Forums Feature Suggestions Highlight Ignore

I like to use highlight for when people are trying to reach me when I'm not paying attention to a channel or mirc at all, but sometimes people will outright abuse it or a bot will mention my name when I'm actively playing an IRC game.

I was looking for a highlight ignore feature in mirc, but there doesn't seem to be one. So, I table this request!

I'd like to make it where I can ignore highlight from one specific person or hostmask. Short and simple. Just a little flag/option in the control window to ignore specific names for highlight only.

This sounds like it would be useful, however it extends the /ignore feature from applying to incoming messages, which was its original purpose, to applying to features that react to incoming messages. There are other features, similar to highlight, that /ignore could be used to "disable" on an incoming message, such as beeping, flashing, logging, speaking, tips, and perhaps even script events. So while I am tempted to add support for this, /ignore's original purpose would be blurred and it would require many more switches to cover other features...

Could you make a new function, then? Something similar to ignore without being ignore itself? Maybe a sort of 'exception' list that functions like ignore. Much like in IRC you can ban something and then there's an exception list to the ban list. I know that's fully an IRCD thing and not mirc itself, but the idea could be similar.

That way the ignore function serves the original purpose and remains untainted.

Also, a counterpoint I could make is right now you have an ignore switch that allows you to strip color codes and the like from a user, which is already an incoming message modification.