Ability to mark as off-topic#69

I see links included within some of my topics of interest that have nothing to do with my topic of interest. For example, the “bitchat” app thing that Jack Dorsey made was tagged under ActivityPub (not relevant) and then also MQTT (not relevant). I thumbs-downed them, but presumably this could be used to teach the system that these are bad picks for the topics.

Good suggestions, thanks!

Sorry it took me a little while to get to this but there’s now a way to flag posts as off-topic (as well as harmful, spam, low-quality, etc). Thanks again for the suggestion!

Nice, thanks for following up here!

Is off-topic, as implemented today, specifically for indicating “this does not belong to the topic it’s labeled as in the UI”? For example, I get Emacs content flagged in my Neovim topic all the time, which is mostly hilarious. I also get some matches that look like they were decided by a naive substring match and not by any more semantic decisions. Artistic sense of the word “art” showed up under Adaptive Radix Trees a little earlier tonight for me. Should I be liberally marking those kinds of things with the current Off-topic control?

Yup, that’s exactly right.

Any of those cases that you mark as off-topic will help me refine things later.

Also, I’m rolling out another change shortly that will hopefully cut down on some of that.