What you find significant and what Blizzard finds significant can be two different things.
I can’t help but speculate that the /who call was broken to combat layer hopping.
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It’s pretty clear that blizzard isn’t trying to impair ClassicLFG with this.
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They’re trying to impair functionality that’s “incompatible with our social design.”
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/who isn’t incompatible. We had it in vanilla… with CensusPlus IIRC.
I think this still has to do with layering.
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This wont stop invite spam. They can still scan the AH and invite anyone that posts anything there.
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Right, they were far more powerful back then and gave access to so much more they could automate everything.
If they wanted to break the ClassicLFG AddOn, they have MUCH EASIER ways to do so (they have an AddOn blacklist built into the client for example). So I will stick to my story that neither you nor I have any idea why Blizzard changed this function (until they actually provide us with patch notes or a direct response). But I will state that blocking this function alone will NOT break the core functionality of ClassicLFG. It will still work, you just won’t have the details on the user who whispered you available automatically (guild, level, class).
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There’s a way to block whispers from random people whispering you about guilds, while also not blocking those whispers that aren’t about guilds? TIL
Nice try moving the goal posts there. It has been said multiple times block guild INVITES, not random people messaging you about whatever (which they can do without an AddOn, I get random messages on my bank alt all the time completely UNRELATED to guild invite spam)
Moving the goal posts?
Auto-guild addons do two things: send an invite, and whisper. Many users of the addon actually just use the auto-whisper functionality.
There is no blocking it unless you want to manually ignore dozens or hundreds of people.
IF true, don’tcha think it probably has something to do with the layer-hopping exploit?
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When I create a new character on a server, I get mass guild invite spams, never a single message. So yeah, you are moving the goal posts. But either way, still not solving the problem. I can go to the starting area and click on you and click a macro just as easily.
Probably resulting from #nochange crowd pitchforking about the ClassicLFG or Spy addons. Enjoy the collateral damage.
You know Spy doesn’t need this to function right? You can’t run a /who on a player of the opposite faction. But yeah, let’s put on those tinfoil hats!
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At the core those two are the poster boys for the anti-addon crowd.
If you don’t like the addons, don’t use them. Otherwise, you get what you get. Enjoy the collateral damage.
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good job once again screwing over legitimate addons blizz with your typical bandaid “fixes”
also LOL @ people thinking this will break any LFG addon. Those can operate 100% just off of chat channels, this “fix” will do nothing of substance to them
and tbh if you have an issue with lfg addons just uninstall
Except that wouldn’t break ClassicLFG’s ability to do the single thing I want it to do… which is to give me a visual representation of people who are looking for groups. It does a great job of that and I will absolutely continue to use it.
Any attempts by Blizzard to break it is absurd. Unless they want to start policing LFG to prevent people from carrying on conversations about irrelevant crap, then maybe…
Seriously though, I’m 15 years older than I used to be. Watching a chat channel and manually parsing it is tiresome as hell. ClassicLFG allowing me to sort that view by instance, filtering out things I dont’ want to see, as well as all the senseless chatter, is an amazing piece of functionality.
And yes, I still have to talk to people to form my group you #nochanges folks. I just get a better presentation of data so my poor old man brain can process the information more effectively.
So leave it the heck alone already, will you?
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I don’t think you know what that phrase means. And your personal anecdote doesn’t really prove or disprove anything.
… And your other argument here is truly amazing. You’re equating physically walking up to my character and interacting with me, with an automated addon that spams entire zones with invites and whispers? Please don’t waste my time.
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Bigglesworth, check, Horde, check. I’ll settle this in game!
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