Sorry guys, but racism and freedom of speech policies alone won't determine the success or failure of a community, there are too many other factors.
And, if yours is running fine with current policies, dont mess with a good thing. What works, works. Sent from my iPod On Jul 2, 2010, at 4:29 AM, kama <[email protected]> wrote: > > But at least (if it is not already supported) it allow us to add > tags to > their name. Either before or/and after their name. > > I have plugins that allows admins to add and remove an admin tag to > their > name. > > Then there is clan tags. > > And Im with D3vilfish on this one. I dont tolerate bad language or > namecalling on our servers. It should be a pleasent game for > everyone to > enjoy. And once the player understand this, they also mostly behave > and > after awhile they start to appropriate this as well. Our community > members > age range is from maybe 10 up to 50+. This has work well since the > start > at 1999. > > /Bjorn > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, John Struse wrote: > >> If you don't want people cursing or whatever on your server, that's >> your choice; You can ban whoever you want and it really won't affect >> anything; There are hundreds of TF2 servers out there and playing >> have >> tons of other choices. As an aside, I grew up playing Quake when I >> was >> 7 and there was all sorts of cursing and abusive stuff on there and >> I'd say I turned out fine. >> >> Clearly Valve is moving towards all games using the Steam profile >> name >> and they want you to change that if you'd like to change any game >> names. I'd say the percentage of people this will negatively affect >> is >> quite minimal and overall it makes it easier for players to have 1 >> name to manage. >> >> Either way, a discussion of morals isn't really conducive to this >> topic nor really to the mailing list either. >> >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:45 AM, D3vilfish - Simiancage.org >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> When you have a child of your own that wants to play online your >>> understand >>> why Parents black list servers. >>> Im all for freedom of speech but abusive and racist players are >>> not needed >>> or wanted. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Allan Button >>> Sent: 02 July 2010 08:07 >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>> Cc: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Team Fortress 2 Update Available >>> >>> Do you let women vote on your servers? >>> >>> How about if somebody specs below the belt line. >>> >>> Im glad we allow freedom of speach on our servers. Send me your ban >>> list so I can invite them all personally to play on a server that >>> defends the rights of freedom of speach. >>> >>> Sent from my mobile. >>> >>> On Jul 2, 2010, at 2:50 AM, "D3vilfish - Simiancage.org" >>> <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Engine >>>> >>>> - Removed an exploit that allowed people to change their names to >>>> something >>>> other than their Steam profile name. >>>> >>>> Does this now mean that Server Admins will not be able to change >>>> players >>>> names that are abusive or racist? >>>> We have noticed since CSS went O/B that all rename plugins are >>>> broken and I >>>> presume TF2 aswell now. >>>> Simiancage run family friendly servers, we have a no swearing >>>> policy >>>> and >>>> abuse that includes dodgy names is not tolerated. >>>> I can see our ban list growing at a alarming rate. >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>>> archives, please visit: >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >>> archives, please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
