Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlStringQuoters v/s Spammers

Author : spyderuk
Subject : Quoters v/s Spammers
Posted : 17 January 2007, 13:46
Message :

Who's the worst?
Realising I have a few compulsive quoters on my forum I started searching around here and found many topics about code changes to do various things about the quotes although many topics seemed to be abandoned. I searched for this in the past and I'm sure I stumbled on a topic that had a quick code change to check for member level and only show the icon/link to "reply with quote" to admins and moderators. I cannot seem to find that topic now.

If any of you experienced coders could post that snippit of code here I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks.
EDIT.. Or maybe point out the lines and I could comment them out for a board wide quoting bann for a while. that would work for me

If it would work that way.<

Reply Author: MarkJH
Replied on: 17 January 2007, 14:03
Message:

Originally posted by spyderuk
Who's the worst?
Realising I have a few compulsive quoters on my forum I started searching around here and found many topics about code changes to do various things about the quotes although many topics seemed to be abandoned. I searched for this in the past and I'm sure I stumbled on a topic that had a quick code change to check for member level and only show the icon/link to "reply with quote" to admins and moderators. I cannot seem to find that topic now.
If any of you experienced coders could post that snippit of code here I sure would appreciate it.
Thanks.
EDIT.. Or maybe point out the lines and I could comment them out for a board wide quoting bann for a while. that would work for me If it would work that way.

LOL

Sorry, couldn't resist. That is one of the most annoying things that people do on a forum, that's for sure.<

Reply Author: MarkJH
Replied on: 17 January 2007, 14:13
Message:

Sounds like it just needs an mlev check around the reply with quote code.
Not tested but how about changing the code in topic.asp from (and it might be a little different in my heavily modded forum):

Code:

if ((Cat_Status <> 0 and Forum_Status <> 0 and Topic_Status = 1) or (AdminAllowed = 1 and Topic_Status <= 1)) and ArchiveView = "" then
Response.Write	"                      <a href=""post.asp?" & ArchiveLink & "method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=" & Reply_ReplyID & "&TOPIC_ID=" & Topic_ID & "&FORUM_ID=" & Forum_ID & """>" & getCurrentIcon(strIconReplyTopic,"Reply with Quote","align=""absmiddle"" hspace=""0""") & "</a>" & vbNewLine
end if

to

Code:

if ((Cat_Status <> 0 and Forum_Status <> 0 and Topic_Status = 1) or (AdminAllowed = 1 and Topic_Status <= 1)) and ArchiveView = "" and mlev > 2 then
Response.Write	"                      <a href=""post.asp?" & ArchiveLink & "method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=" & Reply_ReplyID & "&TOPIC_ID=" & Topic_ID & "&FORUM_ID=" & Forum_ID & """>" & getCurrentIcon(strIconReplyTopic,"Reply with Quote","align=""absmiddle"" hspace=""0""") & "</a>" & vbNewLine
end if

I think this occurs in two places.<

Reply Author: leatherlips
Replied on: 17 January 2007, 14:26
Message:

I turned off the quote feature in my forums except for MODs and Admin. See here.<

Reply Author: spyderuk
Replied on: 18 January 2007, 06:56
Message:

Originally posted by leatherlips
I turned off the quote feature in my forums except for MODs and Admin. See here.

Cheers Leatherlips, that was the topic I had seen in the past. Could not find it for looking last night. Going to fire up Cute now

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Reply Author: dayve
Replied on: 18 January 2007, 14:38
Message:

I rely heavily on quoting, it makes it easy to identify specific things that people say, especially if you're commenting on something someone said pages earlier. I'm not sure eactly what constitutes quote abuse??<

Reply Author: pdrg
Replied on: 18 January 2007, 14:47
Message:

Personally I find quoting can be very habdy in an unthreaded forum like Snitz, it means you can identify the parts of the topic you are referring to, and can be handy for aggregation. However, if the problem is quotes containing quotes containing quotes, I agree reading it can get ugly. In this case I'd suggest either a quick readability class for your users ('never quote more than one level deep, you idiots')...
Or you could parse out the inner quote when a new one is posted. I'm sure one of our regex bunnies could work out a tech solution to that in something less than two minutes (although stitching it reliably into the code will be longer, maybe)...
Or, the 'reply with quote' functionality could automatically dump any previous quotes when pressed, so only leaving the edit pane with the actual body text the previous message.
Not bad, three solutions in three minutes ;-)<

Reply Author: dayve
Replied on: 18 January 2007, 23:33
Message:

I never liked the way quotes were handled in Snitz, I prefer the entire quote to be in a bordered object which is what I do on my forum and much easier on the eyes, especially with nested quotes.<

Reply Author: MarkJH
Replied on: 19 January 2007, 02:10
Message:

I've been using this Quote MOD for a while now. Looks far better than the standard quote code.<

Reply Author: spyderuk
Replied on: 20 January 2007, 19:01
Message:

Originally posted by pdrg
However, if the problem is quotes containing quotes containing quotes, I agree reading it can get ugly.

That is when you can read the whole topic in the last post

EDIT.. MarkJH I just took a look at that quote mod. Looks quite nice and only a few minor code changes. I may have to try that out. Thanks.<

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