ASSFilter (Dirge and Anal Spam Filter)

For those that wants to be able to add "keywords" more easily, I've hacked the main function to use a list of "keywords" instead of successive "or" statements.

replace the "ASSFilter_ChannelMsgFilter" function with this one (it starts at line 56)



function ASSFilter_ChannelMsgFilter(self, event, ...) -- ... = arg1-arg12. since patch 3.1 we have to return ALL(!) the arguments when modifying a message (see below). also, since patch 3.2 there's a new arg12 which is the unit's GUID (which helps further processing functions down the road get class, race and gender info from the GUID).

local msg = arg1
local author = arg2 -- note: doesn't exist for system messages

if (ASSDB.filterMode ~= 0 and arg2 ~= UnitName("player")) then -- if the filter is not disabled (mode 0) and the message is NOT originating from us, then...
local lcmsg = string.lower(msg);

local items = { "anal", "dirge", "in bed", "in the bed", "gc", "gearscore", "gs", "check", "gearcheck"}
-- this is the list of filtered keywords, just add new ones as needed.

for _,searchString in pairs(items) do
if (strfind(lcmsg, "%f[%w]".. searchString .. "%f[%W]")) then
-- this very odd looking pattern is actually an UNDOCUMENTED LUA feature, %f[...], which detects the transition from "in set" to "not in set", the way we use it here is to detect "the transition into alphanumeric, the letter sequence 'anal', the transition OUT of alphanumeric", in effect this emulates regexp's \b word boundary feature, in that it matches the word boundaries around the word anal to be sure it's a word on its own (and not found as a fragment of another word such as "analyze"). this pattern accurately finds the word "anal" both at the end, start and middle of a string, and isn't thrown off by things like "anal." either, since punctuation isn't in the alphanumeric set, meaning that it correctly finds all BAD uses of the word anal while preserving good uses such as "analyzing". %f[...] is described briefly at http://lua-users.org/wiki/FrontierPattern and http://www.lua.org/pil/20.2.html (listing the other pattern modifiers). secondly, regarding the simple "dirge" pattern (instead of "%[dirge%]"), it's such a commonly misused item that we want to filter out both people using the WORD dirge and those that actually have the item link when they spam it.
if (ASSDB.filterMode == 1) then
local cleantext = msg:gsub("|c%x%x%x%x%x%x%x%x", ""):gsub("|r", ""):gsub("|H.-|h", ""):gsub("|h", "")
return false, ("|cFF5C5C5C" .. cleantext .. "|r"), arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9, arg10, arg11, arg12; -- mode 1; color the message gray
else
return true; -- mode 2; hide the message
end
return
end
end

end

end

wow.....

trade chat just got quiet!!!!

99/100 lines in trade are anal spam. just installed this to test it out, works great.

Feature Request :

Allow to add new filters in game via a slash command

/assfilter add "for gc"
would add "for gc" to the list of filtered items.

/assfilter remove "for gc"
would remove the entry

/assfilter list
would return the list of filtered entries

Such a filter would allow the add-on to be more flexible and avoid unnessary updates to the code

Any chance for a hack/update to include the new "[item] in bed" spam that has become popular on some servers?

add this to ASSFilter.lua on line 64

or strfind(lcmsg, "%f[%w]in bed%f[%W]")

This will take care of it.

Thank you very much =D

np, see my latest comment, this will make adding filters yourself more easily

Hello Yewbacca!

First off I want to say your addon is amazing. I didn't realize anyone had come up with such a thing and today's trade chat on Galakrond got to be enough that I finally looked for this type of filter!

Unfortunatly for me, my first five minutes of using it leads me to believe it is not updated for the 3.1 patch. I've gotten two errors. I'm not sure if they are the same or not, but I'll list them here, because I don't see a report a problem option.

Error: Original call failed after running hooks for: ChatFrame_OnEvent Interface\AddOns\ASSFilter\ASSFilter.lua:59: bad argument to #1 to 'lower' (string expected, got table) Call Chain: Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:381: in fuction (tail call):? Interface\AddOns\Sea\Libs\SeaHooks\Sea.util.lua:864: in function (tail call): ? (tail call): ? [string ";:OnEvent"]:1 in function <|string"':OnEvent"]:1>

I don't know if that is the correct format or not... or if my other addons are clashing with it. But it seems as though every time the addon saw the anal word, it spammed that large message. I think I read it right...

Thank you for your time!

I disabled the other addons Stubby (Dependency of Auctioneer Addon) and Sea (Dependency of Party Quest) and they recieved the message:

Interface\AddOns\ASSFilter\AssFilter.lua:59: bad argument #1 to 'lower' (string expected, got table)

Any chance for an update? i keep getting error messages when i have this enabled in 3.1.

Just the perfect addon I needed... The script is nice and simple, which makes it piss easy to modify to filter out all the morons on Dath'Remar-US who fire up at some of the regular trolls (who I won't name as all most of them want is infamy). Thanks!

can an option be added to also "report spam" on the idiots who are playing those games? I'm perhaps a bit more vindictive than others, but I'd like to see them forcably stopped as opposed to just "looking the other way".

great mod :)

You sir are a god amongst mortals. Thanks for this!!!