It is very rude of you to repeatedly spam the mailing list to pressure Valve into doing whatever you want instead of working on crashes and content.
Valve has already put in a huge effort making these servers less prominent. - Blacklist - Quickplay - Reputation It isn't perfect but blacklisting takes care of the servers you don't like once you've spotted them. Quickplay and reputation filter most of the ones you haven't spotted yet. No one I know has any problems finding a server full of real players. Everyone I know just blacklists and move on. Server IPs do not change often since it costs money to buy new ones and you need proper ARIN justification to get more due to the IPV4 shortage. The fact that you are on here spamming about it as though TF2 is going to die out next week makes me think that you are struggling with your own server rather than being a concerned player. I also hate the big pay-to-win servers with fake clients, but it would be a mistake for Valve to just de-list them, wrongly assuming no one really wants to play there. I have a friend who wouldn't be playing TF2 if they didn't exist and has bought hundreds of dollars worth of Mann Co keys. And from what he tells me he isn't the only one. Yes he knows there are bots. The "cloaked" bots appeal to him for the same reason Valve decided not to name bots bot1, bot2, bot3 and to have them taunt randomly. These servers still exist not because of a fake player plugin but because, as much as it pains us to believe, some players actually prefer them. No one here is enthusiastic about having Valve delist servers based on anonymous reports because we all know that the system will be abused even though they have "taken basic measures to prevent" it. We know this because they also took "measures" to prevent F2P players from avoiding VAC bans by making throw-away accounts, yet I still see hackers that have made at least 5 of them in a row and even adding their old VAC banned account on their friends list. To save Valve the administration overhead and abuse, and to satisfy both server administrators and players, I suggest dropping the server report function and adding either of these 2 features. 1. Add a check-box for Valve-only/Favorites-only Quickplay servers. 2. Let premium players rate servers from 1 to 5 upon disconnection. Each player may only vote once. To prevent voter apathy, servers are automatically rated a 5 if the player does not vote. Then the user can decide for him/herself to connect to the server based on the rating rather than a few opinionated complainers. These two solutions address the root of the problem and lets the player decide while freeing Valve to work on more content. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
