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Global Clan Protection is going away! - Victor - 2012-07-01
It is not good to users to blacklist names globally. You are still able to blacklist your clan (and whitelist its members) on your servers, and your partners' servers.
As of 2.5, no names will be checked against the master-server. This also helps to remove the base-64 crash possibility.
This means that players and clans could be impersonated, but if you try to prevent that at your local server, it would still be fine.
RE: Global Clan Protection is going away! - Nightmare - 2012-07-01
I'd like to keep this because:
1. We've already had two fake clan members try to get on our server.
2. Helps protect against impostors, already had 1 fake Nightmare.
3. Protects against idiots, makes people think of original clans.
RE: Global Clan Protection is going away! - Victor - 2012-07-02
1) You can still locally protect your clan on your and other's servers. Make agreements with other servers to use a shared nickname blacklist/whitelist.
2) No imposters will be able to operate on your server. You can even add IP checks if using the local blacklist.
3) Freedom of speech...?
If you want to restrict the use of clan tags, it is not reasonable to restrict it on every server. It is reasonable to restrict it on your own server, along with other servers that you make agreements with.