I personally like all three of these ideas. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sampson Rogers <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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