How can I discover the user id knowing only the character name?

Hi

Today, the same character entered in some of my games declaring Hostility.
I wanted to block that player, but could not figure out who was him on my "Recently Played With" list...

(I tried squelch the character, but it do not prevent it from enter on another game and - declare Hostility again...)

Sadly, you can't block people from your games. Only from chatting with you.

If you want to ensure you're playing without them, you basically have to switch to private games, with all of the obvious downside that comes with those. Or switch to a different "kind of game" (e.g. baalrun to split mf or the like) or a different region while they're active and "hunting", seeing how those folks often tend to stick to the same thing for their PKing attempts.

Is the "Recently Played With" list ordered based on the most recent players that played with you?
If so, on that situation, the first player of the list would be the one with the "bad character" (in the case where only the "bad Character" played with you on the last game).

(But, as Block will not prevent him from enter on my games , this question is more for curiosity...)

You should be able to type /whois charactername and get their BNet tag. It should work even after they've left your game, at least sometimes (I'm not entirely clear on the why/how/when, there might be a time limit, or maybe I'm imagining/misremembering that it has worked for me?). This is nigh impossible though if their character name includes characters that you can't easily type (like a name in an Asian or cyrillic language, assuming you're not also a speaker of the same language), unless there's a trick to it to make the game autocomplete/suggest character names that I'm not aware of. But as noted by Schnorki, you can't really do much with the BNet tag beyond blocking them from chatting with you (or to add them, which I guess you don't want to do in this case ).

ShadowHeart wrote: 4 months ago

at least sometimes (I'm not entirely clear on the why/how/when, there might be a time limit, or maybe I'm imagining/misremembering that it has worked for me?)

/whois seems to be looking for the last character of that name that you have played with. So generally, it works. However, it seems to also be looking for active characters only so as soon as that character isn't found anymore (e.g. because he went offline or switched characters), it stops working.

/whois jonhdoe
works!! Thanks

And about "Recently Played With" list, It seems that it is really ordered based on the last person that you played with

Schnorki wrote: 4 months ago

Sadly, you can't block people from your games. Only from chatting with you.

Just read this and was thinking: God dammit would this be a nice feature blocking ppl from joining ur games. Bit by bit all those slur spammer, Pks, quest destroyer and split farm crasher would be excluded by public consent. Hopefully up to the point where public lists like the spamdomains in my /etc/hosts would emerge i fancy. Just block the sh*t out of them, but the cherry on top would be a non-descriptive message after 3min of door-screen waiting when they try joining a blocked game: "Unable to join game"...make shadowbanning in d2r real!

I didn't know about this, that's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing /whois

Blubbalutsch wrote: 4 months ago

Schnorki wrote: 4 months ago

Sadly, you can't block people from your games. Only from chatting with you.

Just read this and was thinking: God dammit would this be a nice feature blocking ppl from joining ur games. Bit by bit all those slur spammer, Pks, quest destroyer and split farm crasher would be excluded by public consent. Hopefully up to the point where public lists like the spamdomains in my /etc/hosts would emerge i fancy. Just block the sh*t out of them, but the cherry on top would be a non-descriptive message after 3min of door-screen waiting when they try joining a blocked game: "Unable to join game"...make shadowbanning in d2r real!

Aye, it'd be a brilliant feature in just about any game. And yet, noone (that I know of) ever implemented it.

Then again, implementing such game-blocks = happy players whereas not implementing them = happy botters = more money for blizz so...there's your reason as to why it'll never, ever happen.