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

[Privata]

Thanks , finaly can filter out the whiners claiming ''greifing'' is a thing

 

[Toumal]

@Jackie Silver: I've been so emotionally worked up by your post ... that I added the feature you requested:

The Sanitizer has been updated to let you filter threads based on who started them.

 

[Herik]

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?



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...

Can't help but agree with you Titler; well spoken. +1

You can be sure you and I will be 'sanitized' by the OP; but I couldn't care less how 'right' and beautiful certain other peoples opinions would be for these people. In most games If you don't listen to as many peoples opinions as you can, you'll simply miss out on important information (and its more enjoyable with more opinions).

Also In a forum, this kind of 'ignoring' breeds a high amount of secrecy.between members; something I wouldn't like.

 

[Toumal]

Henrik, I respect your choice to not filter stuff out. That's totally fine. Please respect my choice to not have to listen to stuff like "Steam overlay only works with Steam key". I just don't have the time for this. It makes me sigh. Excessive sighs has been shown to lead to early skin aging.

Seriously though, please respect my choice to not read certain content. I'm just providing a tool. A tool which, I believe, can do a lot to reduce some of the conflict. Because really, one of the most effective ways to avoid conflict is to walk away, instead of getting engaged in it.

 

[Jackie Silver]

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

Yeah, certainly that would work. I appreciate tying it into the ignore list isn't practical.

 

[Commander Dave]

Good work.
Get a donate button on it.

 

[Mephane]

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:

https://github.com/Toumal/eliteforumsanitizer/raw/master/forumsanitizer.png

This post is simultaneously hilarious, awesome, worrying, and ironic.

Hilarious, because the issues mentioned apparently have reached a level where someone would do all the effort for such a plugin.
Awesome, for doing the effort.
Worrying, because what happens if this plugin receives widespread use and people will deliberately avoid using any trigger word (both in contexts where it is not the actual topic, and where someone wants to circumvent the filtering to post yet another post about it) in order for their posts to be seen, and all that would be achieved is people writing "gr1efer" and "0ffline m0de" all the time (which imho would be far worse than the current status quo).
Ironic, because even you already told everyone how to simply circumvent the filter, possibly immediately voiding any effort put into the addon.

 

[Toumal]

Yeah, certainly that would work. I appreciate tying it into the ignore list isn't practical.

Well I could look into the tool fetching names from the ignore list every time you view it, but for now the text box should do the trick. Check it out and let me know if it works for you!

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This post is simultaneously hilarious, awesome, worrying, and ironic.

Hilarious, because the issues mentioned apparently have reached a level where someone would do all the effort for such a plugin.
Awesome, for doing the effort.
Worrying, because what happens if this plugin receives widespread use and people will deliberately avoid using any trigger word (both in contexts where it is not the actual topic, and where someone wants to circumvent the filtering to post yet another post about it) in order for their posts to be seen, and all that would be achieved is people writing "gr1efer" and "0ffline m0de" all the time (which imho would be far worse than the current status quo).
Ironic, because even you already told everyone how to simply circumvent the filter, possibly immediately voiding any effort put into the addon.

Indeed, and that's fascinating, isn't it? The trick, I believe, is in using it moderately. It also depends on what you don't care about, so the level of success varies from person to person.
The new "ignore threads by starting user" function however should work across the bat. If you know someone is prone to starting a thread about subject X which has been discussed 10 times before, you can just avoid having to see his new threads completely.

If nothing else, for me personally it cuts down on the noise. I use only very few filter words.

 

[Toumal]

i would like to be able to block people who do not capitalise their i's. Can i do that with this thing?

Sorry, your post contained a lower case i, so I did not see it!

Kidding That's going a bit overboard though, don't you think? And writing a plugin that fixes "common mistakes" sounds awesome, if a bit troubling. Plus I would not want to do that. Grammar checking in Word doesn't work properly and they spent thousands of man-hours on it

 

[Titus Balls]

Maze balls

 

[tonelander]

This is brill. Anything that helps reverts the forums back to beta-level discussions and away from omg gr1ef/st3am rip/offl1ne/it's b0ring, that comes with access from the great unwashed is fine with me.

 

[Toumal]

Maze balls

You mean...



EDIT: Oh god cannot get rid of the big file x.x

 

[Bostlabs]

Still using the original. I'll have to get the update.
Between the plugin and the ignore feature here I should be dandy.

It's kinda like that Radio Sidewinder commercial. 'BANG! And the pirate is gone"

 

[Tarman]

They say ignorance is bliss, but I wouldn't know.

I offer up this: What you've built here is rather insensitive in regard to humanity's need for information - ALL information, even "junk". One man's trash thread is another's man's treasure trove of comedy. Who are any of us to say information in this form or that form isn't allowed to be?

A suggestion? Stop being so mortally offended by the words other people type. Those words don't have any power in and of themselves. Watch! I'll demonstrate.

"WORDS! LEAP OFF THE SCREEN, GO FORTH, AND KILL ALL WHO ARE OFFENDED BY THEE!"

See? Nothing. If the reader felt anything, it's because the reader initiated the electrochemical response that "caused" the "feeling" (for lack of better terms).

Now, I find willful ignorance to be immensely offensive. It's one of the main concepts keeping humanity on this stupid rock. But if I were to ignore everyone who tried to shape conversations the way they liked, by ANY means, I wouldn't be conversing with many people. The flow of information from human sources would be severely compromised. How do I know what's going on - as much of the picture as possible, mind you - if I selectively ignore parts of it?

It seems like escapism to me.

Don't worry. I know what I just said offended some, and I will be blamed for it as the producer of the words (never mind that I have functionally ZERO control over the electrochemical response that actually causes the state of offense), and that's fine. I'm used to being ignored. I'm married.

So, if that's how any of you feel the need to respond, feel free. I can't stop you. I can't control your reactions to the information I provide.

Nor would I ever want to. -Sid

(That having been said, there's a solid market of easily-offended people to which this could be offered. Find a way to make the filter work on in-game chat and the larger companies might snap it up to help deal with goldfarmers? I dunno.)

Your extraneous capital letters caused the total lumen count of my screen to increase beyond a safe level. I now have permanent retinal damage because of your callousness.

 

[Roybe]

The only danger I see for anyone using this new plugin would be to limit their input into the forums on how they think the game should be developed further. So, enjoy your own lawns folks. This is one way to keep people off of them!

 

[Toumal]

Folks, this is not a malicious tool. It is a tool. And nobody has the right to force you to read or see something. This is simply a tool to help you choose what not to see.

Think of it as a means to switch channels on your TV when a political debate is on, but you'd rather view some SciFi right now.

Use it together.
Use it in peace.

 

[Comrade Error]

Too bad I didn't find this before I lost my sanity..

+1

 

[Toumal]

I got like 5 +rep within minutes. Now I'm curious what sparked this

 

[fantasmic]

lol, so a blocklist app.
No. I have no need for that.

 

[fennster]

I stopped using it after rice pudding finally got the nerf it deserved.