how to stop group messages

[NanR]

How do you stop group messages using sl viewer but remain a member of that group?

Edited September 26, 2017 by NanR

[cykarushb]

In your groups menu page, right click the group and click "View Info"  and uncheck the "Receive group notices" box.

[Lillith Hapmouche]

That's notices, though, not group chat ... depends on what the OP is asking for.

For chat, close that group chat window as soon as it pops up and it should usually stay closed for the rest of the session.

Firestorm has more advanced features in that regard.

[Nalates Urriah]

We'll have to guess at what the exact problem is. Lillith has probably provided the answer for the OP. However, I find that groups chats will reopen in the same session after some time. 

But... there is also an issue with spammers. They target a group of people with a private group chat or 'conference' IM. This is particularly annoying because the chat window reopens with each person's follow-on comment. AFAIK, there is no way to stop it. While this is probably not what is asked about, it is the most annoying and some mistake it as chat from one of their groups.

The only fix I know is to abuse report the one initiating the spam and DO NOT comment in the chat. There are those that have yet to figure out their follow-on comments are highly annoying and result in the chat persisting. Post nothing to the group and file an abuse report. 

When a few people keep posting and forcing the chat to reopen, IM them and tell them to STOP. But, DO NOT post in the private group chat.

With the Linden Viewer in Preferences->Chat you can set how the viewer responds to various IM and Group chats. Unfortunately, the setting affects all messages of the same class. But, if you don't have people contacting you for "Conference IM's", you can set the class to No Action to avoid dealing with the spammers.

Firestorm excels at giving you granular control of which groups you want popping up and which you want to silence.

[LittleMe Jewell]

3 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

There are those that have yet to figure out their follow-on comments are highly annoying and result in the chat persisting.

Reminds me of people that use "Reply all" to say 'Take me off this distro list'.