kitten suppression, please

eteam00 · ‎07-21-2009

Can we please add a filter to the auto-smiley-face-conversion feature to require at least one of the following:

a space or line break immediately following the 2-character smiley face string
a space or line break immediately preceding the 2-character smiley face string

This would help cut down on the unintended kitten faces appearing in posts which cut/paste common ISE error messages. For example:

"ERROR:place" (which was originally "E R R O R : p l a c e")

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chughes · ‎02-05-2008

Thanks Bob,

Funnily enough, I started looking into this yesterday as those pesky cats were getting on my nerves too.

Modifying the detection so that text is only converted to emoticons if a space is preceding it, makes good sense.

If this is not possible, I may well make the call to simply turn off all emoticons and just leave it up to people to use text versions if they want to. This is a technical community so, I think it is more important that people can have their error messages represented correctly rather than draw smiley faces!!

Regards,

Caroline.

chughes · ‎02-05-2008

By the way, if you use the "Insert Code" icon highlighted below:

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and cut and paste the error message into there, then strings remain as text.

Eg:

Error:place

Would this be an acceptable workaround for the time being?

Thanks,

Caroline.

eteam00 · ‎07-21-2009

If this is not possible, I may well make the call to simply turn off all emoticons and just leave it up to people to use text versions if they want to.

Or simply turn off the auto-kitty feature, and leave the <insert-kitty> button in its place in the text formatting toolbar.

Or add a <reverse-auto-kitty> display mode to the normal thread/post viewing page.

And change the default <auto-kitty> profile setting to <disabled> for new accounts.

Just some ideas...

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eteam00 · ‎07-21-2009

Insert code button would work if the newbie poster was first aware of the problem. The message composition display is not WYSIWYG, and auto-kitty does not rear its cute-but-annoying little head until after you hit the <post> button -- and then it is too late, kitty is here to stay.

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chughes · ‎02-05-2008

Or simply turn off the auto-kitty feature, and leave the <insert-kitty> button in its place in the text formatting toolbar.

Or add a <reverse-auto-kitty> display mode to the normal thread/post viewing page.

And change the default <auto-kitty> profile setting to <disabled> for new accounts.

....all good ideas, but unfortunately, not available Admin options within the tool.

I pretty much only have the options to switch emoticons ON or OFF. (It's a single Tick box!)

eteam00 · ‎07-21-2009

....all good ideas, but unfortunately, not available Admin options within the tool.

I pretty much only have the options to switch emoticons ON or OFF. (It's a single Tick box!)

If the only tool in your kit is a hammer, all of your problems start to look like nails...

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rcingham · ‎09-09-2010

One of a number of prombles that dog the forum software...
;-)

BTW, I like the concept of 'prombles' as distant and less welcome cousins of 'Wombles'. Not as nasty as 'Strombles' (occasionally alleged to inhabit Streatham Common, to its detriment), though.

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bassman59 · ‎02-25-2008

chughes wrote:

If this is not possible, I may well make the call to simply turn off all emoticons and just leave it up to people to use text versions if they want to. This is a technical community so, I think it is more important that people can have their error messages represented correctly rather than draw smiley faces!!

Yes, get rid of the emoticons. This isn't AOL.

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eteam00 · ‎07-21-2009

Yes, get rid of the emoticons. This isn't AOL.

Or bake your own, like I did!

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