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Key: VWR-3810
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Resolved Resolved
Resolution: Duplicate
Priority: Critical Critical
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: sachi Vixen
Votes: 3
Watchers: 0
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New management features are needed with the growing spam and griefing issues. If I ban someone from my sim I would like to be able to ban IP. I would like to have a ban member feature as part of groups for the use of the group owner.

Created: 12/Dec/07 02:57 PM   Updated: 04/Aug/08 11:14 PM
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New management features are needed with the growing spam and griefing issues in Second Life. The current tools are not always satisfactory in combating persisitant problems and people who deliberately go out of their way to cause trouble.

If I ban someone from my sim I would like to be able to ban exact IP or for an avatar ban to be an automatic exact IP ban from my sim so they can't come back as alts to cause further problems. This would make life so much easier and would give greater control over repetitive griefing issues. If IP banning is not possible because of netting innocents in the ban, what about mac address bans or perhaps some kind of other method of banning alts of a banned person automatically, like some method of banning all users from their SL account from my land.

I would also like to have a ban member feature as part of groups for the use of the group owner. There is an increasing number of spams in groups with open access like store groups and ejecting is simply not enough any more. I would like to be able to ban avatar names on a ban list as a feature in groups for persisitant spammers.



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Ralf Haifisch added a comment - 03/Jan/08 10:13 AM
This doubles http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-420 --> please vote there...

Kevin Ludwig added a comment - 06/May/08 01:30 PM
As owner of 27 sims and growing I agree that a more comprehensive ban system is needed. We have gotten to the point where we rarely ban the true trouble makers anymore unless it is to stop an immediate action for fear that they will simply come back as an alt over and over causing trouble. We also find that even when filing abuse reports, we have no feedback on what was done, and often the actions continue through one alt after another. IP banning is certainly one way to stem the problem as not as many people have more than one computer at home.

McCabe Maxsted added a comment - 04/Aug/08 07:59 AM
Dupe of MISC-420, MISC-67.

Tammy Nowotny added a comment - 04/Aug/08 11:07 PM - edited
One problem with banning IP: most home DSL/cable/broadband providers assign IP addresses randomly (or effectively at random) when the user boots up his or her modem. Not all users boot their modem up just once and then never ever shut it down. Most people deliberately shut their modems down every so often... and of course we all experience power outages every few months.

Providers use pools of IP addresses which serve fairly large regions. (For example, I have Fairpoint, and live in Durham, NH but my IP addresses come from a pool serving all of southern NH.) If you ban the exact IP adddress, you might end up banning some poor schmo whose only crime is living in the same state with a griefer. The IP address <> computer mapping is a many-to-many mapping, hence banning an IP is not a good way to ban a griefer. (The computer <> human being mapping is also many-to-many, I might add: there are doubtless a few cases where a law abiding resident happens to share a workstation with a griefer. Those few cases are likely to happen in educational or institutional settings, however, where IP addresses tend to be more static than in home-office and small-business settings.)