Quote Originally Posted by Vaultor View Post
I'm with the OP. We should be given the option to AFK and manually un-AFK ourselves at the right time of our choosing, but the new patch takes that freedom from us.

There are situations we just wanna drop in quick to check the time, weather, friends online, and the AFK goes off by itself. Argh!
That actually sounds like something that you could use /busy for. Yeah, you won't get any /tell messages in the process, but it seems like that's not of concern in your case.