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Nope, people will not be going along with that. I guarantee it.
Blocking even a decent fraction of all the shrilly political ragebait here takes real work, it's no wonder it's going to hell.
I would guess that it's possible to do automated sentiment analysis on text and then provide sort/filter options ranking posts by level of upset.
Hmm.
I suppose that someone might try to abuse that by going to a post and then just posting a bunch of upset comments, get the post hidden.
Maybe do it at the comment level.
It's probably easier to just start curating a bunch of filters - I already wrote a couple as a hacky instance block, because that functionality is unavailable on kbin.
I bet if we build just the right collection of electronics, code, and the iron will to proceed, we could get 100 instance admins to control humanity in vats and feed preprocessed junk information into their brains. It could be like a nightmare, but a nightmare we control!