The Garnut Popular Post Nutter 15,193 Posted December 26, 2020 The Garnut Popular Post Share Posted December 26, 2020 Dear Garnet Gaming members, due to a recent raise in malicious events taking place within our forums, I have decided to take it upon myself to better the security of our users and myself by imposing stricter standards than our forums previously allowed for. I'd like to remind everybody that doxing and DDoSing within our community is NOT tolerated under any event, whether you think the victim deserved it for one reason or another, and any event will lead to the ban of the perpetrator and anybody involved. Part A. Admin & Moderator Permission-sets I have decided to temporarily limit all members of our community from accessing the administrator dashboard (this includes @proggy for the time being unfortunately, so you cannot reach out to him for assistance until further notice). Forum Moderators and Administrators can no longer view members' email addresses or any form of profile editing, whether this be the editing of one's profile name/profile description/viewing PMs/posting on the behalf of. These are permissions I personally would have never expected to be used maliciously, and really served no purpose, so I have decided to remove them all-together. <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Part B. 2-Step Authentication Members of the community may direct to Profile > Account Settings > Security and Privacy > 2-Step Authentication This will ensure that every time you log into our forums, a short electronic code will print from your mobile device to ensure that your account is secure from an event of hacking. Without immediate access to your cellular device, there is no way into your account. I fully expect all Moderating and Administrating users adapt this feature asap, otherwise you will be liable for ALL that takes place under your account, regardless of the IP or device used for any sort of malicious acts. <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Part C. Our Terms of Service I believe a large portion of our population simply ignored our registration terms, and I figured it'd be worth posting our current terms in this thread for users to review. I would like to remind you all that you electronically signed off and agreed to these terms upon your registration to this community. These terms are due for an overhaul fairly soon in order to EXPLICITLY include a doxing and DDoSing clause. For the record, our second paragraph already explicitly states that when offensive material is posted, you may contact myself and the administration team for the IMMEDIATE removal of the material, if this was actually carried out by the players parttaking in yesterday's situation, the staff team would have had it under control much quicker. <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Part D. Email-Confirmations Up to 2020 our forums never requested users to confirm their registration via e-mail, the registration process was as simple as linking your account to your Steam profile, and you are good to go. This resulted in a massive amount of spam that was entirely uncalled for. For the time being, I have disabled forum registrations until me and our host are able to work out a reliable way to introduce email verifications to your forum accounts <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Part E. Anonymous Log-Ins Players can no longer connect to our online forums in such a way that would conceal their online status, all users will be presented as "online" when utilizing our forums. <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Part F. New User Approval New users on our forums will have to go through an approval process mandated by our Moderators and Administrators alike, your initial 10 posts and comments must be approved by our staff to not be shitposts or malicious in nature in order to allow you to freely utilize our forums. I personally believe that this feature alone will immensely promote a safe environment within our forums. <---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> A special thank you to those of you who have been supportive of me over the past few days on our platforms such as Teamspeak and Discord, you've brought me alot of joys and ideas for this update following recent events that took place with malicious forum visitors, and I cannot be more thankful for this. I'm looking forward to a safer forum environment free of toxicity and other negative occurrences. I will shortly be contacting Facepunch myself in order to receive their guidance in navigation through this situation and see if there is any hope in introducing this into their very own EULA. 18 1 1 10 Quote Link to comment
StillWohMi 63 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Cool! Thanks for keeping us safe, Big-Shiny-Red-Rock-Man. Quote Link to comment
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