Lameness filters are textbased filters used by SlashCode-based websites to stop junk comments from being posted in response to stories.
Lameness filters include:
- Too many junk characters
- Too many capital letters
- Too much repetition
- ASCII art
- Comments which are too short or long.
- Using a combination of tags that try to break web pages.
- Too short lines of text
- Too long lines of text
Obsession with bypassing these filters successfully have lead to Internet trolls appearing all over SlashCode based sites such as Slashdot.