Just out of curiosity, will there be a defined process to appeal a ban? GSPs
don't always have a good way to control what their customers do, and banning an
entire IP address due to one bad server could cripple innocent servers if the
GSP is sharing the IP.
This doesn't even apply to me. I'm just wondering what kind of resolution
processes are in place.
- Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fletcher Dunn" <fletch...@valvesoftware.com>
To: "Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list"
<hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com>, "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing
list" <h...@list.valvesoftware.com>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:10:21 PM
Subject: [hlds_linux] About the TF2 in-game abuse reporting tool
Wanted to clarify a few things about the new feature in the in-game abuse
reporting tool to report game servers:
* Human judgment is always used before any action is taken based on abuse
report data.
* The potential for malicious players (or competing game server operators) to
abuse the reporting mechanism is an obvious problem that we have foreseen and
taken basic measures to prevent.
* We only really care about servers who receive excessive reports of abuse
relative to other gameservers. This is pretty effective at canceling our the
"noise" of uninformed or malicious users.
One last reminder: we are keeping the option open to apply any bans, etc to an
*IP*, not just to a game account. This is a warning to anybody setting up a
"throw-away" server account created specifically to do malicious things.
- Fletch
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