How do you keep /away (AFK) status on all the time?

[Aleczan]

My recruited friend who's playing on trial version now asks a lot of stuff everyday, and today she saw a person who was killing some enemies while /away status icon is shown. She asked me why and I cannot find the answer. Also, it made me curious as well.

I think I might have run into many people that did that, but I am positive that it was back when auto-back (un-AFK) did not affect manual /away status.

I found a thread here asking about disabling the auto un-away system but it was a few months ago and I can't find other related info that's more up-to-date.

I tried in the game and cannot find a way to keep my AFK status. Is there an in-game function to actually disable it?