<!-- MHonArc v2.4.4 --> <!--X-Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens --> <!--X-From-R13: X Q Znjerapr <pynjNpc.arg> --> <!--X-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:20:15 -0800 --> <!--X-Message-Id: E12a4LM-0007H6-00#under,eng.cp.net --> <!--X-Content-Type: text/plain --> <!--X-Reference: Pine.LNX.4.10.10003280933420.19001-100000#drizzle,com --> <!--X-Reference: 01dc01bf98f0$30e1f170$5bd172cf@SPAWN2000 --> <!--X-Head-End--> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>MUD-Dev message, Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</title> <!-- meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" --> <link rev="made" href="mailto:claw#cp,net"> </head> <body background="/backgrounds/paperback.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" alink="#FF0000" vlink="#006000"> <font size="+4" color="#804040"> <strong><em>MUD-Dev<br>mailing list archive</em></strong> </font> <br> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] <br clear=all><hr> <!--X-Body-Begin--> <!--X-User-Header--> <!--X-User-Header-End--> <!--X-TopPNI--> Date: [ <a href="msg00769.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00771.html">Next</a> ] Thread: [ <a href="msg00813.html">Previous</a> | <a href="msg00774.html">Next</a> ] Index: [ <A HREF="author.html#00770">Author</A> | <A HREF="#00770">Date</A> | <A HREF="thread.html#00770">Thread</A> ] <!--X-TopPNI-End--> <!--X-MsgBody--> <!--X-Subject-Header-Begin--> <H1>Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</H1> <HR> <!--X-Subject-Header-End--> <!--X-Head-of-Message--> <UL> <LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Subject</em>: Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens </LI> <LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</A>></LI> <LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:20:12 -0800</LI> <LI><em>Reply-To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI> <LI><em>Sender</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu">mud-dev-admin#kanga,nu</A></LI> </UL> <!--X-Head-of-Message-End--> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-Begin--> <HR> <!--X-Head-Body-Sep-End--> <!--X-Body-of-Message--> <PRE> Justin: Please ensure that your mailer (which appears to be Outlook) word wraps your posts at 80 columns or less. On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:59:56 -0800 Justin Rogers <justin#mlstoday,com> wrote: > This is terrible. You mean to tell me you can't filter down > to the user level? I suspect he's saying that in some cases its just not worth his time chasing down individual accounts when instead he can ban a domain or IP range and know that the problem is likely terminatedly resolved. The fact that some other unoffensive players may get caught in the cross-fire and be "unjustly" banned is usually viewed in such cases as regretable, but an acceptable administrative cost. > First of all the use of a ban at the IP level implies that you > already have code to handle IP level. And isn't of that much use in these days of dynamic IP assignments and proxying firewalls. IPs are (now) a lousy form of identification, especially across connections. > So adding code at the IP level to marshall these people into jail > rather than into the game or banning the. Shouldn't be that much > more code. True. But I question why I should spend my time on supporting players that I have little to no interest in versus supporting players I am actively interested in? Or to rephrase, supporting activities and players that I want to discourage in my game, versus supporting those I like.. Or possibly most simply of all: Why do I want to provide a service, in any fashion, for people I don't want to deal with? And the odd corollary: Are your (most?) valuable players also likely to also be your (most?) provacative players and therefore the ones most capable of the acts that prompt banning? Consider your most expert players. What would happen if they instead decided to attack you game? Who else could be a more competent destructive force? There's a thin line between preserving your world, and sanitising it out of existance (or tossing the baby out with the bathwater to really torture the metaphore). > You also allow people to turn off channels, chat, etc... While this is generally true, typically there are a small set of channels which can't be turned off. > So why not allow one person to turn off another person? There's some good discussion on this idea back in the archives. I'd love to see large playerbase testing of an implementation. The potential effects on societal forms and small group dynamics are insidious at best and pernicious at worst, and that's not accounting for the abuse factors. Consider: What would happen IRL were people to have the ability to selectively perceive/not_perceive certain things to the level of all their perceptions being edited/removed in that regard?? Take it to an extreme: What if you were able IRL by waving your hands appropriately, to never physically see a negro or hear anything a negro person said? Now substitute "woman", "man", "dwarf", "cripple", "WASP", "child", "homosexual", and any other demographics of your choice (as fine grained as you can conceive of them) for "negro". This is not just "not listening", this is "those photons never hit your eyeballs", and "those sounds never approach your eardums" carte blanche across-the-board blanket filtering such that these things then just _don't_exist_ for you any more. Realise that this can be done today via most minorly scriptable MUD clients ala TinTin++, TinyFugue, etc. Aside: This mechanic is one of the reasons I talk about one of the base purposes of Murkle being to support players enforcing their realities on each other. > Think of the amount of referalls for banning you would get if a > single person could shut another person up. Bubba> whoami You are Bubba. Bubba> l Boffo is here Boffo whines at you. Boffo whines at you. Boffo whines at you. Bubba> muzzle boffo You will no longer hear anything Boffo says or does. Later: Boffo> say Bubba has been cheating all the time by doing XYZ... Boffo> say Bubba has been telling people the answers to the quests. Boffo> say Bubba is actually a pedophile and has been trying to pick up children on this game. Its worth noting that any game which supports free user programming is potentially in this position. There is a difference however between something a user concocts for himself (and others maybe use/copy), and a facility that the game officially offers and supports. -- J C Lawrence Internet: claw#kanga,nu ----------(*) Internet: coder#kanga,nu ...Honorary Member of Clan McFud -- Teamer's Avenging Monolith... _______________________________________________ MUD-Dev mailing list MUD-Dev#kanga,nu <A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev">http://www.kanga.nu/lists/listinfo/mud-dev</A> </PRE> <!--X-Body-of-Message-End--> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <ul compact><li><strong>Follow-Ups</strong>: <ul> <li><strong><A NAME="00774" HREF="msg00774.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong> <ul compact><li><em>From:</em> Chris Jones <cjones#v-wave,com></li></ul> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <UL><LI><STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00753" HREF="msg00753.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> Dan Shiovitz <dans#drizzle,com></LI></UL></LI> <LI><STRONG><A NAME="00755" HREF="msg00755.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></STRONG> <UL><LI><EM>From:</EM> "Justin Rogers" <justin#mlstoday,com></LI></UL></LI> </UL></LI></UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00769.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00771.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Gamasutra: Online Justice Systems</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00813.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg00774.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="index.html#00770"><STRONG>Date</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thread.html#00770"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> <ul><li>Thread context: <BLOCKQUOTE><UL> <LI><STRONG>Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <ul compact> <LI><strong><A NAME="00767" HREF="msg00767.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Todd McKimmey <a href="mailto:rufus#wombatgames,com">rufus#wombatgames,com</a>, Tue 28 Mar 2000, 21:46 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00768" HREF="msg00768.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Zak Jarvis <a href="mailto:zak#voidmonster,com">zak#voidmonster,com</a>, Tue 28 Mar 2000, 22:05 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00778" HREF="msg00778.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:the_logos#achaea,mudservices.com">the_logos#achaea,mudservices.com</a>, Wed 29 Mar 2000, 02:05 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00813" HREF="msg00813.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Fred Clift <a href="mailto:fred#veriohosting,com">fred#veriohosting,com</a>, Sat 01 Apr 2000, 01:42 GMT </LI> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00770" HREF="msg00770.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</a>, Tue 28 Mar 2000, 22:20 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00774" HREF="msg00774.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Chris Jones <a href="mailto:cjones#v-wave,com">cjones#v-wave,com</a>, Wed 29 Mar 2000, 00:35 GMT <UL> <LI><strong><A NAME="00775" HREF="msg00775.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, Justin Rogers <a href="mailto:justin#mlstoday,com">justin#mlstoday,com</a>, Wed 29 Mar 2000, 00:54 GMT </LI> <LI><strong><A NAME="00776" HREF="msg00776.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</a>, Wed 29 Mar 2000, 01:13 GMT </LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> </LI> </ul> </ul> </ul> <LI><strong><A NAME="00804" HREF="msg00804.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Trouble Makers or Regular Citizens</A></strong>, adam <a href="mailto:adam#treyarch,com">adam#treyarch,com</a>, Fri 31 Mar 2000, 01:35 GMT </LI> </ul> </ul> </LI> </UL></BLOCKQUOTE> </ul> <hr> <center> [ <a href="../">Other Periods</a> | <a href="../../">Other mailing lists</a> | <a href="/search.php3">Search</a> ] </center> <hr> </body> </html>