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I want to start a blacklist of people who are generally prics, cheaters, or generally bad sports in Open Arena that way server admins can take not of it

The list:

-roadkill
-frag u plenty -(poser trying to get me banned for no aparent reason)

Hopefully with a list like this it will become easier to weed out the prics on servers

How so? Can you use such a list with OA to automatically kick them, or are people supposed to check the list against everyone in the server (who, assuming you're on the server, would already be showing themselves as pricks)?

And what about people just changing their names? To contribute, I would add everyone on oa_bases3 who will switch to whichever team is winning, camps their flag, and camps the OTHER TEAMS flag. Sure the map has its problems, but I'm pretty sure bugs don't have the ability to turn normal people into douchebags.

Don't be so sure about that.  Those are some pretty bad bugs...

Well the CTF/teamplay issue can be easily solved by making it illegal to change user info during team games.  Noobs will complain that they have to rejoin to switch teams, but it's the only real solution to prevent that kind of cheating.

I thought it would be a good idea to create a list of people who are poor sports whatever on servers so that way admins could glance at it and if someone looks familiar then it might help the admins do there job

we had it in a couple other games. Including Face of Mankind, when I was in BDS in Day of Defeat source, and in both instances it worked very well. thought it might help here.

Name & Shaming, is a bit dodgey when it comes to online games.

well its up to you. So whatever you guys want to do. I am just saying when I was apart of BDS it really helped to improve the quallity on our servers because if someone was being a dic it was possible to remove them from the server. Again, this was just an idea.

 As stated earlier, it's easy to change name, what you want is to ban their IP if you have reasons to stick a marker on them. Or maybe we should ban UnnamedPlayer from our servers? :)

There's a down side to that idea pretty soon you'll have noob's galore Posting regulars names claiming they are using aim bots etc... every time they get stomped. Or just people trying to troll and start a bunch of crap that's seriously not needed. I understand completely where your coming from, but unfortunately it has as much potential for mayhem as it does good.

heh if the oa master had a blacklist that was updated for every server, that would suck. This isn't Zdaemon

i dont think a black list is very necessary, if someone is being a ass kick them if if they aren't don't simple.
also camping isn't really a blacklistable thing you should be allowed to play the game anyway you want, that said server admins can set rules if they want to.