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Offline JamminR

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Private messages
« on: June 02, 2007, 08:32:59 PM »
For admins, I believe the ability to see private messages between players(excluding admins) would be beneficial to administrators.
I was afk recently while playing on Beast_Build, all was quiet, or so I thought.
Suddenly I see from one guy "1p <player> they'd probably ban us"

Well, needless to say, they missed hitting shift.
I went on alert. Nothing else happened, but, I came up with this idea.

Logging of and ability of admins to see !p/psay communication between players. (I've not checked logs lately, does this happen already? Probably)
Two ULX_Cvars, one server side, one client side.
Both on by default - Server cvar would set "allow admins to see private"
Client side would set "allow me to see private" (I could see some admins wanting to temporarily disable)

By default, I don't recommend admins be able to see other admins private chats (though, perhaps superadmins could, again, ability to disable locally)

No extra indication would appear when seeing "Player1 to Player2: <blah>" on the players side.
Perhaps a color change if the server cvar was on might be only indication. Dark blue = on, light blue = off.
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Re: Private messages
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2007, 08:57:17 PM »
This brings up all sorts of moral issues. If they wanted private messaging, they could always talk on steam friends anyways.

Sorry, I'm inclined to disagree with you on this one JamminR. :(
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Re: Private messages
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2007, 09:27:34 PM »
This brings up all sorts of moral issues. If they wanted private messaging, they could always talk on steam friends anyways.

Sorry, I'm inclined to disagree with you on this one JamminR. :(

Ha. Moral? Ok. :)
Yes, its true they could use Steam Friends.
Just for the record, I don't believe it would be any more abused than other possible commands (slay/etc)
:P
I'll digress.
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Re: Private messages
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 04:51:44 PM »
Oh, I completely forgot that PMs are included in the server logs. So... if you're desperate about seeing them... :)
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Re: Private messages
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2007, 07:03:05 PM »
Oh, I completely forgot that PMs are included in the server logs. So... if you're desperate about seeing them... :)

I figured they were.
Only good for hosts majority of the time though.
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