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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: isk on September 07, 2012, 12:09 pm
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certain vendors are being creative in their verbose listings and breaking search on the SR site.
it causes a massive amount of noise downing out any useful signal and makes searching for common products a little more tedious and a little less fun/.
i would go far as to say it is dos/spam on this level in this instance.
while this vendor has no conflict with my tiny listings - i would imagine the same criticism could be levelled at me or other more blase vendors.
so would it be possible to block certain vendors/filter listigs as to not add more noise to this process?
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no unfortunately there is no way to block a vendor from the results, I wish there was though. Like you said, there are vendors with several pages of listings that manage to find their way into search results unrelated to the query I input.
Sometimes too, it's a vendor that may have the product I'm looking for, but I have no intention of purchasing from said vendor at any point, for whatever the reason.
Maybe a way of filtering results is something DPR could think about for the future.
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thanks for your reply.
i'm sure it isn't trivial to achieve or might tax server resources on the DB backend but the fact remains the search on SR isnt broken - but unless listings are moderated for this keyword stuffing i need a "block this vendor"
maybe the vendor has scammed or has canceled my orders for having no transaction history or will only acceot FE - whatever the reason, i needa some spammy listigs out of the bulk of 4+ of search results.
in any case
"do not hesitate to ask for free samples of Keyword1, popular keywordX, Search-term Y to be included for FREE with this order"
should be changed to "please check my other listings for other items you might wish to request as samples with your order"
the other thing this achieves to unsavvy new users is implant the impression the vendor is the walmart of SR by dominating the listings so heavily. [more like amazon dropshipping though]
all to does to me is say "never order off this cunt."