Valve implemented this feature in Left 4 Dead 2 a little while back. It's been somewhat controversial with a vocal minority but has ultimately proven itself useful to the rest of the community. Personally I'm a huge fan of it. There is a thread on SPUF in which Chet Faliszek offers a little insight into your question.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=28547471&postcount=237 TF2 is obviously very different than L4D2 and the feature has already been tuned a little to better meet the needs of a server admin. In fact, if I remember correctly in L4D2 it only applies to official servers(I think). But as a L4D2 server operator I don't believe there are any options/CVars) yet available for how a server should handle the block list, which is a feature of Steam Community and not the L4D2 dedicated server. Hopefully everyone here provides some good feedback instead of paranoid conspiracy theories like what some users dreamed up in that thread. Seriously, some of it is priceless. Also of note from Chet's post is that Valve personally contacts these undesirables and works to change their behavior. So for serial abusers of this feature in TF2 you can bet Valve will be in contact with them as well. -Richard Eid On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Russell Smith <ve...@tinylittlerobots.us>wrote: > It seems like the only useful use case I can think of with this feature > is to create a private steam group of admins for a server. Then any user > the admins block would be kicked from the server. However, if it's only > checking blocked users of connected players this wouldn't be altogether > useful. > > What exactly were the use cases Valve saw when coming up with this > feature, Rich? > > > On 3/15/2012 11:48 PM, dmex wrote: > > One problem I see is for semi-large groups like ours: > http://steamcommunity.com/groups/mypayload**** > > ** ** > > 1) If one member has all the admins blocked, none of the admins will be > able to join the server.**** > > 2) If the member gets removed from the group there's nothing to stop them > from creating a F2P account, re-joining the group (since it's public) and > causing the same problem all over again. **** > > 3) If a user is blocked from a server, they'll just create and use a F2P > account, avoiding the block entirely.**** > > ** ** > > Result: **** > > An annoying feature that's doing nothing other than allowing users to > grief others and endless problems for admins.**** > > ** ** > > Users should never be permitted to block other users from servers they do > not own or control, I think it's been well established in the past that > something like that will be abused.**** > > ** ** > > We have around 12 admins, only one has access to the server console, if > he's not around it could be a few days before the member preventing the > admins from joining is removed but they could just rejoin the group using a > F2P account and cause the same issue. If anything this feature should allow > admins to give extra's to group members e.g. allowing sprays or in-game > voting options if they are disabled, not blocking people from joining > because of some other idiot.**** > > ** ** > > Just my 2c.**** > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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