Script Summary: This script attempts the Sisyphean task of ridding MLIA posts from tired clichés and similarly annoying stuff.
Version: 16.02.10
The script divides clichés into two categories: Story clichés and writing clichés.
Story clichés are topics which had stories submitted about them a thousand times over, like Twilight, high fives, light sabers, etc. Story clichés are determined through a blacklist, and such posts are turned invisible. They can be turned visible by clicking on them, but they will not have been fixed for writing clichés.
Writing clichés are repetitive constructs occurring in all kinds of posts, regardless of the topic, e.g. "Best. [Something]. Ever." or "Made my day." or "We have a date tomorrow.". The script will attempt to recognize writing clichés and remove those bits from posts.
The almost automatic "MLIA" at the end of posts will also be filtered. It serves no purpose anyway, and is often-times a rather ridiculous claim.
Please keep in mind that writing clichés can take a large number of different forms, and no recognition pattern is flawless. If you find a writing cliché that slipped through, please post it in the discussion section. Thank you.
In all cases, the single story/comments page will not be reworked, to give the user the chance to read the story in full, on the off chance that something got filtered erroneously, and to allow him/her to comment on the story in its actual form, not in the de-annoyed form.
(Since this list is ever-growing, it is now auto-generated.)
Story Cliché Blacklist
- 11:11
- 1234
- 2012/2013
- $666
- 69
- Accents of English
- accept as legitimate
- Batman
- beating the system
- bubble wrap
- chicken crossing
- chicken on the road
- coloring book
- crayons
- crunchy leaves
- crush
- died from
- dinosaurs
- Disney songs
- dog ate my homework
- eggo waffles
- facebook group
- Facebook pirate language
- feeling like a secret agent
- forts
- found the one
- full credit
- glow in the dark
- got an A
- gullible
- Hannah Montana
- Harry Potter
- high fives
- I am a XX old
- I live alone
- I'm [age]
- initials
- iPod in school
- I read an MLIA
- I wish I was that cool
- light sabers
- Lion King
- lockdown drill
- Miley Cyrus
- mind reading
- MLIA story
- MLIA-themed
- Mulan
- Mystery Google
- naked juice
- Narnia
- nerf guns
- ninjas
- Party in the USA
- passed away
- Pi
- Pokémon
- priceless face
- puddle jumpers
- rest in peace
- ringtone
- self-referential
- S/he's [age]
- shower-singing
- snuggies
- spam
- story published
- stupid laws
- that's what she said
- this is for you
- thriller dance
- Transformers
- Twilight
- vending machine
- Waldo
- Wal-Mart
- Yahoo vs. Google
- your mom
Writing Clichés targeted
- always the quiet ones
- Best Thing Ever
- chose the right one
- coolness
- even more in love
- faith in our generation
- faith restored
- favorite teacher
- glad to know
- going places
- guess who
- hard laughing
- high hopes
- I am never saying X again
- I'll do that more often now
- I'll never call it X again
- I love Someone
- I'm glad
- I'm on to you
- I'm so confused
- I shall never again
- I taught them well
- I X so
- made my X
- mind blown
- missing beats
- MLIA
- needless to say
- never again will I
- never been more
- never in my life
- new best friend
- new faith in
- s/he's a keeper
- so many questions
- so proud
- soul mates
- still laughing
- thanks for clearing that up
- thank you, X
- the quiet ones
- touché abuse
- we have a date
- well played
- X? I think so
- X well spent
- you go
Again, if a variation of that phrase isn't caught, feel free to post it in the discussion section, I'll look into it. Same goes for suggestions for new topics on blacklist, or any other kind of bug in the script. I can't fix what I don't know is there.
Installing & Using
While Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension, I am actively trying to keep MLINAAC usable in other browsers supporting user scripting. Below are installation guides for supported browsers:
Internet Explorer, as usual, fails. You should use something safer anyway.
The script itself can be gotten at the top of the page, through the large, green "Install" button.
