Thread:Gen. Grievous1138/@comment-26172435-20151214145709/@comment-26172435-20151215131636

Okay, quite some support to establish a 'banned player list'. This does require special care though. There are some things that must be taken care of before this is put into practice.

- The list must be maintained by 2 or 3 admins who are able to receive input through some private channels from both server owners/admins and maybe(?) from banned players. I recommend to only deal with messages from registered owners/admins and not from messages from players who were banned, unless they already appealed and they have clear motivation to caal their ban unjustified. This reduces the communication to a manageble intensity for those who maintain the list. It also requires a preset text box in each wiki server page that lists the official server owner(s) and admins (assuming they can issue and confirm bans or unbans).

- Bans on the list must be accompanied with some 'status' qualification. I'm thinking of: 'Issued', 'Confirmed after appeal', 'Disputed after denied appeal'. The first two can be communicated by owner/admin, the 3rd only by the player.

- The procedure used to manage the list must be clear and publicly communicated. Possible disputes must be taken care of and ways for people to adress inconsistencies / errors must be communicated properly. I think if a player feels his/her ban was unjustified and his/her appeal has wrongfully been judged by a server owner/admin, that player must be able to appeal in some way.

- The list page must not be a place to discuss individual bans. If the list is public, I recommend to disable a comments section on the page. Bans of players are to be discussed with server owners/admins on their respective (wiki) server sites.

- The list should not be public, in my opinion. Preferrably it's only accessible for server owners/admins and players on the list.

- With the, so unfortunate, introduction of IGN changes by Mojang, many players, especially the baddies, have used this opportunity to change IGN on a regular basis. This must be taken into account. I suggest to include UUID's and aka's (old  IGN's) in the list.

I don't wanna make this overly complicated, but I do want to ensure responsibility and accountability are taken care of. If this is taken too lightly, the list may produce quite some unintended, nasty side-effects.

Note that I sympathize with the idea of having this feature, on behalf of the LOTR mod community, but don't consider me a sponsor, just a facilitator. :)