recommendation system / chain of trust for privs

[lightonflux]

Hello,

some people may know the problem that there is a server that per default disallows the interact privilege. And you have to ask the admin for it. But sometimes the admin isn't there and you can't start building your dreamhouse on a server.

Wouldn't it be great if the admin could give all people he trusts the trust privilege which then allows a trusted user to recommend a user which then gets certain privileges assigned by the server.

So the admin would setup the privs like

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/trustmode fly, interact, …

Then add the some trusted users:

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/trust user

Which then could

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/recommend newuser
or
/trust newuser

and then the server assigns the privs and maybe other actions.

To increase security there could be a setting so a new user needs a number of recommendations.

There also could be a distrust command if the user misbehaves.


Any ideas how such a feature/mod could be used and if you think there is a need for that.

[rubenwardy]

Other users can grant the interact privilege to new players if they have the 'basic_privs' privilege. Most servers have multiple moderators which do this.

[Krock]

Exactly. "basic_privs" is a good way to control such things.
It would be even better when the players need to agree the rules and "verify" even before ther account gets created.

[Sokomine]

It would be even better when the players need to agree the rules and "verify" even before ther account gets created.

Having to agree to the rules officially is a good idea, yet it works only to a very limited degree. I've met players who *did* agree to the rules - and, when asked what the rules contained, explained that they couldn't read the language the rules where in.

There's a server out there that has a maze where players need to answer questions based on the rules by choosing one exit or another. That's a pretty nice idea. I wonder how well it works.

Granting interact by default, installing a no-guestname-mod and having rollback at hand usually helps most.