Quote Originally Posted by abbynormal89 View Post
It would be a lot more helpful to be able to type the person's name into the blacklist so you can blacklist them from anywhere and don't have to hunt them down!
Once upon a time, you could

/blist add Forename Surname

When the servers were preparing for World Visit and everyone became Forename Surname@Worldname, all commands except Tell were modified so that you couldn't type a name manually. Tell would take Forename Surname@Worldname but all other commands would only accept target tags. Ironically but unsurprisingly, as late as last fall, the GM interaction scripts still included incorrectly telling you you could /blist the person with the text command even though this was impossible.

I absolutely think the text commands should be reverted to accept manual name entry. But at the same time, blisting someone is not that difficult. If you don't want to target someone, you can mouseover them, as the blist command still works with target tags:

/blist add <mo>

and it's unusual to need to have to hunt down a blist target. Ostensibly, if you're blisting someone it's because they have actively chatted, emoted, or telled you something annoying or offensive. All those appear in the chat log except motion emotes, and if they're doing motion emotes, they're there for you to target or mouseover.