== GLOBAL IGNORE LIST AND SPAM FILTER
Global Ignore List is a quality of life addon that provides a greatly enhanced (unlimited) character ignore system, and has a robust chat/spam filtering engine to eliminate gold sellers/spammers, guild recruitment, community recruitment, annoying trends like Thunderfury, non-latin text, and more. All of these can be enabled or disabled as you please or you can even create your own:
Global Ignore also gives you full access to its chat filtering engine so you can create your own filters whether they are as simple as a single word or complex statements that requirement boolean evaluations.
* Unlimited ignore list size, synchronized across all characters, factions, and servers
* Account wide ignore system
* Ability to ignore players, NPCs, monsters, and entire servers
* Ability to set notes for ignored entries, and expiration times for automatic removal from ignore
* Chat spam filtering with robust chat spam filter editor, allowing players to create their own custom filters.
* Default spam filters catch the majority of gold sellers and spammers (defaults for English servers) including gold spam, Guild recruitment, community invites, Asian languages, political spam, and so on.
* Warnings to prevent inviting or being a member of a group with a player on your ignore list
* Automatic decline of duels and party invites from ignored players
* Greatly improved UI over the default
* Enhancements to existing UI such as being able to ignore by right clicking target or from raid frames
* Small and efficient created with pure WoW API only (no libs like ACE)
Type /gi in game for chat help, or open your ignore list for features and options
**NOTES, ISSUES, AND FREQUENT QUESTIONS**
* Unfortunately I cannot add guild-wide ignores. Blizzard does not supply guild information with the chat data and they've limited the ability for addons to collect their own data on guilds (Census addons were causing server lag). If I can find a way to do it properly in the future I will try to add it in.
* There is a bug where WoW sometimes reports all members of the ignore list as "Unknown" during login which prevents GIL from synchronizing your character ignore lists. If this happens, GIL will print a message duing login and then attempt to synchronize when you open the GIL UI. You can also force a sync by a chat command line.
* There is an issue where WoW reports the wrong server name when ignoring someone from right clicking chat. When a character with no server name is reported, GIL will search the members of your current raid, battleground, instance, and so on to try to find someone with that name. It will check your chat tab history and search for any reference of the name in order to determine the server. If no data is found during this search, GIL will ultimately assume the person is on your server.
* Account wide ignore only works for up to 50 accounts per character due to a WoW limitation. GIL uses logic to select the "best" 50 players on a per-character basis, in an attempt to maximize usefulness of account wide ignore limitations. No other ignore addon can do this. This is significant because it prevents you from messages, duel requests, being grouped in a dungeon, BG, or LFR queue system for not only their main character but for their alts that you don't know about too. GIL will also perform all of those same checks and warnings for non-account wide ignore.
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== HOW TO CREATE SPAM FILTERS
GIL has a series of default spam filters that will be periodically updated as
new annoying chat spam is encountered, but it also allows you to create your
own custom chat filters! Filters can be edited by double clicking them, or
added and deleted with UI buttons.
Each chat filter consists of a series of tags which define what to "search" for
in each chat message. When one of these tags is "TRUE" in a chat message, then
the message will be filtered. The filter system also allows for built in logic
to create complex filters, but more on that later.
Tags are enclosed within [] characters and can be used to filter items, spells,
achievements, word matches, partial word matches, and any link. The following
tags are available to perform each of those types of filtering:
**[word]**
The word tag looks for a whole word within the chat message. The word to search
for must be provided within the tag with an equals sign such as: "[word=anal]".
Word and partial word matches are case insensitive, so ANAL anal and AnAL will
all match the tag shown above.
**[contains]**
The contains tag is similar to the word filter, but performs a partial match of
a word instead of a whole word match. If for example, you see people spamming
analanalanal [Thunderfury], then you might want to add a tag with something like
[contains=analan] so that it will catch people who do that sort of spam.
**[link]**
The link tag matches if the chat contains any linked content at all, which can
mean a spell, item, achievement, etc.
**[spell]**
The spell tag allows one to filter out specific spell links or all spell links
from chat. If the spell tag exists with no equals, then it will filter when
the message contains ANY spell link at all. For example "[spell]". If the
equals sign is provided and followed by a Spell ID, then only that specific
spell ID will be filtered. Such as "[spell=17]" would filter any message with
the Power Word Shield spell linked in it.
**[item]**
The item tag allows one to filter out all item links or specific item links.
This tag works in the same way that the spell tag does. For example "[item]"
will filter if any item at all is linked, whereas "[item=19019]" would filter
any chat message that contained a link for Thunderfury.
**[talent]**
The talent tag works just the same as the spell and item tags.
**[achievement]**
The achievement tag works just the same as the spell and item tags. For the
sake of trying to keep this short and refer you to the item and spell examples
above.
**[pet]**
The pet tag works just the same as the spell and item tags. For the
sake of trying to keep this short and refer you to the item and spell examples
above.
**[icon]**
The icon tag allows filtering based on raid icons in the chat text. The
"[icon]" tag by itself will result in a filtered message if the chat message
has any icon at all in the text. A number can also be provided to filter
based on if a message has a specific number or greater of raid icons. For
example "[icon=3]" would filter if the message has 3 or more raid icons in
it.
**[community]**
This tag allows filters to be created to filter out community Join requests.
No other data is used for this tag; If you wish to filter anything that
contains a Join request, simply include this tag
**[nonlatin]**
This tag allows filters messages that contain Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters
for those who play on English servers that have a strong native Asian speaking
community
**[words]**
This tag allows filters to test that a line of text contains only a specific number
of words. For example: [words=2] would be true only if the text contained only two
words.
**[channel]**
This tag allows filters to test that a line of text sourced from a specific channel
number. For example, channel 1 would be zone, 2 would be city/trade, and so on. If
you wanted a filter to apply only to trade chat you could do "[channel=2]" somewhere
in your filter.
**SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN FILTERS**
Spaces can be used in a [Contains] tag by escaping the character by putting a
forward slash before the space (\). Other characters can be escaped the same
way: parenthesis (), brackets [], and backslash. For example:
[contains=Filter\ this]
Here are some other examples:
\( would mean (
\) would mean )
\[ would mean [
\] would mean ]
\\ would mean \
**USING LOGICAL EVALUATION:**
Chat filters can include some logical evaluations by enclosing tags within
parenthesis and using boolean "and or not" keywords. This is really what can
tie everything together and allow for some pretty nice filters to be created.
For example, here is the default "Anal" spam filter which comes with GIL:
([word=anal] or [contains=analan]) and [link]
The parenthesis and the or keyword allow the filter to specify that if the
chat message has a complete word match of "anal" OR it contains a partial
word match with "analan" AND the chat message contains any link meaning
any item spell or achievement, then the filter is TRUE and the message
will be filtered by GIL
This is super cool!! Fuck them boosters!
I'd really wish (and i am sure this would not be this much of a stretch) if i could set a default ignore note for spam filters. So that i can say that my booster-filter automatically adds the ignore notice "blocked for boost spam"
No one knows this?
Which of the addon files would i need to send someone if i wanted to share my Ignore list with others ?
Or can we get a way to import / export ignore lists ingame or via an setting ?
Could we get support for (or clarification on how to) blocking NPCs with multiple word names or characters like ' or - in them? I wan't to ignore the majority of NPC chatter, especially the ones in Oribos that repeat themselves constantly or the Helpless Souls in The Maw.
In reply to Unexis03TL:
Figured it out :D Although I'm still unable to add "Caretaker Kah-Syne" because as soon as I put the - it assumes I mean to add a server name after it. I tried using \- and also including the whole name in quotation marks.
Is there a way to block a sentence? I mean, I did a filter for "gold" and "only" but seems like it would be more efficient with "gold only"
In reply to Spotnick:
You can already do this with [contains=gold\ only] :)
This doesn't work. I have:
[contains=only\ gold]or[contains=gold\ only]
filter added and still still people spamming with those two words in sequence. Filter testing = Passed, so clearly I am missing something.
This addon sometimes adds the same players to the ignore list every time I log in and it synchronizes, even though nobody is on my ignore list, nobody is on my block list, and some of them are people I put on ignore literally years ago. I've tried uninstalling the addon and deleting every file related to it that I can find from every profile in my WoW folder, but it keeps happening. Today I logged in and it gave me this message -
- and just added all those players to my Blizzard ignore list. They already were manually removed, there was nobody on there, especially none of the people it keeps trying to add back. I don't even have anybody on my Battlenet block list. Since removing them from ignore again I haven't had it pop up in the current session but I assume it's going to happen again.
It's like it's got them saved somewhere but I don't know where. Is there somewhere else on my computer that this information might be stored, so that I can wipe it completely? I notice it also keeps my custom spam filters too, so I assume there's a folder I'm unaware of.
edit: today it added 29 people to my ignore list on login, which is pretty wild. I might just disable the addon for now.
Great addon, but after a few days it started removing people from the list everytime i login. Seems like a conflict of using various characters ignore lists. Is it intended to be used only by 1 character at a time? Expiration time is set to 0 (unlimited) and there is no other option to enable/disable auto removing, so i dont know what is causing this.
Thank you for the addon :)
In reply to Fayrgrus:
That's the exactly reason I'm uninstalling it. It started removing my previous ignored people instead of sharing the ignore with all characters.
I can't copy character names :( please fix this when you can
In reply to Roxxie__:
Hi thank you for the report. I believe I have fixed this issue and I have just submitted the update for approval.
Error with latest v9.0.2 dated 10/16/2020, upon right-clicking to COPY NAME of toxic players in chat:
In reply to zultara1:
Thank you this should be fixed in the next update.
Is there some way I can stop this addon from putting messages in the chat after every loading screen?
In reply to adunsaveme:
There is no part of this addon that displays anything after a loading screen except the first time you log in to play if there are changes to be made. Can you be more specific about what you’re seeing? Thanks!
In reply to MissIceyPop:
Yeah, looks like this:
I have a 4000+ ignore list and growing and it seems any time I turn in a quest, an auction is cancelled or successful I'm getting micro freezes. I saw someone else have this issue with a 1000+ ignore list in the comments. I'd love to contribute to help solve this problem. I don't know what I'm going to do without the global ignore. Pls help
EDIT 1 (11/25/2020)
The micro freezing occurs even with only Global Ignore List enabled.
EDIT 2 (11/25/2020)
I found that if I disable system messages in the chat window, the issue goes away. But I need those system messages, so I'm trying to find an addon that can show system messages elsewhere so I may disable it in the chat window.
In reply to Eye0fSauron:
Hi thank you for your investigation! I know exactly what the issue is and I’ve tried to improve it in the latest update. It might still micro studder when you have a player login or logout message but it should be better for other system messages.
Unfortunately I do not have the expansion yet so it’s challenging for me to work on this problem using only the test server but I will try to eliminate the problem entirely soon.