Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
Put (/statusoff) (The Echo) in your PF comment, and say it in /p when they join, to confirm. If they don't understand this, they are not people who want to run content the way you want to run it.

There is no issue here regarding understanding or explanation. Again, if they don't understand, your goals absolutely do not align.
As much as I'd love to agree with you, I can't. As someone who spends a lot of time doing echoless runs, and other unusual things, the capacity for people to not understand simple instructions amazes me.

If they don't know what a buff is, or what The Echo is (the latter of which is quite common), it takes time to explain. It you can't speak their language, auto translate doesn't help solve that issue. Just saying /statusoff "The Echo" isn't goint to help them understand what the hell The Echo is.

A lot of people also don't understand how to use text commands. Sending a text commands without the instructions on how to use it also will flop in auto translate. It may seem obvious to you, but to someone who has no idea what text commands are, they can't make the mental jump to understanding that they need to enter that text in the text box. Even if they do, they may went it wrong, using a space, or just sending the autotranslate chat again. Our base instinct when we don't understand is to mimic. But since it's impossible to write the command as you would in chat without it executing, we have to write it as an example, then specify IN ENGLISH "Write this in your chat box exactly as is with no spaces", which they don't understand so it gets nowhere.

The trouble with explanations is that they are usually only clear in our own heads. That's one reason why not everyone is a good teacher, and even if they are, they often aren't for all subjects. Explaining in such a way that someone who has no prior knowledge understands is not as easy as people tend to imagine.