It seems that some servers that have been delisted are able to somewhat sustain active servers by tricking their current community members and those who have favorited them with the same fake clients that got them banned in the first place.
I had some ideas I thought could make delistment a more serious matter and the hope is that community owners wouldn't be so quick to break the rules that can result in a delistment. Here are just a few of the ideas: 1. Banning or disabling the steam accounts of community owners who are repeat offenders. 2. Doing a check on the favorites list. Query to see if the server is banned. If it is, do not return the server. 3. Disable the Steam Group of communities who are delisted for the duration of their delistment. This will prevent the group owner or officers from pointing the members to a new group or updating the IP addresses in the profile to new servers and no more events. Right now, banned servers can sustain players just by posting events. Some of the more popular groups have upwards of 100k members. This also reminded me why allowing hostnames in the favorites list wouldn't be a good idea. Banned communities could easily route users to their new servers if the favorites list allowed hostnames.
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