But as we've found out before, how do you delist them? Just hope they play nice and use the 'ads' tag? Or wait for enough people to understand that this behavior (triggering near-malware on a client's machine for profit) isn't good, and hope the user blacklists them enough times?
If you're going through the hassle of subjecting your users to these ads then I don't see why you wouldn't go the next step and just lie about your sv_tags, or find some better plugin that just serves up ads in a different way. Delisting them would work if the system was perfect. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Nomaan Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote: > Delisting them is better choice than disabling motd after the first view. > > > On 4 April 2013 19:32, Gordon Reynolds <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If people cannot be trusted to run a server for a free game without > > blasting users with ads then I hardly doubt they will play nice and put > the > > proper tags in place informing people that they are about to blast you > with > > ads. > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Jake Forrester < > [email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Why not just require servers that run advertisements to add an "ads" > > > tag, then add two checkboxes to quickplay: > > > > > > 1) Disable servers with ads > > > 2) Change maxplayers to 32 > > > > > > Much like those who were running fake clients, penalize those who are > > > attempting to hide their ad-based server tags by removing them from > > > quickplay. This method would also allow for 32 player servers to > > > effectively compete in the quickplay market (another argument, I know). > > > > > > This change hardly affected our servers due to most the benefits users > > > play with via the MOTD are for donors only, which quickplayers wont > have > > > access to anyway. However, this does mean that I will personally never > > > click the quickplay button again, due to potential lost user experience > > > with various mods (radio is a big one). Not that one user means > > > anything to Valve though. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > > please visit: > > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > - Gordon Reynolds > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > > please visit: > > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > -- - Gordon Reynolds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
