WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Possibly related request http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Possibly related request en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:39:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 lazyaussie on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197652 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:21:30 +0000 lazyaussie 197652@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You've got work and are still always helping us devils? That could be a sickness. I wasn't meaning particularly traffic, but there are some links that might actually further the content of a post. But it doesn't sound from what you say that there is any other benefit to the blog owner, so it might as well stay off.

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197638 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:56:36 +0000 raincoaster 197638@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sorry, ignore me. I've stayed awake too long and totally lost the thread.

Unfortunately, I still have an hour's work to do. Ugh.

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197637 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:55:37 +0000 raincoaster 197637@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You don't understand. That's not how it works:

The mainstream media sites don't ever link back. They don't have these links at all. Nobody blogging on WP.com will ever get anything whatsoever out of it. The person who wrote the article will never even know that you gave them the hit.

I'm totally cool with opening it up to any blog using the Sphere widget (which is what this is) but NOT cool with "you must display links or we won't include you on other people's links" going for us but not for the mainstream media. That is simply not fair. Why should we accept rules here on our blogs that discriminate against ourselves in favour of multibillion-dollar corporations?

Again: they will never link back. The writers will never even know you linked to them. If you link in a POST, they might notice.

]]> lazyaussie on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197634 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:52:05 +0000 lazyaussie 197634@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Akismet just doesn't learn very well as far as I can see. Marking the same username ip and email as not spam many many times only to find it still marked as spam shows a lack of learning. But anyway there are many external links I'd be happy to be linked to, and i couldn't expect it to ever get good enough. Unchecking the unwanted would be easy.
An internal only would be very good too yes.

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197627 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:44:24 +0000 raincoaster 197627@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, and
4) internal and external WP.com blog posts and all blogs using the Sphere widget.

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197626 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:43:52 +0000 raincoaster 197626@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Blog owners reporting spam are what teaches Akismet, too. It's an interlinked thing.

I'd rather choose the types of sites it is allowed to link to:

1) only internal links
2) internal and external WP.com blogs
3) I don't want this one here at all but I'm being really nice and including it for Matt, since he apparently wants it on his blog: internal links, external WP.com blogs, and mainstream media websites.

]]> lazyaussie on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197623 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:40:07 +0000 lazyaussie 197623@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ But if it learns as well as Akismet, I don't think we'll notice any difference. The best and only solution is to let Wp select what it thinks, but to be able to uncheck the links we don't want or are not relevant. Blog owners doing it is the most efficient way to get maximum relevance. no algorithm will get close

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197569 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:16:16 +0000 raincoaster 197569@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Looking forward to it. I was outside that boot store two hours ago, no word of a lie. What a strange, small world. And I disabled this, too. Matt has strange powers.

]]> feartheseeds on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197562 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:47:07 +0000 feartheseeds 197562@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yeah... here's the thing. Some random dude just wrote a post about gardening, I know this because a link from one of my posts ended up on his site... two days after I opted out of the random thing. Not only that but the random generator decided this random dudes gardening post was somehow connected to a post I wrote about my brother surviving 9/11.

Somehow I don't see a connection between their post: "Cute, funny and somehow irreverent at the same time. Right outside the Blundstone Boot Shop in Kitsilano."

And mine: "When the third plane hit the Pentagon my mother was standing up, screaming at the television, screaming for my little brother to get the fuck out of there."

I opted out, I chose to "Hide related links on this blog" and now the story of my little brother surviving 9/11 is spam on someone else's fcuking travel blog.

If you want to see the screenshot it'll be on the post I put up tomorrow.

]]> pkayski on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197551 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:53:27 +0000 pkayski 197551@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Good suggestion writingeveryday!!

I will be very happy when this function of the Possibly related feature comes up!

]]> writingeveryday on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197529 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:01:29 +0000 writingeveryday 197529@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Great news. My blog is still so young that the related post feature is enough to keep me in the nonzero hit territory, so I hate to see the baby thrown out with the bathwater. But it definitely needs work. Near as I can tell, the referrals coming in and going out are at best loosely related through stray keywords. Thanks.

]]> feartheseeds on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197443 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:53:25 +0000 feartheseeds 197443@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Giving some control to the blogger is very cool...

]]> raincoaster on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197411 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:45:23 +0000 raincoaster 197411@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank god. Let us know when that happens, because a lot of us have turned it off in the meantime.

]]> staanerjan on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197409 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:42:03 +0000 staanerjan 197409@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's a good idea!

]]> manojbe on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197372 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:14:49 +0000 manojbe 197372@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @writingeveryday:
A very good suggestion!

@Matt:
That's such a relief to hear! Hope it happens soon! :-)

]]> matt on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197369 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:04:39 +0000 matt 197369@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Totally, it's going to happen.

]]> writingeveryday on "Possibly related request" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/possibly-related-request#post-197365 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:49:44 +0000 writingeveryday 197365@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The Possibly related feature could be useful, but right now it seems to be picking other posts with too broad a brush. It would be really nice if we could train it, the way you can train Akismet. Can we get something like a button to mark Related/Not Related?

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