Censor Text Button For Staff

[Triad]

This script gives all staff an extra "UBBC" button that replaces all highlighted text in a user's message with a censored "message". This is meant to make it easier for staff when having to deal with spam.

This was requested by absolute who has generously made a UBBC button and a censored image as shown below. Please host them yourself if you can.


I would like to point out that you can use text, UBBC or smilies for the censoring message, but if you choose to use an image or a long message, I would suggest using a short keyword word such as :censor: for the censoredMessage variable which can be replaced with the Proboards built in censoring feature.

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<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/*
        Censor Text Button For Staff
        Created by Triad
*/

var censoredMessage = ":censor:";
var _imgURL = "http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6818/censoredubbchv0.gif";

function staffReplace(){
    if(arguments[0]){
        var t = document.postForm.message;
        if(typeof t.selectionStart != "undefined"){
            var start = t.value.substr(0, t.selectionStart);
            var end = t.value.substr(t.selectionEnd, t.value.length);

            var curSel = start + arguments[0];
            t.value = curSel + end;
            t.focus();
            t.setSelectionRange(curSel.length, curSel.length);
        } else if(document.all){
            t.focus();
            var curSel = document.selection.createRange();
            curSel.text = arguments[0];
        }
    }
}

if(document.postForm){
    var tb = document.getElementsByTagName("table");
    for(x=2,y=tb.length; x<y; x++){
        if(tb[x].cellPadding == "4" && tb[x].rows[1] && tb[x].rows[1].cells[0].innerHTML.match(/subject:/i)){
            if(tb[x].rows[tb[x].rows.length-2].cells[0].innerHTML.match(/(announcement|sticky|lock)/i)){
                var _img = document.createElement("img");
                    _img.src = _imgURL;
                    _img.border = 0;
                    _img.alt = "Staff Replace";
                var _a = document.createElement("a");
                    _a.href = "Javascript: staffReplace(censoredMessage)";
                    _a.appendChild(_img);
                document.postForm.color.parentNode.appendChild(_a);
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}
//--></script>

If you have any problems or suggestion for this script, please post them here.

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