AML (Automatic Mute List)

Disclaimer: This addon was created with the assistance of Gemini AI.

The Ultimate Social Management & Privacy Dashboard for World of Warcraft.

Tired of downloading five different addons just to block spam, bypass character limits, extend your ignore list, and search your chat history? Automatic Mute List (AML) combines an enterprise-grade phrase filter, an infinite ignore roster, a social firewall, and a 10,000-line encrypted chat log into one seamless, modern, and highly-optimized interface.

Built specifically for modern WoW (The War Within & Midnight), AML anchors directly to your game’s Social menu with a custom micro-button, feeling like a native Blizzard feature rather than a third-party mod.

🏗️ Isolated Modular Architecture

• 0% Background Footprint: AML is built on a custom sandbox framework. If you toggle a feature "OFF" in the dashboard, it completely unhooks from the game's API, consuming absolutely zero CPU or Memory.

🛡️ Smart Filtering & Anti-Spam

• Intuitive "AND" Logic & REGEX: No programming required. Want to block gold sellers? Just type Gold+WTS into your filter. It only triggers if both words are found. Power users can also use REGEX: prefixes for advanced Lua pattern matching.
• Homoglyph & Leetspeak Decryptor: Spammers can't hide by typing W.T.S or G 0 L D or \/\/TS. AML strips out symbols, spaces, and translates leetspeak back to base English before running your block list.
• Link Scrubbing & Noise Filter: Automatically mutes players spamming walls of item links or keyboard-mashing (e.g., "asdfghjkl") in Trade and Services channels.
• LFG Leader Integration: Automatically hides Premade Group listings that contain your filtered phrases. If you are the group leader, AML silently auto-declines anyone who applies to your group if they are on your mute list.

📜 Infinite Ignore & Roster Intelligence

• Bypass the 50-Player Limit: AML seamlessly syncs with Blizzard’s built-in ignore list. When your list gets full, AML moves those players to your infinite account-wide roster and clears the Blizzard slots for you.
• Smart Escalation (3-Strikes): The system tracks repeat offenders. A second offense triggers a 7-day mute, and a third offense triggers a permanent, Blizzard-synced ignore.
• The "Evidence" Archive: Ever look at your ignore list and forget why someone is there? AML saves the exact message that got them caught so you have permanent proof.
• World Tooltip Integration: Mouse over a player in the game world to instantly see their mute status and your personal notes right on their unit tooltip.

💬 Persistent Chat Engine & Extender

• Bypass the 255 Character Limit: Paste thousands of characters into chat effortlessly. AML features a built-in Chat Extender that automatically slices massive paragraphs and pipelines them to the server safely so you never get disconnected.
• 10,000-Line Chat History: AML overrides the game's default chat memory. When you log out or your game crashes, your chat is restored exactly as you left it. (Includes an option to share this history across your entire Warband/Account).
• Native Chat Search UI: Open a dedicated window to instantly search through your 10k saved chat lines for specific words or players, with a "Copy Text" mode to easily export logs to Discord.
• Prat-Style Dense Formatting: Clean up your chat window by condensing channel tags (e.g., [Trade] becomes [2]), stripping server names, adding clean [HH:MM] timestamps, and making all URLs clickable.

🛑 The Social Firewall

• Auto-Decline: Automatically decline Guild, Party, and Duel requests from anyone on your Mute Roster (or block them globally from everyone).
• Friend, Guild & Community Safeguards: AML is smart. It will never accidentally mute or block a player on your Friend List, in your Guild, or in your WoW Communities, no matter what they type in chat.
• Physical Chat Bubble Eradication: AML reaches into the 3D game world and physically deletes the floating speech bubbles of muted players.

🔒 Zero-Knowledge Privacy Shield

• AES-256 & Stream Cipher Encryption: Your private notes and settings are scrambled with military-grade AES-256 at-rest. Your massive chat history is secured using a lightning-fast Stream Cipher to prevent logout lag. Your data is protected from doxing if you ever share your UI or WTF folders.
• Streamer Shield Mode: Streaming or recording? Turn this on to replace all names in your menus with anonymous aliases (e.g., Player-4A2B). Hold the Shift Key while hovering over an alias to privately reveal their true identity.
• Secure Exports: Export your filter profiles to share with friends. AML automatically encrypts the string and scrubs your personal metadata so your privacy is maintained.

⚙️ Getting Started

• Look for the AML Micro-Button next to your chat box's Social Menu.
• Or type /aml in chat to open the dashboard.

Special Thanks & Acknowledgments:

This addon's expansive architecture was built by studying the incredible work of previous developers. Huge thanks to the authors of UnlimitedChatMessage (for documenting the UI byte-limit bypass), Elephant (for chat logging and search logic), and Prat 3 (for dense text formatting) for their contributions to the open-source community that made these features possible.