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warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?

by liz (Monsignor)
on Aug 20, 2003 at 11:54 UTC ( #285163=monkdiscuss: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

I wonder whether it would be a good idea to disallow any replies in the ChatterBox that start with ^\s*/m, but which are not /me or /msg. Instead a warning should be issued, similar to when you accidentally say the same thing twice.

This would prevent sometimes more or less private message to become embarassingly public.

I guess the code would be something like: 

print "Don't know how to '/m$1', maybe you meant /me or /msg?\n"
 if $line =~ m#^\s*/m(\w*)# and $1 !~ m#^(e|sg)$#;

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Unless of course we all want to continue to peek into people's private conversations, then we don't need this at all ;-)

Liz

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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by phydeauxarff (Priest) on Aug 20, 2003 at 12:28 UTC
    What you want to remove all the fun??

    If I no longer have the thrill of seeing mistakenly posted private messages, I will have to resort to watching Jerry Springer ;-)

    Seriously, nice idea....

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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by valdez (Monsignor) on Aug 20, 2003 at 12:29 UTC

    I second this, even better would be to reject anything that it is not recognized as a valid command.

    Ciao, Valerio

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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by BrowserUk (Pope) on Aug 20, 2003 at 14:30 UTC

    If this is ever implemented, messages starting \msg ... etc. should be caught also.

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      It should emit a different warning then though, something along the lines of "You have spent too much time on a braindamaged OS.". ;-)

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by tcf22 (Priest) on Aug 20, 2003 at 14:36 UTC
    I hate when it happens to me, but love when it happens to someone else. So how about something like this 
    if(($line =~ /^\s*\/m(\w*)/) && ($1 !~ /^e|sg/) &&
   ($username eq 'tcf22')){
  print "Don't know how to '/m$1', maybe you meant /me or /msg?\n";
}else{
  &post_message;
}

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    Ok, now my serious response.

    I agree with liz. Perhaps we could make it a user option that could be turned on/off.
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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Aug 20, 2003 at 15:47 UTC

    A filter like that is implemented for approval nodelet, to disallow consideration reasons starting with [/\\](me|msg|tell).

    But I actually vote for not implementing it in CB. Public embarassment can be very amusing. ;-)

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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB? (no)
by tye (Cardinal) on Aug 20, 2003 at 16:22 UTC

    It is already a user option: If you want it, then use a client that does that for you. (I'm glad that the java chat clients allow me to disable this "command validation" feature.)

    I don't think the HTML chatterbox will ever do this, even optionally. It is a long tradition and previous times it has been discussed there was much opposition to changing it.

    I find it a very PMesque quirk that I appreciate even if newer members don't.

                    - tye
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      Consensus be damned. tye doesn't like it!

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      Oh, come now. At least we're not talking about getting rid of stumbit.
      It would not surprise me if that particular phenomenon received its own NHD entry.
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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by pfaut (Priest) on Aug 20, 2003 at 22:18 UTC

    My embarassing moments usually come from forgetting the /msg altogether. There's no way you can catch that one.

    90% of every Perl application is already written. ⇒
    dragonchild
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Re: warn for !/m(e|sg) in CB?
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 22, 2003 at 20:52 UTC

    I'd vote no if there was a vote. Filtering only on m wouldn't eliminate enough of the mistakes to make it worthwhile, and as tye said, its one of those quirks that makes PM feel more human, and well, more like a real monastery. Just as real monasteries had whispering galleries and secret passages so too does the monastery. Lets put it this way, often theres a lot more to a page than meets the eye. :-)


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    demerphq

    <Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...
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      Hmmm... then maybe we _should_ have the warning, but have the CB randomly publicize personal messages. That at least wouldn't disadvantage the speedtyping challenged among us... ;-)

      Liz

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