The "anticaps" Module (v4)

Description

This module adds channel mode B (anticaps) which allows channels to block messages which are excessively capitalised.

Configuration

To load this module use the following <module> tag:

<module name="anticaps">

<anticaps>

The <anticaps> tag defines settings about how the anticaps module should behave. This tag can only be defined once.

Name	Type	Default Value	Description
message	Text	Your message exceeded the %percent%%% upper case character threshold for %channel%	The message to use when punishing users that hit the upper case character threshold.
lowercase	Text	abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz	A list of characters to treat as lower case letters.
uppercase	Text	ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ	A list of characters to treat as upper case letters.

The message field can contain any of the following template variables:

Variable	Description
%channel%	The name of the channel the mode is set on.
%lower%	The number of lower case characters.
%minlen%	The minimum length from the mode value.
%percent%	The percentage from the mode value.
%punctuation%	The number of punctuation (non upper or lower) characters.
%upper%	The number of upper case characters.

Example Usage

<anticaps message="Your message exceeded the %percent%%% upper case character threshold for %channel%"
          lowercase="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
          uppercase="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ">

Channel Modes

Name	Character	Type	Parameter Syntax	Usable By	Description
anticaps	B	Parameter	{ban|block|mute|kick|kickban}:<minlen>:<percent>	Channel operators	Enables blocking excessively capitalised messages.

Example Usage

Kicks users who send a message which is longer than five characters and is more than 75% capital letters:

/MODE #channel +B kick:5:75

Exemptions

Name	Description
anticaps	Allows exempted users to send overly capitalised messages.