Forum: Site Announcements

How do you exclude authors?

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.

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.

Hello Lazeez,

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

Regards
Al

Thank you.

Thanks for this new feature.

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?

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!

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

Only the blogs are shown.

In the home Page only blog updates are unfiltered

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.

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

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.

A question: -
In the yellow box on the settings page, it says

Please note that the site's homepage stream is NOT filtered at all, so nothing will be hidden for you on the home page.

However, it is filtered. What is the intended behaviour?

I wonder if anyone excluded the smoking tag but kept the snuff tag active?

Thank you Lazeez! A great solution, keeping posts in place but out of the way. Much appreciated.

Seeing the occasional anomaly where a new item on the home page stream shows up grey like it's been displayed previously but there's additional new items below that item. I took a screenshot of it if that helps.

I've seen it twice now, pretty sure it's only been since the new home page was released.

The grey item is definitely not one that was posted earlier on a refresh of the page, but might be something where the author has updated something since the previous update was made.

I normally use the grey items to know what I've seen before and stop scrolling but happened to see more white stuff below and found many other items not seen before.

I'm mobile now but I can upload the screenshot when I'm home if you'd like.

I experienced the same thing as whitedruid when I first logged in today. I had 3 stories that were grey scattered in the first 8 or 10 stories but the date and time of their update indicated that they were definitely posted after I had been on the site last night.

Where is the edit capability for genre exclusions? The category exclusions page shows an empty list for genre exclusions, along with reset and save buttons for it, but no editing.

At the same time I have a few stories on the home page claimed to be excluded by genre, but I am pretty sure I would not and did not exclude Fiction genre (particularly because I don't even see where to do it), which is the genre of the Michael Loucks story which was hidden.

Note: all that on a Samsung Android mobile. On a desktop with Chrome browser it shows Genre checkboxes.

However, still I don't know why it filters out Fiction stories when they are not selected to be excluded.

The one problem is that now I see all these hidden stories and wonder just what they are.

Then click on the down arrow all the way to the right.

Duh!

Not sure it's related, but I looked at updated stories this morning (looks like between 8:43 and 8:46 EST). Stories before 8:43 are grey. Stories after are varied. The next 4 are white. Sailor Moo is greyed out (like I'd already accessed it or at least seen updates or something similar). The next 11 are white, with Revenge with a grey background. Three white, one grey, one white, one grey. 2 stories and 3 blog entries white and another grey story.

I expect if I refreshed, they'd all turn grey. Generally, after I've seen the home page, going back turns things grey when I come back. I assume I "acknowledged" them, but the zebra effect is odd.

I will CTRL-F5 to refresh cache and see if it straightens out after the next couple of updates.

Terry

Is there a way to see just premire member stories? Thank you

I was just on the main page, and there was no "Random story from the archives". Guess what, it got filtered. Excellent!