As some of you may know (some due to misfortune), a semi-global blacklist exists and has been used for the past couple weeks. There has been a lot of concern regarding the new admin features of 0.58 and the role of the global blacklist.

I have decided that, in fairness to the users who were banned before 0.58 will be removed from the public listing. Only a few "special" cases will be kept along with any additions as of 0.58.

In Spadille 1.4.7 there is now an option to sync with the global blacklist and append any bans to your banlist.

Hopefully this will make a few people happy and hopefully won't repeat their mistake(s). Any bans after this point could prove even more crippling than before.

Thank you.

Public Global Blacklist

Short Example Video

The only think that could be bad about this is the possibility of being banned from all severs for no reason, good think not many people hate me THAT much

The blacklist has been managed fairly well. Only certain, long time trusted server admins are able to submit bans. Additionally, the list is publicly available so if somebody is banned unfairly, it can be debated. It's been in use for a few weeks now, but only for pyspades until now.

I love you Stack.

What if someone spam rages the Blacklist and and bans many key and important members? Or innocent people, and such.

I get it now, I get that I like pie, you know what else I get, your posts Stack.

The only issue I have with global blacklisting on all servers that have pyspades is that I can join some random third party pyspades server and any corrupt admin can find my IP then just add me to the global ban list for whatever reason they find pleasing.

Then, after that, I'm banned on all servers for an unfair reason.

Thank you Stack.

+1 Stack

@KomradeTyler
They can and will be removed promptly. Also, if it's apparent that it was done without proper reason, the person can and most likely will lose the privilege to access the blacklist.

@jazz
Like I said, only certain admins have access to it, not every pyspades admin. However, by default, pyspades fetches the latest blacklist every 5 minutes. Not all pyspades servers have it enabled, but most do. If somebody abuses the blacklist power, the ban and/or the submitter will be dealt with with accordingly.

Lovelyyyyy
thanks bro.

Cool. too bad izzy has a ban list of his own. No aloha for me!

You deserve a medal, Stack.
I hope this significantly decreases the number of griefers and rages.

So I won't be able to change my name and let off steam by trolling? awwwwwwww

No, you can. You just have to be sneaky about it, and not piss off the wrong people.

Hey i have a suggestion for Spaddile can you show the PySpades highscores on it please?

Here is a quick video showing how the syncing in Spadille works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4-q9vbuQ4

@MegaDwarf
Please keep all Spadille posts in this thread.

This looks promising, hope this blacklist makes the game better for us legit good ol' boys, well done stack.

Lol. Just saw Hitler trolling around the Goon Haven server. :D

Something just occured to me, what if someone that was banned ,changes their IP and reinstalls the game?

Well reinstalling the game wouldn't do anything. The bans are by IP. As with pretty much any service which uses bans on the internet, changing the IP is a workaround. If a user is blacklisted and wants to change their IP, chances are it's to continue their habits which got them blacklisted in the first place. If that's the case, they'll more than likely be caught again. It takes a matter of second to add someone to the blacklist, so it's not much of a burden for admins.

Ok I get it, but what if they change thier IP and thier in game name and don't know it's him, and he doesn't troll for awhile, and only trolls when no admins are on?

However, people not using a router could easily go to cmd, ipconfig, iprelease, ***censored*** and get a new ip in a matter of seconds.

Well with 0.58, servers can have multiple admins without the rest of the players even knowing. If someone is reported to be cheating/excessively griefing/etc, it can be looked into. If the players IP and name are nonexistent on the blacklist, it will be treated as a new person unless there is proof that ban evasion is taking place.

^@tyler
he could also leave it open and change it imediatly after he was banned

@KomradeTyler
Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. It depends on the ISP. Most of which have a limit on the number of dynamic IPs a customer can cycle through in an allotted amount of time. Regardless, they will be dealt with accordingly.

What we really need is a registration system, possibly payment, like minecraft, even if you are ipbanned, you probably wont pay for another account and get a new IP.

A registration system is easier said than done.

My thoughts on a registration system

Well said on your opinions. All that would really be required for the master server is a username, password, and email. If AoS does reach some status higher, it would not be a bad idea to get some new servers, Ben even mentioned about a registration system further up. Or they could be linked to the forum accounts?

Just FYI: pyspades uses this global blacklist out of the box, so you don't have to enable it manually.

I think a registration system would be great. pyspades already has one for the highscores on http://mp2.dk/aos which takes advantage of the forum registration database. It is really simple to implement ( http://code.google.com/p/pyspades/source/browse/feature_server/statistics.py ), even though there is a potential security hole if uncertified servers are able to upload statistics and whatnot (which pyspades does not allow - the master server on mp2.dk requires a password, only given to certified servers).

In regards to AoS and and a future, proper login system (where no passwords or hashed versions of it are given to the game server): Make the client connect to the master server, log it in, send it a session ID, and then make the client pass that session ID to the game server which it checks with the master server. Success!