Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-20 Thread Doctor McKay
SourceMod's included SQL admin system is pretty easy to set up and use. Dr. McKay On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Cameron Munroe wrote: ** Yeah, was hoping for an easy solution, but looks like there isn't any available. I fully agree that you can set it up as you would like though. On

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Mart-Jan Reeuwijk
@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 6:11 Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? My point is if you are using you client settings to subvert my server settings then you are hacking. So there is no reason I should not punish players who subvert the ads any differently than someone

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Cc2iscooL
. -- *From:* Todd Pettit pettit.t...@gmail.com *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 6:11 *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? My point is if you are using you client settings

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
I haven't seen any Pinion ads in TF2 servers (then again, I only go on Mann Up servers). To the extent of my knowledge, Valve only uses Pinion in official L4D(2) servers. And yes, it is your right to block anything you can. It is also the right of the server to deny you from playing. Dr. McKay

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Russell Smith
Valve chose Pinion as one of their partners for official CS:GO servers. On 2/19/2013 7:45 AM, Doctor McKay wrote: I haven't seen any Pinion ads in TF2 servers (then again, I only go on Mann Up servers). To the extent of my knowledge, Valve only uses Pinion in official L4D(2) servers. And

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread IFA Gaming
Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 6:11 Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? My point is if you are using you client settings to subvert my server settings then you are hacking. So there is no reason I should not punish

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Andre Müller
I've diabled the html-motd in my game. Reason: The shit Pinion advert. Is it possible to import Blacklists? Maybe I can deploy a list for our german support community. As a player I don't like this kind of advertisements. There are many others in our community who think the same.

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Harsh Baid
Back to the matter at hand, someone mentioned about paying a dollar or so to get the ad MOTD removed? How do you manage a system like that as i would love to implement it with my servers as well. How do you set up a system where a user pays a dollar and gets the MOTD removed when he joins the game

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Brian Simon
Easy solution to using the public version cvar to blacklist servers: remove the cvar from the plugin, compile and run. On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Harsh Baid harshbai...@gmail.com wrote: Back to the matter at hand, someone mentioned about paying a dollar or so to get the ad MOTD removed?

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
The most recent version of the official plugin has a flag immunity feature. I personally really like Bitcoin. You can find a lot of info at http://weusecoins.com and http://reddit.com/r/bitcoin Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Harsh

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Cameron Munroe
Yes, but you need to create a system that will add them to an admin.cfg, or database with the A flag. However, what do you use to manage it? I was thinking of editing sourcebans, but I need a way to remove old members after the time is up. On 02/19/2013 09:56 AM, Doctor McKay wrote: The

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Doctor McKay
SourceMod has a built-in admin API. The admins.cfg and admins_simple.ini files are loaded by admins-flatfile.smx. SourceMod Core doesn't grant any admin permissions, it relies on plugins to do so. You may be interested in the SQL admins system that is distrubuted with SourceMod in the

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Cameron Munroe
Thanks, but is there any current solutions out there that are for donations, I saw one and it was outdated, and another is still being built. I was waiting, but I am thinking I might just build it myself. On 02/19/2013 04:38 PM, Doctor McKay wrote: SourceMod has a built-in admin API. The

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Dave Rosca
We created a custom plugin that loads donors from a database and assigns them admin flags on map start. They don't have to be connected to be given admin flags. It's not too difficult to create. You can take a look at sourcebans to see how it does it. The benefit of creating your own donor plugin

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-19 Thread Cameron Munroe
Yeah, was hoping for an easy solution, but looks like there isn't any available. I fully agree that you can set it up as you would like though. On 02/19/2013 08:44 PM, Dave Rosca wrote: We created a custom plugin that loads donors from a database and assigns them admin flags on map

[hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Will Dueck
This is a bit out of the scope of this mailing list, but does anyone have access to a list of servers using the Pinion Pot of Gold that I would be able to import into my client? Normally I just blacklist by hand, but this garbage is becoming too ubiquitous for that to be handy anymore, as I just

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Ryan Stecker
http://www.gametracker.com/search/?search_by=server_variablesearch_by2=sm_motdredirect_versionquery=sort=order=searchipp=50#search http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=sm_motdredirect_versiontype=variablelocation=allgame=allnum=100 Or insert sm_motdredirect_version into your favorite

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? This is a bit out of the scope of this mailing list, but does anyone have access to a list of servers using the Pinion Pot of Gold that I would be able to import into my client? Normally I just blacklist by hand

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Alex Kowald
Message- From: Will Dueck Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 7:40 PM To: hlds_li...@list.valvesoftware.com Cc: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? This is a bit out of the scope of this mailing list, but does anyone have access to a list of servers using

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -Original Message- From: Alex Kowald Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:26 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Not using quickplay is a pretty dismissive solution to this problem. Servers

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread [BT]Black V
8:26 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Not using quickplay is a pretty dismissive solution to this problem. Servers that lock people into watching the motd and cause player crashes shouldn't be eligible for quickplay imo

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
- Original Message - From: [BT]Black V bt.bla...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 9:12:20 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? I dont know if this is helpful to anyone http

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Not using quickplay is a pretty dismissive solution to this problem. Servers that lock people into watching the motd and cause player crashes shouldn't be eligible for quickplay imo. Shouldn't

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Will Dueck
On 2/18/2013 5:54 PM, Ryan Stecker wrote: http://www.gametracker.com/search/?search_by=server_variablesearch_by2=sm_motdredirect_versionquery=sort=order=searchipp=50#search http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?search=sm_motdredirect_versiontype=variablelocation=allgame=allnum=100 Or insert

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread [BT]Black V
favoriting some servers is a good way to avoid this. Dr. McKay http://www.doctormckay.com -Original Message- From: Alex Kowald Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 8:26 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Not using

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
It is MY server if you want to play on it you abide by OUR rules. Otherwise you are more than welcome to join another server and blacklist us. You are hacking your way around plugins taking up the slots of players who obviously are willing to contribute to the community. You already have the

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Yun Huang Yong
On 19/02/2013 3:12 PM, Todd Pettit wrote: I offer a pinion bypass to all my players for $1 a month. It already has close to a hundred people who are contributing. So our players obviously like our servers enough to contribute. How do you handle the billing? I looked around for ways for

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread [BT]Black V
The game is free NOW. But yes that is my point I would join another server rather than see ads and your point is you feel you have the right to show me those ads It's not a personal attack on you, I don't like ads, where I can avoid them, I do As you server is under you full control, so is my

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? On 19/02/2013 3:12 PM, Todd Pettit wrote: I offer a pinion bypass to all my players for $1 a month. It already has close to a hundred people who are contributing. So our players obviously like our servers enough to contribute. How do you handle the billing

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread [BT]Black V
. - Original Message - From: Yun Huang Yong gumby_li...@mooh.org To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:35:34 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? On 19/02/2013 3:12 PM, Todd Pettit wrote: I offer

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
:24 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? The game is free NOW. But yes that is my point I would join another server rather than see ads and your point is you feel you have the right to show me those ads It's not a personal attack on you, I don't like ads, where I can avoid

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread [BT]Black V
-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:02:24 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? The game is free NOW. But yes that is my point I would join another server rather than see ads and your point is you feel

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
they are stuck watching an AD. - Original Message - From: [BT]Black V bt.bla...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:07:11 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? On that, I would rather

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread j m
...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:02:24 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? The game is free NOW. But yes that is my point I would join another server rather than see ads and your

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
Message - From: [BT]Black V bt.bla...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:12:52 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? that is your right to do so On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Todd

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
funded by ADs through for profit channels. Welcome to capitalism. - Original Message - From: j m zooter...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:19:55 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
I will continue to spam this topic until everyone agrees with me or stops responding. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
I really like to put things in my butt. It makes me smile. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Noel
Sorry, I had something to contribute to this conversation and perhaps some other people did too, but you lost me at threats. Good luck forcing server admins to pay attention to you. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Todd Pettit pettit.t...@gmail.com wrote: I will continue to spam this topic

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread T Marler
thanks for the spam asshole, take this kind of crap to the forums. - Original Message - From: Todd Pettit pettit.t...@gmail.com To: Hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 10:37:00 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? I will continue to spam this topic

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
Please, if you have any suggestions for things I can put in my butt, do not hesitate to message me personally or via this list. ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit:

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread j m
- From: [BT]Black V bt.bla...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:02:24 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? The game is free NOW. But yes that is my point I would join

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
Marler bloodyi...@shaw.ca wrote: thanks for the spam asshole, take this kind of crap to the forums. - Original Message - From: Todd Pettit pettit.t...@gmail.com To: Hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 10:37:00 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Yun Huang Yong
On 19/02/2013 4:18 PM, Todd Pettit wrote: I have also recommended to pinion to stop the on connect ads and to only show the ads every 4 rounds or more. I think viewing a 40 second AD after playing for 30-40 minutes is a much more reasonable request of players and would do a lot to restore the

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread evan otten
Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Todd Pettit pettit.t...@gmail.com wrote: Please, if you have any suggestions for things I can put in my butt, do not hesitate to message me

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Ragorism
Yeah, no shit. Stop spamming the mailing list with inane, stupid bullshit, because not a damn person cares and you're not going to convince anyone of anything. On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:44 PM, evan otten evan...@gmail.com wrote: Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole.

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
It's not him. Doctor McKay http://www.doctormckay.com mc...@doctormckay.com On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:44 AM, evan otten evan...@gmail.com wrote: Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Todd Pettit
I am not doing it. Someone is spoofing me. - Original Message - From: evan otten evan...@gmail.com To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:44:39 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Todd I

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Sachin Sud
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:44:39 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread wtfbrambles
Until there is a way to guarantee that no unsuspecting player connects to a server [running Pinion that the player can't know about beforehand], finds themselves on the receiving end of forcibly loaded media, and experiences a crash or some other experience-ruining/client-halting event, I don't

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Jenner LaFave
list hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:44:39 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Todd Pettit

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Doctor McKay
hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:44:39 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist? Todd I agreed with you somewhat until you turned into a asshole. STOP SPAMMING MY E-MAIL WITH YOUR BULLSHIT On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Todd Pettit

Re: [hlds] Pinion Pot of Gold blacklist?

2013-02-18 Thread Ross Bemrose
And yet, servers are restricted as to what commands they can do to clients in Source. This is because servers were abusing commands in GoldSrc. For whatever reason, this is referred to as slowhacking So no, just because you as a server owner want something mean that it's hacking for a