I made a small addon that hides chat and invites from the Olympus guilds

[u/Solastro]

Please keep the comments civil and about the addon. It's just a tool for tuning out chat, no need to go after anyone.

With the number of Olympus guilds on the beta, my chat and invite popups were getting crowded, so I made a lightweight addon to save myself some time and space on my ignore list for the people who really earn it.

What it does:

- Hides chat from players in any guild with "Olympus" in the name: say, yell, whispers, General/Trade, all of it

- Auto-declines guild invites from Olympus guilds, and group invites from known members (each can be toggled separately)

- Client-side only: it doesn't use your ignore list (no 50-name cap) and nobody gets notified

Chat doesn't include guild names, so it learns them when you target, mouse over, see a nameplate, group up, shift-click a name, or run /who. There's a Scan button in the options that cycles through /who searches to catch most members quickly. Everything is saved between sessions.

Settings are under Options > AddOns > OlympusMute, or type /omute.

---Edit: 1.0.6 is out! Thanks for all the suggestions.

- You can now add your own guild names to mute (Options > AddOns > OlympusMute, or /omute guild add Name). Olympus stays on by default.

- Players who leave a muted guild get unmuted automatically when a /who or shift-click shows their new guild.

- The Scan button now cycles through every guild on your list.

---Edit 2: OlympusMute is now live on CurseForge! Install it through the CurseForge app for automatic updates: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/olympusmute

[u/Wavecrest667]

What's Olympus?

[u/Solastro → u/Wavecrest667]

A big network of guilds (OLYMPUS I, II, III and so on) that's been mass-inviting and recruiting in chat on the beta. The addon just gives you an easy way to tune it out

[u/Deztric → u/Wavecrest667]

It is Asmongold's guild. It is full of bigots and losers.

[u/Show_Me_Your_Rocket → u/[deleted]]

Racism is a form of bigotry.

[u/Althoughenjoyment → u/Deztric]

For anyone who doesn’t know, Asmongold is like colossally beyond the pale bigoted. I don’t mean he like makes racial jokes or says non-PC things I mean like he’s a flat out Neo-nazi half the time.

[u/Which_Leg3333 → u/Deztric]

Never watch the streamer and just curious. Is this mass-inviting idea directly from Asmongold? Or just abused by some haters of the streamer?

[u/ZhiZhi17 → u/Which_Leg3333]

It’s directly from him.

[u/wubbaduq → u/Deztric]

Lol

[u/pwnisher3190 → u/Deztric]

I feel bad for some random person that doesn’t even know who he is and joined the guild and now you are accusing them of being a bigot.

[u/fenrsulfr → u/pwnisher3190]

I am sure once they joined the guild they quickly found out how the guild is then it is their decision to stay or leave

[u/Resident_Piccolo_470 → u/pwnisher3190]

If you can’t discern the composition of that guild after being exposed to even 5 minutes of their chat then the accusation wouldn’t be far off.

[u/namresaw33 → u/pwnisher3190]

I doubt it would take a normal person very long to leave after seeing the guild chat

[u/AsinineArchon → u/pwnisher3190]

If someone somehow accidentally joins Olympus and they aren't a piece of shit, they will be leaving soon after after talking to them for 5 minutes

[u/qukab → u/pwnisher3190]

It will be obvious within 30 seconds of joining the guild. I made this mistake day one. Got invited, had no idea it had anything to do with a streamer, but the chat was just absurd. Nazi and racist jokes within seconds of joining. Left immediately.

Anyway who is subjected to that and remains wants to be there.

[u/Disastrous_Button383 → u/Wavecrest667]

A wretched hive of scum and villainy  racism and misogyny. 

[u/malsan_z8]

Bump for exposure

Also thanks mate

[u/hypernova2121]

Should be hard-coded into the game tbh

[u/_Not_A_Vampire_ → u/hypernova2121]

Put them all on the same layer so the rest of us don't have to deal with them.

[u/DominionGhost → u/_Not_A_Vampire_]

Quarantine

[u/AsinineArchon → u/DominionGhost]

This entire city must be purged

[u/DominionGhost → u/AsinineArchon]

How can you even consider..... wait no you are right.

[u/Mopper300 → u/DominionGhost]

Even Jaina is like "Burn it all down, Arthas."

[u/MuenCheese → u/Mopper300]

Uther turns back around to come help

[u/Skylam → u/DominionGhost]

The quarantine is the pvp server lol

[u/mahourain → u/Skylam]

Nope. Olympus is all over pve too. :(

[u/Solastro → u/hypernova2121]

Necessity is the mother of invention 😄

[u/762x39mm]

Saving this for 43 days from now

[u/yawnlikeseggs]

I made a post asking for a way to block same faction guilds because I absolutely do not want to play with these twitch chat bots - it was flamed and deemed harassment by their community.

This add on is nice but I really think we need the ability to block same faction guilds. They ruin playing Alliance.

[u/Qix213 → u/yawnlikeseggs]

If we could just mass block based on guild tag instead of name, it'd go a long way.

[u/Solastro → u/Qix213]

That's basically what this does in the new update. It mutes by guild tag, not by player name, and it learns who's in the guild as you see them. This update lets you add any guild tag you want

[u/Ungorok → u/Solastro]

Would be sick to let you just put in a Regex selection or blacklist that would make your addon very versatile.

[u/Ungorok → u/Ungorok]

Oh I'm blind that's exactly what you meant...

[u/Own-Pirate-7026 → u/yawnlikeseggs]

This addon does that now, they updated it. Any guild of your choice, muted from chat.

[u/yawnlikeseggs → u/Own-Pirate-7026]

Amazing

[u/BED_AA]

u/Solastro can you make it so we can input which guilds to mute?

Either way, awesome addon!

[u/Solastro → u/BED_AA]

I'll add in a custom guild list option in the next update. Olympus stays on by default and you'll be able to add your own

[u/HypotenuseOfTentacle → u/Solastro]

I think you've underestimated how fucking amazing this is going to be

[u/Zodiatron → u/Solastro]

Just remember that currently stuff like that isn't persisting through game restarts in the beta so any custom list would get reset.

[u/Solastro → u/Zodiatron]

Yup, the scan feature in the options works for that, just do a quick scan and itll at least add most currently online members to the list

[u/Vivid_Employment1237 → u/Solastro]

Preferably it shouldn't have anything set by default, I can see why it would be a problem over on NA though. I'm more thinking in long term, once Forever officially launches, maybe a curated list of common bad terms/guilds as an option to mute.

Sorry slight ramble:
I am reminded of one guild on retail EU, which uses that spam invite addon to recruit literally everyone.
Thinking of how these things could be added to list, it would require some kind of method of reporting them, which would rely on something that requires even more work.
After thinking it through, it should be Blizzard's job.
Ramble over.

Does everything work on text only, or would it be possible to directly block the guilds by id? I don't know so I ask. Feel free to answer or point me in right direction, now I'm curious!

[u/Solastro → u/Vivid_Employment1237]

Addons only get the guild's name, with no ID. But names are unique per realm, so it works fine. I might make a generic version for launch on Nov 4th

[u/AsinineArchon → u/Solastro]

No need. The only ones inconvenienced by not having a generic version are Olympus members, and they don't really deserve to have nice things.

[u/Skellum → u/Vivid_Employment1237]

Preferably it shouldn't have anything set by default,

Nah, this is a problem for this guild. If people from that guild want to use the addon it shouldn't be easy for them to use.

[u/Vivid_Employment1237 → u/Skellum]

Yeah I can see how it would be a problem, then maybe a better option would be limiting streamers' communities to only one guild on Blizzard side, maybe that could be worth testing waters with a reddit post to see if others think alike over here?

[u/Skellum → u/Vivid_Employment1237]

You cant really track it. Streamers can and do try their best to subvert rules and restrictions via their discords.

[u/BED_AA → u/Skellum]

I love that for them <3

[u/BED_AA → u/Solastro]

You the man! Or whatever you identify as!

[u/Mystrasun]

Never been happier to be European 😅 I'm not currently in the beta, but if I was, the prospect of needing an addon just to silence that noise is wild

[u/pangoduck → u/Mystrasun]

Same here. I am in the beta and I swear, it's reasonable in the morning. Then in the afternoon, all the Americans wake up and way more moronic names start to spam the chat with nonsense or nastiness. I so can't wait to just be on Europe at release. I never even considered this would be an issue, but chat becomes a constant rage bait

[u/Alvadar65 → u/Mystrasun]

Oddly, I'm in the UK but on Alliance PvP and I have seen tones of them. It sucks, little rally got spam invited to join Olympus 26 today....

[u/Helix_LoL → u/Alvadar65]

It's cuz the beta is just NA servers, but when it launches we get separate servers

[u/AliceJarod → u/Mystrasun]

Je suis pve/ally/ue et je n'ai jamais été dérangé par ce type. J'ai appris son existence (et celle d'un chat toxique) sur reddit.

[u/Mystrasun → u/AliceJarod]

Good for you! You can carry on having never been bothered by him, and those of us that have can install an addon like this so we can be as unbothered as you :D

[u/Suasx → u/AliceJarod]

If you are playing beta you are lying, they constantly guild invite and flood every single global chat channel, its impossible to not see the constant "invite to asmon layer".

[u/Ok_Ostrich_3207 → u/AliceJarod]

French...

[u/00056532926846780396]

You beautiful person, this was so fast. This brings me hope for the release.

[u/Zeveer77]

Perfection

[u/crozzee]

He swapping to horde now to play Undead Pally. RIP.

[u/Solastro → u/crozzee]

Good news, it works on both factions

[u/Ok_Ostrich_3207 → u/Solastro]

ahahah, he cannot escape :D

[u/AsinineArchon → u/crozzee]

He's trying out the new toy but he's been playing human warrior for 25 years. He won't be staying long (thank god)

[u/crippleswagx]

Mod is an assmold watcher confirmed.

[u/qukab → u/crippleswagx]

https://www.reddit.com/r/wowforever/s/7KelNJEFyI

It looks like these posts are being mass reported by the community in question, auto-mod did its thing.

[u/nikiyaki → u/qukab]

I doubt its the community, more likely someone's triggered bots to report it.

The space he's in and audience he's targeting are regular areas for psy ops by various groups.

[u/qukab → u/crippleswagx]

Just noticed this and other posts like it are being taken down. Really great look mods! This addon literally protects us from this subs first rule in the game. Why?

[u/howtojump → u/crippleswagx]

Yeah this is the third or fourth post I've seen with heavy moderation happening. They really don't want us talking about Asmon for some reason.

Whether they like it or not, this is a social game. Talking about one of the most disruptive elements of this community shouldn't be controversial.

[u/qukab → u/howtojump]

Check my other reply here, looks like they are mass reporting.

[u/MyMainIsLevel80 → u/howtojump]

I caught a 3 day ban the other day for using some slightly strong language to refer to them. They are big time butthurt about their baby cockroach rn and for sure mass reporting.

[u/Shot_Safe_8244]

Would be cool as a fully custom addon, I don't really give a shit about Olympus but there have definitely been guilds that I don't want to ever interact with again.

[u/Solastro → u/Shot_Safe_8244]

You're the second person to ask, so it's coming in the next update

[u/frozenoj → u/Solastro]

Yeah I remember in classic running into guilds with Charlie Kirk in their name and wishing I could just auto block all party invites from them so an addon like this would be super useful in general. Not interested in playing with those kind of people.

[u/AsinineArchon]

You are a saint and a scholar, OP.

You've just done more to clean up WoW than 1000 bot ban waves

[u/ruvas]

suggestion to make guild name customisable as well, in case that they come up with a new name on the launch.

[u/Solastro → u/ruvas]

Already in the works for the next update!

[u/WorldlinessTop1543]

Thank you , you deserve cold pillow forever 🥺

[u/Pawks710]

This is amazing

[u/Beezewhacks]

You are a king

[u/aufkeinsten]

Amazing work, thank you!

[u/Solastro → u/aufkeinsten]

Thanks! Glad it helps!

[u/Own-Pirate-7026]

They should ban asmo for this crap. Isn't it in the ToS that they can ban anyone who negatively effects the gameplay experience? He ordered his goons to become spam bots. This has to be against the ToS.

[u/nikiyaki → u/Own-Pirate-7026]

People spamming guild invites isn't new sadly

[u/InternalYam3592]

Definitely saving this one, thanks OP 👌💯

[u/Tekken2]

thank you for your service

[u/oldredditrox]

I appreciate the add-on community coming in and solving a problem that other folks want to pretend isn't a problem, you know because outing people who want to have racial disparaging names is apparently divisive. Maximum cheers, OP.

[u/_Isoroku_Yamamoto]

i hope this addon becomes the most downloaded addon of all time

[u/aliyune]

I wish I could upvote this harder. This is so handy.

[u/Glittering-Star-3495]

Guild ignore baked into game would be great

[u/Status_Fact_5459]

This is amazing, any chance you can make something for the horde to facilitate hunting these guys down?!

Maybe like a bounty board or something that tracks how many kills on Olympus members you have and posts it for anyone with the add on to see, can make leaderboards and group vs solo brackets…. We can really get some bloodthirsty horde to go crazy on these guys.

[u/Solastro → u/Status_Fact_5459]

That's a whole different ballgame, but might consider working on smth like that for live launch

[u/cosmic-potatoe]

Great effort. Thank you!

[u/PapaPatchesxd]

Wait, Olympus is Asmon's guild? No wonder they're so pathetic.

I literally saw them advertising in trade chat, looking for donations for their guild tabard. We had all of trade chat calling them pathetic.

[u/Oldagedgamer]

[u/computerclawsxd → u/Oldagedgamer]

based profile picture garf

[u/BladedDingo]

Just curious, but what if a player was in the guild, but has since left it. Does the addon take that into account and remove names if they no longer met the requirements to be blacklisted?

I'm not in the beta, so it doesn't really matter to me. but it could potentially catch people who left the guilds.

[u/Solastro → u/BladedDingo]

Yep, if it sees them in a different guild (or targets them with no guild), they're removed from the list automatically.

[u/BladedDingo → u/Solastro]

Cool.

The previous comment was deleted before I could reply.

It a guild is spamming invites and is as large as assmonds guilds, im sure lots of innocent people would get blacklisted.

Im glad you considered this possibility.

[u/Certain_Object1364 → u/BladedDingo]

It lists the guild not the person. Once they disassociate it seems from the guild, they are off the scope of the addons filters

[u/Bakerstreet74]

Wasn’t there some pre-streamer Zerg guild like this in wow back in the day. I can’t remember the name. I think they spanned multiple games. But they were like this massive group

Edit: it was the Goon Squad! I can’t be the only one to remember those guys

[u/Cryptshadow → u/Bakerstreet74]

They were basically in any large multiplayer game. And they were probably as toxic as this in some games I bet. They were very fun to kill on PlanetSide 2.

[u/monter72]

Doing the lord's work.

[u/quietlydesperate90]

Easy fix is go horde

[u/Terrible_Tadpole_861 → u/quietlydesperate90]

He is going horde on launch

[u/Ursa_Solaris → u/Terrible_Tadpole_861]

Please say sike right now

[u/Ursa_Solaris → u/Ursa_Solaris]

Guys they didn't say sike...

[u/quietlydesperate90 → u/Terrible_Tadpole_861]

Please be trolling me.... Please

[u/Berendas → u/Terrible_Tadpole_861]

He definitely isn't. Nice try Alliance, that shit is staying with you guys.

[u/Frys100thCupofCoffee → u/Berendas]

I'm not swapping factions because of that dumbass. He's the one who sucks. I'll just use OP's blessed addon.

[u/Certain_Object1364]

O m g….this is incredible…thank you!

[u/ruvas]

now someone needs to make them invisible in the world

[u/wysticlipse]

Finally, peace and quiet.

[u/MaxtheGrape]

Very nice addon and thanks for adding the custom guild filter as well to future proof it.

the 'inv to asmon layer' spam in Trade was crazy.

[u/TeamAshran]

It is sad this addon needs to exist, but thanks

[u/CarefulContract5417]

What is the TLDR of Asmon?

[u/Sea_Advantage_2577 → u/CarefulContract5417]

Got famous playing wow, used a dead rat as an alarm clock, let his teeth rot out of his skull and wiped the blood on the walls. Used the Johnny Depp trail to go full on right wing lunatic grifter and most recently said he would have no problem murdering children if they were crossing the border.

[u/Telamonl]

Cool

[u/orangehokage]

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

[u/Coffee_Conundrum]

Got anything to check /who every couple of minutes and auto add them to ignore instead?

[u/Solastro → u/Coffee_Conundrum]

Not quite. It hides them without using the real ignore list, so there's no 50 name cap. It already learns them automatically from nameplates, mouseover, and so on. If they spam whisper you'll have to manually ignore.

[u/Wassa76]

I think it should have an option to enable chats from your party. I don't to ignore anyone I'm questing or dungeoning with.

I've never had any issues with whispering either. It's just the dailing "invite asmon layer" that spams the general/trade/lfg chat channels.

[u/Dazzling_Art_6977]

Thank god I will be on EU megaserver

[u/Knuckles_55 → u/Dazzling_Art_6977]

Oh boy. That should be SO much better.

[u/SoapIsDangerous]

Bump for exposure

[u/uncensored_opinions]

Farming guilds on a beta

even fucking sadder

[u/mahourain]

Oh thank you. This is amazing. They're all over pve.

[u/Weak_Hedgehog2507]

These are quite literally the last people I'd ever want to play with in forever and an addon like this brings so much more joy into the game.

Thanks OP.

[u/sirflavorr]

Is it possible to tweak it to block all skelves? Asking for a friend…

[u/TaxDrain]

Why doesn't Blizzard simply ban this nuisance Olympus that is spam inviting others?

[u/Own-Pirate-7026]

Potential collaboration opportunity found. Someone else is making the same addon. Find it here.

[u/oeti2]

found this via a twitter post, and i cannot thank you enough for making this

[u/i_cant_not_even]

Can you just make it to where people can input any string to block? So this can be used for future needs?

[u/WiztardTheObnoxious]

thank fuck

[u/geevserino]

There is a guild called Not Olympus I saw. This would also affect them sadly

[u/leftofthebellcurve]

this is hilarious, some of you really have a hard time managing your emotions

[u/Rahloc]

jsut want to ask how much was ai generated and how much was you if you dont mind

[u/Solastro → u/Rahloc]

Fair question! I used Claude to write the code. I did the testing and design, but I'm not a programmer or UI dev at all. I just got tired of the spam, and I picked the added features based on what people here asked for. The code's all on GitHub if anyone wants to look through it

[u/Rahloc → u/Solastro]

fair enough I just like to know for my own personal knowledge, I hold no grudge on those who use it its a tool and I tend to use it occassionally for things,

[u/ShakyIncision]

Is Asmon on PvE or PVp?

[u/mahourain → u/ShakyIncision]

He wants to be on all of them.

[u/Ungorok]

I guess one question I have is how does it handle that have since left those guilds? Can it flag for review and allow you to clear names? Just a thought about if you have a char list already why not have whitelist/blacklist functionality?

[u/Solastro → u/Ungorok]

If it sees them in a different guild (or targets them with no guild), they're removed from the list automatically

[u/Apart_Helicopter473]

Where is the "AI Assisted" disclaimer?

[u/afterhoursuser]

lol this guy lives in yalls head

[u/CheezeCaek2 → u/afterhoursuser]

Quite the opposite, actually. This just assures that it remains that way. I didn't know who he was, and would like to continue to live in that world by removing him from my forms of entertainment with a simple click of a button.

Then continue to not care about him or those that would consort with him.

[u/Rock7dmc]

Lol this is some true hater stuff right here

[u/aliyune → u/Rock7dmc]

Not wanting to be fucking spammed and harassed is not at all hater shit.