Topic

Block people from appearing in global chat

I thought that blocking people would also mean I didn't see their text, but I was wrong it seems? I would really like the ability to block people's text from appearing in local/global chats. 

I know it's not a very social ability, but sometimes people are just too annoying/spammy and it's painful to 'listen' to. 

Posted 18 months ago by victoriah Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Try joining a group of people like yourself, who aren't spammy.  Then you can hang out in the group chat, instead of having to listen to annoying people.
    Posted 18 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Huh? Blocking people doesn't block their conversations in chat too? I wouldn't know, having never blocked anyone...

    You would think blocking people would do that. It's a staple in other MMOs, and I don't see why this feature shouldn't be implemented.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've blocked people in chat before. It's not really bad if their being pissy and annoying or offending you.
    Posted 18 months ago by sugarj Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm just happy I haven't had the misfortune of meeting an unpleasant person yet lol.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wanted to bump this because I think it would really clear up a lot of the little fights that break out if when you blocked a player you didn't see their chat in global or any of the other chats.

    Although I'm not sure how that would work with groups
    Posted 16 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would like to block them in global chat too, because sometimes I am in Live Help and people troll and spam and just be overall lousy people.
    Posted 16 months ago by Ani Laurel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The only problem with that is that I imagine it would make conversations very confusing. If someone's responding to someone you can't see.... 
    Personally I like not being able to be directly contacted by the person I've blocked, but I like to see their posts, so I can keep an eye on them.  You know the whole thing about keeping friends close and enemies closer lol  There must be something in it.  
    Posted 16 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Ebil/everyone--They could make it so instead of the person not appearing whatsoever, it would show them but would say some sort of message like "You have blocked this player. Show message?"

    Like it could look like this in global:
    (Ebil I'm using you in my example lol)

    Ebil: Does anyone know where a wood tree is?
    Zoei: You have blocked this player's messages. Show?
    ----(Then when Show? is clicked, it would show the message) There is a wood tree in yadda yadda land!
    Ebil: Thanks Zoei, you're such a wonderful person!

    This could work in group chats too... though I am with Ebil and like "keeping tabs on my "enemies"" too, so either way it wouldn't really affect me, but I think it would be nice if there were that option (for when someone REALLY annoying came along :P).
    Posted 16 months ago by Nea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to Zoei's idea about "You have blocked this player.  Show message?" 

    Worried a bit about more spam in the future and more people who annoy me to no end.
    Posted 16 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For those who say just move to another chat, why should I have to leave global chat because some troll thinks he's being clever by making it completely unusable?

    To those who say it would make the conversation confusing. You've never played warcraft, where trade chat trolling has become an art form and completely ruins the fun of the game if you have to use the chat.

    This isn't the only game on the net, if the dev's don't want to protect the players from people who like hurting others then it's not going to last long as a game.

    Since it seems to take days for the devs to get around to dealing with anything, it becomes a situation in which I'm just going to walk away. I don't come here to be abused. I come here to have fun.

    Simply allowing me to block people who are being abusive on the global chat would improve the game. And a plus, eventually enough people will block the person that no one will hear anything he has to say and he becomes a non-entity
    Posted 14 months ago by Crispa Subscriber! | Permalink