Chat filter improvements

Two parts:

1) Chat filter currently truncates any string of more than 2 consecutive characters to 2. I request expansion to 3, because there are legit uses of 3 consecutive characters in ellipses (...) and Roman numerals (III). The former is a common punctuation, and the latter occurs frequently in Minecraft.

2) Chat filter currently accepts only the first upper-case alphabetic it encounters in a single word (which it defines as any block of text bounded by spaces), and alters any that follow to lower case. The purpose is to cut down on all-caps. As an unintended side-effect, it also trashes URLs, specifically YouTube and Imgur links, which we occasionally exchange with mods as part of the normal course of Meeping. I request modification of the caps filter to relieve this side-effect. Some ways it could be done:

- Exclude any "word" that starts with http://
- Exclude any "word" that begins in lower-case
- Apply the caps filter only to whole words which are entirely upper case.

 

Seems to be possible. As long as it isn't too complicated or gets in the way...

+1

 

This would be very beneficial. the only problem would be the http:// being abused (inappropriate links), but even that shouldn't be any harder to moderate than other things.

 

The advertisements filter would still be there, just not the caps.

There wan a ban awhile back because someone shared an imgur link. Because of the caps filter, everyone who clicked on it got to see a lovely porn photo.

What was the original link for? Banner recipes.

Big +1.

 

Denied! We don't feel that this is necessary. If needed we can be msg'd on forums with links.