Keywords and Authors

[pick-a-chew]

I had a snoop around the new site and noticed that when searching for resources, things typed into "keywords" also checks for the authors. Some authors have names of things you might be searching for. In this case, I searched for "raven" and it brought up pages upon pages of resources by "Blood Raven" which had nothing to do with ravens.

Seeing as there is a dedicated search field for Authors, would it not make sense to make things entered into Key words to not be checked against a resource's author?

AFAIK current Hive does not behave like this.

Attached a thing of what I meant!

Keep up the good work

 

[Ralle]

Yes and no. I would be more inclined to make an extra field and allow you to exclude certain authors. It seems useful to have a search index that covers as much data as possible so people can use the search field more than any other field.

Thanks for the feedback though. I am happy that you are trying it out

 

[Deolrin]

I agree with pick-a-chew that searching keywords should not bring up authors. After all, that's what the 'author' field is for. Keywords should represent resources - authors do not automatically translate to a specific kind of resource or asset, and certainly not their names. Relevancy also matters, wherein the keywords of the asset itself, its description and its name hold far more relevancy than the author's name.

 

[Map Designer]

Yes and no. I would be more inclined to make an extra field and allow you to exclude certain authors. It seems useful to have a search index that covers as much data as possible so people can use the search field more than any other field.

Thanks for the feedback though. I am happy that you are trying it out

How do I exclude Blizzard Entertainment from the search? even X checking this tag wont help:

 

[Ralle]

Are you saying it finds bundles with the Blizzard tag regardless or just Blizzard bundles lacking the tag?

 

[Map Designer]

Are you saying it finds bundles with the Blizzard tag regardless

yes I get about 100 pages regardless if it is checked or not

NVM I only get 89 if checked, and 100 pages if it is not checked. in both cases some icons are made by blizzard anyway alone and no one else. maybe it is just tag issue?
If the search option did not work, then I would expect both results to be identical
Edit2: if inclusive, gives 138 pages
if disregarded gives 100 pages
if excluding, gives 89 pages.

very funny result lol.
I expected "include" and "exclude" to have no common results whatsover, but they actually have a lot in common (can be easily noticed if sorted by Most downloads)


what about my question though?

How do I exclude Blizzard Entertainment from the search? or any author.

 

[Ralle]

So Blizzard Entertainment is set as the author on those tags. I am not sure we have an exclude author filter.

However, you can exclude search queries, so perhaps if you do -blizzard and -entertainment it could help a little?

 

[Map Designer]

So Blizzard Entertainment is set as the author on those tags. I am not sure we have an exclude author filter.

However, you can exclude search queries, so perhaps if you do -blizzard and -entertainment it could help a little?

hmmmm, if I did your trick I get 89 pages, similar to the last result I found previously when choosing "exclude tag"

I guess it is tag issue then.