Spam Away
Filter unwanted chat messages with custom words, phrases, and optional presets.
Spam Away helps keep your chat clear by filtering messages that match words and phrases you choose.
Create your own filters, use wildcards for flexible matching, or start with built-in lists for gold selling, boosts and carries, and “WTS” messages. You can test a message against your saved rules before applying changes.
Features
- Filter public channels and whispers, with optional filtering for say and yell.
- Create custom word and phrase filters, including wildcard rules.
- Add built-in filter lists and review them before saving.
- Test whether a message would be blocked by your saved rules.
- See how many messages have been blocked during your current session.
- Optionally filter messages containing Non English characters. This is off by default because it can also hide legitimate messages.
Party, raid, guild, officer, and Battle.net chat are not filtered.
Getting started
Type /spamaway or /sa to open the settings. Add the words or phrases you want to filter, then save your changes. You can also open the settings through the AddOns options.
To remove a rule, open /sa, go to Words, delete the rule, and save.
Commands
You can use either /spamaway or /sa with these commands.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/sa |
Opens the settings panel. |
/sa on |
Enables filtering. |
/sa off |
Pauses filtering without deleting your rules. |
/sa add <word or phrase> |
Saves a rule immediately. Use * as a wildcard; the rule must contain at least one non-wildcard character. |
/sa test <message> |
Checks a message against your saved rules and tells you whether it would be blocked or allowed. |
Spam Away Team
