[sldev] VWR-2581 Ban lists visiable to everyone?

[Frans]

Thanks, seems like a good use to me. :)

On 9/27/07, Dale Glass <dale at daleglass.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:00:08 Frans wrote:
> > Is there a reason for the Client to know who is banned on a parcel?
> > Because I would say, only send agents that list if they are allowed in
> > the first place to ban other agents on that parcel... which could be
> > tricky with group land and roles.
>
> I already provided one.
>
> Another is that not everybody involved in moderation has the land
> permissions for it. For example, in Luskwood we have a large group of
> people that moderates by using a script, of which I am one.
>
> Making the banlist unavailable to the viewer would mean I could use the
> script to ban somebody, but then unable to see who's in it, which is a
> weird situation. Knowing who's banned also makes it possible to have a
> discussion about who should be or not in the list among normal people. We
> moderate for the people's benefit after all.
>
> From a community point of view, the idea of having a secret list of people
> who aren't allowed and which can change at any time without anybody but
> the people with land privileges being able to find about it seems very
> community-unfriendly.
>
>


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