ABL and Malicious Usernames

Iyerbeth

England2410 Posts

May 02 2012 10:07 GMT

Hi,

Just a quick suggestion/feature request. Sometimes you have users join that are clearly just seeking attention "PLAYERASUCKSDIKLOL" for instance being a recent one. As these users are simply after attention, would it be viable to prevent their name showing in the title of the ABL? So instead of "Automated Ban List (Latest: PLAYERASUCKSDIKLOL)" it'd say something like "Automated Ban List (Latest: -)"?

Don't know if you think it's a good idea, but since I'm subbed to the thread it kinda sucks having these people be the last banned for a while. I suppose I could just unsub it, but figured I'd ask.

Thanks!

zatic

Zurich15325 Posts

May 02 2012 11:25 GMT

Rest assured, there is a LOT of silent bans that don't even show up in the ABL. Mods can decide to silent ban people, and malicious user names are one of the reasons for that.

Tdot probably has more silently banned accounts than ABL entries.

Iyerbeth

England2410 Posts

May 02 2012 11:27 GMT

Oh, ok then. Well that's awesome, then! Thank you.

andrewlt

United States7702 Posts

May 02 2012 14:07 GMT

On May 02 2012 20:25 zatic wrote:
Rest assured, there is a LOT of silent bans that don't even show up in the ABL. Mods can decide to silent ban people, and malicious user names are one of the reasons for that.

Tdot probably has more silently banned accounts than ABL entries.

Wow, doesn't tdot have around 40 entries on the ABL?

xwoGworwaTsx

United States984 Posts

May 02 2012 14:25 GMT

who is this tdot?

kerpal

United Kingdom2695 Posts

May 02 2012 14:53 GMT

WTF! does that mean that the mod ban stats will never be fully known by us regular forum dwellers?

JOJOsc2news

3000 Posts

May 02 2012 15:42 GMT

On May 02 2012 23:53 kerpal wrote:
WTF! does that mean that the mod ban stats will never be fully known by us regular forum dwellers?

Nooooooo!!!

Archas

United States6531 Posts

May 02 2012 16:10 GMT

On May 02 2012 23:25 xwoGworwaTsx wrote:
who is this tdot?

Some self-proclaimed "troll" whose only notable quality is his persistence. He's made hundreds of throwaway accounts to spam and shit, often communicating with mods via the usernames of those accounts (names like "How do u ban so fast" and the like).

Really, he's nothing special, and doesn't deserve attention.