Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-21 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
Hi, Second thought - would it be possible to setup a 'moderation' team to monitor the chat on the server in (semi) regular intervals? i could imagine if there were a bridge between the servers and irc that you would get a few people volunteering to join. say this bridge merely bridges chat,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Jack Mermod
Would it be possible to start logging and saving (and publishing) MP messages somewhere so a person with a grievance would have some hard evidence to show what happened. Right now when push comes to shove, we are in a he said/she said situation. But if we logged every message + call

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Francesco Angelo Brisa
just a small idea: why can't we use the flightgear phpbb forum accounts ? we already have a table containing users/emails/md5 passwords. the server could check for an user/password against this table (ok, not with a direct connection to the mysql db, but calling an ad-hoc php page that verifies

[Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Jörg Emmerich
As a guy who gets insulted about every second day while trying to enforce proper ATC onto everybody approaching EDDF I surely would support a system which could solve that problem - if I just had the slightest idea how to overcome the following questions: # How can we avoid that somebody (who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: Another thought. I know it would be a huge effort to setup a system with user id's and passwords, self registration, [...] ^ To be honest, I'd expect those who deliberately are being rude will just create a new account after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Curtis Olson
It would not be dissimilar from the forum, or the wiki or any other CMS. All those systems need to deal with user management and authentication, and as soon as the flightgear MP starts ruling the world, we'll probably see spambots too. Once we start attracting spammers then do we still consider

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Torsten Dreyer
That stuff is unnecessary and in real life you'd probably get your license yanked if you were caught using foul language on the radio. Here, in Canada , its a $5000 fine and/or a year in jail.That,s a pretty good deterrent :). When I had my first engine failure in RL, I remember not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Mally
of)/. Mally - Original Message - From: Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers It would not be dissimilar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Reagan Thomas
On 10/20/2010 7:39 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: It would not be dissimilar from the forum, or the wiki or any other CMS. All those systems need to deal with user management and authentication, and as soon as the flightgear MP starts ruling the world, we'll probably see spambots too. Once we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi all, L Francesco wrote: why can't we use the flightgear phpbb forum accounts ? we already have a table containing users/emails/md5 passwords. the server could check for an user/password against this table (ok, not with a direct connection to the mysql db, but calling an ad-hoc php

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
Gene Buckle wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: Oh dear ... http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary I was going to say that we could probably do a pretty good job at coming up with a list ourselves, then I saw this site and realized I'm a complete novice ... A filter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 18:57:05 Nathanael Rebsch wrote: Implementing such a filter on the client side will open your eyes to the pitfalls of that quite quickly - i'll just compile fg myself, and apply a patch which disables such a filter - now what you want to do? security by (client

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2010 18:57:05 Nathanael Rebsch wrote: Implementing such a filter on the client side will open your eyes to the pitfalls of that quite quickly - i'll just compile fg myself, and apply a patch which disables such a filter - now what you want to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Stuart Buchanan
-Stuart On 20 Oct 2010, at 18:10, Nathanael Rebsch nathan...@dihedral.de wrote: Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2010 18:57:05 Nathanael Rebsch wrote: Implementing such a filter on the client side will open your eyes to the pitfalls of that quite quickly - i'll just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On 20 Oct 2010, at 18:10, Nathanael Rebsch wrote: In that case you bandwidth payload for no good reason. No worse than at present. As I said earlier, I would also put a filter on the sender to filter the casual profanity and make our expected standard of behaviour clear. IMO a filter is a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Nathanael Rebsch
Stuart Buchanan wrote: On 20 Oct 2010, at 18:10, Nathanael Rebsch wrote: In that case you bandwidth payload for no good reason. No worse than at present. As I said earlier, I would also put a filter on the sender to filter the casual profanity and make our expected standard of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Gene Buckle
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On 20 Oct 2010, at 18:10, Nathanael Rebsch wrote: In that case you bandwidth payload for no good reason. No worse than at present. As I said earlier, I would also put a filter on the sender to filter the casual profanity and make our expected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:02 +, Martin Spott wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: Would it be bad if a user had a choice between the open free for all we currently have and a more constrained and managed system (that someone has taken the time to build and continues to manage.) No, offering

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Martin Spott
Scott Hamilton wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:02 +, Martin Spott wrote: Whenever/whatever people are going to do about adding authentication support to MP servers, if they'd consider adding an interface which is capable of talking to an LDAP directory service (inetOrgPerson LDAP Object

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-20 Thread Scott Hamilton
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 22:21 +, Martin Spott wrote: Scott Hamilton wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 21:02 +, Martin Spott wrote: Whenever/whatever people are going to do about adding authentication support to MP servers, if they'd consider adding an interface which is capable of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jack Mermod wrote: Hi Everybody, I recently was on Multiplayer, flying with a friend, minding my own business, when another pilot asked a general newbie question: Where can I find the Nimitz?. In only good intent, I replied: Look around the Golden Gate Bridge,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Oh dear ... http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary I was going to say that we could probably do a pretty good job at coming up with a list ourselves, then I saw this site and realized I'm a complete novice ... Could we also filter at the MP server level? It might be nice to filter at the sending

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread syd adams
 That stuff is unnecessary and in real life you'd probably get your license yanked if you were caught using foul language on the radio. Here, in Canada , its a $5000 fine and/or a year in jail.That,s a pretty good deterrent :).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Reagan Thomas
On 10/19/2010 7:56 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jack Mermod wrote: Hi Everybody, I recently was on Multiplayer, flying with a friend, minding my own business, when another pilot asked a general newbie question: Where can I find the Nimitz?. In only good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Mally
with an automated system of blocking and control? Mally - Original Message - From: syd adams adams@gmail.com To: FlightGear developers discussions flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Reagan Thomas
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Reagan Thomas thomas...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/19/2010 7:56 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jack Mermod wrote: Hi Everybody, I recently was on Multiplayer, flying with a friend, minding my own business, when another pilot asked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: Oh dear ... http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary I was going to say that we could probably do a pretty good job at coming up with a list ourselves, then I saw this site and realized I'm a complete novice ... A filter like this belongs in the client

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Reagan Thomas
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:25 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote: That stuff is unnecessary and in real life you'd probably get your license yanked if you were caught using foul language on the radio. Here, in Canada , its a $5000 fine and/or a year in jail.That,s a pretty good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: A filter like this belongs in the client machine, not the server. It's not the job of a multi-player server to provide nanny services. If the end user doesn't want to see adult language, they're welcome to enable whatever filtering that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 16:41:35 Mally wrote: ?Forgive my ignorance, but what happens at the moment? Does nobody say anything to the abusers? Doesn't peer pressure, good example and setting guidelines present a more realistic solution (realistic by comparison with what happens in real world

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: A filter like this belongs in the client machine, not the server. It's not the job of a multi-player server to provide nanny services. If the end user doesn't want to see adult language, they're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Curtis Olson
Promoting the concept of free market place of ideas here: The multiplayer server source is open and anyone can setup their own server. Sure the MP system is only fun when there are lots of people participating ... But if someone wants to have their own private free for all and express any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Gary Neely
A few additional details can be found by reading the relevant post as jackmermod in the FG forums: I experienced a horrible attack over mp today. I ended up flying up on the attackers 6 o'clock in my F-14 and firing upon him with over 20 Aim-9's in hopes of causing him to lag. Luckily I caused

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Martin Spott
Stefan Seifert wrote: Very sensible words. Technical solutions usually don't work for social problems. Exactly this is the point, and I'd like to add that the social problem we're currently looking at might be manifold Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E.
Instead of trying to put together a list, you should watch a video of George Carlin's Seven dirty words. Censorship is not the solution to this kind of problem. It is just too easy to come up with a way to be offensive, or to threaten someone. If you decide to censor, then YOU take the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Stefan Seifert
On Tuesday 19 October 2010 18:51:37 Martin Spott wrote: Stefan Seifert wrote: Very sensible words. Technical solutions usually don't work for social problems. Exactly this is the point, and I'd like to add that the social problem we're currently looking at might be manifold But I'd

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Gary Neely wrote A few additional details can be found by reading the relevant post as jackmermod in the FG forums: I experienced a horrible attack over mp today. I ended up flying up on the attackers 6 o'clock in my F-14 and firing upon him with over 20 Aim-9's in hopes of causing him

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
Hal V. Engel wrote On Tuesday, October 19, 2010 02:15:08 pm Vivian Meazza wrote: Gary Neely wrote A few additional details can be found by reading the relevant post as jackmermod in the FG forums: I experienced a horrible attack over mp today. I ended up flying up on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-19 Thread fierst42
One account per IP address is not a good idea, because it is very well possible for several independent people to use the same public IP address. In IPv4 at least with NAT routers. I can think of examples in student homes with a shared broadband connection. Or the clubhouse of the flying club.

[Flightgear-devel] Ridding Multiplayer of Abusers

2010-10-17 Thread Jack Mermod
Hi Everybody, I recently was on Multiplayer, flying with a friend, minding my own business, when another pilot asked a general newbie question: Where can I find the Nimitz?. In only good intent, I replied: Look around the Golden Gate Bridge, you'll find it eventually. The pilot then