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🌊@wave2/7/2023, 4:48 AM

do i have this right?

when you boost (rechost or whatever) a post it strips the tags.

so if i quick-boost a nsfw image post that is not marked "adult content" (maybe the artist forgot) but did originally have nsfw tags, 1) those tags will be stripped, and 2) people who have those tags muffled will still see my boost of the post?

3) but the tag muffling would have worked correctly and hidden the original, non-boosted post? (because it had its tags)

and if instead of doing a quick boost, i add my own reply and tags to the boost, 4) any tags i add to the boost basically don't exist and will not help it get correctly muffled?

#cohost meta #cohost #tags #tag muffling #The Cohost Global Feed

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Jenavieve Rose @Jenavieve-Rose2/7/2023, 5:32 AM

I feel I need this drawn it out in a diagram lol. It’s definitely not a perfect system. Although if it has been marked as adult content like it supposed to it’ll still require them to click through it to see it.

Kaylon @kaylon2/7/2023, 5:01 PM

What even is boosting?

🌊@wave2/7/2023, 5:22 PM

the word when i don't want to say "rechosting"

Kran'ts Ton @sudo-EatPant2/7/2023, 5:41 PM

I think i remember that this scenario was addressed at some point by one of the staff, but i cant remember if anything has been implemented yet

🌊@wave2/7/2023, 5:47 PM

ah, hmm. do you remember if it is as i surmise, that my tag-stripped boosts would sneak past people's muffled tag lists?

i'll try trawling their weekly update posts and bug db later.

Kran'ts Ton @sudo-EatPant2/7/2023, 5:52 PM

Yeah, last i remember the tags get stripped and the post gets past muffle lists. I think there was talk about a couple of solutions (cant remember if staff mentioned any specific solution). Invisible tags, "Original post" tags, stuff like that.

Edit: some of the other comments say esssentially the opposite of this so its probably a fixed issue? I dont know for sure though

The Web's Dear Freja @VampireExpert2/7/2023, 5:51 PM

Looks to me like it's working like I would expect - empty share gets hidden because of OP's tags, share with other tags gets hidden because of OP's tags, and share with other tags gets hidden because of share's tags. https://imgur.com/a/tko0TNy

🌊@wave2/8/2023, 4:37 AM

thank you for this detailed testing!

it's sounding like the muffling system (lol) is pretty tight, then.

scampie!!@Scampie2/7/2023, 6:50 PM

I am under the impression that this is how it currently works:

The original post always has whatever hashtags the original poster put onto it. These are used for tag muffling and for searching hashtags.

When you boost/share a post, what actually happens is that you are creating a new post on your page which 'contains' the original post. This new post can have its own hashtags like any other post, but implicitly inherits the hashtags of the original post.

So a post tagged '#porn', even if you quick share it without any tags, remains a post that is muffled by a filter for '#porn'. The original post's hashtags haven'tt gone anywhere. It's just that your new post has no hashtags of its own. Someone searching '#porn' won't find your quick share of the post, but will find the original. Someone muffling the hashtag '#porn" will have the original muffled, as well as your quick share because it contains a post with that hashtag.

Again, that's what I believe is SUPPOSED to be how it works. I seem to remember there was a scare when muffling first came out that it wasn't considering the tags of the original post, but that was fixed?

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