26 Apr 11, 03:46PM
OK maybe a council is a step too far, I didnt want a rulling class to be created just democracy. The real issue at present is the clan ban's I believe they are tearing this community apart, and i know many others agree. Can we at least go as far as to say that the Blacklist is for cheats and racists and abusers not for entire clans?
And as far as people who have been blacklisted go, i think there should be a way back for those who have genuinely made a mistake. My sugestion of a council was to have a group (elected by the whole community) who could judge these cases and cases where evidence is shaky maybe handing out 12 month bans instead of complete blacklisting.
I also understand being a server operator myself that the person running the server has the right to prevent players or groups of players playing on their server, the issue is if you use a blackilist that is used by more than half of the community to do it the result is far more reaching than a couple of servers. Again this is where a council could help, a blacklist maintained by them could be offered to all server ops, thus meaning if a server op decides to BL a clan they can but the BL clan can still play elsewhere as the BL from the council does not include the ban. This way everyone gets what they want, server ops are free to operate their own blacklists if they like or use the council one, they can also add or subtract players from it. And most importantly if you dont want a clan to play onn your servers easy add them to your BL and let the council list carry on.
BTW. This is not a dig at any clan in particular or any instance of banning a clan recent or past, its just an opinion. I once banned an entire clan from my servers so i know why sometimes it is felt its justified.
And as far as people who have been blacklisted go, i think there should be a way back for those who have genuinely made a mistake. My sugestion of a council was to have a group (elected by the whole community) who could judge these cases and cases where evidence is shaky maybe handing out 12 month bans instead of complete blacklisting.
I also understand being a server operator myself that the person running the server has the right to prevent players or groups of players playing on their server, the issue is if you use a blackilist that is used by more than half of the community to do it the result is far more reaching than a couple of servers. Again this is where a council could help, a blacklist maintained by them could be offered to all server ops, thus meaning if a server op decides to BL a clan they can but the BL clan can still play elsewhere as the BL from the council does not include the ban. This way everyone gets what they want, server ops are free to operate their own blacklists if they like or use the council one, they can also add or subtract players from it. And most importantly if you dont want a clan to play onn your servers easy add them to your BL and let the council list carry on.
BTW. This is not a dig at any clan in particular or any instance of banning a clan recent or past, its just an opinion. I once banned an entire clan from my servers so i know why sometimes it is felt its justified.