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Maybe Slack already has this feature (I haven't used it in a couple of years), but it would be great if we could personally "downvote" users that have an unsati

Maybe Slack already has this feature (I haven't used it in a couple of years), but it would be great if we could personally "downvote" users that have an unsatisfactory signal:noise ratio, and their comments would fade into the background colour of the page (like HN does with downvoted comments). Or use a decreasing font size or something to show me that I consider their input less important in general. This would only apply to messages shown to me, it wouldn't impact what other users saw. One of the problems I had with Slack was people with only a tangential relationship with the channel filling it up with irrelevant noise. Something like that would help me filter it out a bit.

krispbyte 8y ago
Well Slack is typically used for work so it's probably not a widespread problem but one thing you could do is open a #random channel so people can post all the noise there.
- yellowapple 8y ago
  Ain't #random already a default channel? At the very least, I recall it in every Slack org of which I've ever been a member.
- nineteen999 8y ago
  This was in a work environment and we had over 50 department and team-specific channels already, as well as a bunch of random noise channels. Funnily enough, it was the application developers who were the problem in this instance since they were being more of a hindrance than a help. Being able to mute them or quiet them down while I fixed their mistakes and was documenting the workarounds/solutions would have been very useful. Perhaps it says more about that company than Slack in general though; it's the only place I've worked where Slack was used let alone considered mandatory.
smelendez 8y ago
I would definitely like more granular filtering by user. I'm a purely remote freelancer, so I'm in a number of client Slacks, and I sign into Slack on my phone in case anything comes up I should respond to quickly when I'm AFK. I would love to get notifications for "DMs on this Slack from the following people" (who only Slack me to joke around or with nonurgent questions I don't need to know about in the supermarket or the gym) or "@all messages in these channels except from these users" (who I don't directly work with at all but sometimes post "@all who wants lunch from the sushi place").

krispbyte 8y ago

Well Slack is typically used for work so it's probably not a widespread problem but one thing you could do is open a #random channel so people can post all the noise there.

yellowapple 8y ago
Ain't #random already a default channel? At the very least, I recall it in every Slack org of which I've ever been a member.
nineteen999 8y ago
This was in a work environment and we had over 50 department and team-specific channels already, as well as a bunch of random noise channels. Funnily enough, it was the application developers who were the problem in this instance since they were being more of a hindrance than a help. Being able to mute them or quiet them down while I fixed their mistakes and was documenting the workarounds/solutions would have been very useful. Perhaps it says more about that company than Slack in general though; it's the only place I've worked where Slack was used let alone considered mandatory.

smelendez 8y ago

I would definitely like more granular filtering by user. I'm a purely remote freelancer, so I'm in a number of client Slacks, and I sign into Slack on my phone in case anything comes up I should respond to quickly when I'm AFK. I would love to get notifications for "DMs on this Slack from the following people" (who only Slack me to joke around or with nonurgent questions I don't need to know about in the supermarket or the gym) or "@all messages in these channels except from these users" (who I don't directly work with at all but sometimes post "@all who wants lunch from the sushi place").