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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.
Global keyword settings sheet showing Global negative terms, Global negative authors, Allowed subreddits, Excluded subreddits, and Global negative GitHub repositories

The Global keyword settings sheet, opened from the top right of the Keywords page.

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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.

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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.

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Available global settings

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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

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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

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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.

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Excluded subreddits

Exclude Reddit posts from these subreddits across all keywords.
  • Matching: exact match, case insensitive
  • Format: r/<subreddit>
Example: r/health

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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

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Allowed web domains (allowlist)

When set, Octolens only includes Web mentions from these domains across every keyword.
  • Leave empty to include all domains, except those in Excluded web domains
  • Applies to the Web source only
Example: news.ycombinator.com

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Excluded web domains

Exclude Web mentions from these domains across all keywords.
  • Use this for domains you do not want counted toward Web results
  • Applies to the Web source only
Example: idea2.work

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Minimum Domain Rating (Web)

Only include Web mentions from pages on domains with a Domain Rating at or above the selected threshold.
  • Default: 30
  • Use Custom override to set your own threshold
  • Applies to the Web source only
See Web for how Web monitoring works and when it is enabled by default.

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Saving changes

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

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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