Cut the chatter!

[krate]

Please oh please give me an off switch for the chat.
If someone is spamming the chat with drivel,
if someone wants to share their theory on race or politics,
if some crackpots get into a ranting match,
I wish I could just switch the chat off.

A gag option for specific players would be even nicer, but I'll be happy if I just get my off-switch.

Or is it already there and I just missed it?

Thanks!

 

[FiringAimlessly]

I *think* you can turn off all chats, but so far you can't block a single person's messages.

Just turn off the chatbox and you shouldn't find ignoring the crap during gameplay too difficult...

 

[JaFO]

A 'mute player/team/all/dead players'-type command could be useful.
That would allow people to 'ignore' players that think that 'spamming' is good.

 

[krate]

An option to gag all but the living people on your own team is a great idea!

Also, I can't see any way to get rid of the chat now. It beeps and pops up on the top of the screen all the time. I can stick a post-it over the chat area, but I can't stop the beep. It is really hard for me to ignore it, and I wish I could just make it go away. I should post some paticularly idiotic blather here as an example, but I am sure you are already familiar with what it is like.

 

[Rostam]

there is a place where u can turn of everything, sound and message! i think it was in AUDIO

 

[JaFO]

I think it's called 'messagebeep' in the audio-preferences section.
The problem is that that disables *all* messagebeeps.

An option to disable it for the 'ghosts' and 'generic say' would allow you to decide what messages you want alerts for and which messages you want don't.

 

[Rostam]

thats why i started the topic "another teamsay sound" yesterday

 

[{LOD}WolfBear]

Since I have not seen anybody do this one yet how about we replace the robar and DE with a chat spammer killer weapon. If anybody chats more than once per 30 seconds alt fire will nuke their whole team!!!

Seriously though an ignore would be nice

{LOD}WolfBear[RM]