Browser Addon That Helps You Ignore Spammy Comments - page 2.

DarkStar_

legendary

Activity: 2758

Merit: 3282

Quote from: mikeywith on January 16, 2019, 04:45:34 PM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist

there are also ICO signatures with very good quality posts like the "HoweyCoins" signature.

Reference for HoweyCoins: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annicohoweycoins-the-only-bitcointalk-endorsed-ico-guaranteed-profit-3920469

Basically a joke from theymos that some notable members are promoting for fun (and not money)

mikeywith

legendary

Activity: 2170

Merit: 6279

be constructive or S.T.F.U

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist

there are also ICO signatures with very good quality posts like the "HoweyCoins" signature.

I am not against any sort of signatures, but this browser is suppose to give you a spam-free experience and with those words being removed from the blocklist it will only make it less efficient for sure.

DarkStar_

legendary

Activity: 2758

Merit: 3282

Quote from: CapnSparrow on January 16, 2019, 04:39:16 PM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

Also, your logic of minimal merit to bypass blocking doesn't calculate earned merit and uses only raw merit instead, on practice it will let pass people with 0 earned merit while sometimes ignoring those with hundreds of earned merit.

I'm kind of new to the forum. Could you clarify the difference between raw merit and earned merit?

When the forum first introduced the merit system, everyone was given enough merit to keep their current rank. For example, since I was Legendary at the time, I was given 1000 free merits. I currently have 1537 merits. 537 of those were earned by me, and 1000 of them were given to me for free.

There are a bunch of people with over 1000 merits, but make spammy posts (ex BTCEvo in my opinion, who has 1007 merits but posts that repeat what has already been said/don't make sense. Only 7 of those were earned by them)

CapnSparrow

jr. member

Activity: 51

Merit: 53

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

Also, your logic of minimal merit to bypass blocking doesn't calculate earned merit and uses only raw merit instead, on practice it will let pass people with 0 earned merit while sometimes ignoring those with hundreds of earned merit.

I'm kind of new to the forum. Could you clarify the difference between raw merit and earned merit?

hatshepsut93

legendary

Activity: 2954

Merit: 2145

Quote from: DarkStar_ on January 16, 2019, 04:30:36 PM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist, there are some high-paying Bitcoin signature campaigns (FortuneJack and others) with this word in their signatures, so your script actually filters some decent posters. Filtering ICO spammers should be just enough.

Stake is causing quite a bit of spam too. 777Coin, BitVest and Bitsler both have a bunch of spam megathread posters as well who make spammy comments outside of spam megathreads, so it's not a bad idea to filter them.

Sure, but there's probably some good posters even in those campaigns. OP's idea with taking merit into account can prevent false-positives, but it needs to be improved to calculate earned merit.

CapnSparrow

jr. member

Activity: 51

Merit: 53

Quote from: suchmoon on January 16, 2019, 02:52:21 PM

Nice. Although using jQuery is a bit of an overkill. Regular DOM functions are robust enough nowadays.

You're right but that's a challenge for me. If someone makes the required code conversion I'll happily update the source.

Quote from: ?? on ??

2. Add user whitelist option. Few popular member such as suchmoon got blocked by your script Cheesy

I've just implemented a treshold of 1000 merits. Users above that won't get hunted. However I'm not sure if that number is fine; what do you guys think?

Quote from: DarkStar_ on January 16, 2019, 02:28:36 PM

A suggestion: Could you also collapse the spammy post, so that it doesn't take up as much space? Kind of like how reddit works. It would make browsing threads much easier, as you wouldn't have to scroll endlessly to get past posts from ICO spam.

I'll look into this if I find some time.

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist, there are some high-paying Bitcoin signature campaigns (FortuneJack and others) with this word in their signatures, so your script actually filters some decent posters. Filtering ICO spammers should be just enough.

Check [ur=https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0l]this thread[/url] to see all the bitcoin-paid signature campaigns to avoid false-positives in your script.

Hmm. Philosophy of the addon is "blocking users who are posting around for the sake of ads and not for adding to discussions". I'm not aware what kind of deals are available between users and advertisers. Does the case you point doesn't encourage users to post useless stuff? What are they get paid for?

DarkStar_

legendary

Activity: 2758

Merit: 3282

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on January 16, 2019, 04:15:52 PM

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist, there are some high-paying Bitcoin signature campaigns (FortuneJack and others) with this word in their signatures, so your script actually filters some decent posters. Filtering ICO spammers should be just enough.

Stake is causing quite a bit of spam too. 777Coin, BitVest and Bitsler both have a bunch of spam megathread posters as well who make spammy comments outside of spam megathreads, so it's not a bad idea to filter them. FortuneJack does seem to have decent posters though

hatshepsut93

legendary

Activity: 2954

Merit: 2145

I suggest you to remove "casino" and "dice" from your blocklist, there are some high-paying Bitcoin signature campaigns (FortuneJack and others) with this word in their signatures, so your script actually filters some decent posters. Filtering ICO spammers should be just enough.

Check this thread to see all the bitcoin-paid signature campaigns to avoid false-positives in your script.

Also, your logic of minimal merit to bypass blocking doesn't calculate earned merit and uses only raw merit instead, on practice it will let pass people with 0 earned merit while sometimes ignoring those with hundreds of earned merit.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Quote from: jackg on January 16, 2019, 03:34:14 PM

I pmd the fix to you auchmoon which is probably a lot easier than op making his code more complex.

Thanks mate, I'm back from the ~~dead~~ invisible.

Actually I don't know, I'm not using the script but it's a solid hack, should be good

jackg

copper member

Activity: 2856

Merit: 3071

https://bit.ly/387FXHi lightning theory

Quote from: suchmoon on January 16, 2019, 03:29:41 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

Few popular member such as suchmoon got blocked by your script Cheesy

LOL

Serves me right for promoting an ICO.

I pmd the fix to you auchmoon which is probably a lot easier than op making his code more complex.

Although there are a lot of good quality posts that come from newbies promoting icos.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Quote from: ?? on ??

Few popular member such as suchmoon got blocked by your script Cheesy

LOL

Serves me right for promoting an ICO.

CapnSparrow

jr. member

Activity: 51

Merit: 53

Quote from: DarkStar_ on January 16, 2019, 02:28:36 PM

Your link is broken.

Fixed, thanks.

suchmoon

legendary

Activity: 3654

Merit: 8909

https://bpip.org

Nice. Although using jQuery is a bit of an overkill. Regular DOM functions are robust enough nowadays.

DarkStar_

legendary

Activity: 2758

Merit: 3282

Your link is broken. Here's a rehosted version you can use to install it: https://gist.github.com/DarkStarFTW/9b281cc74f6f81fff249c685315fb451/raw/6102f0f07b549d1daeb89f03100bb3ef1b79d91c/spamcomment.user.js

(disclaimer: not responsible for any damages from installing the script. code looks fine though)

A suggestion: Could you also collapse the spammy post, so that it doesn't take up as much space? Kind of like how reddit works. It would make browsing threads much easier, as you wouldn't have to scroll endlessly to get past posts from ICO spam.

CapnSparrow

jr. member

Activity: 51

Merit: 53

I see too many rubbish and spammy comments throughout the forum. They are usually written without reading the OP and they usually contain repeated stuff which is useless for readers. I've noticed that these posters have something in common: they have ads (mostly ICO) in their signatures.

I respect everbody's freedom to post whatever they want. I'll also use my freedom to use a browser addon to hide those useless comments. I've been using it for some time and now I want to share it with the community.

NOTE: Although I consider the addon stable, please note that it's still in beta. It may give false positive results in some circumstances.

How does it work? When a post has an ICO related ad in its signature, the whole post is automatically made transparent by the addon. If the user hovers mouse on it, it becomes readable and when unhovers then it gets transparent again. There is a treshold of 1000 merits, users above that don't get blocked by the addon.

Installation: The addon is a "user script". So in order to install it you first have to install Tampermonkey for Chrome or Greasemonkey for Firefox. Once you install it, click the link below to install my addon:

https://gist.github.com/CapnSparrow/d1f4f3d48c776279895a497a2eabe266/raw/084c8bea6b6207337c5334f394f174466b9d39b9/bitcointalk-poor-comment-blocker.user.js

Is this safe? Yes. It works offline in your browser and is open source.

Source code: https://gist.github.com/CapnSparrow/d1f4f3d48c776279895a497a2eabe266

I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is welcome.

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