[PLUGIN] Elite Forum Sanitizer - Remove unwanted discussions, keep your sanity!

Toumal

Toumal
Hello everyone!

I've cooked up a little chrome plugin that will remove any thread and also individual posts that contain certain trigger words. I did this because I found that due to the amount of accounts on the forum, the ignore list is not versatile enough to filter a user with 1 posts that comes to the latest newsletter thread and posts "BUT WHAT ABOUT GETTING ST3AM KEY!!!1!" - usually these people are new and there's an endless supply so keeping up via actively ignoring is impossible. It's much better to just filter posts that bring up a subject you really don't care about, or which has been discussed ad nauseum already.
For example, you don't care about moaning-posts regarding gr1efing? This will help. (words obfuscated so this post doesn't vanish once you use the plugin :) )

Heck, with the custom word filter box you can use any list of words or phrases (separated by comma) to suit your personal taste... or distaste.

This is an extension for Chrome, Chromium, or derivatives. It does not work for Firefox, browsers named after video game characters, browsers no longer supported by their own manufacturer, or browsers rattling on about 100% ACID compliance, only to be ditched and replaced by Webkit ;)
Disclaimer: I love all browsers, however some more than others. Plus I really don't have the time to make plugins for every one of them. Feel free to make one for your browser and share it!


Github Link: https://github.com/Toumal/eliteforumsanitizer

Download: https://github.com/Toumal/eliteforumsanitizer/archive/master.zip

Instructions:
To install the extension follow the following steps:

  • Unpack this ZIP somewhere.
  • Load chrome and go to Menu->Tools->Extensions
  • Tick the checkbox entitled "Developer Mode"
  • Click the button titled "Load unpacked extension..."
  • Navigate to the root of where you extracted the contents of the ZIP file and click "Open".
  • Tada!!


Screenshot:

forumsanitizer.png
 
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beelbeebub

beelbeebub
Good work! I don't use Chrome so no good to me but +1 nonetheless.
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Edit: can't rep U as I've repped U too much! Opppssss
 
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Titler

Titler
Does it also apply a social responsibility filter, and prevent you from posting when you are either unconsciously or deliberately being unable to empathise with other people and just outright incapable of understanding social dynamics?

"usually these people are new and there's an endless supply so keeping up via actively ignoring is impossible" "

"It does not work for Firefox, browsers named after video game characters, browsers no longer supported by their own manufacturer, or browsers rattling on about 100% ACID compliance, only to be ditched and replaced by Webkit ;)"
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I wonder what percentage of words the above antagonistic statements take up in a post that could have just been a simple "here's a tool to help you clean up your forum experiences" without being the very poison on the forums you claim to despise here? You're judging people's browser choices now?

And the Steam Key threads; have you counted how many times you posted in them? Are we to assume that you lack the self discipline to just not post ill informed and antagonistic nonsense (or post it and stand by it proudly) so now you have to manually force yourself not too? I'm new to these forums too by the way; but not to gaming or even this particular franchise, but you personally were already known to me within a few days of posting because you were on those threads insisting about things that were objectively wrong and telling us we don't think what we subjectively do.

I'm not going to claim the internet in general isn't a cess pit, or that certain personality traits can make it a much more painful place to be; but really, if your ignore folder is already full, don't you think there's a more common thread between all those experiences that needs to be addressed first? You'll find fixing yourself before trying to fix the world makes the latter a much easier task too...
 

Toumal

Toumal
Titler said:
Does it also apply a social responsibility filter, and prevent you from posting when you are either unconsciously or deliberately being unable to empathise with other people and just outright incapable of understanding social dynamics?
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There are things in life which cannot be achieved with perfection. This is one of them.

Titler said:
I wonder what percentage of words the above antagonistic statements take up in a post that could have just been a simple "here's a tool to help you clean up your forum experiences" without being the very poison on the forums you claim to despise here? You're judging people's browser choices now?
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Yes I am. I'm running a large-ish website and I've had to deal with the incessant whining of, for example, Opera fans who complained that this or that wasn't working on their favorite Browser, and they would just not take "Your Browser does not implement this feature yet" as an answer. The 100% ACID compliance argument I got to hear at least a hundred times. And lo and behold, Opera dropped their own HTML renderer like a hot potato not too long ago. Which doesn't mean that it was completely useless, however it was simply lacking compared to FF and Chrome.

And this plugin only works on Chrome. Sorry for that. That was not a statement against IE. This is a statement against IE: IE sucks. :)

Titler said:
And the Steam Key threads; have you counted how many times you posted in them? Are we to assume that you lack the self discipline to just not post ill informed and antagonistic nonsense (or post it and stand by it proudly) so now you have to manually force yourself not too? I'm new to these forums too by the way; but not to gaming or even this particular franchise, but you personally were already known to me within a few days of posting because you were on those threads insisting about things that were objectively wrong and telling us we don't think what we subjectively do.
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I've given +rep to people who WANT Steam keys, especially those who were able to articulate why. I've continually said that while I do not believe you are entitled to a free Steam key if you purchased on the FD store, I do support the idea of FD giving existing customers the option to activate their game on Steam.

So basically, I +repped people on the "other side" of the argument, provided that they were 1) literate on the subject at hand and 2) not moaning about it like self-entitled brats.

Also: You claim I was "objectively wrong". That's always a nice thing to say without any substantiation. The thing I did was ask, specifically, what feature you need that you can't get by just using an external game shortcut in Steam. And so far, a total of 6 users were able to point to an actual feature, like for example the community hub. The rest of the 200+ pages was filled with people claiming that you can't stream, that you can't chat, that the overlay doesn't work, that they can't have the game in their steam game list, etc.

All patently false.

As a bottom line, I stated that there ARE features that the Steam version has which you don't get with a non-steam game shortcut. Whether or not they are vital ones is up for debate, and doesn't change the fact that a Steam key was not part of your purchase in the Zaonce store.

EDIT: Oh, or do you mean my posts about Steam locking entire accounts if a Paypal account is frozen through no fault of your own? Where someone replied that "this doesn't happen"? If that's what you're all about, then... *shrugs*... I'm not going to discuss facts with you, sorry. It happened to me, whether you believe or not doesn't change a thing.

Titler said:
I'm not going to claim the internet in general isn't a cess pit, or that certain personality traits can make it a much more painful place to be; but really, if your ignore folder is already full, don't you think there's a more common thread between all those experiences that needs to be addressed first? You'll find fixing yourself before trying to fix the world makes the latter a much easier task too...
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My ignore list isn't full. My problem is that people come to these forums and interrupt development discussions with things like "When do I get steam key I want to be able to chat with my friends on steam while I play" - And I'm tired of telling these people that yes, you can use the Steam overlay even with the copy you bought on the Frontier store. And there's no end to the stream of people who don't even bother to read the first post in the thread, let alone the last few posts before they hit the reply button.

This plugin fixes this for me. Don't like it? Don't install it.
 
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Flappers

Flappers
Nice plugin! It's a filter that really should be in built into the forum, but nice work on this and thanks for sharing!
 

Toumal

Toumal
Thanks for the praise.

Also update: Added the phrase "sale on st3am" to the defaults for the st3am filter. Note that you can just as well set your own filters, you're not dependent on what I myself want filtered!
 
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jgm

jgm
One question: if I install this extension will I lose this thread as it mentions all the things the extension is programmed to ignore?
 

Toumal

Toumal
jgm said:
One question: if I install this extension will I lose this thread as it mentions all the things the extension is programmed to ignore?
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Nope. Hence I always wrote "St3am".

You will however lose a posts in this thread, from someone who is very adamant in the respective threads, so I'd say it works as designed. (You'll also not see my response anymore, but again, I'd say that's the whole point)
 

Toumal

Toumal
Hmm question to you folks, should I publish this on the Chrome app store too? Or does the zip file work well enough for you?
 

Loskene

L
Or you could just not get so worked up about idiotic posts that you go to the effort of writing a browser plugin to erase them from your echo chamber entirely. Jeez. How are you meant to follow a conversation and be duly informed if half of the posts don't show up for you because they mention an arbitrary, contextless trigger?
I have never seen such effort put into pedantry like this.
 

Jackie Silver

Jackie Silver
I'm not interested in blocking particular topics but I would like it if threads started by users on my ignore list (like that one who pops up every month to start a thread saying "Braben y u no finish ur gam, I quits 4eva") could be blocked entirely. As it is, I see them but only see the responses of other people. I don't want to lose threads that these (people) post in, only ones that they start. Can you do that?
 

Toumal

Toumal
Jackie Silver said:
I'm not interested in blocking particular topics but I would like it if threads started by users on my ignore list (like that one who pops up every month to start a thread saying "Braben y u no finish ur gam, I quits 4eva") could be blocked entirely. As it is, I see them but only see the responses of other people. I don't want to lose threads that these (people) post in, only ones that they start. Can you do that?
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I could do that, yes. However, I can't really tie it into your existing ignore list. You'd have to type the user names into a box. Would that work for you?

Edit: I love how people see emotions where there are none ;)
 
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Ghostickles

G
completely floored
a forum tool which provides automatic 'ignore' -ance.
this is possibly the perfect outlet for it too
OP, you win the internet
 
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