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Just throwing this out here, no need to get into a big dispute because I'm sure this will upset someone for whatever reason. It's a bit too often that in the global chat of Minerealm, there are people constantly..."flooding" the chat, I suppose.

Example:Any mods on????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

And when you have 2-3 newbs repeatedly doing this it gets a bit annoying. As most of you may be aware the staff has implemented something that brings your entire sentence in global chat to lowercase characters if 60% or more characters of the sentence are in caps, so I'd assume that Intelli or whoever coded that would be able to make something along the lines of... if a character is repeated X amount of times consecutively, your post will be ignored and responded with something like [Warning]:Too many "?"s! or something like that. My suggestion of the amount of characters to be ignored would be 6 or 7.

You may now be asking "But Calticman, couldn't people just repeat in intervals of different characters?" (ababababa, ?!?!?!?!?!?). Yes, they can, but at least at that point moderators will be able to see who's bypassing the filter and deal with them accordingly.. "Stop flooding the chat" "Stop bypassing the filter" etc.

I appreciate feedback/the implementing of this idea, and I apologize if it has already been thought of and I overlooked it.

~Caltciman

...noobs...amirite?

Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

I'd support this. Since no word has more than two of the same letter in a row, something that removed all excess copies of that letter or character would be nice to help prevent chat flooding, although I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement.

Keyhen wrote:Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

I'm sure if you said Meerler people would still know what you're talking about.

Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

"Meeerler" is 4 "e"s, people often do things like this, that's why I suggested 6-7 as the number of repeated characters to block.

Calticman wrote:

Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

"Meeerler" is 4 "e"s, people often do things like this, that's why I suggested 6-7 as the number of repeated characters to block.

If it's going to be implemented, I think 6-7 would be the best option...

Cogohst wrote:

Calticman wrote:

Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

"Meeeerler" is 4 "e"s, people often do things like this, that's why I suggested 6-7 as the number of repeated characters to block.

If it's going to be implemented, I think 6-7 would be the best option...

Definitely, and even if someones name has that many repeating letters in it, then people can just shorten it in chat.

I'm pleased we've come to an agreement hopefully someone with power see's this and it hopefully becomes implemented in some time, I think it'd be another great little feature that puts this server above others.

How will we extend our vowels now, hoooooooooooow?!?!?!!

Keyhen wrote:Bad idea. If you try to use words with like 3 or 4 of the same letter, like say a realm named Meeeerler, it could be ignored.

Not exactly, if you limit the characters to be checked for only such as "???????????????", "!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" or just numbers like "mod plz tp!!!!!1111111111111111". I can not even start to describe how annoying some of the text on the chat are.