Spring RTS Engine

Wouldnt it be healthier to simply limit people to sending 1024 characters (you cant type any further and anything pasted gets truncated) instead of autobanning?? If you send a long text or type a philosophical argument you get owned! What do you think beta?

Well the whole point of the lobby is to chat.

Stupid idea, banning is better than stoppnig people.

They should just get a message back saying message could not be sent, or something.

krogothe wrote:Wouldnt it be healthier to simply limit people to sending 1024 characters (you cant type any further and anything pasted gets truncated) instead of autobanning?

What about truncating text in the field AND leaving the auto-ban.

IMHO, the only place where autoban should be allowed is in "public" chatrooms (#main being the biggest one), not in the private query qindows or in "private"/user-made chatrooms.

However, I do believe that a client-side sending limit should be created, so that you cannot (for example) accidently paste massive 500-line script files into a chat window (which I do on IRC far too often >_> )

Dragon45 wrote:IMHO, the only place where autoban should be allowed is in "public" chatrooms (#main being the biggest one), not in the private query qindows or in "private"/user-made chatrooms.

However, I do believe that a client-side sending limit should be created, so that you cannot (for example) accidently paste massive 500-line script files into a chat window (which I do on IRC far too often >_> )

It's not plausable to only autoban in public chatrooms. The autoban is there to protect the client server's bandwidth, not so that people don't spam. Flooding can be done in any channel since client still has to process it all, even if you're just sitting in a channel alone. Spamming is something totally different.

I'd be in favor of autotruncating. It seems to me a better solution to just not let users post a 30 page book in one copy paste then to ban them the instant they do it. The antiflood would still need to be in place to catch massive strings of garbage with the intent to eat bandwidth, but from a single users prespective it would become alot harder to accidentally get yourself banned.

They should just get a message back saying message could not be sent, or something.

This is what I just did, you get a warning from server that your message has been ignored due to its excessive size (I removed the auto-ban for it, although auto-banning on exceeded upload is still on to protect the server).