WADS - WoW Annoyance Detection System

WADS is a chat filtering addon which blocks chat messages based on the text in them.

It saves a set of strings per account that are used as the substrings to search for in chat messages, and these chat messages are blocked if necessary.

Type /wads for help with the mod. Common use case:

/wads add goldfarmingsite.com

This command would add goldfarmingsite.com to the list of chat filters. Once added, all chat messages with goldfarmingsite.com in them would be blocked. WADS will tell you in the chat window when it blocks a message (by default.)

/wads list

The list command shows all the filters, with numbers by them. Removal is done by using the number of the chat filter, not the filter itself (because some filters could possibly be very long and hard to type.)

/wads remove 1 (or whatever number is by the filter you want to remove)

Removes the specified chat filter.

Note that guild chat is not currently filtered. Only whispers, say, yell, and the usual chat channels are at the moment.

To not see when WADS is blocking text, type /wads verbosity 0. /wads verbosity 1 is the default, which outputs a one-line string like "WADS: message with filter ickytext by user icky blocked."

The idea for this addon is based on AnnoyingSpamBlocker by Keion, but that mod has fallen into disrepair in the Wrath UI conversion. I've rewritten almost all of it from scratch, but the idea of searching for filters in messages (as far as I can tell) was his first.

Let me know how you like the mod!