Additional server commands for temporary banning and muting

[Mittsu]

i'd vote for w/d/h/m format, admins are often banning in-game, while they're playing, so alt-tabbing and calculating minutes to weeks is not really comfortable

[Bonecrusher]

From my experience majority of bans are given for short amount of time for not following server's rules(60 to 600 minutes). Other than that are perma bans for hackers.

[Shoozza]

I just found out that the soldat documentation is outdated (what a surprise).
Commands like

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tempban are missing.

From what I see there are some issues with the time periods you can enter.
For example:

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RESPAWNTIME seconds

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TIMELIMIT minutes

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MAXRESPAWNTIME seconds

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TEMPBAN BAN players name or players number minutes
So adding a time format could help.

There is an ISO-8601 for time and durations but it looks like this:
P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S or P0003-06-04T12:30:05
P23DT23H

I don't think a lot of people would enjoy typing that (have fun with pressing the shift key).

I would extend the w,d,h,m format and use what quakenet uses for their tempbans but also allow mo for months:
years     y
months    M
months    mo
weeks     w
days      d
hours     h
minutes   m
seconds   s
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number    N

Format:
NyNMNwNdNhNmNs
or
NyNmoNwNdNhNmNs

Examples:
2y3M4w6d7h1m55s     (2 years, 3 months, 4 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, 1 minute, 55 seconds)
2y3mo4w6d7h1m55s    (2 years, 3 months, 4 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, 1 minute, 55 seconds)
3M                  (3 months)
3mo                 (3 months)
29m                 (29 minutes)
2y                  (2 years)
1h30m               (1 hour, 30 minutes)

optionally we could adapt it to allow real or floating point numbers:
1/2y or 0.5y or 0,5y for half a year

The minecraft extension essencials plugin uses tempbans with spaces in quotation marks:
"2y 3mo 4w 6d 7h 1m 55s"    (2 years, 3 months, 4 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours, 1 minute, 55 seconds)

Since Soldat checks for bans only once a minute, seconds dont't make sense and anything below 1 minute will be ignored (e.g 0.5m).

We could allow banning by seconds and set the default banning time to work second wise so that

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/tempban MM 30 would ban for 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes but that would require a less stupid ban check (it's not really optimized currently).
This would eliminate the "is it a minute or second" issue but then people need to use 30m or something for banning in minutes again.

Since the command parsing need to get refactored anyways I wouldn't mind to do it (a general cleanup and documentation update would be nice).
It will not happen for the next version (maybe the one after that - if we are lucky).

Using

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/tempban MM without a time can be problematic for certain usernames but I setting a default ban time for missing time periods could be helpful.
I think when you write wrong ban times however it should ignore the ban completely (so the default ban time will not be applied in this case).

[Mittsu]

you can ignore banning by seconds completely, it's not worth any fuss over it

[Vos]

erm since no1 mentioned anything regarding this anymore lately (atleast that's what i believe)

Is any of this implemented yet? I believe not, when will it be?

Is there any easy way to tempban hwids now at all?

edit: just found mighty's punish script (http://forums.soldat.pl/index.php?topic=40060.0) is this the best alternative? it looks pretty good once you're used to the commands