There's already certain communities planning "raids" on their competitors using the abuse report tool.
But I seriously doubt it will work out for them the way they think. Just going to make more work for Valve. I doubt it's automated. I guess it's mostly it's to report Halloween abuse or servers abusing the quickplay system (pay to win, instant respawn, etc), On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Claudio Beretta <[email protected] > wrote: > We learned the hard way not to trust players, even for > rtv/votekick/voteban. It happened that players of other communities or some > random groups, joined the server in big groups and started votes to kick/ban > everyone else or keep changing map. > And it's incredible the amount of whiners that start complaining just for > the sake of it on the community forum after being banned for insulting > heavily other players or even for using cheats. Well administered servers > risk to be targets to this abuse report system exactly like bad servers, > only servers with no admins at all are immune from complains. > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Emil Larsson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Actually the "butthurt" part is causing me concern. >> >> Obviously of course, an admin freezing everyone on the server while >> noclipping in the event maps is obvious abuse, but I seen butthurt players >> making up stories or exaggerate "abuse" when they really were punished for >> their own behavior (like insulting other players). This is probably >> especially a problem on bigger communities. >> >> And of course there is the unfortunate (but speculative) case of a admin >> going rogue for his own benefit. The abuse system could use some feedback. >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Jason <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Is there any more information on the follwing: >>> >>> "- Updated in-game abuse reporting tool to include option for reporting >>> abusive game servers" >>> >>> Is this for people to report "halloween event" abuse? Or is this for >>> "abuse" in general? (i.e. when someone gets butthurt that we won't allow >>> their racism on our servers) >>> >>> Clarification on this would be appreciated, thank you in advance. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Ronny Schedel <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> - Updated in-game abuse reporting tool to include option for reporting >>>> abusive game servers >>>> >>>> How does it work? Do you penalize the server after xxx reports or do you >>>> check each reported server manually to avoid abusing this report tool? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jason Ruymen >>>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:23 AM >>>> To: >>>> 'hlds_linux@list.**valvesoftware.com<[email protected]>' >>>> ; 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' ; ' >>>> hlds_announce@list.**valvesoftware.com<[email protected]> >>>> ' >>>> >>>> Subject: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Released >>>> >>>> Required updates for Team Fortress 2 are now available. The specific >>>> changes include: >>>> >>>> - Halloween 2011 Event >>>> - Viaduct has been haunted and is now... Eyeaduct! >>>> - One full multi-piece costume set has been added for each class >>>> - Random gifts containing costume pieces drop in Eyeaduct on registered >>>> servers >>>> - 2 new Halloween 2011 achievements >>>> - Any unusual hats uncrated during the event will be Halloween-themed >>>> - New Halloween-themed items are available in the Mann Co. store, but >>>> only for a limited time! >>>> - Updated effects for The Cow Mangler 5000 >>>> - Updated in-game abuse reporting tool to include option for reporting >>>> abusive game servers >>>> - Added mapcycle_halloween containing all Halloween event maps >>>> - Fixed team colors and styles not updating properly in store previews >>>> - Fixed bug in reputation trend status display for registered servers >>>> - Fixed a problem that could cause repeated stutters after joining a >>>> server >>>> - Fixed the Spine-Chilling Skull not appearing when equipped by soldiers >>>> - New Halloween-themed community-created items submitted to the Workshop >>>> are now available in the Mann Co. store! >>>> >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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