[shwick]

Although I enjoy reading panel -> gamelounge and browsing the ban requests, banning people is an exercise in futility because people can change their ip/account.

People love flaunting that they can change their ip and still get on the bot- see FruitTreeMaze.

What we need is a second Game Island Defense bot that only allows safelisted people to join. Say, people that have played over 20 games with greater than 70% stay.

There is already a stats command so it shouldn't be too difficult to do that simple stat check upon player join.

Then if a player is banned it actually means something. The safelist would encourage proper play, no tking, abiding by the rules, and ip changers would have to play 20 games to get back onto the "good" bot.

The key is making the safelist bot more popular than the normal bot.

The title for the safelisted bot has to be cooler or better somehow while being just as easy to type.

[game] Island Defense #4353 Unsafelisted
[game] Island Defense #23 *Safelisted* <--- something cool

Unsafelisted people who join the safelisted bot are kicked but with a whisper telling them how to get safelisted. "You must play over 20 games with a 70% stay on the unsafelisted bot gamehost-4 to be safelisted".

Maybe 20 games and 70% stay to get safelisted is too much. It has to be easy enough for people to want to be safelisted and difficult enough for ip changers.

Advertise the safelisted bot on the forums.

Also moderators could focus more on safelisted games, where it actually means something to ban someone.

Is island defense even popular enough to warrant a safelist bot? Who knows, but it seems easy to implement and try out.

This post has been edited by shwick: 11 December 2010 - 11:50 AM

[darkward1]

i think that this is a good idea, but it seems like no admin is replying

[Bio-AssAUlt]

Right now we are dealing with larger issues, i will get back to this when possible.