Global Keyword Settings

Account-wide filters. Cut noise across every keyword without editing them one at a time.

Global keyword settings apply to every keyword in your workspace. Use them when the same noise keeps showing up across all your keywords (job posts, generic subreddits, bot accounts, internal repos) and you don’t want to configure each keyword separately.

How global settings combine with keyword settings

A post must pass both the global filters and the keyword’s own filters to land in your feeds. Global settings can only reduce results, they can’t expand them.

Example. You add r/health to Excluded subreddits globally, and your mental health keyword also has its own beta negative term. A post in r/health that mentions mental health is excluded globally; a post in r/productivity that mentions mental health beta release is excluded by the keyword. Both filters apply, always.

If you want filtering that’s specific to one keyword, use Keyword Settings instead.

Where to edit global settings

Open the Keywords page from the sidebar and click Global keyword settings in the top right. The settings open as a sheet over the Keywords page.

This is the only place global settings live now. They no longer have a dedicated tab on the main Settings page.

Available global settings

Global negative terms

Exclude posts that include these terms across all keywords.

• Matching: exact match
• Input: one or more terms (comma-separated)

Example: job, hiring, careers

Global negative authors

Exclude posts from these authors across all keywords.

• Matching: exact match, case sensitive
• Input: one or more author handles (comma-separated)

Example: Octolens, OctolensHQ

Allowed subreddits (allowlist)

When set, Octolens only includes Reddit posts from these subreddits, across every keyword.

• Leave empty to include all subreddits (except those in Excluded subreddits)
• Format: r/<subreddit>

Example: r/technology, r/startups

Allowlist overrides the excluded list. If Allowed subreddits has any entries, Excluded subreddits is ignored. Use the allowlist when you want a strict “only these subreddits” policy.

Excluded subreddits

Exclude Reddit posts from these subreddits across all keywords.

• Matching: exact match, case insensitive
• Format: r/<subreddit>

Example: r/health

Global negative GitHub repositories

Exclude posts from these GitHub repos across all keywords.

• Matching: exact match, case insensitive
• Format: owner/repo

Example: For-Hives/beswib, facebook/react

Saving changes

Global settings apply to new mentions going forward. Existing mentions in your feeds keep their original scoring.

Next steps

• Keyword Settings: per-keyword platforms, context, and include/exclude rules
• Feeds: organize mentions across keywords into saved filters
• Mention Limits: how filters affect your monthly quota