Reportation.

[Mechanical Mind]

I was thinking of coding a report feature for GMod, this would allow players to report other players, admin to save ban logs, chat logs, reasons, warnings onto a player and read them later.

What do you think I need to include?
For admins and for players.

[Sylver]

Sounds good to me, however there is going to be a lot of potential abuse right there.

[FishCake]

Maybe only have it so only player that the admins trust can use and thus abuse it\

My 2 fish

[Spiffy]

Well that just highlights another topic, a need for a trusted/respected status. Or do we already have one?...

[FishCake]

I put forward that i not be trustable :D

[Mechanical Mind]

Seconded, FishCake is now a nontrustable, certain advantages come with this like being baned when ever a admin sees you on the server, we egg your house on the 11th of every month and the best advantage of all to be completely and utterly not ignored.

[n00b1n8R]

Perhaps a feature where the person putting the report in can give a time (relative to the present, eg -10 to -.5 for an incident that went from 10 minutes ago to 30 seconds ago) to make searching server logs easier?

[Mechanical Mind]

That sounds like a good idea, I'm also gonna make it so they can select who was involved. So I don't have to teach the idiots how to get steamids.

[NetSet77]

This sounds like a great idea, in theory anyway, I see a huge potential for abuse (as with any system for moderation). So hopefully the trusted \ respected aspect will solve a large portion of that. I also would greatly encourage the added ability to select those involved, since a lot of people are idiots. Just a few questions:

1) Will this be added on to ulx or added as a stand alone?
2) Will this be server to server or universal to all AWOL severs?

[Mechanical Mind]

1) Standalone
2) I haven't decided, I have three options
A) Flat text saving (per server basis, admins can only view reports from that server)
B) Mysql (Multi-server, longer sending time mysql -> server -> client)
C) Flat text saving in C:\Gmod_Logs\ (multi-server, cannot be viewed from servers not on box, uses module that can be exploited)

[Uno]

TBH i reckon we should have a "trusted" for Parkour being those guys who always behave without swearing their heads off at everyone. We don't give them the ability to ban, just Kick.
That way if somebody is abusing their trust we strip them off it and a week ban is shortly followed.
Being on Parkour there are some instances that i am well aware happen when i'm not there when the server was hacked and Alex gave random people admin (Did anyone check the banlogs to check any bans made by non-awol members)

Anyway, what i'm suggesting is, NetSet is highly trustable with the ability to kick.
AlphaSix was admin on a serious RP server on The Specialists, she's more then qualified.

[Spiffy]

Or have kick and be able to make a vote for ban, or vote for kick.

[Sylver]

I will not be giving admin powers to non awol players.
Sorry, but thats the way it is.

There is also a fairly large loophole in the prior statement.

*wink*

[Mechanical Mind]

Wheres this loophole?