Prevent SHOUTING and Posts With Annoying UPdown Text Like This
 

Long time ago I posted a mod written for 3.0.7 to stop SHOUTING and "Jumpy" text. Since I upgraded to 3.5.x my forums became once again full of posts in FULL CAPS and let's be honest, the bultin anti-shouting functionality sucks.

With vBulletin bultin anti-shouting, you have to choose between SHOUTING TEXT or Annoying Jumpy Text (caps on first word of each letter), which makes large blocks of text difficult to read.

Essentially, what this mod does is:

1) Switch SHOUTING from the body text and from title into "normal" text.

2) Switch "Jumpy" text from both the body and title into a more readable form. Example of "Jumpy" text is the following sentence:

Known behaviour:
a) For shouting text, the mod detects it if ALL the text is in caps. This behaviour will be changed on a next release to trigger it if 80% or more of the text is in caps.

b) For "Jumpy" text, the mod is triggered if at least 2 sets of 3 words are Wrote Using Jumpy Text. This 'could' also be changed to make it trigger based on a percentage of the text.

Installation:
STEP 1
Disable vBulletin bult-in anti-shouting by going to Admin CP => vBulletin Options => Message Posting and Editing Options

STEP 2
Download the included file: product-pst_reynaldovb.xml

STEP 3
Go to Admin CP => Plugin System => Manage Products => Add/Import Product
Click the Browse button and browse to where you downloaded the file.

STEP 4
Voila! from now on your forum should be SHOUTING free.
Now take a moment and click INSTALL :-)
Please keep in mind this plugin only applies to future posts. It does nothing against posts already in the forum. If interested let me know and I could post a MySQL line that will "fix" past posts.

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Great idea! Thanks for coding this, and sharing.

Nice. Thanks.

Thanks a ton!

sweet been looking for something like that

JuMPy TeXT? WHaTS WRoNG WiTH JuMPY TeXT...lol..j/k

Thnx

Go ahead and post the Mysql Code...

Cool Installed

Hmmmm I received this error so I had to uninstall. I disabled the vB default by setting it to 0 and then installed the xml file with the Manage Products screen.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: myremoveshouting() in /home/XXXXXXX/public_html/forum/includes/functions_newpost.php on line 360

Any ideas? Thanks