This is something that happens to me increasingly often - where I think... oh, I can go and implement that, and then I realise that maybe I don't need to.
Case in point, it just occurred to me that it might be nice to restrict posting of mass ? and ! in topic titles - but make it an option. So there I was, digging up the relevant code, and it hits me, admins can restrict it in the moderation filters area should they want to. It won't auto truncate, but you could add a rule preventing someone from making a post with 'HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' as the title having all those exclamation points.
I think, for this particular case, I will actually make the auto-correction an option, rather than leaving it to the moderation filters, but it's surprising how often I come along and think... oooh, I don't need to write that, I can already do it <this way>.
Case in point, it just occurred to me that it might be nice to restrict posting of mass ? and ! in topic titles - but make it an option. So there I was, digging up the relevant code, and it hits me, admins can restrict it in the moderation filters area should they want to. It won't auto truncate, but you could add a rule preventing someone from making a post with 'HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' as the title having all those exclamation points.
I think, for this particular case, I will actually make the auto-correction an option, rather than leaving it to the moderation filters, but it's surprising how often I come along and think... oooh, I don't need to write that, I can already do it <this way>.
