Ignore obnoxious comment signatures, make dogwhistles more transparent, remind yourself not to interact with certain topics, uncensor common celf-censorship euphemisms, or just apply some good 'ol censorship of your own. What I am imagining is a system that allows the user to set custom regular expression rules that get applied to all comments. There could be both global rules (that apply to every single comment) and user rules (that apply to all comments from just that user, similar to custom user labels).
What are your thoughts on having a feature like this in whatever app you use? Would you even find it useful at all? If the change is only visible to the user, is there any abuse potential?
Pictured here is a proof of concept showing Thunder with a simple "Cloud To Butt" function applied.
As for indicator, I think what I would prefer as a user is a little icon next to the edited indicator, and then the ability to view comment source (which is already a feature on many clients). Though that is not really addressing the problem very well, as people viewing the screenshot need to understand what the icon means.
I've got an indicator row between above the comment text and the username (shows things like "deleted by creator", "banned from community", etc"). I suppose that could indicate whether the item was altered by a user filter.
But now I'm having second thoughts about this whole idea. Originally, I felt validated because I had kicked the idea around already, at least as a joke. But now I'm remembering YPTB, Fedi-drama, and similar communities exist and there are frequent flyers there who have nothing better to do than present things out of context and stir shit up and how this would be like giving them a loaded weapon.
Lemme (re) think on this.