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OldschoolFilter

Version: 1.0

by: Nafe [More]

OldschoolFilter is a simple, extremely lightweight chat filter to remove the "[Player] joined channel." and "[Player] left channel." messages for the Oldschool channel, only.

The addon is completely Plug-n-Play and has absolutely no configuration. Turn it off via your favorite addon manager or the Character-screen addon list to disable it. Correspondingly, turn it on to re-enable it.

If you don't know what the Oldschool channel is, this addon probably isn't for you!
For the random passerbys: =)

The Oldschool channel is a channel named "Oldschool" located Horde-side on the Cenarion Circle-US realm, with the intent to gather players with the interest in older raids/dungeons/etc.

More info found here on the CC realm forums:
[H] Oldschool raid/instance/etc. chat channel

Due to it being a public channel with quite a few members, the join/leave messages when people log in/out can sometimes become spammy. Hence, the addon.

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06-16-09, 03:46 PM
tinyu A Molten Giant Forum posts: 837 File comments: 374 Uploads: 13	looks very cool __________________ "There's no such thing as too many addons." Lothaer Titan Dev Team Member.

06-16-09, 07:04 PM
Miralen A Rage Talon Dragon Guard Forum posts: 341 File comments: 80 Uploads: 0	curiously I dont know what the Oldschool Channel is but want to know what it is. So anyone have an explanation as to what it is? __________________ Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. - Winston Churchill

06-16-09, 07:34 PM
SkunkWerks A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 21 File comments: 239 Uploads: 1	You can achieve this in the default interface you know? Not just for one channel but for many channels. Just right-click on the chat-tab you want to alter, select Settings, then go to the Global tab and uncheck the "Channel" option. Voila.

06-16-09, 10:10 PM

Nafe

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Originally posted by SkunkWerks
You can achieve this in the default interface you know? Not just for one channel but for many channels.

Just right-click on the chat-tab you want to alter, select Settings, then go to the Global tab and uncheck the "Channel" option.

Voila.

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the addon. It blocks *only* the [Player] left channel. and [Player] joined channel. messages, not the entire chat that goes on within the channel.

Originally posted by Miralen
curiously I dont know what the Oldschool Channel is but want to know what it is. So anyone have an explanation as to what it is?

I guess I should've explained it just for the random passerbys =)
The Oldschool channel is a channel named "Oldschool" located Horde-side on the Cenarion Circle-US realm, with the intent to gather players with the interest in older raids/dungeons/etc.
More info found here on the CC realm forums:
[H] Oldschool raid/instance/etc. chat channel
Due to it being a public channel with quite a few members, the join/leave messages when people log in/out can sometimes become spammy. Hence, the addon.

06-16-09, 11:13 PM

SkunkWerks

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Originally posted by Nafe
I think you misunderstand the purpose of the addon. It blocks *only* the [Player] left channel. and [Player] joined channel. messages, not the entire chat that goes on within the channel.

Nope. I don't misunderstand it at all. The "player left/player joined" messages are a separate element from the custom channels themselves that can be disabled via the default interface- from ALL channels, just as I pointed out. If you don't believe me, give it a shot yourself.

I've had those messages disabled for a while because I belong to about four separate custom channels, and, as you said, it gets quite spammy. I wasn't sure how to do so for a bit and I sorta stumbled on it by trial and error.

Kudos for working on such a thing, and I guess it might be simpler for a person not well versed in all the default UI's chat-related functions, but if I knew how to do it without using an addon (and learning to do so really isn't that hard), I'd still probably do it that way.

Last edited by SkunkWerks : 06-16-09 at 11:34 PM.

06-17-09, 10:36 PM

Nafe

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Originally posted by SkunkWerks
Nope. I don't misunderstand it at all. The "player left/player joined" messages are a separate element from the custom channels themselves that can be disabled via the default interface- from ALL channels, just as I pointed out. If you don't believe me, give it a shot yourself.

I did look for myself after you mentioned it the first time. You pointed me to the wrong place

I found the option in the Chat windows settings -> Other Category -> Other (right hand side). However, it still doesn't block only the "[Player] left/joined channel." messages, but also the messages indicating that you, yourself have joined, in the form of "Joined Channel: [#, name]" (and correspondingly, left). It also appears to block any messages indicating when someone is banned, kicked, muted, given/revoked mod rights, or the owner changes.

Thanks for pointing the option out, as I wasn't aware of it. But I still feel that the addon bears merit for those who really just are only concerned with this channel's message of when another person joins/leaves.
It's a shame the default UI isn't more configurable in this regard.

Last edited by Nafe : 06-17-09 at 10:40 PM.

07-12-09, 04:24 PM

xtoq

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Originally posted by Nafe
I did look for myself after you mentioned it the first time. You pointed me to the wrong place
I found the option in the Chat windows settings -> Other Category -> Other (right hand side). However, it still doesn't block only the "[Player] left/joined channel." messages, but also the messages indicating that you, yourself have joined, in the form of "Joined Channel: [#, name]" (and correspondingly, left). It also appears to block any messages indicating when someone is banned, kicked, muted, given/revoked mod rights, or the owner changes.

Thanks for pointing the option out, as I wasn't aware of it. But I still feel that the addon bears merit for those who really just are only concerned with this channel's message of when another person joins/leaves.
It's a shame the default UI isn't more configurable in this regard.

Doesn't the /announce <channelname> (/announce OldSchool in this case) function do what you're saying, suppress the "Player joined/left channel" for other players? I'm pretty sure it does.

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Last edited by xtoq : 07-12-09 at 04:24 PM.

07-13-09, 07:05 PM

Nafe

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Originally Posted by xtoq

Doesn't the /announce <channelname> (/announce OldSchool in this case) function do what you're saying, suppress the "Player joined/left channel" for other players? I'm pretty sure it does.

/announce <channelname> does silence the "joined/left channel" messages, but it has a few limitations that make it much less than ideal:
1) it requires channel moderation rights to activate (not everyone has those in a large channel, nor should everyone be given those)
2) it is global (it affects everyone in the channel); there is no local equivalent
3) if used, the API events CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL_JOIN and CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL_LEAVE don't even fire, breaking any addons that use them (such as my own which profiles the channel).

Unfortunately this is a problem because many end-users do not realize these limitations, and will use /announce when they receive moderation privaledges from the faulty privaledge implementation in Blizzard's chat channel system. There are many users on the channel that actually like to see the Joined/Left messages, and this functionality is not even reasonably implementable via an addon - you would have to use a /chatwho periodically - and this is a lot more network traffic.

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