Crossfire 3.2
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18 Oct 2010, 22:10
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Crossfire 3.2 is launching in a couple of days, and here's a sneak preview of what you can expect:
Expect some down time (a couple of hours) within the next 48 hours.
Yay or nay?
Any questions?
A million thank yous go to 4drenalin3 for making all of this possible!
- Cheaters will no longer be banned. It's clear to anyone even remotely active in the ET and Crossfire scenes that our current policy of banning cheaters is inadequate. As a result of this, we have decided to introduce a new system whereby cheaters are tagged instead of banned. The tag will be clearly visible on the user's profile together with the tag duration and proof, and behind every instance of their nickname. Please note that those tagged for cheating will not be allowed to play at Crossfire competitions.
- Spammers will no longer be banned. The same applies here: the huge number of duplicate accounts present on Crossfire is testament to the fact that banning people simply does not work. Spammers will instead have their posting rights temporarily disabled (they can still browse the site while logged in ordinarily during this time).
- As per the above, banning will only be used in extraordinary situations.
- Report functionality for comments, content and users. This will give users the opportunity to report cheaters or otherwise. These rights will be revocable.
- Soft-deleting. From now on most (and soon all) deleted content will be soft-deleted instead, which means that deleted content can be restored. This will also add more admin accountability as we will be able to see who deleted the content and why.
- Extensive administrator logging. Practically every administrator action will be logged, increasing accountability.
- New userlevels. The following user levels will exist as of 3.2: member, tagged, restricted (posting rights revoke), trustee, news writer, moderator, anti-cheat administrator, administrator, head administrator and developer. This will help us run the site more efficiently as jobs will be delegated as opposed to the free-for-all that currently exists.
- Most of the ban list will be cleared. This includes everyone banned for cheating and/or spamming.
- The return of the search function!
- Loads of other smaller stuff that you'll probably discover at some stage too.
Expect some down time (a couple of hours) within the next 48 hours.
Yay or nay?
Any questions?
A million thank yous go to 4drenalin3 for making all of this possible!
e: nice
E: THERE WILL BE WERY MANY ADMINWHORES I GUESS :PP
nice :)
a cheater is a cheater and they should not be tolerated, if you see one, just ban them.. end of discussion imo
so half of aero and half of squad.ee get tagged as cheater when they cheated 3 years ago on a public? then this is probably a bad thing for the mgc and the et scene as a whole as trustworthy mgc's suddenly have half of their players tagged as 'cheaters' (ye, that's kinda sad actually but still, you can't change it..) or is it just current cheaters? then how do you define that?
What about the search button?
Stupid american.. edit maybe?
":D"
:x
sup Baggiez?
instead of the name of the cup? and only active cups displayed instead of the ones that have passed still in there?
you are just awesome!!
:}D Well... ok... this "cheater" tag sounds like jew armband during WWII. As far as you don't kill cheaters in real life, it must be ok!
good job :)
wow look at me. im a badboy. im tagged.
it's better than bothering second hand to touch the keyboard key. although mouse scroll button might be a bit unconfortable at start.
Little effort to keep crossfire up there.
if u wanna i can introduce u, but he dislikes fins:PP
we have this weird bond between us
i talk to him on vent too.
i wonder who counts as "spammer" and who doesn't
Watch out.
happened when u, Sean, stopped admining :(
nice to see you :*
many thx to 4drenalin3
Can't wait for CF 4 though, would be nice to have a fresh design.
But more functionality is great in the mean time ^^
Keep the good work!
Tag duration? If someone's tagged for cheating be it recent or 2 years back he should surely stay tagged. Who cares if you get tagged for a 3month period after which everything will be forgotten again. Once a cheater always a cheater!
Also it should be displayed on their post headers (next to the name like that "post has been edited" symbol) just to bring even more of a shame to them, otherwise slowly but surely you'll have cheaters running around bragging about profile hits :(
There should be a limit to how long the tag stays on because people change. If you were a 15 year old little nerd who thought he didnt care about an online game back in 2006/2007 and cheated because it seemed like a funny thing to do, you can very well be a 19 year old mature guy now who loves to play ET and will never cheat again and doesn't want anything to do with it :)
So it would be kinda harsh to leave the ban tag on forever. I say put it on for a year or so :)
GIVE ME BACK MY DELETE BUTTON
Sounds good :D
Need some really strong ignore system imo.
Add +1/-1 system on comments, just like on youtube.:-)
banning doesn't work because you deny someone a privilege they previously had, so instead you're going to...deny a privilege they previously had but in a slightly less complete manner.
Have fun with the same amount of fake accounts :P
What good will that do? Disabling a spammers posting rights will simply result in the spammer creating another account so they can post again. It's not going to change anything.
It will be bothersome for people to setup multi accounts... on the other hand, it will be bothersome for any new normal member... argh, hard to figure out something that wouldn't affect both sides...
I wish your idea would pass though
# Extensive administrator logging. Practically every administrator action will be logged, increasing accountability.
These are great, might keep
Why the fuck is the 'img' bb not fixed yet!? Everybody is posting large images which fucks up the fucking layout.
Perhaps an idea for 3.3!?
What I'm trying to say is that they should do something about the img bb. So large with more than 600px width should be resized..
"getimagesize"
does that mean, there will be further cc´s? :)
But sounds interesting. keep it up! :)
If you remove oldskool highskillers, people would just steal their names n troll.
And what if you'll return to ET after couple of years, and then your account has been stolen. :/
I mean he is just taking the space and the name, besides. i am sure that he wont return after 4 years of quitting...