Block Whispers completely?

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That’s awesome gonna try that, and TS i understand what you feel i am leveling a tank on a new realm on classic, new toon on new realm mean i run in level 14 gear at evel 20+ and can’t afford to pay a wipe with two gathering professions, the competition being that tight.

The only whisper i receive is guess what from complete unkown, god know how they even found my existence: wanna tank x or y ?

Yeah right i’m trying to keep my head out of the water and i am gonna tank, you will pay the repair if and the odd are we get a wipe ? No of course.

No complain this what i wanted but this get boring while dying on the same quests aggroing one mob too much, odd thing a lady night elve with gear you woudn’t even get if you played for years already best in slot zul gurub went and passed by for fire festival event and she went and gave me 5 gold! This is classic five coins means a lot ! I usually s*ck it hard and sell lot of stack 20 silver at best.

I din’t know why, i was in awe… I didn’t spend anything except for talent.

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can you hear the whispers…

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If I get a guild inv whisper and I’m feeling mischievous, I agree then ask for access to the guild bank! Always ends up either being removed asap or leaving.

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They don’t like it when you recite the entire alphabet one letter at a time either, then in reverse if you’re still around.

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you know what,
one time I had someone whisper me to compliment me on my Llothien prowler. I went on to have a nice little chat with that person and it was a good time.

because of people like you, I have to block ALL whispers now and I will never get that kid of experience again.

you are ruining the game for people. STOP DOING IT.

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Sounds similar to what I do with nuisance phone-calls.

I just tell them I was in the middle of having a dump, rest the phone on the table, and go back 5 minutes later to see if they are still there. They never are.

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Had someone phone me once to discuss the ‘Accident’ I apparently had in my house recently…asked them if the ‘Accident’ was my wife accidentally falling on my knife 16 times recently…took them 15 mins to realise i was extracting the urine.

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You know, you could just be civil… no one knows which players hate being told hello and which ones don’t. You’re basically asking everyone to be a mind-reader.
If a guild is small, and can’t find players, sometimes approaching people who are unguilded (manually, not with addons) to ask if they’re looking for a guild is the only way to get anyone to join. Guild finder doesn’t exactly bring in players, nor do trade chat or forum posts, because it’s asking too much of people to “go check out this guild and then ask to join it”.

Your inflammatory logic can go both ways: You are the reason people stop interacting with others. Because your kind explodes at people if you’re on a bad mood that day. I’ve actually done what you described that you liked (complimenting someone’s transmogs and mounts) and gotten mostly volatile responses, like yours. All because people like you do claim that you like certain types of interactions but really, let’s face it… you like interacting when it suits you, other times you pop off on the poor unsuspecting person, no matter what they’re talking to you about.

Nothing about my post was offensive in any way. I’m allowed to approach people in an mmo and talk to them, and they’re allowed to respond to me - or not respond to me. You aren’t above me, or anyone else. I’m sorry that so many things people say hit you so hard that you feel the need to scream your head off like you just did to me.

[Edit]: P.s. I was just trying to help you come up with ways to combat your issue. Another thing I won’t do for other people anymore because apparently it’s offensive.

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I think this is the norm for most people, or people can give a response to say thanks but I prefer solo play.

Please don’t do this, don’t let people change who you are :slight_smile:

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wow you should get a job in a cinema because you are projecting so hard right here.

I did not scream at you or yell at you or anything like that.

I’m trying to tell you not to bother people with spam when they are trying to enjoy their game.
as I quite clearly said, that time when someone complimented my mount, I had a wonderful conversation.
I used to have lots of wonderful conversations in this game, but lately people have decided that because people are not interested in their guild, they have the right to go sliding into people’s private messages.

you know what a whisper is, right? it involves a person’s lips right next to your ear. a whisper is intimate. try and learn some boundaries.

if people aren’t responding to your guild through trade chat or forums etc. it’s because they don’t want to join your guild, it’s not because they need you to invade their game time as well as the forums. not being able to build guilds is an endemic issue in WoW. the community in the game is suffering and part of that reason is people become hostile and the reason for that is behaviour like what you have described.

why should i have time for people in the game if all they want from me is to be another number i their guild roster. no thank you, that is disrespectful to me, it is not social, it is invasive and sleazy. take your adverts and put them where they belong. in general, or in trade chat or in forums.

as already established, behaviour like yours is what has resulted in me blocking all communication with other players, because all I seem to get is adverts off people like you who think they are just being nice and polite and friendly, while at the same time are just trying to grow their guild numbers. so any time someone might try and whisper me and ask me for help with a quest, or compliment me on my mog, or whatever, they are greeted by silence. the game becomes less social, and it’s because of you.
not just you, but every person who thinks like you. who thinks it’s nice and friendly and polite to send me a whisper, bypassing badboy, bypassing DND, bypassing general chat. going right up to my ear and whispering “guilda is a nice friendly community looking for more players” for the 100th time… hell, you might as well say “nigerian prince is a nice pleasant guild looking to give you a million pounds”

edit: by the way, yes this is a long post, no I’m not screaming, yes it is a rant, yes I am upset, no Im not out of control, no this is not all aimed at you personally.

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fortunately, you are in a guild, so you don’t have to deal with this constantly, all the time.

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You don’t get spammed by guild invites if you’re in a guild. So just join one random whose name you liked and use that. I prefer guilds with funny names :roll_eyes: :innocent: :sunglasses:

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I’m somewhat taken aback. Is this a common issue? I’ve been playing for two months now without ever joining a guild and I think I received a grand total of seven guild invite related whispers. My realm is constantly full at peak hours so I don’t think it’s the lack of population.

That being said, I don’t mind people taking a chance and sending a recruitment whisper. Joined a guild like that on an alt many years ago and it turned out to be a really fun community.

I don’t have BadBoy so I must ask: does it work on the whisper channel? Could you in theory block all whispers that contain the world guild? That could be a good middle-ground for you if you are absolutely uninterested in guilds but still want to receive whispers.

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N’Zoth would be upset!

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It seems very server dependent. On some you can go forever without seeing a single one, on others they’re like a plague of locusts jumping you every couple of minutes. Generally speaking the frequency is also linked to how obnoxious they are; the spam invites just pop up on your screen along with a pre-written whisper, the whisper a few seconds later or even no whisper at all. The actual invites with real people behind them tend to ask without slamming an invite in your face. “Hello, are you looking for a guild? May I tell you about our lord and saviour, Guild X?”

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I also have some unguilded characters.

I post on this character as it is one I do not use, I lost my love for mage and rarely play this character. The guild my mage posts from is actually a ‘banking guild’ it is used by myself and one other to park our characters we don’t wish to be guilded, basically it is a personal bank for us. We have a similar guild on Alliance.

Have you thought about doing something like this? It will stop any guild related whispers, as Retributor explained

I do not like the constant boosts in trade, so I personally turn off trade chat, others use addons. The fact that I dislike it does not mean they can’t do this, they are not breaking any rules in what they do, it’s the same for guilds advertising.

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I think this is accurate enough.
I have always been guildless, well except from that one time I joined a guild in order to buy heirlooms; I’ve received many guild invites and as far as I can tell, normally players receive spam guild invites while leveling or the second after you step into a main city on you fresh low level alt.

Usually when you’re guildless and max level people whisper you instead of throwing an invite right away.

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Well if we stop whispering we’re gonna start yelling

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I have been considering it. I hate that I seem to be forced into this or face the consequences, but for other reasons, I have considered joining a RP guild and it will make it so that I can stop blocking whispers.

why can’t I just be me, out adventuring in the world and not being pestered? you’d think Badboy would be enough. a simple way to say to people, I am not in a guild, I don’t want to be, don’t throw your adverts in my face.

honestly I’d prefer that. it’s less intimate and it doesn’t make a noise immediately calling my attention to it.

I have badboy installed, so when I get a guild recruitment whisper it feels so much more invasive because it means they have done something to bypass badboy. as far as I know badboy is designed to filter out the word guild and the way guild names are put inbetween those angled brackets.

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The core Badboy only blocks / reports spam.
But it does have plugins that can do additional stuff.
Some of them take a bit of time to get the settings correct.

  • Simple and infinite ignore list [BadBoy_Ignore]
  • Block chat by typing in keywords [BadBoy_CCleaner]
  • Remove guild advertising [BadBoy_Guilded]
  • Block whispers by player level [BadBoy_Levels]
  • Log all removed chat [BadBoy_History]
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Is there a Classic adaption for decliner? that addon looks perfect to block random boosting requests. (i never boost stop asking!)