Guardians: New Feature - Filter Posts That Matter Most

[Fraize]

We're rolling out a new Guardian-exclusive feature: User Filtering.

What It Does​

Websleuths threads can get long. Really long. This tool helps you cut through the noise and find the posts you're most interested in.

You can now choose to highlight or show only posts from:

• Guardians - Fellow supporters of the community
• Verified Insiders - Witnesses, family members, and others with direct case knowledge
• Verified Experts - Lawyers, coroners, professional investigators, law enforcement
• Moderators - Staff posts and announcements

Whether you want expert analysis to stand out visually or you only want to see posts from verified sources, you're in control.

How To Use It

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1. Go to the top of any thread
2. Click the Filter button
3. Select which groups you'd like to highlight or show
4. Press Filter Posts

That's it. The thread will update instantly.

Why Guardian-Exclusive?​

This feature required significant development work, and we wanted to give our supporters something valuable. Guardians keep Websleuths running - this is one more way we can say thank you.

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Not a Guardian yet? Upgrade here to unlock this and other exclusive features.

 

[Inthedetails]

Is there a feature to hide threads? There are some threads that I don't even want to see the titles when scrolling through the forums (too graphic, for example). Is there a way to hide an entire thread?

jmopinion

 

[Izzylizzy]

Before trying it I'd like to know how to switch back to regular posting.
Thanks!

 

[Fraize]

Before trying it I'd like to know how to switch back to regular posting.
Thanks!

When you enable a filter, there will be big obvious buttons to remove the filters you select, one at a time, or all at once, at the top of the page, and inside the Filter button.

It's not scary - it won't bite!

 

[Fraize]

Is there a feature to hide threads? There are some threads that I don't even want to see the titles when scrolling through the forums (too graphic, for example). Is there a way to hide an entire thread?

jmopinion

I hear you. We don't have that right now, but please send me feature requests via DM instead of here.

 

[tlcya]

I like the filter feature, if for no other reason than I can select to highlight mod posts specifically so when quick reading to catch up I don't inadvertently scroll past updates from mods about what is or isn't allowed in any particular thread.

 

[Gemmie]

Before trying it I'd like to know how to switch back to regular posting.
Thanks!

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You simply click on the X up top which removes it.

 

[Fraize]

You simply click on the X up top which removes it.

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there's also this big boy

and this one, too

 

[Gemmie]

Love it! Always multiple ways to do the same thing.

 

[Bounceycat]

Love this new feature! Thank you!

 

[cenazoic]

Love it, thank you. Suggestion: add a filter for manually-added users (follows?) who don’t otherwise fit the above categories.