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Console, Silence

Contents 1 Overview 2 Syntax 3 Time Periods 4 Examples 4.1 See Also

[edit] Overview

The silence command lets you temporarily stop rhub forwarding messages to your phone, email or IM. Silences automatically expire after the time period you set, so there's no need to remember to unset them, and can be set for a period of minutes, hours or days.

Read more about message silencing

[edit] Syntax

To set a silence:

!silence [time period]

To turn off silencing before it expires:

!silence or !unsilence

[edit] Time Periods

Rhub tries to work out what you mean by the time period. Generally, it should be [quantity] [unit], for example 1 hour.

Rhub will understand if you use one of the following units or abbreviations:

• m, min, mins, minute, minutes
• h, hr, hrs, hour, hours
• d, day, days

[edit] Examples

To set a silence for four hours:

!silence 4 hrs

To set a silence for one day:

!silence 1 day

To set a silence for 30 minutes:

!silence 30mins

[edit] See Also

• Your Message Silence Settings
• Message silencing
• Bang commands
• Console