How to make whoopsie more silent (log clutter with "online"messages)

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Published on 2013-11-04T21:52:45Z Indexed on 2013/11/04 22:13 UTC
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I know what whoopsie is from the answers to What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?

I do not want to stop error reporting, as I think that error reporting is the minimum a user should do to try to help Ubuntu. But since the upgrade to 13.10, whoopsie has grown up quite chatty. I have literally hundreds of messages like that in my logs:

SYS: Nov  4 14:40:48 samsung-romano whoopsie[1156]: online
SYS: Nov  4 14:41:56  whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 4 times
SYS: Nov  4 14:42:56  whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times
SYS: Nov  4 14:43:56  whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times
SYS: Nov  4 14:44:56  whoopsie[1156]: last message repeated 2 times

% zgrep whoopsie /var/log/syslog*gz   | wc -l
773

Is there a way to tell whoopsie to be less verbose?

(the funny output format is from SLogger, a homemade program to check system log files I wrote ages ago, but this is basically the content of /var/log/syslog file).

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