Suppressing factors#117

I am a big fan of Kagi and the big feature that makes me love them is that you can suppress or nudge down sources you tend to prefer not to see. It actually has a scale, so you can fully block some (eg never ever see w3schools no matter what! 🙂) but often it’s simply a matter of nudging down a source: this has the benefit of not completing closing the door on it, for instance if they have the absolute best matching search result, but when it’s less of a hit then you generally don’t want to see it.

I think some consideration of a similar mechanism might be a nice layer to include in scour. You wouldn’t want to over use it, but it could cut the potentially spammy elements.

Specifically I would like a way to nudge down items that are blatantly commercial blogs masquerading as interesting discussions. Don’t get me wrong, some companies really do put honesty, straightening, insightful stuff out, but there are plenty that want to get you thinking about XYZ, and by the way, we sell just the thing for that… This is usually the sort of article that has an interesting core but as you get further you realise the trap. Nudging down such cases would be great - harder than blocking a site, it’s more like a category of disinterest.

This isn’t something that applies on lots of links but it would cut the ones that leave a subtle bad taste.

One example scenario would be to allow suppressing Reddit posts. I quite like Reddit in general, but the posts I’ve found here tend to be a bit off base. I can imagine others may have preferences with other platform sources. At least if the feature exists, it might suit some needs even if it’s not for everyone.

And another: I’d want to slightly suppress showing a git repo (GH, GitLab etc) if it has under twenty five stars and more strongly suppres if it has three or fewer stars