Reduce some useless separators.

bluemoon.json

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:23823af929103d4d24e05b058bf6eda8fee6fe80a6cf6df5072998c192e271da
-size 217187580
+oid sha256:ddf817ba1dd15aa3e4617cf3f0c1f91fb0fcb56053445c4b0066812a550267ca
+size 217180735

dataset.yaml

@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ steps:
       type: HtmlStrip
       description: "Strip HTML"
       config:
-        stripAnchorPatterns: ['/', '.jpg', '.JPG', '.png', '.PNG', '.gif', '.GIF']
+        stripAnchorPatterns: [ '/', '.jpg', '.JPG', '.png', '.PNG', '.gif', '.GIF' ]
 
   - step: &ooc_strip
       type: RegexReplace
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ steps:
           [ "\t\n", "\n" ], [ "\n\n\n", "\n\n" ], [ '   ', '  ' ], [ " \n", "\n" ]
         ]
 
+  - step: &reduce_separators
+      type: ExactReplace
+      description: "Reduce nonsensical separators to a maximum of 3 consecutive."
+      config:
+        recursive: true
+        replacements: [ [ "~~~~", "~~~" ], [ "----", "---" ] ]
+
   - step: &trim
       type: Trim
       description: "Trim leading and trailing whitespace."
@@ -173,7 +180,7 @@ steps:
           [ "hvlr\n/\n", "" ],
           [ "' s ,\ns  s.\ns s,  ,\ns.\n", "" ],
           [ "I'll post first\n_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _\n", "" ], [ "Moved from PMs to threads", "" ],
-          [ "I'll start out a with an opening post.", ""],
+          [ "I'll start out a with an opening post.", "" ],
           [ "NSFW\n\n", "" ],
         ]
 
@@ -183,13 +190,13 @@ input:
     sha512: f31d6bd278bc4211736d6aace3917cd0c1d0143bec9bf9d07054f5f9b32060e17399b6ea0935774b2271ac45a88309a60ef8eec8c4ac5283d1b353a255529cc5
     reader: *bluemoon
     steps: [ *html_linebreaks, *html_strip, *links, *trim, *reduce_whitespace,
-             *ooc_strip, *ooc_prune ]
+             *ooc_strip, *ooc_prune, *reduce_separators ]
 
 output:
   - name: 'Bluemoon'
     path: 'out/bluemoon.json'
     description: 'Bluemoon 1-1 Fandom RP+ERP cleaned and formatted for Fastchat'
-    sha512: 0a371870d9448b12322b0865c49055396eb6f9e3c5e6b84a88af0343546597f73608db00be97b5f5d26c3643080fc292247f915de4408e1d0936d6faeb06e560
+    sha512: 88e86779a94146d56f8b6c6f3abc3ffc3624066fb5fab389a373a395cfddccfcf13bac4a9ff986c4741c92b29dfb4b493c36c4f8542d2a6499c77c9d09ad41c9
     writer: fastchat
     steps: [ *strip_unicode, *reduce_whitespace, *trim_nonwords, *edge_cases, *trim, *empty,
              *two_alternating_participants, *rename_participants ]