Reporting a player for cheating by a player is different than an admin reporting it?

[Lost in the Void 0]

I am currently the admin of 2737 and have reviewed the logs when i see something fishy going on and can usually correlate what is going on in game to what is in the logs, reporting a player willie nillie without evidence on the forums from a players perspective is harder to prosecute than someone caught hacking by an admin with iron-clad evidence.

Therefore, are there procedures for getting a global ban in place or should admins only worry about eliminating hackers from their server only.

Thank you in advance,

The Lost

Edited August 26, 2012 by Lost in the Void

[SmashT 10907]

No, BE does not globally ban players based on reports, for good reason. There is a shared banalist going around but it seems a pretty flawed system since there is no way to verify the legitimacy of the bans being they are based on log files which can be easily modified with any text editor.

Edited August 26, 2012 by smasht_AU

[Lost in the Void 0]

fair enough.

[Lost in the Void 0]

could some sort of md5 hash or something be generated for the log files so that the authenticity of that log can be assured? Its just that my thinking is, that the hackers are unified in their attempts to create better and less detectable hacks and if the community isnt unified in identifying and removing them with bans etc we WILL fail.

[Gogster (DayZ) 626]

could some sort of md5 hash or something be generated for the log files so that the authenticity of that log can be assured? Its just that my thinking is, that the hackers are unified in their attempts to create better and less detectable hacks and if the community isnt unified in identifying and removing them with bans etc we WILL fail.

You're talking about a remote repository system, which BE doesn't feature.