Larger Ignore List

I propose to extend the Ignore List cap from 10 to unlimited.

I have my reasons as most of you do.

/signed

kind of sad that 10 people is not enough

um if you ignored that much people, im sure they ignroed you and forgot about you WAY logn ago.. so why not clean your ignore list.

im sure a guy a month ago you ignored is gunna come out of the blue and spam you

I mainly use it for bot spammers.

Those bot spammers are banned by A.net quick enough that you can probably rotate through the 10 names on the ignore list weekly if not every 3 days and not have any issues.

it's easier to just add spammers rather than bothering to "rotate" them... and it shouldn't be too hard for ANet to let us have 65,536 slots on our ignore list (that's close enough to infinite for most people I think)

I also use it for hopelessly incompetent/rude players, so I remember never to party with them again

Actually there's a reason the list is small, same with the amount of friends allowed and it comes down to a bandwidth issue. The bandwidth usage is so low in the current configuration they don't have to charge a monthly fee. Increasing the length of the file that holds your friends/ignore list requires more bandwidth as that list is constantly updated. Personally, if I'm in an area where I know there are bot spammers I just turn off local chat, and if they start whispering, I'll turn that off too.

I'm sure it would increase the server load. Their current ignore filter could be a very simple one that wouldn't scale, and so they'd have to totally revamp that in order to have a lot of names on the list. But it is a feature a lot of people would like to have, and that's why we're asking for it here.