Lil' overzealous.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Barreiro <
smelly.feet.you.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I personally like all three of these ideas.
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Sampson Rogers 
> <kritskring...@gmail.com>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.
>>
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