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Build 514: Mute/Ignore

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Shadlington, Sep 13, 2012.

  1. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    I've just pushed build 514.
    Its a smallish update, with one main focus: player muting/ignoring.
    Muting and ignoring are the same thing - they stop you seeing what a person is saying - with the difference that muting is server-side (muted players have their chat blocked on the entire server) and ignoring is client-side (ignored players only have their chat blocked for you).
    This will provide a way of dealing with abusive/spammy players without requiring bans.

    More details:
    There are menus for both of muting and ignoring, as well as several new rcon commands.
    This is linked into seclevs - the feature 'mute_immunity' will prevent that player from being muted and 'ignore_immunity' will bypass a player's ignore on that server (so you can stop players ignoring your admins).
    You will receive a message that a player who is muted/ignored is speaking, but this will only play a maximum of once every 60 seconds.
    You can find the file that contains the mutes/ignores in Security/ignorelist.cfg - its the same file whether its server or client. You can change which file you use in Security/securitysetup.cfg (the ignorelist_file variable).

    rcon commands:
    • /listmutes - list the players muted on the server
    • /mute [name] [minutes] - mute the player for the given time (default is 15 mins, use -1 for permanent).
    • /muteid [id] [minutes] - mute the player by id
    • /unmute [name] - unmute the player
    • /unmuteid [id] - unmute the player by id
    The following commands are clientside only (so don't use /rcon):
    • /listignores - list the players you are ignoring
    • /ignore [name] [minutes] - ignore the player for the given time (default is 15 mins, use -1 for permanent).
    • /ignoreid [id] [minutes] - ignore the player by id
    • /unignore [name] - unignore the player
    • /unignoreid [id] - unignore the player by id
    Other changes:
    • Permanban option added to admin menu
    • Autoupdate path is now hardcoded
    • Changing any server browser filter will exit the 'beginner' sort (some people were getting confused why there were so few servers)
    Shadlington
     
  2. Raron

    Raron KAG Guard Tester

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    1 more step to clean servers.

    And....Now we can ignore those trolls. My life just got a new meaning.
     
  3. xXDUBSTEPDAWGXx

    xXDUBSTEPDAWGXx Catapult Fodder

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    Nuuur,this update has destroyed my server list.
    SHADLINGTON,WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?
    I joke,i'm sure all they need is a restart...
     
  4. GloriousToast

    GloriousToast Haxor Donator

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    • this would help so many noobs. and put more people into the action
     
  5. Cerbercre

    Cerbercre Brolord 弟兄主 Donator
    1. PumpkinStars - [Pk#] - Inactive

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    Nice :D
     
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  6. Gofio

    Gofio Gunwobbler x3

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    will the administrators and admins still see the muted people?
    maybe add option to mute certain sentences?

    EDIT: DAMNIT! because of the update NOONE with the same build is online atm...
     
  7. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    No and... I don't even know how that would work?
     
  8. crawfish

    crawfish Ballista Bolt Thrower

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    This will come in handy,very handy indeed.
     
  9. Gofio

    Gofio Gunwobbler x3

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    well, spammers tend to use copypasta.
    if you can block one sentence, you can still see his other posts.
    if he keeps spamming, by using something else, you can mute him completely.
    thats the idea.
     
  10. LucasTT

    LucasTT Haxor Tester

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    I love it!
    Deal with it,trolls.
     
  11. LostPix

    LostPix Base Burner

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    I can finally mute all these kids and trolls.
     
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  12. allknowingfrog

    allknowingfrog Bison Rider

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    I appreciate mute-immunity. Next, I'd like a way to double the size of everything I say. :p
     
  13. GloriousToast

    GloriousToast Haxor Donator

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    my idea to combat this is that every time a sentence/word is used a var increases by 1 after the var hits a certain set number (in the config files) the player will be muted for say 10 seconds
     
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  14. copper40

    copper40 Casual Misogynist

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    Thank the friggin' lord... now I don't need to file anymore complaints or reports on those spamming kids.
     
  15. saniblues

    saniblues KAG Guard Tester

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    Quick and friendly reminder to guards that you shouldn't use the ignore function often as you have to actually give a damn when people start saying stupid stuff. Same goes to server admins.

    Have a nice day.
     
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  16. Ne3zy

    Ne3zy Haxor

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    very very good ! no more french trolls from today
     
  17. Creille

    Creille Base Burner

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    Thank you so much shad! and all you other devs that shad stills all the glory from:p

    This will come in handy so much you could even use this when making a zombie team2 so they don't chatter!

    Thx :)

    EDIT: imagine how handy this is going to be in Role Play server!!!

    EDIT again: their is some sort of bug with the updater.. if you click the updateing screen, it dissapears but it continues to hash all the files then when it's done it starts up the game and i can see all the servers but none are running, once i exit out and start it back up again (without clicking :P) it updates fine
    just thought i'd let ya know about that one
     
  18. Shadlington

    Shadlington THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Server owners: Don't forget to update your seclevs with mute commands (listmutes, mute, muteide, unmute, unmuteid) and the two new features (mute_immunity & ignore_immunity) as appropriate.
     
  19. LadyHawk

    LadyHawk Ballista Bolt Thrower
    1. Aphelion's Roleplay

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    ive used this 10-15 times on the Action Server :>
     
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  20. Gofio

    Gofio Gunwobbler x3

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    erm.. You're from paris, rite?