this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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a pretty simple plugin idea would be a regex to validate post titles, deny the post if the title is invalid
I might try it unless someone else beats me to it
I guess to start with it could be a config file with a dictionary of community name: regex
and later it could be made to use the database with an api to set the regexes, could even allow community moderators to set their own regexes (might need a maximum regex length, maximum number of parenthesis/groups in the regex pattern, and disable lookbehind/lookahead, for performance reasons)
That's a good idea
~~Why a regex?~~ ~~What do you actually want to filter out?~~ ~~Could it be descriminating?~~
~~Do you want to prohibit specific phrases?~~ ~~What abt dfrnt spllngs?~~
The original comment I replied to did not include considerations about future extensions.
So my - downvoted - comment is even more relevant. There are more important things to put valuable manpower on it. centsdroppedandleave
What U C is What U Get, huh?
Just saying it's an easy one to start with to get familiar with the system
And yeah it could be used to verify "tags" in the title, or require you put the year for something like a movie title or game, like (1993)
also my comment kicked off a little discussion in here, so that's nice too
One example I could think of is title-tagged posts given the lack of a tag implementation