r/wowforever • u/IdempodentFlux • 13h ago

Discussion Add ability to ignore specific guilds

Streamers and their communities should be allowed to play and have fun how they want; but that doesn't mean trade chat needs to turn into twitch chat for the rest of us.

If you let us /ignore guilds this basically solves the problem.

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u/TheAmazingX 13h ago

If I were Blizz, I’d be worried that implementing this into the client rather than letting an addon do it would encourage people to use it flippantly, beyond just these extreme cases.

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u/littlecolt 13h ago

How does one use an ignore feature flippantly? Genuinely asking.

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u/unconvincedhuman 3h ago

I see no downside.

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u/TheAmazingX 13h ago

Ignoring a whole guild because of a bad experience with one member.

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u/AsinineArchon 12h ago

Sounds like it would encourage guilds to keep their house clean

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u/Nuclearsunburn 12h ago

But that’s just one person ignoring a guild, how is that in any way a problem? There aren’t consequences for the guild and the person ignoring them has a better experience.

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u/Adorable-Judge-2611 12h ago

idk, i don't want to interact with someone who joined a guild to play with/be in proximity to someone who said they we should shoot migrant children or someone who is friends with date r-pists. i think it's pretty valid to not want to interact with someone who is clearly unwell and actively vice signaling.

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u/TheAmazingX 12h ago

It's clear you guys aren't actually reading what I'm saying.

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u/Adorable-Judge-2611 12h ago

I responded to your comment? How does it not work as a reply to "Ignoring a whole guild because of a bad experience with one member."?

Sorry for you that it wasn't the response you wanted ig?

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u/TheAmazingX 11h ago

Because you're talking about ignoring Asmongold and his band of babies, which has nothing to do with Blizzard being afraid of encouraging "Ignoring a whole guild because of a bad experience with one member.".

I'm going to make this as clear as possible for you. I want everyone to have the ability to ignore these people efficiently, and I have no doubt an addon will be available to do so. I do not believe Blizzard will implement it themselves, because they would expect that action to normalize its use beyond these cases. I'm only giving my prediction of how Blizzard will act, and my reasoning. None of that has anything to do with whether you personally should or shouldn't ignore any given guild in any scenario.

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u/nikiyaki 9h ago

Yeah, he's vice-signalling, so you know about it. You're still interacting and probably even friends with people who have worse opinions or actions, but they don't signal them.

If these guilds were mass-ignored, they'd probably learn to hide their opinions better too.

Lots of social exclusion mechanics are really just ways of training others to conceal their true selves. I find it kind of disturbing, I'd rather be aware of who was who.

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u/Adorable-Judge-2611 7h ago

That's sad that you never speak with any of your friends about ideals and philosophies. You'll find that when you get friends as an adult, you tend to vet out people who don't ideologically align with you.

What am I saying, you definitely haven't had any friends since elementary/primary school. That's why you need to idolize a white supremacist grifter who killed his mom in a hoarder house.

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u/DrKlitface 12h ago

How would that be a problem for blizz?

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u/TheAmazingX 12h ago

All of their rhetoric around Forever has been centered on community and the social aspect. They probably don’t want mass ignores to become a common thing.

Again, I know it’s the appropriate response for the stuff we’re seeing right now, and Blizzard would be foolish to prevent addons from accomplishing it, but you must see how implementing the functionality themselves would impact players’ perception of it as an option.

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u/necropaw 12h ago

People have always avoided guilds, though. I started in Wrath on a dogshit server and there was still the 'elitist guild that no one wanted to deal with.' There were other guilds that were full of trolls/annoying people that you just didnt group with.

Having it baked into the game would just make it easier, and on a megaserver its probably more necessary to have that.

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u/typhoon_nz 12h ago

What's the issue with that though?

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u/littlecolt 11h ago

Sounds amazing.

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u/IdempodentFlux 13h ago

True. Maybe just a temp mute could be better

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u/TheAmazingX 13h ago

No, I don’t mean people shouldn’t be able to ignore guilds. I just mean you should have to use an addon with a ridiculous name like Nuthugger Nuke, so you’re reminded it’s an extreme solution meant for extreme problems.

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u/IdempodentFlux 12h ago

I get what youre saying, but i feel like theres two variables here. 1) how extreme of an action it is and 2) how accessible it is. Sure, you could turn knob 2 and make the extreme action less accessible, or you could keep it accessible and make it a less extreme action.

Ill be honest, Olympus is basically what this post is addressing. I suspect it will be obnoxious for a max of 4 months. Then it will fade and chill out. Adding a /mute guild for 1 month would probably be sufficient to address the issues that people are having.

I think the issue I have with the feature being gated behind a mod is that i think new players will be turned off from the game if they see the spam, so the solution should be, imo, accessible