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.