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Ryanc360
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It's been a while since I've posted an idea of my own, however recent erm... events in my clan have required me to start thinking of creative ways to track who is who in the land of banned people oz. Currently I have a user's alternate accounts added to my friends list with a note stating who they are. I have a nasty habit of forgetting what alt belongs to who...

Now it's been suggested in the past that we allow adding notes to people on a clan's ban list, but Mod Maz says this would be rather difficult to do. So instead I propose a method that enables us to group together accounts on the banlist. Much like a forum group. I'm not sure how else to describe it actually...

Basically if I add a user to my ban list and he comes into the chat with his 6 alts and I ban those, I can then go into my ban list, select those 6 accounts and group them under his main. When minimized it would only show his main account (probably with a little arrow next to it), but when expanded his alts will list below it.

This would serve no other purpose than to help provide a graphical way of organizing the ban list. Let me know if I need to explain it further.

Thoughts?

08-Apr-2016 16:31:53

Vera

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As
Lisa
mentioned, interesting idea.

In my opinion, I don't know how much value being able to group together names on an ignore list would add. I would much prefer the ability to add notes, even though the dev work behind it would be complicated.

Even if the ability to group names were implemented, I don't know if there'd be enough motivation to use such a feature. As such, no support for this suggestion :( But I do agree with the sentiment that clans need better tools to deal with trolls.
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08-Apr-2016 23:36:29 - Last edited on 08-Apr-2016 23:38:37 by Vera

Erehk

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What about using a fresh new account for your "detailed" ban list, where you would keep your notes added for the names you have ban-listed? It would certainly make it a bit easier to tell who's who without having the names mixed in with those on your main account's friends/ignore list (although I do recognize that it wouldn't necessarily be as clean as your grouping system suggestion would allow for).

Now that I think about it though, a system of keeping notes of which alt account belongs to who would be something that's easier said than done no matter what, I think. The clan ban list automatically updates RSNs with name changes (and so do friends/ignore lists), so after some time you might look at the note attached to a certain name, see "xyz's alt account #1" but no longer know who xyz is because of name changes and automatically updating lists.

A system of grouping names together under a consistent tab would prevent that issue, I suppose, since even though the RSNs would be automatically updating with name changes, the group of names would still be sorted together. Cool idea. :)
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09-Apr-2016 01:01:07

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To be clear, I understand that :P

But, what I don't understand is how it would help. If you have reasons I haven't thought of myself, or implicit assumptions behind your reasons that I might not share, then you can explain yourself, so I can better understand whence you've drawn your conclusions.
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09-Apr-2016 05:51:13 - Last edited on 09-Apr-2016 06:15:34 by Vera

Erehk

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Ryanc360 said :
Ideally adding notes to players on the ban list would be preferable, however I am offering this as a possible alternative.

If a note-adding function is the goal, the friends/ignore list (even if on a separate dedicated account) works great for that, but for adding notes relating to which account belongs to who, wouldn't notes by themselves be a bit tricky?

I thought that was the basis for the suggestion, anyways. :P The friends/ignore/clan ban lists automatically updating for RSN changes would make it very difficult to use the add-note feature of any of them to be able to track which alt accounts belong to which main account, wouldn't it?
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09-Apr-2016 06:23:08

Ceecs
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I like the idea! However I know that one of my banned members has an account with my in real name, and I don't want to ban that since then my name is on the ban list. Ceecs - leader of Ceecs Clan
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09-Apr-2016 11:10:04

Ryanc360
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You have a point Erehk. Ban/Ignore lists do automatically keep track of name changes. After a few name changes you might not recognize who someone is or why they were banned. A grouping feature would help keep track of this when associating alts with main accounts. It could also help identify which accounts are alts vs mains. I look at our ban list atm and I don't know who half of them are. Either due to name changes or a lot of them being alts I've only ever seen once.

One could also argue that if an account is part of a rather large group on the ban list they very well could be a spammer/flamer. Perhaps coupled with a note feature in the future one could look and see "This person and all the alts associated with it were banned for spam" or something.

09-Apr-2016 18:51:53

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