This symbol “⸻” is very, very long. That if you copy and paste it so much, the comment gets extremely long and may be considered spam. My suggestion is to block this symbol to prevent all of this spam and scrolling time.
Edit: only censor it if it has over 3 characters of that as people may be using it intentionally

Thanks for reading, Knightbot63

Yeah. It would help, but the only problem is that I don’t see people using it so it’s not a problem, yet.

People might want to use it in places where it follows the CGs though. It doesn't really make sense to censor something just because it can be used to break the CGs. We should only censor things that are used to exclusively or almost exclusively break the rules, so there are less false mutes.

Maybe sensor long chains of it. Shorter uses, like only one, should usually be OK. Maybe maximum of 3 per comment?

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

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Maybe sensor long chains of it. Shorter uses, like only one, should usually be OK. Maybe maximum of 3 per comment?

true. i will change it

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

Maybe sensor long chains of it. Shorter uses, like only one, should usually be OK. Maybe maximum of 3 per comment?

hmm, more like 6. I can see people using six of these characters but not more than that.

It should only apply to comments, if its in descriptions too it would be harder to organize descriptions as well as signatures

portalpower wrote:

People might want to use it in places where it follows the CGs though. It doesn't really make sense to censor something just because it can be used to break the CGs. We should only censor things that are used to exclusively or almost exclusively break the rules, so there are less false mutes.

it's being used to break the cg's
on griffpatch and will wam they were spammed a little today with that and it might increase later
thats probrably why this person (griffpatcher) made the topic


support because of the recent spam

Knightbot63 wrote:

This symbol “⸻” is very, very long. That if you copy and paste it so much, the comment gets extremely long and may be considered spam. My suggestion is to block this symbol to prevent all of this spam and scrolling time.
Edit: only censor it if it has over 3 characters of that as people may be using it intentionally

Thanks for reading, Knightbot63

I think this line of text is very useful for decoration purposes, censoring it would only take away those benefits.

The_Blue_J wrote:

Knightbot63 wrote:

This symbol “⸻” is very, very long. That if you copy and paste it so much, the comment gets extremely long and may be considered spam. My suggestion is to block this symbol to prevent all of this spam and scrolling time.
Edit: only censor it if it has over 3 characters of that as people may be using it intentionally

Thanks for reading, Knightbot63

I think this line of text is very useful for decoration purposes, censoring it would only take away those benefits.

But most people are using this as it's very long to create long spam messages like this.

The_Blue_J wrote:

Knightbot63 wrote:

This symbol “⸻” is very, very long. That if you copy and paste it so much, the comment gets extremely long and may be considered spam. My suggestion is to block this symbol to prevent all of this spam and scrolling time.
Edit: only censor it if it has over 3 characters of that as people may be using it intentionally

Thanks for reading, Knightbot63

I think this line of text is very useful for decoration purposes, censoring it would only take away those benefits.

I don't see much need for decoration when it comes to comments. Censoring it in the forums isn't necessary as there are other, arguably more effective methods of spamming on the forums. The comments, though, it's very easy to spam with as Knightbot63 just displayed.

Will this be used in the forums, just curious?

randomguy3513 wrote:

Will this be used in the forums, just curious?

No, just in comments.

Already second page bump

portalpower wrote:

People might want to use it in places where it follows the CGs though. It doesn't really make sense to censor something just because it can be used to break the CGs. We should only censor things that are used to exclusively or almost exclusively break the rules, so there are less false mutes.

really, its most commonly used in legal documents to censor out names.
Who is posting legal documents in scratch comments?
Besides, if you need to censor a name, you can just say <insert name here> or put a few symbols or something, as this symbol is not on many keyboards and really is just never used.
like, seriously, never heard of this thing once

7salad3salad wrote:

portalpower wrote:

People might want to use it in places where it follows the CGs though. It doesn't really make sense to censor something just because it can be used to break the CGs. We should only censor things that are used to exclusively or almost exclusively break the rules, so there are less false mutes.

really, its most commonly used in legal documents to censor out names.
Who is posting legal documents in scratch comments?
Besides, if you need to censor a name, you can just say <insert name here> or put a few symbols or something, as this symbol is not on many keyboards and really is just never used.
like, seriously, never heard of this thing once

I believe its made of a combo of -‘s or _’s

GIitchInTheMatrix wrote:

I believe its made of a combo of -‘s or _’s

It's called a three-em dash

Well, maybe if theres like, 2 or 3 words between it it isn’t censored?

Prince_Wolf1 wrote:

Well, maybe if theres like, 2 or 3 words between it it isn’t censored?

no, it probably has to detect letters so it doesn't mute for decoration purposes