Hide Group Ban List Members
The Rascal
Respectfully, I don't know why I need to make a suggestion about this, but we should have the ability to hide banned members from groups we own.
This could be a simple permission toggle for each role.
It doesn't make sense to have this feature if it's not useful. You're almost better off just not banning people period, as to avoid drama and confrontation. I don't want anyone who joins a group to be able to see a list of offenders, for me to be questioned about it, etc.
Thank you for your consideration.
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SophieJeanneLaDouce Resident
Upvoting to have the
option
to hide the ban list. I volunteer at some public locations which have a few people banned for reasons which are between staff and the individuals. We volunteers would like to not cause embarrassment or raise questions in the minds of casual observers.
Not everybody is a troll. Some people have serious mental health issues, or other issues which don't need to be aired in public.
(If there's a feature request for parcels, I'd like to upvote that if anybody has a link to it.)
Peter Stindberg
I find it useful (group and land) and wouldn't like to see a change to the status quo.
Drake1 Nightfire
As a merchant, I like seeing the bann list as it helps me add to my lands bann list. If they are banned from certain groups I'm in, I want nothing to do with them on my land.
AlettaMondragon Resident
While I can see how this could make sense for a private home parcel, I'm not sure how this could be a useful change for groups. If the group is open to the public, certain data should be public as well, including member and ban lists. (Keep in mind the "feature" that "hides" members over 5000 is only a throttle, because it would be a lot of data to download all the time, so it just doesn't happen and it's supposed to prevent fails - there's no other reason behind it.)
On the other hand, if the group is private, you don't have random people looking at the ban list, so there's no real privacy concern. Just be sure your private group is not free to join and that you only invite people you trust.
Talvin Muircastle
Upvoting, but with "make it an option".
Aglaia Resident
Wow, i didn't know that any group member could see the list of banned members. This is an open door for drama.
AlettaMondragon Resident
Aglaia Resident It's mostly irrelevant most of the time if you're not an admin in the group, but it can be quite useful info in a very few certain cases. For example if someone has harassed you in that group before, you talked to its owner/manager and you see the person banned from the group later, you know you can use the group chat without that person harassing you again - assuming they didn't plant an unknown alt in the group. Other than some weird things like this, I think most people never look at it, so it doesn't really matter if anyone can see the list.
Cynianne Hellershanks
I'd like to see the group and land ban extended to by IP address to prevent the continued flood of trolling alts.
AlettaMondragon Resident
Cynianne Hellershanks You know they can dodge that with VPN, and it could also ban random people just because they use the same service, right?
Cynianne Hellershanks
AlettaMondragon Resident I did not now that.
primerib1 Resident
Cynianne Hellershanks AlettaMondragon Resident is correct. There is this feature called CG-NAT. In a nutshell, when you connect to a server on the Internet, your IP address (as seen by the server) will be a random IP from a "pool" of IP Addresses that the ISP owns. So if you block based on IP, you might be blocking the wrong person because the perpetrator next time they connect they use a different IP, while an innocent person uses the blocked IP.
Stormm Firecaster
Group & land bans as well. This should have been an option a long time ago.
Caelan Whimsy
I've had to deal with drama over group bans so I 100% support this idea.
Garnet Psaltery
I agree with hiding both group and land bans. It's no-one else's business why a person is banned from either. In the case of land, I ban data-scraping bots but the long list makes me look unwelcoming to actual people. :o)
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