This is a response to my last suggestion which got turned down. Minecraft Name: Videowiz92 Suggestion: Shorten the cooldown timer for nickname to 1 minute. Reason: 5 minute cooldown for nickname is way too long. Any Other Information: So my last suggestion got denied because the cooldown timer is now a requirement for staff's convenience to catch anyone that decides to troll with nickname and attempt to change it before they can /realname the felon. I feel as though a 5 minute timer is way too long though; if someone was going to troll with a $100 donation feature and risk losing it, that's their own fault. On the other hand, it doesn't take staff 5 minutes to check for the nickname of a person who is trolling and take action on it. A 1 minute cooldown would be much better while still providing the staff with a "convenience" to search for any abusers of the feature. As well it wouldn't impede my use of the feature as much whenever I need to remove my nickname for moderation use. TL,DR If a cooldown is absolutely required, I would be content with a 1 minute cooldown timer; a 5 minute timer is way too much. Until a person actually decides to troll with and risk losing their $100 donation they payed for, the cooldown should not be as long as it is now.
Stolio posted on the previous suggestion not knowing it was locked; My response; They can still do that even after the cooldown expires (person puts a nickname, trolls, then quickly changes name, then the cooldown is applied); question is when/if someone will do it and why they would chance losing a $100 feature to begin with? If this is the case, why put such a long timer in place to "prevent" trolling if it's possible even without the cooldown? If worse comes to worse, andrew/sky can just check server logs and punish the person that typed the command with the felon nickname.
From the way you put it, I agree. If anything, the cooldown should be just like the tp cooldown, which is around 7 seconds.
Greetings, I have typed this out many times, but pretty much it all came out the same way, and I didn't like the way I kept coming across. I guess it boils down to: Besides your unique situation, staff banning, can you think of a real reason a non-staff person would NEED to change their nick every minute? When I read your first post, because I don;t have the feature, I was thinking, "It should be less than 30 minutes. Maybe 15, or 10. I could agree to this." Then on this one I see the cooldown is a paltry 5 minutes. Well, you can see why I had a hard time putting this tactfully. I agree it sounds like an inconvenience for you to perform your duties as staff. But I think that it is a minor one that you will adjust to. I do not see a reason someone needs to change their nick more than once every 5 min except to troll. This is just my opinion, and while I disagree with you here, I still believe you are an outstanding staff member.
Five minutes allows for time of discussion, if there needs to be it, when it comes to troublesome users who are using the nickname feature. One minute is not enough time for any type of discussion unless you want things to not go smoothly (more confusion from a name change(s), interrupted by another change, etc). If there was a reduction, I'd say absolutely no lower than three minutes. Although I can see the Staff side of things, very few Staff will have this feature - at least for a long while - and it is not worth the change when it will only cause absolutely mayhem and chaos on the server. As well, tying back to very few Staff having this feature for a while, it wouldn't be worth taking away the cooldown for them like it was for TP (which, might I add, Staff are given to do Staff duties ... nickname is not require for Staff duties - it is purely vanity). Staff sacrifice things all the time. :/
Staff has to tp, A LOT. But we don't nearly have to ban that often. I've only had to ban within 5 minutes from each other maybe 3 times in a few weeks. It rarely happens. Not to mention that this feature is NOT a staff feature, while TP is. We get the exemption because we have to use it for staff duties, nicknames are just for fun and not even remotely related to staff duties.
I honestly don't see the point of changing this at all, even for a staff member. /Very/ rarely would this affect a moderator, as i'm sure that the average mod does not do a major ban more than once every day or two. Even if you were going to do a major ban, as Moofin stated, there would most likely be a little bit of talking before the ban, during which you could just do /nick off, and at the worst you would be without a nickname for a minute or two. I'm sure that the very small minority of moderators, who are supposed to be the responsible role-models on the server could take a slight inconvenience to stop the many other users who will get/have gotten this feature from potentially scamming and being able to get away with it unless the logs are checked, right?
How about keeping a log that tracks the last 5 nicknames a player used? If PLAYER changed their name to 'Potato' and later changed their name to 'Carrot', using '/realname Potato' would still return PLAYER's name. Questions about the feature: Can 2 (or more) people have the same nickname? If so, does using '/realname NICK' return both (or all) of their names? Maybe even add a new command like '/aliases PLAYER' and it would list the last 5 nicknames they used, including their current one, if any.
This would still require a cooldown, someone could very easily just switch 10 times to get away with it
Hmm that's true, but implementing it would still allow for a shorter CD time, which is what the donators want, while also giving the staff the means to investigate whether or not a player is abusing the feature, which is the reason for the 5 minute CD in the first place. Alternatively, and I'm basing this off of the example that Video gave in the first suggestion, how about implementing a new command like '/lastnick' or '/nick last'. It would reapply the last nickname that you used (should check to see if you already have a nickname set), regardless of the CD just like the '/nick off' command. With this, one may toggle their nickname off to go about doing their duties/conduct a transaction and then toggle it back on once they are done. Setting a brand new nickname would still have the CD of once every 5 minutes, but they can now toggle the last nickname they used on/off whenever they wish. Of course, this also has the drawback of someone toggling a nickname on to troll and then immediately toggling it off before anyone has time to '/realname' them, but that's what my original suggestion of keeping a log is for Here you would only need to track the last nickname a player used, instead of the last 5. As an aside, I'd like to see an abbreviated version of the '/realname' command. Maybe something like '/rn <nick>'
