Score

The flee and blot actions can be given more or less weight by specifying a score with the rule. If not explicitly specified in a flee or blot rule, the score for that rule is 1.0.

The score should generally be 1 divided by the number of times the term should appear on the page to warrant a blot or flee. So, for example, a score of 0.9 means the word “sketchy” can appear once on the page without being blocked, as long as it doesn’t appear in a really important place such as the url of the page. A score of 0.1 means the term can appear on the page 9 times without provoking a blot.

Users are not advised to make heavy use of these scores as their meaning may change in the future.

Examples

To remove images from all web pages that contain at least 3 instances of the word donut or a single instance of the phrase biscuits and gravy, and that aren’t explicitly allowed using other Plucky rules:

pluck + blot score 0.34 word donut
pluck + blot word biscuits and gravy

To flee all web pages that contain 10 instances of words that are either sausage or bacon:

pluck + flee score 0.1 word sausage
pluck + flee score 0.1 word bacon