Hiding Community (Bot) Modified Questions on Stack Exchange

It is possible to hide Community (bot) promoted questions on Stack Exchange sites with either your browser’s user style sheet or an advert blocker rule.

On quieter Stack Exchange web sites, like Ask Different, questions are frequently marked as modified by the Community (Bot) user.

Marking as modified promotes questions that have no accepted answer and have dropped out of sight. Modifying, without changing the content, pushes the question back up to the top of the site. That elevated position gives the question another chance to attract answers.

It also has the side effect of generating churn on a site when there are few active users. I find these algorithmically promoted questions distracting and frequently jarring.

Thankfully Community modified questions are identifiable and can be visually modified or hidden.

CSS Selector

Use your browser’s User Style Sheet to select and visually modify the question entries. Community modified questions can be styled with the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selector:

div[id*='question-summary-']:has(a[data-user-id='-1']) {
	/* apply your preferred styling */
}

AdGuard Rule

Create a cosmetic AdGuard rule to hide Community modified posts with:

apple.stackexchange.com##div[id*='question-summary-']:has(a[data-user-id='-1'])