but couldn't you just not read things you don't want to?

 

[VulchR]

Could you please enable a feature to allow me to filter out any political news stories? I have gone on a diet where I no longer check news sites because I don't want to see any political news stories anymore. So then you think "Well I can still go on Macrumors which is fun and has lots of Mac content" except it has been an onslaught of one political story after anymore.

Please just give us the ability to filter those stories out if we are logged in so I can still go to Macrumors.com in peace without having to see all that crap.

Computing will always have political dimensions. I am not sure how MR would draw the line between tech and political stories (a point I made when MR yanked PRSI ... just sayin'). MR do flag stories with political content though, so we all choose to read those stories or not. In such a polarised world MR has managed things fairly well.

 

[macintologist]

Computing will always have political dimensions. I am not sure how MR would draw the line between tech and political stories (a point I made when MR yanked PRSI ... just sayin'). MR do flag stories with political content though, so we all choose to read those stories or not. In such a polarised world MR has managed things fairly well.

If they flag stories with political content, then they have the technical ability for those to be hidden if the logged in user has requested as such.

 

[turbineseaplane]

In the given moment, it’s gonna be really hard to see tech and Apple news that is fully devoid of any political angles.

Not impossible, but the subset of topics does start to get small these days

 

[icanhazmac]

Please just give us the ability to filter those stories out if we are logged in so I can still go to Macrumors.com in peace without having to see all that crap.

Please, be specific, what "crap" are you seeing? The main page currently has no political articles of 18 displayed. Page 2 has 2/18. Page 3 has 1/18. I don't believe that 3/54 articles qualifies as "all that crap".

Have some self control maybe?

 

[theluggage]

In the given moment, it’s gonna be really hard to see tech and Apple news that is fully devoid of any political angles.

I think "the given moment" is exactly why some people want to get away from politics and just read about cool tech stuff, preferably with a fruity logo on it Easier said than done, though...

Policy is, of course, up to the editors, and there's a wider question of how Apple-specific the "tech news" on this site should be. However, my 0.5c worth would be that where a story

(a) was judged worthy of the "Due to the political or social nature..." footnote,
(b) didn't directly involve an Apple-specific platform, service or product, and
(c) didn't involve any actual technical aspects of the product/service/platform in question

...then maybe it shouldn't be on the front page (or be easy for users to filter out). I don't think "there's an app for that" is sufficient to make something "Apple news".

Please, be specific, what "crap" are you seeing?

...which would immediately risk turning this thread into an off-topic political one

Enquiring minds can easily look at the relevant dates and hazard a pretty good guess at which particular story or stories were likely to have provoked the OPs post, and why there might have been a little flurry of them just then. I don't think that it's really about the front page being overloaded with politics, just people who come here wanting a break from political issues which are being reported and debated ad nauseum on more general platforms.

 

[icanhazmac]

Enquiring minds can easily look at the relevant dates and hazard a pretty good guess at which particular story or stories were likely to have provoked the OPs post, and why there might have been a little flurry of them just then. I don't think that it's really about the front page being overloaded with politics, just people who come here wanting a break from political issues

That was kind of my point. Given what was going on recently, if one is that sensitive to politics or political topics then perhaps one should bury ones head in the sand for a week or two, instead of demanding sites filter their content in a way that suits them.

Again, if the functionality exists, I have no problem with allowing folks to use it but the OP titled the thread in a very demanding way, he could have titled it "Is there any way I can filter out articles/threads in the political news section?". A small but meaningful way to ask vs demand, it sets a tone.

The OP also stated as fact:

If they flag stories with political content, then they have the technical ability for those to be hidden if the logged in user has requested as such.

This may very well be a function available to the site, I don't know and I doubt the OP does either. Point is, ask, don't dictate.