Improvement: Ignore list as a tool to encourage a positive social environment

[TAA]

This idea started with suggestions I originally made in this thread. The original suggestion has been modified based on feedback given so far here (as of post #34).

Essentially the goal is to use the ignore list as tool to empower players to shape their own social environment. People who break social norms with unacceptable behavior (eg. racial/sexual abuse, griefing, exploiting, etc) would quickly begin to find their gameplay experience being affected. They would stop getting rides in vehicles, stop joining squads, and stop getting heals and repairs too. They can still play the game, but they would slowly shut themselves out from the social aspect of belonging to a team.

Improvements

• Every time someone sends out a message for any reason (or speaks using voice) two boxes appear next to their name in the chat window. Click one box to mute them, click the other box to add that person to your ignore list. Muting someone blocks their voice and chat text until you unmute them. Ignoring someone has greater consequences for both you and the person being ignored.
• People on your ignore list cannot communicate with you in any way. You will not see their chats or hear their voice. You wont even know they are speaking. Conversely they will be blocked from your communications.
• When someone is put on your ignore list they are also automatically prevented from joining any squad (and the voice chat channel) to which you are a leader. They are also prevented from entering any vehicle you are driving. You are also prevented from joining squads to which they are a leader and from entering vehicles that they are driving.
• Orders and squad commands given by leaders who are on your ignore list do not ever show up for you in the game. Your orders do not show up to the players you have ignored.
• People on your ignore list cannot heal, resupply, repair or spot for you. You cannot heal, resupply, repair them or spot for them.
• People on your ignore list are not visually identifiable to you in game via their nametags. Name tags are switched off completely for people on your ignore list so you cannot differentiate who the people are that you are ignoring other than by costume. Your name tag is also turned off to them so they cannot identify you via your name tag.

These above are the basic features of ignoring another player. It is a two-way affair that has real gameplay implications for both you and the other player.

The more advanced user can go into his settings and manage their ignore list with the following:

1. Click a tab to see the full list of people you are currently ignoring and of people who are currently ignoring you. You can select to un-ignore people here, but you cannot un-ignore people who selected to ignore you.
2. You can click on any person you are ignoring and enter a reason for ignoring them. The person you are ignoring will be able to see this reason.
3. You can appeal for forgiveness to any person who ignored you, but only after a cool down period has elapsed. You are allowed to appeal for forgiveness once immediately, once again one week after your first appeal, and once again one month after the second appeal. Any abuse on these appeals can be reported by the person receiving the appeal. Appeals appear next to your name on their ignore list.
4. Check a box to allow your ignore list to be viewed by selected friends of your choice. You must give permission to see your list to each friend individually.
5. Check a box to allow your friends to share their ignore lists with you. If you choose this option you will be able to view the ignore lists of your friends, but only if they have selected to give you permission to view their list.
6. You will be able to see stated reasons why your friends ignored people on their shared ignore lists. Based on those reasons you can choose to either add them to your own ignore list or choose to not add them to your ignore list.
7. If you share your ignore list with your friends, your friends will also be able to see all of the people who ignored you as well as their stated reasons for ignoring you. This last point was added to allow your friends to see if you are the problem player instead of the people you are suggesting they ignore.

TL;DR - Mute silences players. Ignore prevents you from interacting with them and them from interacting with you.



For reference this was the original suggestion before incorporation of feedback:

Originally Posted by TAA

• Every time someone sends out a message for any reason (or speaks using voice) a box appears next to their name in the chat window. Click the box to add that person to your ignore list.
• Allow ignore lists to be shared automatically with other people. Eg. If I enable the option in my settings, I can automatically have people added to my ignore list that other people I trust or play with have also ignored (friends, family, outfit buddies, etc).
• You can set thresholds for acceptance of ignore list recommendations from friends. Eg. Someone is added to your ignore list only if 2/3/4/etc people from your selected friends or outfit list have ignored that same person.
• Make it so that every time someone is put on an ignore list that they get a system notification telling them how many people just added them to their ignore lists.
• When someone is put on your ignore list they are also automatically prevented from joining any squad (and the voice chat channel) to which you are a leader. They are also prevented from entering any vehicle you are driving.
• Orders and squad commands given by leaders who are on your ignore list do not ever show up for you in the game.
• People on your ignore list are visually identifiable to you in game. For example, their name tags might be orange.