From 5469d468ddf5847e8e5d1723bed8bd02549a0a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erki Meinberg <skull132@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 01:04:43 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #3111 (#3114)

---
 code/modules/client/client procs.dm | 4 ++--
 html/changelogs/skull132-spam.yml   | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 html/changelogs/skull132-spam.yml

diff --git a/code/modules/client/client procs.dm b/code/modules/client/client procs.dm
index 69fbbe65e4c..b2374ea7cbf 100644
--- a/code/modules/client/client procs.dm	
+++ b/code/modules/client/client procs.dm	
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
 	..()	//redirect to hsrc.()
 
 /client/proc/handle_spam_prevention(var/message, var/mute_type)
-	if (config.automute_on && !holder)
+	if (config.automute_on && !holder && length(message))
 		if (last_message_time)
 			if (world.time - last_message_time < config.macro_trigger)
 				spam_alert++
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@
 
 		last_message_time = world.time
 
-		if(!isnull(message) && last_message == message)
+		if(last_message == message)
 			last_message_count++
 			if(last_message_count >= SPAM_TRIGGER_AUTOMUTE)
 				src << "<span class='danger'>You have exceeded the spam filter limit for identical messages. An auto-mute was applied.</span>"
diff --git a/html/changelogs/skull132-spam.yml b/html/changelogs/skull132-spam.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c64f94a5672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html/changelogs/skull132-spam.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+author: Skull132
+delete-after: true
+
+changes:
+  - bugfix: "I caved and made the spam filter actually work. It should no longer mute you for empty strings that are worthless."