Donmai

Exclude banned posts from search results by default

Posted under Bugs & Features

(I apologize if this has already been discussed elsewhere; trying to search "banned post" in the forum doesn't really work.)

Is there a reason why banned posts aren't excluded from search results by default? I know their thumbnails don't show up in the pages (the same as deleted posts by default), but if I'm navigating between posts using the navbar it always throws off my groove when I hit a banned post. I know I can manually exclude these from results by appending "-status:banned" but I'm not sure why this isn't the default behavior in the first place or at least a toggle in settings (which you can do with the display of deleted posts in search pages), especially since I imagine I can't be the only one annoyed by this.

It's a pain point that's been discussed a bit, including on GitHub (issue #5192 relates this to pool navigation). It would be incredibly nice to have, but then again, the view deleted posts option isn't equal to "-status:deleted" either - you still navigate over them. I imagine it has something to do with database strain; besides queries, nothing repaginates, only missing tiles appear in cases like this.

I understand if it's a technical strain to exclude them entirely, but then my alternative request would be to still include the pagination on the "this page has been removed because of a takedown request" notice pages so that users can simply continue onwards.

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