GuildMute

Hides whispers, party, and raid chat from members of a guild you choose, so unwanted chatter never lands in your chat windows. The mute list builds itself in the background; you only tell it which guild to silence.

Why

Some guilds talk a lot. If you regularly group with members of a guild whose chatter you'd rather not see — for raid focus, drama, language, or just personal preference — GuildMute silently filters their messages out of every chat frame.

• Whisper (incoming) → suppressed
• Party / party leader → suppressed
• Raid / raid leader / raid warning → suppressed
• Instance chat (LFG dungeon) → suppressed
• Guild membership is detected automatically via mouseover, target, and periodic /who scans

Pure Lua addon — no external tools, no companion app, no setup beyond installing it and naming the guild.

Requirements

• TBC Classic / Anniversary (Interface 2.5.x)
• A target guild — there is no default, GuildMute is idle until you set one

Installation

Install via your addon manager (CurseForge app, etc.), or unpack into the AddOns folder:

World of Warcraft/_classic_/Interface/AddOns/GuildMute/

For Anniversary realms:

World of Warcraft/_anniversary_/Interface/AddOns/GuildMute/

Setup

On first login, set the target guild:

/gm guild <GuildName>

For example, to silence the guild test:

/gm guild test

Until you set this, GuildMute idles silently and filters nothing.

The mute list then starts populating itself:

• Every time you mouse over or target a player from the target guild, they're silently added in the background.
• Every 30 minutes (and once a few seconds after login or /reload), GuildMute runs /who g-"<Guild>" and harvests the results.
• You can trigger a scan on demand with /gm refresh, or add names manually with /gm add <Charname>.

After a few raids or world sessions, the list typically covers most active members.

Sharing the list across characters

Each character on each realm has its own SavedVariables, so the list does not auto-sync. Use the export/import flow:

• On the source character: /gm export → a window opens with the full list, ready to copy.
• On the destination character: /gm import → paste the text and click Import. Existing entries are kept; the target guild is overwritten if present in the payload.

This is useful for multi-boxing or playing alts on the same realm.

Commands

All commands also work with /guildmute as a long-form alias.

Limitations

• /who is rate-limited by the server (about a 5-second cooldown) and returns at most 49 hits per query. Large guilds need either multiple scans with level filters or patience while auto-learn fills in.
• Sender names are matched without realm suffix. On TBC Classic, where cross-realm chat in PUGs is rare, this is essentially a non-issue — but in theory a stranger on another realm sharing a name with a muted character would also be filtered.
• History is in-memory only and clears on /reload. This is intentional: whisper bodies never land on disk.
• Only incoming messages are filtered. Your own outgoing whispers and party/raid messages to muted characters are not blocked — you stay in control.
• Settings are stored per realm. Configure each realm separately (or use /gm export / /gm import to seed a new one).

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Author

Stroe-Spineshatter