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Attention TL.net readers:
TESTICLES.
That is all.
oh wait, what I meant to say was:
It has recently come to my attention that there is a feature of b.net that hardly anyone knows about (read: most of the people who I add as a friend). Did you know that if someone who isn't on your friends list messages you, you can add them without knowing what their character code is?
I have added many friends through the Practice Partner Thread. And almost everyone I have messaged immediately responds with "what is your character code?"
you can do this without a character code!
Here I'll show you.
You see, in every IM window, there's a small tab. It might not be visible to the untrained eye. But it's there. It's on the right edge of the IM window:
![[image loading]](http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/5696/screenshot2010092221571.jpg)
See that tab? You can click on it! When you click on it, it pops out and reveals the portrait of the mysterious IM'er!:
![[image loading]](http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/817/screenshot2010092221535.jpg)
From here you can right-click their name and Add Friend. It's that easy! OR, if you get a bad BM'er who hates having friends, you can also right-click their name and Block Communication! Excellent for those angsty ladder players who feel the need to express their angstiness when you administer a thorough beatdown and cause them to lose between 1 and 15 points on the ladder!
respond if your mind was just blown (also respond if you already knew about it).
edit: fixed link
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is this possible while spectating or watching a replay too?
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Your images don't work - you need the direct images from imageshack. If you open the link you'll see the direct link in the box on the right.
I know what you're talking about though. I've always known about this, thought everyone did.
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sorry i suck at posting imageshack images T_T
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Everyone should already know this...
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did. not. know.
not very useful, but mindblowing regardless.
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Already knew about this.
On September 23 2010 11:00 xilaratu wrote:
mind = blown
Not as far as I know.
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On September 23 2010 11:03 Mastermind wrote:
Everyone should already know this...
Agreed, thought this was common knowledge.
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ah well i would've assumed everyone knew this but this is obviously not the case^
so cool times
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Wow, I had no idea about this.
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Yeah, everytime I tell someone to add me, I tell them this. But they're always confused. It is very nifty,
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Wow I'm pretty surprised people didn't know about this. Good job getting it out there though, will definitely help a lot of people I'm sure
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holy crap. Mind blown!
I am one of those "what is your character code?" people.
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I didnt know about this =D I feel dumb now  ( ty
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already known about this since the beta but from what i saw on bnet, most people never heard of it :O
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i thought everyone knew about this already....oh well.
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I've been doing this since Day 1. lol.
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I have to tell so many people this lol.
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WTF all this time i've just been asking people for their code. i'm such a newb.
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lol i have known this for so long
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it's not exactly the most obvious thing... so many people don't know about it
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I knew it. But i only find like 2 weeks ago.
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i didnt care about seeing the friend but i didnt know you couldnt add friends with it o_O
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On September 23 2010 11:22 blabber wrote:
it's not exactly the most obvious thing... so many people don't know about it
MSN, AIM, and mostly every other IM application has this as well. Looks pretty obvious to me =\
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How convenient! Thankssssssssssssssssss
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kitaman27
United States9245 Posts
Whoa how did I miss this? Thanks!
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Holy shit. That makes so much sense. :O
The sad thing is I've opened that tab before but saw no use for it at the time. :/
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I know the tab, never really used it and I didn't occur to me that you could add friends through it but you CAN invite multiple pplz :D bit of a psuedo chat channel
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old.
just kidding, but yeah i found that not so long ago. It's great to check somebody's profile when that somebody messages you to play
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On September 23 2010 11:03 Mastermind wrote:
Everyone should already know this...
Keyword being "should." Good to know for someone like me, who didn't.
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Yah but what does this have to do with testicles? I'm so confused.
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LOL i didnt know this, it seems very useful :p
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BLOCK COMMUNICATION??!!!! omg this is so convenient it hurts...
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Lol i didn't even know this
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Did you guys know if you however over the menu buttom the time and FPS pop up :<
Another fun fact
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United States4126 Posts
I remember hearing about this in beta but I never put it to use and eventually forgot. Thanks for the reminder :D
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Mind=blown. Seriously, thank you for this Sir BlasiuS!
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New to me. quite useful especially when I add someone for a tourny and then remove then then they message me.
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I had such a conversation yesterday and I wasn't able to add the other guy because I didn't know where this damn tab is.
Well, I know now.
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Can't hurt as I'm sure a lot of people didn't know this ^^ gg thread
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thanks! didnt know about it
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It's been like this sense the beta how did so many people miss this :D it's nice when you have a party chat, esp when people leave and join it.
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Haha lol I just figured this out yesterday. Thanks anyway ^^
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On September 23 2010 10:59 BlasiuS wrote:
respond if your mind was just blown (also respond if you already knew about it).
Already knew about it. What do I win ?
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Oh wow, haha, I had no idea about this. Tip of the hat, OP.
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Yea, it's crazy the number of people that doesn't know about this, I've been showing this to people as well
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Well, i just grew a pair.
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Lalalaland34495 Posts
I'm betting this was an excuse to show off your multiple diamond leagues.
But I did not know this, so thanks. 
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haha peter griffin reference.. that is all..
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is the TE serious?
this is what most ppl figured out the first day.
but congrats about your finding. :-)
PS: did you know: when you log into the game.. you are logged into! ;-)
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Oh, so THAT'S why the chat windows on Trump's stream have a portrait. Never bothered to put two and two together.
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OP is on my friend's list. I think neither of us want to practice ZvZ that much though.
Anyway, this makes me famous.
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knew it already. 
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Well, you could form a mini chat room by clicking invite into conversation button above too.
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Lol... Can't believe people never clicked that button.
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It kind of baffles me that so many people don't see that arrow.
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I thought the arrow on the chat window was pretty obvious -_-
I can hear the anguished cries of thousands of customer service employees over stuff like this!
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You can also make psuedo chat rooms with this feature with the invite to chat button. Worst designed UI feature tbh, really hard to see
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Genius. I feel so stupid right now.
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Thanks for this... thanks a lot!
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How did everybody not already know about this?
What baffles me the most is when I try to explain this to people in-game, and they are just like:
"HURRR DURR I DUN GET IT. WHAT IS CODE?"
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I didnt know about this lol
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How did I miss that? Thanks OP.
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Alternatively, you can just go to your match history -> view profile -> add friend to any player you've played a game with or against.
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Bnet 2.0 navigation is just **** **** ****** ********** ********* **** **************!!!!!
Thanks for this.
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On September 23 2010 11:00 xilaratu wrote:
mind = blown
seriously.
thank you very much sir, gonna make my life a lot easier.
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lol i was one of those who didnt know about this xD
tnx
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Yeah that thing is super hidden, Blizzard clearly doesn't want us to get new friends T_T
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I knew this since Day 9...
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Yeah, that was pretty difficult to figure out why on earth the tab wasn't already open. I already learnt this myself, but yeah this should be useful to many people =)
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I COULD BE COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT
I think Incontrol was bitching about having to add ppl to friends list to block them on SoTG so...here is your "fix"
assuming im not on crack and i heard someone else complain about that... going to find it on sotg now..
YEP found it... 1:13.35
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I was lucky that a friend told me this from day 1, otherwise I would never have found it myself or atleast though it was a clickable feature. :D
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On September 23 2010 11:00 xilaratu wrote:
mind = blown
-^
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I did not know about this either.
Lol, a guy once tried to explain me this for about 20 minutes and I just didnt understand what he meant. So I said something like "I am on a Mac-version, maybe its not implented here".
Random stanger forgive my stupidity...
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Wow... I can't believe so many people didn't know about this. o_O
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i'm so surprised at how many ppl didnt know this lol
at least it was helpful, makes me wanna start posting obvious stuff to see how many mindfucks i cause @_@
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Kinda common knowledge....but thanks anyway
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cant believe so many people didnt know. I'm guessing none played the beta or something.
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great help!! i was having trouble showing someone this early today..
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EPT
