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Irrelevant results in Popular stream
There seems to be a "degree of irrelevance" - I often find myself deleting 1. spammy blogs (hosted usually livejournal). 2. blogs seemingly tagged something completely different - as if the search queries were "real estate marketing", "internet marketing", "make money from home" and others. I have tried to tweak the search tags adding with "search term" instead of search term (such as "social business" and "social entrepreneurship" instead of social business / social entrepreneurship) - don't know if it will help. Do Twingly Channels "learn" from what I delete? Finding common denominators from the deleted? Check the delete log from my channel http://twingly.com/sustainopreneurship to see what I have deleted so far.
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Inappropriate?Hi Anders,
I understand and share your concern. Although applying methods for gradually learning from your actions as a moderator is something we might look into in the future, currently Channels rely on your skills and fortitude in carefully applying the tools available for curating your Channel.
The step you described in making search phrases more specific is one way to to this. Another is to apply care in selecting which data sets these search terms are monitored.
An undocumented feature is that you can add "approved:1" (without quotes) to any search term monitored in Twingly Blogsearch if you would like it to be monitored only within Twinglys spam-free search index.
Similarly, use external RSS feeds only from services like Google News or specific news sites that are known to contain low levels of spam.
For some topics, Twingly Channels is a challenge for the administrator since it can be difficult to find search terms that yield relevant results with low noise. If you set a Channel up using search terms and sources that bring in noise, the channel will be noisy.
Starting a Channel is like starting a blog: it is very easy to get up and running, but it takes time to make it work and to find a readership.
Note: For the time being, since little of actual public interest has ever been published on LiveJournal, that specific source will probably be removed from our set of sources for Channels.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for your fulfilling answer! Yes, I understand my role as a cultivator - and thus also to build community around my channel - that's the key to get the channels going. I will experiment with that 'approved:[search tag]' functionality to go one way to make signal > noise.
That thing with LiveJournal I would guess is a +1 for me - concluding that I actually never read a blog on LiveJournal! So maybe it's a spam haven, yes ;).
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Inappropriate?Great! Just to clarify: for searching for "apples" within spam-free blogs, enter the search term "apples approved:1" (without the quotes).
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