Remove Redundant Punctuation from Facebook

By mschultz Last update May 25, 2010 — Installed 416 times.


Script Summary: Removes redundant punctuation, transforming grammar atrocities like !!!!! to ! Facebook-specific.

Version: 1.05 - Updated for FB layout change

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Tired of seeing the blatant disregard for Strunk & White's masterpiece, "The Elements of Style", I called upon GreaseMonkey to reign in grammatical deviants whose flippant and intentionally egregious use of exclamation points and other majestic punctuation marks must be stopped! That goes for malformed ellipses too. To quote Monty Python: "...then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right out."

This Facebook-specific script removes redundant punctuation for !, ?, >, fixes malformed ellipses, and asserts a single post-period space.