When I ban someone I do generally post an announcement in the forum. I thought most others did as well, but I can put up a list of recent actions.

Banned in the past week:
ruler123, ID 15717, was banned, and had their 126 points removed and their games set to civil disorder.
gamemaster1, ID 15668, was banned, and had their 137 points removed and their games set to civil disorder.
ThomasB, ID 12525, was banned, and had their 742 points removed and their games set to civil disorder. (This user was then unbanned - effectively this took away all of his points but lets him continue playing)
Kozmo, ID 16843, was banned, and had their 94 points removed and their games set to civil disorder.

Well, perhaps you could all just decide on a system to publish things amongst yourselves.

Any system (one thread per action, weekly, monthly) is OK, but I think it would be good to have that info.

ThomasB was multi-accounting? that sucks. he is such a nice chap. i guess it's not only jerkfaces who do it.

All of these are for multiccounting?

And wich one/s belonged to the same person/s?

I don't think ThomasB's was for multi-ing was it? I thought he had jsut decided to drop from League D1, was there more to it than that?

On at least one other site, there is a separate listing of banned accounts.
The problem in this forum is that it is a rolling scroll so there is no record of prior postings after a certain length is reached.
Why not open up a section under FAQ called banned accounts and list them there in alphabetical or date order so people can see the progressions.
Then again it is like hanging out dirty laundry.

I think more interesting would be a running list of what type of actions were taken by the moderators such as:
Banned Accounts for Multi Accounting.... 387
Banned Account for misconduct.................12
Games unpaused because player dropped...3
Adjudication Error correction.........................1

Etc.
This way people have some insight into the functioning of the moderator.

@draugnar - but surely that can't be reason to take his points away?

ThomasB was not banned. He was banned and unbanned so that his league games could get a substitute. He was not multi-ing.

then why take away his points?

i'm not at all challenging the course of action, just trying to understand it, btw. =)

Dingle was right about why ThomasB was banned. Banning takes away points so that multis don't stay on the Hall of fame, but unbanning doesn't give them back. I told Kestas how many points he had, and Kestas gave them back. So it was all an elaborate manoeuvre to make him go into CD in two games.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/profile.php?userID=12525

With all 742 points intact.

lol all good. thanks for the explanation! it makes sense.

Yes, that makes much more sense. Thanks for the explanation.

Although I'm all for transparency normally, I think it might just create the impression that there are more multis then there actually is.

It might actually serve as a good 'scare' tactic :)

Does it tell the people in-game when people have been banned? I've never actually been in a game where someone was banned.

We can consider the possibility of listing banned accounts somewhere, especially now with a shared e-mail account. I really think there's got to be sufficient interest for this sort of thing, because depending on how it was done, it could be a lot of extra work.

I don't think it's worth it. Particularly as many of the actions are more complex than a simple ban, some are worse crimes than others etc etc.
When points fines come in I would like to add a penalty game that will sit in their finished games. It would state the amount of the fine and the reason.

It really wouldn't be that hard Chrisp. Get Kestas to write a section of code that reads an excel CSV file (That's basically what the entire site that I am webmaster does, lol, read excel CSVs)

Give all the mods an ftp, and let them download the excel file every time. Put in the users name, id, and a reason for ban, save it, and re-upload. Nothing simpler.

Or just write a little bit of php and use the MySQL database that already exists. I suggested recently that instead of using the current method each ban should come with a message. This message would be stored in the users comment field (they're banned - they don't need it!) and shown on the 'error: this account is banned'. Moreover, making a list of banned accounts is really really easy, just a simple SQL query. Infact, it already exists in the code, but only admins can see it.