Soft Mute

Thanks to @TheIntolerant, here's a quick tutorial showing an example of implementing a soft-mute command, whereby the player's messages (including death, join/leave) are only visible to staff members (e.g. via permission node). This allows staff to mitigate situations without the need to hardmute players (e.g. softmuting conflicting parties and evaluate a situation).

How does the example below works?

Basically, you want to give everyone perms for chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass in this example, now when you wish to softmute someone, you just need to negate that permission node for that specific user. You can do this by either making a /softmute command or simply using the commands of your permissions manager, if you are using LuckPerms than that command would look something like:

LuckPerms

/lp user <user> permission set chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass false

PermissionsEx

/pex user <user> add -chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass

Tip

The permissions I have used in the example, chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass and chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.notify, can be whatever you wish

Step #1 - The base rule to prevent other users from seeing the soft-muted users' messages in chat

In your chat.rs file in the rules folder you will want to add one of the following...

Option 1

# Works the same as GriefPrevention's softmute
match (.)*
ignore perm chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass
then notify chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.notify &7[Muted] `{player}` &o`{original_message}`
then deny silently
dont verbose

Option 2

# Works the same but if you do not wish to see what the user said
match (.)*
ignore perm chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass
then deny silently
dont verbose

Step #2 - Creating a softmute command (optional)

This will depend on the permissions plugin that you use, in this example, I will use LuckPerms.

As I cannot find an easy solution to check a player's permissions who may be offline using a toggleable command, I have provided a /softmute on and /softmute off solution instead.

In your command.rs file in /ChatControl/Rules you will want to add one of the following...

# Telling user how to use /softmute, if used incorrectly
match ^\/softmute( on| off)?$
then warn &cUse: /softmute <on/off> <player_name>
then deny
dont verbose

match ^\/softmute on ([a-zA-Z0-9_]{3,16})
then warn &cSoft-muting $1
then console lp user $1 permission set chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass false
then deny
dont verbose

match ^\/softmute off ([a-zA-Z0-9_]{3,16})
then warn &aRemoving soft-mute from $1
then console lp user $1 permission unset chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass
then deny
dont verbose

Step #3 - Hiding death, join/leave messages from everyone but staff (optional)

If you add require sender perm chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass for all messages you wish to show as normal then have a special message for soft muted users that have the following:

ignore sender perm chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.bypass
then notify chat control.chatsoftmute.notify <message>
require self

Tip

Note the message in then notify chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.notify <message> is for staff only, so the actual death/join/leave message can be set to look like normal.

That way you can set it to say something like.. then notify chatcontrol.chatsoftmute.notify &6The Soft muted `{player}` has died! but keep the message the soft muted player sees, as normal.