Global ignore lists

Some mentions are just noise — a job board that keeps tripping a keyword, or your own repository, which you already hear about through GitHub notifications. BackTalk gives you two workspace-wide ignore lists on the Keywords page that apply to every keyword at sync time, so you set them once instead of repeating an exclude on each keyword.

A match is filed to Spam, never dropped. Nothing is lost: everything stays in the Spam folder and can be rescued back to the inbox at any time.

The two lists

• Global ignore — matched on a post's text (title and snippet). Add a term like hiring or sponsored and any mention containing it is filed to Spam.
• Global URL ignore — matched on a post's link. Add a URL and any mention whose URL contains it is filed to Spam.

Both sit at the top of the Keywords page. Add entries as chips (Enter to add, or paste a comma-separated list); remove one with its ✕.

Ignoring by URL

The URL list matches anywhere in the link, so you can be as broad or as narrow as you like:

• A whole domain — news.ycombinator.com — hushes everything from that site.
• A partial domain or path — github.com/eddiejaoude — hushes everything under it. Because it's a substring of the URL, a repo path such as github.com/eddiejaoude/backtalk also hushes that repo's issues and pull requests (.../backtalk/issues/42), since their links all start the same way.

Forks are still included

This is the useful part. The list matches the exact URL path, so ignoring github.com/eddiejaoude only silences your account. A fork lives at a different owner's URL — github.com/someone-else/backtalk — which doesn't contain your path, so it still lands in your inbox. You mute the firehose from your own project without going blind to what everyone else is doing with it.

Apply to existing signals

Adding an entry filters future syncs. To also sweep mentions already in your inbox, use Apply to existing signals: it previews an exact count first, then files the matches to Spam. Triage is respected — starred, replied and ignored mentions are left alone, so only untriaged items move.

Removing an entry stops future matching but does not automatically pull previously-filed mentions back out of Spam; move any you want back from the Spam folder.