A change I could get behind

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No cap on ignore list.

It would have made vanilla a much nicer experience.

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10/10, 100% agree. I have a feeling the community is going to be far more toxic than it was back in the day, this will be a very appreciated addition for me lol.

I remember a cap, but how many was it?

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It will be even better with right click mute, since you will be helping the community with silencing the toxic players.

OR

If Blizzard puts in your change, who knows what else they will change. It’s a slippery slope. #nochanges

Choose your own adventure.

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Except adding right click mute would also be a change, a much bigger one, since it comes with right click report, and auto squelching. (Which just begs to be abused, but hey, whatever saves having to actually hire a CS staff.)

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I think there will likely be an addon that will allow this, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Also agree with Khutulun; I’d rather have it be as authentic as possible, because if they change one thing and people don’t complain too much… they might change another to try to get more players and begin to anger the very people who fought for this. (I didn’t fight for it, and I appreciate those who did.)

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How do you get so many people on your ignore list? Honest question.

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but then people can put half the server on ignore!
and some people probably would

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I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but the whole discussion reminded me of a friday night in Ironforge many moons ago on Runetotem before sharding. Everybody was all amped up and /trade was blowing up with the typical silliness you’d expect when a few people started yelling “WANGZILLA” and it started getting repeated.

WANGZILLA
WANGZILLA
WANGZILLA
WANGZILLA
WANGZILLA
ad infinitum… at least 50 or 60 people were joining in, it was ridic.

Soon after the very same people started yelling again -

REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
REPORTED
ad infinitum…

Just a bunch of nerds excited to be in Ironforge doing nerdy stuff.

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It doesn’t take much for me. I’m there to have fun and relax. Anyone who impedes that gets a direct teleportation to my ignore list. It’s long.

Kind of a side note–you know how sometimes people preface a comment with “you’re not sensitive are you?”? I’ve learned in life it’s always better to say yes. Nothing that I want to hear can possibly come after that.

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99% of my ignore list in vanilla and on private was gold spam. Having to take people off of ignore after a couple of days to make room for the new spammers, only to find out the old ones STILL hadn’t been banned was a pain in the donkey.

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Yeah, theres one for private servers called Spamthrottle. Its normally used to block all forms of gold spam. Its … amazing considering people can share blocking profiles etc. But it also allows you to perma ignore an infinite number of people which is just magnificent. So I would say, lets not bother adding it or changing classic for this. Lets just use the addons.

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If auto-squelching is in Classic, at least as I experienced it in my Legion trial, I will not play. Dropping identical spam-repeats is one thing, completely muting players is over the line.

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I actually downloaded it to exceed the cap on the friend’s list, but there was an addon that allowed for an extended Ignore list and extended Friend list.

Ignore was actually easier for them to implement because it just scanned chat to block lines.

Friend was harder because it had to periodically run /who commands in the background to change which ones were on the Blizzard side list to show online, location, update information. And the addon couldn’t know about name changes when those were later added, unless that particular player was on the active list when you logged out.

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  • People using chat channels for other purposes. For example advertising selling an item in LFG
  • The offensive language (I don’t mean anyone who swears, I mean the guy who resorts to calling everyone a gay slur for hours)
  • The Guild Recruiters (nothing personal, but if I’m in a guild or not looking for one and the same guy is macroing in general 10 times a day every day…ignore)
  • General Spammers
  • To fight hate tells (From world pvp, competing over resources like veins, disagreements in dungeons)

I remember once my ignore list first capped some time before BC, I started writing names down and a date I added them. I didn’t care about tracking why I ignored them, but every month or so I’d remove 4 or 5 of the oldest ones to make room for more.

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imagine being this sensitive

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Meh, I prefer peace over conflict. It’s not like I hate these people, or that they piss me off, or that I’m offended in anyway. It’s just a simple equation, you irk me, I ignore you. It’s better for both parties, everyone’s happy :slight_smile:

edit: One more thing, I gave up on trying to change people’s opinion on the internet long ago, so trying to achieve peace through debate or reason, is just not worth it while online, in my experience. Rather just ignore and go our separate ways.

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THIS. I cannot imagine how horribe life must be for the perpetually offended people of this world. I have been playing WoW since day one and have never put a single person on my ignore list ever.

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How do you cap the ignore list? Just asking.

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so basically you only ignore people with opinions that are contrary to your own? wow

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I think he meant he doesn’t argue with them. As in, I wouldn’t expect him to reply to this. That doesn’t mean he ignores you. He (and I) ignore those who clog his chat log with crap. Being sensitive isn’t the worst thing…

imagine being this sensitive

but it seems to get under your skin. I’d rather be happy than tough.