Universal Chat Commands

The following commands can be used in any chat channel. For StarCraft, Warcraft II BNE, and Warcraft III players, they can also be used during game setup or while a game is in progress.

/help – (Ex: /help whisper)
Displays usage help for chat topics. /whois [user] – (Ex: /whois TPark)
Looks up some basic information on a user, including their account number and their current location. This is an excellent way to find your friends online. typing /whois #[number] (E.G. /whois #1).
Aliases for this command : /where /whereis

/whoami – (Ex: /whoami) – displays your information on Battle.net.

/w [user] – (Ex: /w JohnS)
Sends a private message to a user online regardless of the channel they are in. This is an excellent way to let a friend know you are online.
Aliases for this command: /msg /whisper

/ignore [user] – (Ex: /ignore BFitch)
Ignores any future messages from that user effectively muting that user to you.
Aliases for this command: /squelch

/unignore [user] – (Ex: /unignore BFitch)
Allows a previously squelched user to talk to you normally.
Aliases for this command: /unsquelch

/away [text] – (Ex: /away eating dinner)
Displays a message that you are away from your keyboard whenever someone whispers to you or does a /whois command on you. To disable this command, use the command again.

/dnd [text] – (Ex: /dnd sorry playing a game with GFraizer)
“Do Not Disturb” – prevents ALL whispers from displaying to your screen. Its use is similar to the /away command. To turn the DND mode off, just type /dnd without a reason. This will prevent people from sending whispers to you while in a game as well. You are still able to see all normal public channel messages.

/who [channel] – (Ex: /who Open Tech Support)
Displays a list of all users in the given channel.

/stats [user] ID – (Ex: /stats DavidN STAR)
Displays the player’s Win/Loss/Disconnect record for both normal and Ladder games.

STAR – StarCraft
SEXP – StarCraft Expansion (Brood War)
W2BNE – Warcraft II Battle.net Edition

/users
Displays the number of users currently on Battle.net.

/time
Displays the current Battle.net time.

Note: If you are trying to whisper to someone that has the @ symbol in their name such as work@home you need to add @ to the end of the name for the message to get to the correct person.

Example: /w work@home@USWest Hello work

Chat Room Commands

The following commands can only be used while in a chat room.

/join [channel name] – (Ex: /join Blizzard Tech Support)
Switches to a channel without having to use the channel join screen. Aliases for this command: /channel /me [text] – (Ex: /me is rolling on the floor laughing!)
Displays emotion text, as in “PatN is rolling on the floor laughing!”

Chat Room Operator Commands

The following commands can only be used by channel operators (the person with the gavel ).

/designate [user] – (Ex: /designate AlenL)
Selects [user] as the next channel operator when you step down, either by resigning or by leaving the channel. If the channel Operator leaves the channel and has designated more than one person, the last person designated will have ops. /resign
Step down as channel operator and become a normal user again.

/rejoin – (Ex: /rejoin)
makes you rejoin the channel you are currently in.

/kick [user] – (Ex: /kick TwainM)
Kicks a user out of the channel. This is best used as a warning since a kicked user can return at their leisure.

/ban [user] – (Ex: /ban RobertB)
Kicks a user out of the channel and prevents them from returning until the current operator steps down or leaves the channel. This is the most powerful command at an operator’s disposal, use it wisely.

/unban [users] – (Ex: /unban RobertB)
Allows a banned user to return to the channel.

Short Cut Commands

CTRL-X
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Cuts the selected text CTRL-C
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Copies the selected text

CTRL-V
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Pastes the selected text

CTRL-A
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Select all text

CTRL-N
Diablo II: Pastes the name you have selected

ALT-N
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Pastes the name you have selected

/d2notify
Diablo II: Toggle channel enter/leave notifications

ALT-V
Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft II BNE: Toggle channel enter/leave notifications

ALT-W with user selected
Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft II BNE: Sends a private message to the selected user.
Aliases for this command: /w /msg /m /whisper

TAB
Diablo II: Cycles through the last 10 commands
StarCraft: Displays the last command then cycles through the users in the current channel.

CTRL-M
Diablo II: Toggles music on Battle.net and the main menus

ALT-R
Warcraft III: Allows users to respond to private messages. This will type “/w person’sname ” allowing you to quickly respond without typing their name.

Friend Commands

Number of friends in the list
The maximum number of friends in the list is 25.

Levels of friendship

Friend
A user adds another user to their friend list. When a user lists their friends they will receive information about all of their friends in digest form. This will allow at a glance to see which of your friends are online. The digest information is similar to the current output of the /whois command. For each user you will see which program they are using and which channel/game they are in (so long as it’s a public channel/game). For Diablo II the name of the game is not revealed (even if it’s public).

Mutual Friend (or Close Friend)
Since we want to provide more features to users who trust each other, if users add each other to their friends list they will be considered mutual friends. When enumerating friends, mutual friends will have their channel/game name revealed even if the user is in a private channel/game so that they can always find each other. When mutual friends perform certain actions they may be notified. The current notifications are;

Your friend [account] has entered Battle.net.
Your friend [account] has left Battle.net.
Your friend [account] created a [program] game called [game name]

Chat Protection /Options (alias: /o)
There are three separate flags, which a user can set to customize which incoming chat messages are ignored.

Whispers – when on, private messages from people who are not in your friends list will be ignored.

/options ignorewhispers (alias: /o igw)
This command will ignore whispers from anyone who isn’t in your friends list /options unignorewhispers (alias: /o unigw)
This command will allow whispers from anyone who isn’t in your friends list

Public – when on, messages in public channels from people who are not in your friends list will be ignored.

/options ignorepublic (alias: /o igpub) – ignore messages in public chat channels from anyone who isn’t in your friends list

/options unignorepublic (alias: /o unigpub) – allow messages in public chat channels from anyone who isn’t in you friends list

Private – when on, messages in private channels from people who are not in your friends list will be ignored.

/options ignoreprivate (alias: /o igpriv) – ignore messages in private chat channels from anyone who isn’t in your friends list
/options unignoreprivate (alias: /o unigpriv) – allow messages in private chat channels from anyone who isn’t in you friends list

This allows users who are interested in playing games instead of reading spam to cut it off permanently as well as providing protection for people who are being harassed by other users.

Friends commands

/friends (alias /f)
The base command for all friends operations, on its own it prints out help about the friends commands. Alias /f /friends list (alias: /friends l or /f l)
Displays you current friends list and has a summary of what each friend is doing at the moment on Battle.net.

/friends add [accountname] (alias: /friends a)
Adds the specified account name to your friends list. You will receive an error if the account name is an invalid account (contains naughty words etc) or if you have too many friends in your list.

/friends remove [accountname] (alias: /friends r)
Removes the specified account name from your friends list. You will receive an error message if the account isn’t in the list.

/friends msg [message] (alias: /friends m)
Sends a message to all of your friends.

/friends promote [accountname] <position> (alias: /friends p)
Promotes the account name in your friends list. If no position is supplied (or is zero) then the friend will be promoted up one place in the list. If the position is supplied then the friend will be moved to that position from the top of the list with number 1 being the highest position.

/friends demote [accountname] <position> (alias: /friends d)
Demotes the account name in your friends list. If no position is supplied (or is zero) then the friend will be demoted one place in the list. If the position is supplied then the friend will be moved to that position from the bottom of the list with number 1 being the lowest position.

Friends Aliases
Just about anyplace in battle.net (including the friends command themselves) you can refer to your friends via a short cut. To use a shortcut use %f[num] where num refers to your friend by their position in you friends list. For example to whisper to your number one friend you would use /msg %f1 hi there

Other Information
When /dnd is activated you will not receive entry notifications from mutual friends.

If you attempt to add a person that is already on your friends list you will receive a notification that the person you are attempting to add is already on your friends list.