/Hide

[Shilentz]

I hear from alot of people that I play with that they keep on getting whispered by people they dont like. They /ignore them. They create a new character and continue to spam them with insults. Well, if there is a pest on who is the son of your friend, I think it would be a good idea to have a /hide.

You are online but appear offline. Whispers are sent from you. But whispers sent to you are not recieved.

/ghide would be you appearing offline for your guild
/ahide would make you appear offline for everyone (all)
/fhide would make you appear offline for friends.
/(player's name)hide would be making you appear offline for a player

Or you should type /(players name)ip and it gives you the IP. So that you can /hide from their IP address.

/unhide would be the undo, just like /hide it would be the exact same.

[Khab]

I can see a lot of problems with that idea.
1) Giving out someone's IP
2) Someone using hide and then just spamming people
3) People exploiting it, etc.

The only thing I really want to block is PST from low level spammers. That to me would be an easy thing to implement.

[xDarkDrifterx]

IP thing is a horrible idea, as that's just showing the hackers the door to your house when they were in the alley trying to find a way to get to someone (anyone's) door.

That said, this is a good idea and one that has been discussed before. The problem would be with players exploiting it. IMO - this would work if you could set /hide and it was a general hide option that stayed up until you spoke to someone in any chat channel which onece you spoke, you would no longer be hidden. IMO any other option is just asking for the gold spammers to take advantage of it and stay hidden while spamming. (You would try to report them and it would say that they are not online or hidden atm)

[Your Average WoW Player]

I have to agree that the IP is a HORRIBLE idea. It wouldn't take a pro at hacking to take advantage of that.

That being said, I think the best idea for this is change ignore lists to block Accounts rather then characters.

And on the ignore list it, would maybe have the character that you ignored's account.
So Joeblow's Account or Spamman's Account etc.

[Katrala]

I like the /hide idea overall, but not the IP idea (just ignoring someone's account entirely would be fine - esp. since people using AOL, iirc, can't be banned IP-wide.)

I don't see why it couldn't work like a chat client "invisible." Yahoo Messenger, for example, can be set so that you're always invisible except when you speak to someone (or, in this case, form a group, etc.)