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[Old Topic] Better Art Search: Blacklisting and tag negation

(Originally posted a while back in the Mentor forums here . Original text reproduced for those who can't access that area.) The quality of the search function seems to have gone down lately, though I can't pinpoint a date. I feel like better organizational tools (hierarchical folders?) would help, but between tags and stars that's less of an issue. I suppose the thing that's been bugging me most lately is apparently unrelated search results dominating everything else. For example, I type in "commoner" (or a variety of other common terms), and get at least 16 different orcs in varying color patterns as the top hits. For example, this " orc guard captain " (and lots and lots of other orcs from Klaus Gieseler's set). The problem seems to be that he's tagged his tokens with practically every word in the english language ("commoner" is in fact in that orc guard captain's tag set). So two related features that I would like: Negation. If I could throw a "!orc" or something in the search bar to filter out tokens with the orc tag. I tried a few variations on possible negation operators, but nothing seemed to get the orcs out, so if this is already implemented somewhere let me know. Anti-Star. There are art sets and individual assets that I don't have any use for. There are artists who produce work that I'm not interested in. There are web sites that I would prefer never to receive results from. I would like to apply some sort of anti-star to assets, packs, artists, and websites such that these things would never ever appear in results (unless I included a special operator in the search to allow it). Riley D. said: Are you specifically referring to the search results from the Marketplace or those from the web search component? In the case of the poorly tagged orcs, those results come from the Marketplace. In fact, other than the two "promo" slots at the top offering to sell me some reasonable looking commoners, the only Marketplace results the Art Panel gives me are the orcs. I guess there's a limited number of results it can return, and pretty much everything in that orc set is tagged "commoner". I'm guessing that these orcish commoners have such high precedence to the search algorithm because I have access to that set due to my subscription level. Ideally the tag negation operator and anti-star feature would apply to both search components, but if they only applied to Marketplace results it would still be a huge improvement. There's a few instances of "questionably-clothed lady with a large weapon in a dozen different poses" that regularly show up in the Web results that I wouldn't mind blacklisting, but if the Marketplace results were better it wouldn't matter as much.
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Another kink that's weird is, if you search for "Module" in the Marketplace, nothing comes up. The modules don't come up. You have to know to click the Modules category under Browse to find the modules. I think they should come up if you type, "Module" in the search.
I couldn't agree more. I'm so tired of seeing not only completely irrelevant searches (which we've come to expect as par for the course on all manners of search results, not just the ones from this site), but also of seeing the same handful of results come up over and over on the same search as I scroll down through the Art Library. Maybe there needs to be a clause in the marketplace agreement that makes it not okay for vendors to spam completely irrelevant search-tags into their products, since it does cause a detrimental effect to the functioning of the website.
I'm really a stickler for tagging my assets. So being able to search for [Humanoid] but -[Warrior] so I get Humanoid tagged items that don't also have the Warrior tag would be amazing. +1'd.
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