yes, you can always block tells, but whenever your in one of the starter cities, they still spam there /shout channels. I'ts been the same one on my server for awhile in ulda. So I guss I need to create a separate tab for /shout and just ignore that one now if I'm ever in town.

Kinda sux though for people who use shout to try to get a crafter to meld meteria for them. But that happens very rarely. So wont really miss anything ignoring the /shout channel anyways.