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Seeing all those "advices", "best practices" and whatelse as of recent is somewhat (very) annoying.

Can we have a filter to hide all those?

new very useful filter

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    At the moment you need to opt-out of experiment in your profile settings, however, it's broken right now: Opinion based questions (advice) on home page while experiments are disabled Commented Nov 3 at 12:59
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    Technically, if you've opted out of experiments you shouldn't see this. But currently you do. This has been reported as a bug. However, I can still see a reason to filter out these questions - even if you're seeing experiments, you might want to focus on only regular questions in your filter. Same way how you can select "No Staging Ground". Commented Nov 3 at 13:00
  • @ThomA, indeed. If feature goes out of experiment (and kill everything..) the filter could still be useful. I am not sure in name, "no experiments" first what comes in mind after I saw there are not just "advices", but "best practices". Maybe each of those "forum"-entry type needs it's checkbox, not sure. Commented Nov 3 at 13:08
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    Yes, I do agree with that; having a separate filter would be beneficial. Admittedly, I'm not fan of the "catch-all" opt out, as there's some experiments I want to participate in, while others I don't. Commented Nov 3 at 13:08
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    I would, likely, prefer the option to be opinionated questions, rather than experiments. I assume your goal here is to not see those which may (likely will) exit the experiment phase at some point in the future. Experiments opt-in should remain in the profile, however, different post types should be able to be customised in the filters. If this was just Experiments then when the experiment ends, and those become "non-experimental" you'd have no opt-out solution. Commented Nov 3 at 16:06
  • would be nice, but then again SO Product is a complete joke. How would they NOT anticipate the need for this filter when introducing the "bug" (right...) Commented Nov 3 at 19:08
  • All the experiments so far pretty much are based on zero anticipation and it very much looks like it is by design. It really looks like they first want to see things fail before they apply what we all assume are logical design choices. That's experimentation for you. Commented Nov 4 at 12:15

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Such an option already exists as a fairly recent feature. In your user profile, click settings and scroll down:

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Unfortunately it doesn't work in this case since the devs yet again decided to give the community the middle finger, yet again using the live SO site as alpha testing guinea pig server, with no way to opt out of their latest misguided idea.

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    This was ignored and the general state of the site is the same now as it was one year ago... Commented Nov 3 at 14:33
  • I'd argue that the filter is different to opting out of experiments. Similar to the "No Staging Ground" filter - I want to be able to see SG items, but not in all of my custom filters. For some, I am only interested in published questions. Commented Nov 3 at 14:44
  • @VLAZ In the best of worlds we would have both, although the filter would be of no use if opted out of experiments entirely. Commented Nov 3 at 14:54
  • I doubt the filter will be implemented while the experiment is going. But if it does, I'd expect opting out of experiments also removes the filter. Commented Nov 3 at 14:56

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