As the title says- lately I've noticed a proliferation of *badly* written stories by a certain author (either horribly translated or sloppy use of AI) and it's clogging up my search results, so it would be nice to be able to eliminate that author from the results.
How would you want to implement this?
A flag in the author index?
An author block list on your PC?
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so it would be nice to be able to eliminate that author from the results.
it's already implemented, but it doesn't work in the archaic content search or quick search on the home page.
Go to that author's page, and find the small 'Exclude' link. Click it and confirm the exclusion.
From then on, that author's stories will be hidden from listings for you, except the home page and content searches.
I'm reworking the content search and the new version will have exclusions supported. But the home page will never be filtered.
I believe Author Exclusion is a Premier feature (and will be able to check this tomorrow when my Premier membership expires).
Would it make sense to have a flag in Content Search "Ignore author exclusion list" and/or "Ignore category exclusion list"? Of course the main use of that would be searching for someone else, either "Lost Stories" or "Story Recommendations".
or sloppy use of AI
If it's not tagged as AI, report it to Lazeez so he can run his AI-identifying tool and add the AI tag.
AJ