Board Game Arena

second time a player insulted me when he lost, within days. Now I want to disable chat and get rid of those rude languages!

Just found a player, I can't pm her, but she didn't red me. Perhaps she uses CSS.

If you really want to disable the chat bar entirely via CSS then it's very simple:
If you only want to get rid of it actually in the games:
I'm not entirely certain if this has any matchmaking functions so removing this might break other things, but I certainly never use the in game chat...

Paul_Chelsfield wrote: ↑13 July 2021, 19:03 If you really want to disable the chat bar entirely via CSS then it's very simple:

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#chatbar {
    display: none;
}

If you only want to get rid of it actually in the games:

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.game_interface #chatbar {
    display: none;
}

I'm not entirely certain if this has any matchmaking functions so removing this might break other things, but I certainly never use the in game chat...

thanks, just tried this, I think it works

but when I tried to use an alt account, to pm myself, although the message doesn't pop up, I can still find the message in inbox. And the other player is still allowed to pm me. But I found a player, @ArielFriedrichGauss, when trying to pm her, a message 'Sorry, you are not authorized to discuss with this player' pop up, though she didn't red me. If I can do the same (block all pms), it would be perfect!

Sorry for the slow reply, shows how often I log in to the forum (and that I hate notifications!)...

I'm not aware of a means to automatically block PMs by default on BGA, but then again I almost never use the chat system.

If you additionally wanted to block the messages from appearing in the messages area of your account you could add:
so even if you visited that page (/message) it would appear to be empty. You could even hide the messages button from your own menu (under your avatar):
These are all 100% cosmetic though and messages can still be delivered, you just wouldn't know. To actually implement proper disabling of the chat / PM blocking you'd need to ask the site support team to do it in their back-end code.