Well by inappropriate, i wouldnt see worrying about cursing to be a problem, i know
(Glowing) A 20 caliber rifle Would be alittle inapropriate on my mud;) Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Kingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "ROM" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Snippets page updated > Well on the mud I've been on for a few years now, we have two ways to > string. We have a mob that will do strings. Costs 50 glory and any mortal > can go to him to do it. You can also go to an immortal and have them do it. > Now if your worried about inapropriate things. You can also do something > like the mob. And then do work filters like str_infix(string, "butt") And if > they try using any of those words just have it kick them out. If you do that > tho remeber to use something to strip the color off the string. So it's > looks at words not {RB{ru{Rt{rt{x :P > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:02 PM > Subject: Re: Snippets page updated > > > > > 11/27/02 > > > Snippet 3: Mobstring (C file). This snippet allows a certain mobile to > > restring objects > > > for players. To just drop into your box, you will need to add an ACT > flag: > > > ACT_IS_RESTRINGER, or you can change it to whatever fits your MUD best. > > Quite easy to > > > change this into needing no mobile at all. > > > > This is something I'd like to discuss, just to get a general feel from the > > community on it. My general experience is that its a bad idea to just let > > mortals restring stuff on their own, because they will end up restringing > > things that are entirely inappropriate (offensive, not accurate > > descriptions, intentionally concealing). Though, the alternative of > having > > to call down an immortal for every little restring also seems a > > little...annoying. > > > > I resolved this issue by allowing mortals to submit a request for a > restring > > (pick the item, type out all their strings, and then submit it) to the > > immortals, who will see a copy of what's being requested, and then they > can > > either approve or reject the request (not edit it). If its accepted, the > > restring is done automatically, and the item is given to the mortal. If > > rejected, the immortal must give a reason and the item is returned to the > > mortal unchanged, with a note saying why. > > > > Doing it this way you can retain some level of control over restrings to > > make sure they're not being abused, while automating it enough to make it > so > > requesting restrings is not tedius and time consuming for immortals. > > > > Does anyone else have thoughts or comments on this issue to further refine > > the concept? > > > > -- > > Thomas Hughes > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > > > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
