GROW Auto Vote & Spam Filter for Reddit Robin Chrome Extension

spam filter and auto-voting script help channels growl.

This anti-spam filter works differently than the others currently available.

Instead of trying to keep a list of all the things that spammers say, this script looks at each message and counts the number of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and non-word characters (e.g.

:poop: ) If the message is all caps, it gets marked as spam.

If the message has more non-word characters than word characters then the message is marked as spam.

This web store version is meant to be easy to install for all users.

It has some limitations.

It always votes grow and you cannot tweak the spam filter settings.

You can find a tampermonkey version here: https://github.com/gardner/robin where you can tweak the allowed ratios of uppercase to lowercase and percentage of non-word characters.

There is also the old-style blacklist filter.

You can add words to the filter variable.

performance This script binds to the dom event instead of running a check at an interval.

That means the code only runs when it needs to, instead of polling all the time, and the UI is updated seamlessly.

The spam never appears to be then hidden later.

It never shows up at all.

auto-vote This script auto-votes to grow!

You can change this in the user script version which is available here: https://github.com/gardner/robin