Bug Unexpected behavior from chat when clicking a person's name

[ereinion]

Clicking a mod's name in chat to send them a blue message opens "mod announcement" instead ( I tried clicking both buffy's and mistress of the obvious's name in the screenshot below, with different results.

 

[heeheehee]

Hm. So, it looks like we saw a Mod Announcement from said player, and somehow registered it in ContactManager. That's... surprising, given that ChatParser has this chunk of code:

if ( playerName.equals( "System Message" ) )
{
    message = new SystemMessage( content );
}
else if ( playerName.equals( "Mod Warning" ) || playerName.equals( "Mod Announcement" ) )
{
    message = new ModeratorMessage( channel, playerName, playerId, content );
}
else
{
    ContactManager.registerPlayerId( playerName, playerId );
    message = new ChatMessage( playerName, channel, content, isAction );
}

Maybe we extracted some extra characters in the player name? Or saw some mixed up case?

Did you end up sending a PM, thereby generating a chat log? And if so, can you paste the name of the corresponding log file?

(I'm at a loss for how to debug this, short of logging on and asking a mod to generate an announcement, with plenty of logging and staring at the raw chat response text. And that's more effort than I feel like putting in right now.)

 

[fredg1]

chatlogs conserve the HTML, right? So if they just submit their chatlog for the day, you can just search for mod announcements, and open the inspector?

 

[heeheehee]

That might be good enough, but it's actually not the same HTML that KoL generates -- it's generated by ChatFormatter.

Either way, worth a shot.

@ereinion can you copy-paste chatlog HTML corresponding to one of these mod announcements (probably in /games, probably on the same day that screenshot was taken)?

 

[ereinion]

@ereinion can you copy-paste chatlog HTML corresponding to one of these mod announcements (probably in /games, probably on the same day that screenshot was taken)?

<font color="#7695B4">[02:38]</font> <font color=green><a href="showplayer.php?who=845708"><b>Mod Announcement</b></a>: Warning, studies show that MMG talk is known to cause DramaLlama-Dingdong, /baleet feet, Lean-ePeen, Bragfail and Whinearrhea. If symptoms occur, consult your nearest /exit.</font><br>

 

[heeheehee]

Hm. So, that has the coloration that we'd expect for a Mod Announcement. (Also, you may want to scrub those chat logs, or just remove them entirely -- they don't provide anything not covered by the direct quote, and they still contain some references to that secret channel.)