[Request]: Allow players to mute other player(s) in shout/yell/global chat

Description: Players are abusing shout/yell/global to have arguments in a hostile manner.

Current solution: Player has to add the offender to their blacklist to stop seeing that player's messages. However, this will limit the player playing opportunity with that player in the future when you forget why you added that person in the first place. Also, this offense does not necessarily require a blacklist.

You cannot blacklist a player while you are in Anemos, Pagos, and Alliance Raids.


Proposing Solution: Mute the player from using shout/yell/global chat for 15 minutes. It will prevent obscene, bickering, and volatile conversations flooding the channel.

Requirement:
Similar to Vote Dismiss

In a 24 players instance, you will need 10 players to pass the vote.
In a 144 players instance, you will need 20 players to pass the vote.

Once passed, the player will be muted and cannot be using shout/yell/global chat. However, the player can still use say, tell and party chat. The player will be able to resume shout/yell/global chat once the 15 minutes elapsed.


Case Scenario: There are many occasions in Pagos/Anemos that a player would just flood the shout channel with volatile phrases because someone pulled a monster early or released the Pagos Elemental without waiting for the other players. Once another player engaged in the conversation, it becomes a bickering conversation.

But...that's the best part about shout/yell chat....the salt.

I'm pretty sad ffxiv doesn't have a world chat like most other mmos.

I'd rather have the ability to temp mute someone on my side. There's more and more people who have been spamming FC recruits in eureka.

Would be nice to mute the gil bots in the ARR hub towns.

I don't think anyone should be able to decide if another player has the right to speak or not. Like seriously? Who do you think you are? Who voted you as king? If you don't like someone than mute them. If other people don't like them, then ask them to mute that player. You don't need to enforce your own rules on someone else or try to dictate another person's play. Jebus

I'd say a "temporary blacklist" would do the trick much better.
By that I mean a blacklist that would be cleared once you log out of the game, able to hold maybe around 30 characters or so.

Sometimes peoples shouts etc are annoying, but dont really warrant to put that person on your blacklist (and waste precious space there or potentially lock someone from your parties who you dont really want locked juyt because they were shouting FC-invites or made some stupid jokes you werent in the mood for at that moment).
I agree with Jack though - we shouldnt have the power to actually silence people, just to mute them for ourselves without the hassle of the actual blacklist.

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Originally Posted by HaoNam

Description: Players are abusing shout/yell/global to have arguments in a hostile manner.

Current solution: Player has to add the offender to their blacklist to stop seeing that player's messages. However, this will limit the player playing opportunity with that player in the future when you forget why you added that person in the first place. Also, this offense does not necessarily require a blacklist.

You cannot blacklist a player while you are in Anemos, Pagos, and Alliance Raids.

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The easier QoL improvement would be to just do a client-side mute with "until duty finishes" or "until next login", the blacklist basically does this already, just have the server track when the mute went into effect and remove those the next time it updates the blacklist/mutelist when they switch duty or login.

Most anything else is trying to solve a problem that might not really be a problem, as in the case of alliance chat where people get salty about failing mechanics, you can just ignore them, or do what I do and put ALL chat on a "spam" tab, and just have party/alliance on the main chat window. That keeps from "rolling argument" type of spam distracting you.

A temporary blacklist would be nice, since blacklisting RMT spammers is the only way to avoid them but they get replaced on a daily basis.

The only solution is a Permanent ban from the game, this will end any instance of trouble and everyone will play nice or not at all.

How about no.