The /last30days skill is returning content older than 30 days, violating its core promise. Analysis shows: Reddit: Only 40% of results within 30 days (9/15 were
The Fix Strict Date Filtering skill enforces a hard 30-day freshness window on content returned by Reddit Ads and other sources in Metaflow queries. It corrects the current issue where the `/last30days` filter returns many items older than 30 days, especially on Reddit where only 40% of results meet the date criterion. The skill rejects all results outside the strict date range rather than applying soft penalties, ensuring relevance and recency in marketing campaigns and content discovery.
This skill is designed for performance marketers managing Reddit Ads campaigns who need reliable recent content for targeting and creative inspiration. Growth leads working with platform-specific date constraints will benefit from accurate filtering to avoid outdated signals. SEO and PPC operators who rely on fresh content feeds for keyword research or competitor monitoring will find this skill helps maintain up-to-date data input.
Practitioners first integrate explicit `from_date` and `to_date` parameters into their Reddit search prompts to instruct the API to only return threads posted within the last 30 days. Next, they apply a post-processing filter that discards any results with dates falling outside this window, eliminating older content entirely. For WebSearch sources, they extract and prioritize date signals from URLs and snippets to verify freshness, dropping results without verifiable dates or those too old. Finally, they adjust scoring to heavily penalize or exclude undated or stale content, maintaining a clean, recent dataset.
How does this skill handle Reddit results that lack explicit dates? It relies on the search prompt’s strict date range and post-filtering to exclude any content outside the last 30 days, minimizing undated entries. Will this skill affect WebSearch results with no publication dates? Yes, it imposes heavy penalties or excludes those entries unless date signals can be reliably extracted. Does it change filtering behavior on platforms like X where date filtering already works? No, it leaves existing correct date filtering intact and focuses on fixing weaker or missing date constraints elsewhere.
Attach this skill to your Metaflow agent task that generates Reddit or WebSearch content with the `/last30days` date filter. Expect the search prompt to include explicit date parameters and the workflow to filter out results older than 30 days during normalization. This results in cleaner, fresher content feeds that align with campaign timing requirements. For further guidance, see the related documentation on date filtering and content freshness management.
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