[FEATURE] Allow users to opt-out of their messages being sent to highlights

[eepykate]

If you want it to be more 'fair', this could also make that user not get any highlight DMs, similar to disabling read receipts in most chat apps.

[elkowar]

Has anyone actually requested this?

[eepykate]

Well, why do you think I have been inserting invisible characters mid-word into my messages? As a sideaffect, that also breaks searching.

[ghost]

How would this even be implemented? Message suffixed by something like "--no-highlight"?

[eepykate]

!hl optout or something.

[ghost]

!hl optout or something.

How would you do that on a specific message? for eg. I just want this specific message to not be detected as a highlight for others, I don't want my entirety of messages to be not detected as highlights by the bot.

[eepykate]

Having it be per-message is stupid. I want it to be per-user, for every one of their messages until they opt back in.

[eepykate]

I don't want my entirety of messages to be not detected as highlights by the bot.

Then don't opt out...

[ghost]

Having it be per-message is stupid. I want it to be per-user, for every one of their messages until they opt back in.

You could implement both I guess?

What if I just want to send "Henlo lom!" without "lom" being detected as a highlight rather than every message of mine being disabled from highlights? Going to #bot and then having to opt out, send the message, then opt in again is well, kinda annoying?

[eepykate]

@elkowar

Like, highlights are the reason I made the thing that also unintentionally breaks searching

[eepykate]

@Kattress Then insert an invisible character or something. That is significantly easier to do for one message than for every one of them.

[eepykate]

Like, since you're asking those questions, this is not a feature you will ever want.

[ghost]

Like, since you're asking those questions, this is not a feature you will ever want.

I was simply clarifying on a per-message system would be good.

[ghost]

Also thanks for assuming that being me curious regarding a suggested feature immediately makes it not useful for me.

[eepykate]

Well like

that's just.. stupid.

It's significantly easier for you to just insert an invisible character on one word in one message if you don't want it highlighted. What's the alternative? A visible suffix? A visible prefix? They're all bad ideas.

at best, the one thing which you might be able to do is detect an invisible character anywhere in the message and exclude the whole message, but either way, that is wayyy off what I want, because again, 1 message is significantly easier than 1300.

[eepykate]

curious regarding a suggested feature immediately makes it not useful for me.

No, it's the fact that

1. You said "I don't want my entirety of messages to be not detected as highlights by the bot.", which is explicitly what this whole issue is for.
2. You said "How would you do that on a specific message?" when this issue is about user-based, not for one specific message