Ban or filter unsavory chatters
by Mark McCoy · in ThinkTanks · 05/26/2003 (2:26 pm) · 3 replies
Is there a way to ban individual chatters? Most of the online chat is enjoyable banter, so Child Safe Mode is overkill. But occasionally there is the unsavory jerk who needs to be filtered out/silenced.
If not, put it in the feature requests.
If not, put it in the feature requests.
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#2
Not sure about the best implementation. Ideas:
* Hit a key combo ('alt-i'?) and then click on offending player's name would be user friendly and quick. (Although new users would have to be told about it.)
* Hitting the hotkey to bring up a UI with a list of players that you can select to ignore. (Possibly add a button in the Button panel that comes up when you hit 'Esc' so that new users will "discover" the feature.)
* Typing into the messaging system something like "ignore: Demo(PottyMouth)" would be straightforward and easy to implement. (Possibly annoying to have to type the whole thing. Also not new user friendly.)
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* Just for kicks, I'd like to be able to not just filter out certain words like others have suggested, but to be able to do custom replace on certain words. The config file could be default set to replace choice words with the comical "%#&*@" but then can be user edited to whatever text you'd like to enter. So the potty mouth taunting becomes a hilarious game of MadLibs....
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-- mark
05/26/2003 (9:45 pm)
The ignore concept is exactly what I'm looking for. Not sure about the best implementation. Ideas:
* Hit a key combo ('alt-i'?) and then click on offending player's name would be user friendly and quick. (Although new users would have to be told about it.)
* Hitting the hotkey to bring up a UI with a list of players that you can select to ignore. (Possibly add a button in the Button panel that comes up when you hit 'Esc' so that new users will "discover" the feature.)
* Typing into the messaging system something like "ignore: Demo(PottyMouth)" would be straightforward and easy to implement. (Possibly annoying to have to type the whole thing. Also not new user friendly.)
--- Begin tangentially related feature creep. --
* Just for kicks, I'd like to be able to not just filter out certain words like others have suggested, but to be able to do custom replace on certain words. The config file could be default set to replace choice words with the comical "%#&*@" but then can be user edited to whatever text you'd like to enter. So the potty mouth taunting becomes a hilarious game of MadLibs....
--- /End tangentially related feature creep. ---
-- mark
#3
... I don't know how I know all this, but I do.
05/28/2003 (8:20 pm)
They take that approach on NeoPets. In the chat and such, they replace "naughty" words with amusing replacements... There's also blocking, but the filtering makes it a lot harder to take griefers seriously. :)... I don't know how I know all this, but I do.
Torque Owner Joe Maruschak
What would be the correct way to do it? Key press combo with a number key (alt-q-1)?
Kind of searching with a easy to use yet non-obtuse method that is not likely to take the unwary by surprise.