Turning off the related posts

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  linuxowns · Member · May 16, 2008 at 1:27 pm

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  I tolerated the feature on my blog for a while, because it seemed good for getting more visitors.

  In reality only a dozen or so people came from those posts from the +- 1000 visitors I get a day.

  The reason I’m not going to use it anymore is pretty simple.

  1) most posts are unrelated
  2) conflicts with my position on the subject

  I just made a site about a video editor for ubuntu linux

  the related links were:

  1) a unrelated post from my own blog
  2) “hitler”s remixes are big – on youtube”
  3) something about music playlist from mtv.com

  What do those things have to do with a video editor?

  Does the software gets confused because there was a youtube link in the post or the word “video” was mentioned.

  If so, this software is not ready to be deployed on a large scale.

  The idea behind this feature is good, if the “related posts” were actually related, I would use it.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 16, 2008 at 1:32 pm

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  Whether or not the software is ready it has been deployed across a large scale eg 2 million blogs.