I’m looking for a rapid method to for fb administrators to nominate a section of the site or a phrase (eg a name) and have it and its associated results not returned.
My current thinking is to implement the query synonym feature to transform a blacklisted term to an empty string. Is this a logical method to implement or is there a better way?
If I understand your question correctly and you’re trying to prevent users from executing certain queries then using synonyms is a reasonable way to do it.
Curator could also be a good approach too, because you could not only remove the query term but present a message indicating that the word was removed.
happy to go with synonyms. In this instance this would be used for silent removal, so a message is not needed.