Add the ability to ignore any message that contains a certain word

[Justinzobel]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

We have a similar feature where we can get alerts for certain words in messages. I would like a way to ignore messages with certain text strings.

Why would you like to do it?

This has many uses:

• It allows the user to filter out abusive content without having to read the content and then ignore the person. Offensive language could then be automatically hidden from the user.
• Spoilers. Many social networks allow you to hide certain words or hash tags so you don't see spoilers for the latest game/movie/tv series
• General filtering. You may be in a channel that has lots of activity and want to narrow it down to certain pieces of information that are relevant to you.

How would you like to achieve it?

The highlight words function already likely has most of the code to handle this, it just needs to be duplicated and reworked to hide messages from the chat window if they contain any of the user's predefined list of words. The messages could just blurred out with a message indicating that they were hidden by the user's preferences or hidden enitrely

Have you considered any alternatives?

I can't think of any.

Additional context

Message that are hidden shoudl not count towards unread messages or produce any alerts.

[Justinzobel]

Ignore?