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Server Forum => Team Fortress 2 Pub (72.5.152.147) => Topic started by: crazydog on March 21, 2011, 12:57:52 PM

Title: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: crazydog on March 21, 2011, 12:57:52 PM

If you're unaware of what Steambans is, here's a quick overview:

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Steambans.com is a global banlist/watchlist made for the Steam technology from valve.

We have guidelines for all admins under our supervision to follow. All bans that are accepted will enter a database which then is used to protect all servers under our supervision.

Our mission is to eliminate or deteriorate cheaters from wrecking the "straight" players' fun on our protected servers.

Furthermore we want to help admins get better at catching cheaters and help them get respected for more then the power they posses.

We want to get rid of abusive admins because they can pest a server just as much as cheaters can.

We want to create a safe community for people that share our beliefs and mission.

Basically, we now take part in a global ban list that has about 42k banned steam IDs in it. Our bans are not added to the ban list automatically - it's more intensive than that. You need to submit a demo, etc.

You can read more about SteamBans here:
http://www.steambans.com/support.php?c=faq
and
http://www.steambans.com/support.php?c=info

You can check if you are banned here (hopefully you're not! :P):
http://www.steambans.com/ban.php

I'm putting this on in hopes it will improve the quality of players on the server. If for some strange reason a bunch of us and our regulars are banned, I'll take it off right away.

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: Taso on March 21, 2011, 10:08:15 PM

yay?

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: crazydog on March 21, 2011, 10:47:51 PM

Ima report you for hacking and get you banned.

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: Smurfette on March 22, 2011, 04:04:05 AM

all in favor of Taso being banned from playing spy on our server say "I"!

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII   :-D

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: Taso on March 22, 2011, 09:04:51 AM

I.

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: LTK on March 22, 2011, 06:18:17 PM

oy!

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: espon on March 22, 2011, 10:38:01 PM

aye

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: DiscoStan on March 22, 2011, 11:26:54 PM

Yaaarrr!

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: doublejz on March 23, 2011, 01:07:26 PM

I  :flamed:

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: Smurfette on March 24, 2011, 03:23:08 PM

roflmao...look what I started!   :-D  We love you Taso.  Really, we do.   :headbang1:

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: Taso on March 24, 2011, 04:10:56 PM

I don't believe you..

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: TheJuggler17 on March 24, 2011, 09:58:23 PM

This is good news, there needs to be organized things like this to protect servers, admins, and players from known problematic players.


There used to be a server blacklist on tf2stats.net but it was taken down. I'm not sure the whole reason for it, but I think a lot of server admins forced them to stop it.
The blacklist categorized servers that were doing things that some players dislike and also flagged servers as "disagreeable."
Servers that mask their true IP and latency, servers that display a false player count, were the biggest ones - it's something that is not tracked in any way at all otherwise.
Also things like nocrits, no damage spread, class restrictions, 24/7 servers, and others could also be selectively blacklisted at the player's discretion.
And aside from that, some servers were qualitatively flagged as disagreeable by players and could be included in your blacklist.

It was a great service and I wish it still existed.


Anyway, thanks for getting TE into this, it's a real step forward.
(also Taso you're gonna get it man :D)

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: crazydog on March 24, 2011, 10:53:48 PM

We were blacklisted 'cause of pre round mayhem (Friendly fire). =/

Title: Re: We are now a member of the SteamBans family
Post by: LTK on March 25, 2011, 09:30:06 PM

Quote from: crazydog on March 24, 2011, 10:53:48 PM

We were blacklisted 'cause of pre round mayhem (Friendly fire). =/

lame.