- Too much interlinked functionality. Serving up background music in the
MOTD is somewhat popular, for example.
- Unless disabled is the default, it fails to "protect" the users who
need the most protection (new and unwitting users).
- Being all-or-nothing without other functionality comes back to the
first issue above.
It all does come down to how much effort Valve will put into correcting
the issue. From a security and abuse standpoint, it's just an utter
mess. Cleaning it up properly without killing functionality isn't a
small undertaking either. Major coding, custom script handling to
interject permission requests, or hard blocks of functionality that may
or may not have an API to intercept. Then no matter what you allow and
block, there is liable to be a legitimate function relying on that or
some abusive manner of circumventing the restrictions. Cat and mouse,
and sometimes legitimate uses take the fall if the abuse gets too heavy.
On 6/16/2013 7:50 PM, Paul wrote:
Or simply just disable HTML motds in your options and stop feeding
threads such as this with nonsense about deleting the MOTD entirely or
such like?
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