Quote Originally Posted by 'thinus',index.php?page=Thread&postID=53609#post53 609
Your post was "I wonder why /follow [target=name] and such don't work." My response was because "/follow name" does.
And the way you stated it has no bearing on anything, I'm sure. Plus, clearly, I made it to level 32 without even knowing that. Go figure.

Let me rephrase, "/follow [target=name]" doesn't work because "/follow name" does (probably). The semantics of the command probably has something to do with why the mechanics are different. I am a software developer and semantics is a very clear indicator that different mechanics are in play. I assumed that people would reach that same conclusion after reading my statement.
I'm a software developer also, so I see what you're getting at. However Blizzard writes and defines the mechanics for the macros, they wrote /follow in such a way as to not allow [target=target] and along with it, the modifiers and conditionals you can add with it. They did it for a reason, perhaps to alleviate some potential botting/automation issue, who knows, I sure as heck don't, thus the question.

You asked *why* it doesn't work, I answered your question. If you think the answers to your questions are mindless dribble perhaps you should ask different questions.
Again, the way you answer the question bears a lot of meaning behind it. The way you posed the response, and the response itself, indicate that you either think the question was very stupid, or that I must have very little understanding of how a simple command such as /follow operates. Quite frankly I found the response insulting. People like you who post something like that, which is quite painfully clear to anyone who's multi-boxed for a level or two, are posting simply for the sake of posting, and not adding anything to the actual discussion. If you were confused what I was getting at, you could have asked for elaboration. If you didn't have an answer to my question, you could have not posted at all, yet you decide to post with:


Perhaps because...

/follow name

works...?
Which, in my opinion, is useless, mindless dribble that doesn't serve any purpose in advancing the discussion.