the queen bitch ([info]knowledgequeen) wrote in [info]wow_ladies,
@ 2007-08-15 02:32:00
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conversations in /yell
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Okay, for the life of me I do not understand why people hold entire conversations in Yell. It usually happens in Silvermoon on my server (Moon Guard), but tonight it happened in Undercity and I just snapped. People yelling insults at each other and then another few holding a completely l33t speak conversation, complete with U and K and "guyz" and stuff ... gah. Why don't they shut up and party chat? (Yes, that was rhetorical - I don't expect anyone here to be able to decode stupid.)

Can anyone explain why people do this and is there anything I can do short of filling my ignore list? Does this count as spam? If not, I'll just have to delete and reuse my ignore button, I guess, cause God, that drives me NUTS.

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[info]itslily
2007-08-15 07:01 am UTC (link)
I just turn yell off in my chat window.

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[info]kimothy
2007-08-15 07:26 am UTC (link)
Me too. So, I don't see their yelling unless they are close and I happen to see the chat bubble over their heads.

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[info]juliamarcela
2007-08-15 07:48 am UTC (link)
I know, it's so annoying when that happens - my ignore list is so full >.>

^ and I didn't know that you can turn yell off. I'll definitely look into that, 'cause that's the only thing that shows up in yell, is stupid "conversation" and insults and stupid things.

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[info]knowledgequeen
2007-08-15 02:36 pm UTC (link)
I didn't know you could turn it off either. I'll definitely be doing that. That's like my biggest pet peeve in game.

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[info]sailoreagle
2007-08-15 09:00 am UTC (link)
devnull is awesome, if you don't mind using addons.

From the addon page:

"When you enter a capital city:

It will ignore people who /yell.
It will ignore spammy NPCs (ie. Ironforge bread vendor, Topper McNab in Stormwind etc).
It will ignore duel spam (A has defeated B in a duel).
It will ignore emotes (todo: Don't ignore emotes directed at yourself).
It will ignore drunk spam (X looks tipsy).
It will ignore tradeskill spam.

When you enter an instance or battleground:
It will mute the general channel.

All features can be toggled with the slash command /devnull."

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[info]pirogoeth
2007-08-15 12:35 pm UTC (link)
Wow, I have never heard of this add on. I will have to look into it! :)

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[info]yuhie
2007-08-15 10:09 am UTC (link)
Happens too much on my server.
Too many "Kids" rolling Blood Elves because they're "pretty" or have a cool dance, etc.

You know what I did?
I got a mod. Infinite ignore list. :)

http://files.wowace.com/

I love Wow Ace. Just go through that list and look for IgnoreMore.

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[info]phoenix_singing
2007-08-15 11:17 am UTC (link)
I hate that so.freaking.much. I either turn off /yell (almost typed "hell" there, that would've been funny) or just ignore the derfwads doing it. >.>

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[info]kadaria
2007-08-15 12:24 pm UTC (link)
I don't know either but because of it I turned off yell.
Funny thing: I was running with our old GM on her priest and at one point in the fight, she hit her macro a bunch of time which /yells for innervate. Finally on TS she asked me for one and I was like "Sure thing :D". She cracked up about it and I had to put /yell back on for the evening :P

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[info]gymnopedie
2007-08-15 12:59 pm UTC (link)
I don't turn off yell, because a few times there's been actual reasons to shout.

But otherwise.. It's just red font ;) I know it's annoying, and I have turned it off (and general, guh) from what things people use it for, but after I leave the city, it goes back up again.

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[info]gymnopedie
2007-08-15 01:28 pm UTC (link)
that should read "I'll turn off yell sometimes" or something >_> i just don't like to

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[info]temples
2007-08-15 01:55 pm UTC (link)
You could technically have reported them. Being OOC in /yell is actually against RP-server Policy (Policy here).

I'm not really one to report people though. I probably would have just put them on ignore, and then removed them about a week later. That's how I generally handle those things..

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[info]upand_go
2007-08-15 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Just wait until the servers come back up and everyone who's been dicking around MG because their main server is down goes away. -_-

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[info]cpolk
2007-08-15 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Report them.

Seriously. report them for spamming, report them for violating the rules regarding acceptable speech in /say, /yell, and /party as outlined on WoW's official website regarding conduct on an RP server.

Report them for having stupid names. I don't care. Just report their asses. I'm sick of having to avoid silvermoon like the plague because the idiots are running the asylum.

(Yes I play on moon Guard. Yes I play a blood elf. yes I are completely elitist rp nazi. yarr.)

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[info]knowledgequeen
2007-08-15 09:11 pm UTC (link)
I don't think you're a complete elitist rp nazi if you want people to, y'know, speak English - or hell, speak German or Japanese or whatever, just not l33tsp34k - and conduct themselves relatively maturely.

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