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Finally! The home page can now be filtered

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Due to sooo many requests to enable filtering on the home page (tag exclusions, and author exclusions) I've finally implemented it.

But it's different from the normal way.

Usually, the stories by excluded authors and stories containing excluded tags, don't show up at all in the results.

On the home page, they're collapsed. There is a down arrow to reveal the collapsed info.

However, due to many reasons, it doesn't just work automatically. You'll need to affirm your exclusions so that new data is created in the system for you.

Simply go to the category exclusion page and click 'save'.

https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/user/categoryPrefs.php

That should update the necessary data and the home page will be filtered.

So for the premier members that want to filter out AI contents, exclude the AI Generated tag/code.

Replies: jimq2 Jason.R.Taylor42 Vincent Berg JSTor al_3 psevetson AmigaClone Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster) ipi_astasia moondog_199 Claymore Claymore blacksash PlaysWithWires sunseeker B4Lurker

jimq2 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

How do you exclude authors?

Replies: Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@jimq2

How do you exclude authors?

You go to the author's page, and you click 'Exclude 'author name'.

Jason.R.Taylor42 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Thank you for your hard work!
I've looked at quite a few sites and yours is the easy pick for where I wanted to try to get a good cross-section of readers for feedback.

Vincent Berg 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

There has been some discussion on the Author's Forum about using AI to edit, or correct stories, so what's considered an AI-generated story. Would those be included (i.e. is any use of AI swept into the same category?)

JSTor 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Do the exclusions counts in the table include authors? I have nothing checked on the page you linked yet it's saying excluding some 4xx stories.

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awnlee jawking 🚫

@JSTor

In your account preferences, is access set to full or filtered - the latter will hide grandfathered stories containing characters under 14.

AJ

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JSTor 🚫

@awnlee jawking

It's set to full. I do have 5 or 6 authors excluded so was thinking the 400 might be there stories but that seems a lot

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@JSTor

Do the exclusions counts in the table include authors?

Do you mean that it is collapsing stories of excluded authors? If so, then yes.

I have nothing checked on the page you linked yet it's saying excluding some 4xx stories.

4xx stories? What does that mean?

al_3 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Hello Lazeez,

Thank you very much for attending to this issue and for all your hard work on the site.

Regards
Al

psevetson 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Thank you.

AmigaClone 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Thanks for this new feature.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

I had forgotten the exclusions by genre. Fixed.

You'll notice that the header bar will tell you why it was excluded.

The priority is for author, that gets excluded first.

Then genre.

Then codes/tags.

Replies: LethalLem Dinsdale

LethalLem 🚫
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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Hi Lazeez,

The whole home page is now excluded even with no items being excluded on the setting page

Dinsdale 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

You'll notice that the header bar will tell you why it was excluded.

Would it be possible to expand that a bit?
Something like "(Excluded Author: Android_Marvin)" or "(Excluded Tag: Budgerigars)"?
If a story falls foul of multiple categories, only giving the first one would be sufficient.
Then we have the related questions: What happens if an author I Follow posts a Budgerigar story? What happens if a story in my Library falls foul of an exclusion? One option would be to ignore the exclusion, another would be to ignore it for the "Reading Queue" (which I'd do anyway).

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Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Dinsdale

Would it be possible to expand that a bit?
Something like "(Excluded Author: Android_Marvin)"

Done.

or "(Excluded Tag: Budgerigars)"?

Genre and author name, done. Tags, nope. It works on the short form of the codes, and that doesn't make sense to put in the notice.

What happens if an author I Follow posts a Budgerigar story? What happens if a story in my Library falls foul of an exclusion? One option would be to ignore the exclusion, another would be to ignore it for the "Reading Queue" (which I'd do anyway).

The library is curated by you and no need for any filtering.

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solitude 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

The library is curated by you and no need for any filtering.

(I think Dinsdale was asking if stories in his library would be included in his home page, even if, say, the author adds an excluded tag and then posts a new chapter. Perhaps an option to control this.)

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Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@solitude

I think Dinsdale was asking if stories in his library would be included in his home page, even if, say, the author adds an excluded tag and then posts a new chapter.

Oh, ok. Yeah, no, a story in the library should not be collapsed.

ipi_astasia 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

It appears that every story is now being excluded on my front page and stream. The reason given is 'Excluded Tag', but on the 'Category Exclusion Preferences' page in settings I can't see anything excluded. Is there some other place where excluded tags are set that I'm missing?

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Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@ipi_astasia

It appears that every story is now being excluded on my front page and stream.

Bug. It gave false positive if you hadn't excluded any categories.

Fixed.

moondog_199 🚫
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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

So I tried to exclude some authors using this method. My home page feed is showing many collapsed stories saying "excluded tag" but I have no tags selected to exclude.
All of the Halloween stories for example are hidden in this way!

Claymore 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

I am also seeing all stories on front pageand stream being filtered. Exclusion settings say 0.

Claymore 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Only the blogs are shown.

blacksash 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

In the home Page only blog updates are unfiltered

PlaysWithWires 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

I also found that only the Blogs are showing, but: -
Go to the settings page and save without changing anything
The Home page shows only blogs
In settings, select one Tag, save it
Home page now shows all except the ones with that tag.
Go back and unset the tag (none set now)
Refresh the Home page
It should now show all stories.

It appears that the the first time save does not actually do anything unless at least one tag is set first. This has fixed My Stream as well, which had the same problem.

sunseeker 🚫
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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

any way to keep the page the way it was? I "uncollapsed" the page but almost everything is collapsed again and I can't see anything. I was fine with the page the way it was and don't want to have to "uncollapse" everything every time I go to it.

I have only "pedo" selected in the "preferences" page.

SunSeeker

EDIT - I did as suggested by "playswithwires" and it seems to have worked. Hope it stays this way for me

B4Lurker 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

Thanks for 'fixing' this issue. It was an annoyance, but one I was fine with ignoring due to the rest of the site being so good. Thanks again for all you do.

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