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T-hawk Wrote:Yes, this works. It's what I did for Pitboss 7 when antisocialmunky requested to ban himself from that forum. It's easy to set up. Basically it's banning particular users from each of the other four forums.
This method protects only against accidental cheating, like through the "New Posts" link. Obviously anybody can log out and read the other teams' forums. Should we go with that?
This would personally be nicer for me than totally unrestricted, but it has the strange and undesirable consequence of specifically uncouraging lurkers to NOT register accounts. Overall I would vote against it for that reason.
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Plus its going to be an insane amount of work given the number of players this game is likely to see.
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Forget it i think. It's probably going to be the biggest event RB had, so why not just open it up to all public who doesn't want to join a specific team? Besides, i'm pretty sure no one is going to cheat anyways (or if they do, confess it).
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Qgqqqqq Wrote:I would support this over closed forums but obviously I don't have much of a say.
Nonsense! Keep adding your comments; I'm taking note of them. And I hope you pick a team to sign up for so you can participate 
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Amelia Wrote:Forget it i think. It's probably going to be the biggest event RB had, so why not just open it up to all public who doesn't want to join a specific team? Besides, i'm pretty sure no one is going to cheat anyways (or if they do, confess it).
That doesn't help these cases:
SevenSpirits Wrote:Regarding needing to request access to the forum to play/lurk, I actually think there's a strong point in favor of that. You just have to have looked at "New Posts" in the last few hours to see why - there are multiple threads called "Settings discussion" (OK, one of them has a capital D). With PB6, teams just created a few threads (or even just one) and things were fairly under control. But with this being a democracy game people may be creating new threads quite a lot, and this will increase the number of accidental clicks to spoilery threads. Making the forum invisible to people not on the team solves this problem quite handily (and also removes a lot things people aren't allowed to read from New Posts, which I would quite appreciate).
shadyforce Wrote:Also, am I right in thinking that hiding the sub-forums from non-team-members the only way to stop people inadvertently seeing other team's thread titles?
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SevenSpirits Wrote:This would personally be nicer for me than totally unrestricted, but it has the strange and undesirable consequence of specifically uncouraging lurkers to NOT register accounts. Overall I would vote against it for that reason. No, not like that. I mean that registered accounts would also have access to all the forums, except for active team players.
I'm going to recommend this as the forum access scheme, unless a compelling argument or consensus forms otherwise. It has the advantage of being very simple to implement on my part.
- Team members see only their team forum (banned from other team forums.)
- Any nonplayer (lurker) sees all forums. (No access requesting needed.)
- If not logged in, you see all forums.
So basically, it's fully open, with a minor safeguard against accidental cheating, since any team player logged in won't see posts from other team forums in places like the New Posts list.
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T-hawk Wrote:No, not like that. I mean that registered accounts would also have access to all the forums, except for active team players.
I'm going to recommend this as the forum access scheme, unless a compelling argument or consensus forms otherwise. It has the advantage of being very simple to implement on my part.
- Team members see only their team forum (banned from other team forums.)
- Any nonplayer (lurker) sees all forums. (No access requesting needed.)
- If not logged in, you see all forums.
So basically, it's fully open, with a minor safeguard against accidental cheating, since any team player logged in won't see posts from other team forums in places like the New Posts list.
This sounds like an acceptable compromise to me, provided you are willing to go through and do the bans for quite possibly 40+ players. That seems tedious, but if you are willing to do it, that's a solid enough compromise.
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Quote:I mean that registered accounts would also have access to all the forums, except for active team players.
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- If not logged in, you see all forums.
Do you mean if not logged in, you see NO forums?
I actually quite like this idea.
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I only login on my primary computer. From my phone, friend's computers, etc I don't bother. So logged in/out restrictions mean little to me.
I suspect a bunch of other people are the same way.
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scooter Wrote:This sounds like an acceptable compromise to me, provided you are willing to go through and do the bans for quite possibly 40+ players. That seems tedious, but if you are willing to do it, that's a solid enough compromise. He can set 5 ( hidden ) groups with certain access rights and then just toss everyone into one of them as required, it's not that much work.
Btw, can I assume this is not an AW game?
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