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It can be a hassle. I run m/FoxNews for news about foxes. The microblog is constantly getting spammed by posts having the #FoxNews tag, which as you might guess is never news about foxes. There's no apparent way to disable the feature where magazines automatically get all content with a matching tag. Additionally, there are no notifications when somebody posts to your magazine, so you need to remember to check it regularly.
if you have # fox news anywhere in your mag info, remove it and the microblogs/posts will stop. if you add it in the bio, it will federate those posts
It's based on the title. I have other magazines with the same problem. It's automatic.
i was just trying to help, because it fixed my issue, don't know why you downvoted me for that but ok 👍🏼
Thank you for trying to help me. I downvoted just because I thought it's incorrect, but I removed the downvote because now I feel bad about it. I still think it's incorrect, though.
What you say would be true if we were discussing tags in the Magazine Panel. But there's an implicit tag which does not appear there, that being the name of the magazine.
A fix for the bug would be to automatically add the magazine name as a tag on magazine creation, allowing moderator(s) to remove that tag if so desired, thereby disabling the magazine's subscription to its own name.
ah. it's you, the troll. You have -2K reputation points. How?? You must be one hell of a troll.
You should have called it foxesnews you should have seen the problem calling it fox news
That would no longer be a clever name, would it.
And besides, it's just one example. I have this problem with other magazines too. For example, m/Christianity is supposed to be a home for Christians, but it automatically picks up atheist posts tagged with #christianity. There's nothing wrong with anyone tagging their posts however the want to, but there's something wrong with the assumption that matching tag automatically belongs in a microblog without moderator approval.