Increase Ignore count

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Please increase ignore count to something much higher/near infinite.

I play WoW because it’s fun; not because I should need an adblock plus like this game is Google Chrome or something. I don’t wish to see adds for cheating/boosting.

If Blizzard is going to divide the playerbase into legitimate and illegitimate players then I would like to cut out all of the adds and just ignore every illegitimate player. Yeah this will reduce the players I can play with permanently; but boosting already subtracts from the pool of viable players to be played with anyway.

Uncap ignore list. thanks.

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Use addon “global ignore list” have infinite ignores, use it to ignore bad dps and healers.

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No thanks. Increased ignore list should not come at the cost of some processing power on an addon.

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Sure why not.

Do you ever think someone is having a bad day or months and isn’t okay or themself?

I usually take all off ignore unless I forget about it.

Although there are bad patterns and some ppl keep them for life sadly.

Idk thoughts in my brain.

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I agree with Doug. Since I got Global Ignore Ive had no problems, and Ive not noticed it causing any ‘processing power’ problems, especially given I have a very average/old computer. It also has a spam feature that cuts out messages in chat spamming things like carries/boosts.

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And you think adding functions to the core game doesn’t increase the cost of processing power needed? Go play Classic, use a stop watch if you must, and than come back and play Retail and tell me how much faster Classic is .

Everything they add into the game increases the need for a faster PC eventually.

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There’s a limit?

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Well then you can deal with the spam.

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I wish everyone was on ignore by default, and I could pick who I wanted to be unignored. That would probably be easiest.

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Honestly, you could probably clear out half of the users you currently have on it and never hear from them again anyways.

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i never ignore anyone for any reason unless it personally affects me

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The accounts youre ignoring will be unused in a day anyway.

Just clear your list.

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The ignore you already use uses processing power and probably more then the addon.

And how would you do that if you never heard a thing from them in the first place. Remember they’d have you on auto-ignore as well.

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Now you’re getting it!

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What if there was a decay to ignores? Some people on my list haven’t logged on in like 8 years. I’m too lazy to clear it, and haven’t hit cap, but it might be nice to have a sort of cut-off.

Or just an option to perma-ignore or “ignore until…”. I know some people don’t run addons to auto-block boosting adds so that may be a native alternative.

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Unregsiter all chat frame hooks. GG. :smiley:

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It is VASTLY more efficient to use a chat filter that can ignore words than ignoring players 1 by 1. Example

Player A: WTS Gold $50
You put them on ignore
Player A gets banned and makes a new account

Player A2: WTS Gold $50
You put them on ignore
Player A2 gets banned and makes a new account

Player A3: WTS Gold $50
You put them on ignore
Player A3 gets banned and makes a new account

Player A4: WTS Gold $50
You put them on ignore
Player A4 gets banned and makes a new account

That’s 4 of your ignores eaten up.

Now, let’s use an addon https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/global-ignore-list and filter out “WTS Gold” from chat.

Player A: WTS Gold $50
What you see in chat:
Player A gets banned and makes a new account
…
Player A is on account 612,561

Player A612561: WTS Gold $50
What you see in chat:

Far more efficient to ignore messages or in the case of GiL conditional strings that can be much more complex than simply “WTS Gold” than to waste time ignoring hundreds to thousands of people.

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While I agree that there should be more slots for ignore.

However, it also doesn’t hurt to run addons like Badboy (antispam) and worldquesttracker (which has a built in feature to block most LFG tool spam entries) as well.

I don’t see spam at all.

If your computer can’t run a couple addons, maybe you should upgrade to something not found in a box of cracker jacks.

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50, unless Blizz sneak raised it at some point.

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I have a lengthy Ignore list, but it’s not Gold Spammers or Carry Spammers - it’s political hacks/shills. Steve Bannon was a Republican Shill for ages in this game back when he was running a gold farming operation out of China. The Maga Maggot-Army is still out there, still polluting Trade chat with their hateful bile every darned day.

As soon as I see a “Sleepy Joe” trope (or anything similar) on the Ignore List they go.

For Gold Sellers and such, I recommend NAS (a very lightweight addon). It filters out entire chat messages based on key words. There’s no UI to it that you can alter the list, but it’s dirt easy to open it up and add to the list of words that’ll get the message squelched.

It’s also got a comprehensive equivalency table that maps character substitutions so things like g0ld or ca44y will get picked up as the words they are masking.

It runs entirely in memory and still remains very lightweight. I think the load there is 36kb of memory - that’s less than my keyboard driver.

I added some metrics to it to capture run-time load and in an hour-and-a-half of sitting in Oribos, it used 0.000235 seconds of processing time.

You wouldn’t even notice anything under a tenth of a second and since it only matters in cities (which are, outside of the occasional rogue PVP event, not combat areas) it wouldn’t matter at all.

I don’t know how much of this you see outside of trade chat, but even in a massively large raid, 0.000235 seconds of processing time over an hour-and-a-half wouldn’t be remotely noticeable.

To add to the list, open the NAS.lua file in the addon folder and edit this table:

local blocklist = {
	"boosted",
	"boosting",
	"boosts",
	"booste",
	"boost",
	"carry",
	"carries",
	"funnel",
	"funnels",
	"mythic",
	"selling",
	"sod",
	"wts",
	"gold"
}

Some of those are words I added, so it might not look like that in the unaltered addon.