[sldev] Suggestion to improve moderation capabilities: auto-mute banned avatars

[Andre Roche]

Another feature to throw into that would be to, effective immediately upon
banning from the land, return all objects owned by that person.  As far as
the muting thing goes.  I don't think the server should ever tell my
personal client's mute list to add someone to it without me knowing.  On the
other hand, I think you're right in the idea that a person who is banned
from a parcel should have no effect on or visibility by persons within that
area.

Nice set up you got there with the particle tracker Dale.  Only thing I can
think to suggest is that the particle system itself isn't so blatantly
displayed...  Might upset some scripters/particle makers with that.

On 9/12/07, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
>
> I've been working on various improvements to make moderation as fast and
> convenient and possible.
>
> Now I've added:
>
> An avatar list, which allows finding people quickly, as well as performing
> actions like ejecting from land on multiple people at once.
>
> An option to log the owner and location of speaking objects, for tracking
> down spam and objects trying to impersonate an avatar.
>
> An "event log", currently tracking particle emission, and soon sounds as
> well. This allows to figure out who is the one flooding the area in
> particles near instantly. Here's a picture of this in action (not released
> yet): http://daleglass.net/images/screenshots/particles3.png
>
>
> So I got to test all this in practice yesterday during an attack on
> Luskwood. Result was: As intended, this makes it very quick and easy to
> find the attacker and ban them. But that's not much good.
>
> I teleported to Lusk, saw the particles, and issued the command to ban the
> owner of particle spamming self-replicating objectsr maybe 5 seconds after
> I saw the particles. But the practical result was about zilch because the
> attacker wasn't on Luskwood land (probably nowhere near as well) in the
> first place. So somebody who possibly never intended to enter Luskwood
> land got banned from there and was still causing problems just fine. This
> is not good.
>
>
> My suggestion to fix this: Automatically temporarily add to everybody's
> mute list the avatars banned from the parcel, while the avatar remains on
> the parcel. This will mean that while you're on the parcel where somebody
> is banned, they or their particles won't be seen if they're hovering right
> outside the banline.
>
> This should be an option, so that the area's moderators can see what is
> really going on if needed. This needs to be on by default, because
> otherwise it's ineffective.
>
>
> In principle, part of this can be implemented quite easily by requesting
> the parcel's banlist each time a parcel border is crossed (could have a
> delay to save some performance impact and avoid unnecessary banlist
> fetches while flying around).
>
> LL's help would be needed so that when somebody updates the banlist all
> the
> viewers in the parcel automatically get their list updated.
>
>
> How does this sound?
>
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