Denied [Website & Forums Suggestion] disable sportsbook for banned players

+1 It makes sense that players that are banned from the main server should not be able to participate in activities that can benefit them economically.

 

+1
Not really sure why they are allowed to in the first place.
The fact you see people who are banned from breach of a loan contracts and yet bet on sportsbook kinda confuses me...

 

+1 No user that is currently banned should be able to profit in any way. They should pay the consequences and have to 'work' to be able to return instead of getting lucky on a bet and being able to return without having to do anything.

 

On paper this is a decent enough idea but ultimately... you're not going to get it off of paper.

Are these sportsbook bans supposed to be automated? That's a programmatic nightmare that would be next to impossible to set up without truly massive forum and ban system overhauls.

Are staff supposed to manually 'ban' them exclusively from sportsbook (but not the rest of the forums, or at minimum, the BA/C section)? That'd require user groups to be set up, just for this. Not to mention a GA then has to find the account and change the group every single time a player is banned or unbanned. A massive amount of work that's just not realistic.

Perhaps it would be better for SA's to seize assets in scamming cases for the duration it would take to resolve them. Much easier, cleaner, and would ultimately still probably be better off. I doubt a guy who doesn't even get in touch would pay you, even if he had nothing else to do with his money.

 

Unfortunately, though I like the idea, I have to agree with Nicit here. If we don't make a custom "sportsbook denied" usergroup, the GA+ team would have to manually set custom user permissions for each banned user, something we rarely do anyway as it's very easy to screw up. Even if we do make a special usergroup, we still have to manually put people in that usergroup. Unless Andrew wants to hire a Dev with xenforo knowledge to somehow link with our bans system... But I highly doubt it.

I do however +1 the idea of SAs pulling the money out of sportsbook events / out of forum balance to settle debts to users, if Andrew is willing to grant them those perms.

 

Good idea Chundi,
Sorry that this happened to you.
+1

 

Great idea, and I understand your reasoning for it. However, as @Nicit6 has mentioned, this is an automation nightmare, and with the amount of bans we give out, simply will never happen.

(@Nicit6 has worked on the forums for years in the past, and is one of the only people to truly begin to understand why this is denied.)

- Cant automate it unless I spent 100s if not over 1,000USD rewriting the ban system, and linking it to the forum. (This is a forum bank sized project, and forum bank itself cost over 1,000USD).
- Won’t be done manually, ever, period. A nightmare.

All I gotta say is, it sucks what happened to you, consider that person an asshole, spread the word amongst your friends, and move on. If people want to tarnish their reputation like this, it’s on them.

PS: I will not have seized assets as it screws my economy statistics that I constantly need a realistic view of.