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When looking for a recent ban here
http://www.opticraft.net/index.php/page,RecentBans.html
you get the last 10

you could search for a username, but often they dont give there ingame name while posting there ban appeal
how about, we extend recent bans, to multiple pages?
that would give alot more odds, of finding the similar username, in the list, to be able to answer the ban appeal

What's wrong with just asking like we have been doing o.o

Could prove to be useful

Quote from: Nyssa on August 08, 2012, 09:00:54 AM
What's wrong with just asking like we have been doing o.o

nothing, just suggesting a bit of luxery
could be usefull, i know its not required

we still wouldn't be able to find their ban, as we won't know their username :p

we're going to have to do something about the appeals, though. nobody (NOBODY AT ALL, EVER) reads the pinned topic and follows the guideline. my philosophy is still that we can't expect them to do anything right, we have to make it so that they absolutely cannot do something wrong. i was hoping that the ban appeal guideline would catch on, but it didn't. sadly, this just means i have some work to do :p

Well perhaps I could offer a suggestion that would aid in looking up bans.

I understand people don't post their username, but one thing that I've noticed is that if you type part of a username, the person you are searching for will not show up, but if you type the full name character for character then you will get the result. Perhaps make it show the 10 most relevant results.

So if I wanted to look up a ban, I could type "chief" in the search, and I would get up to 10 bans of users with the word "chief" in their username, and one of them would be chief149.

The other suggestion would be to have the search also let us go by forum usernames. For example, I misspelled my forum username and spelled it "Cheif149" instead of "Chief149" (got the e and i reversed). Therefore searching with a forum username would also search for results for the username of the minecraft account linked to the forum account. So typing "Cheif149" would search for bans of a (in this case nonexistent) player named "Cheif149" as well as the player "Chief149" since the Chief149 account is linked to my forum account.

Quote from: Chief149 on August 08, 2012, 09:07:43 PM
Well perhaps I could offer a suggestion that would aid in looking up bans.

will not work, for someone that has a similiar name, but just not similiar enough for the search function
i find my own suggestion way more usefull   to have a longer history of all banned players
but lets see if others are even interested in this in the first place

Quote from: cschurz on August 08, 2012, 09:00:03 PM
we can't expect them to do anything right

very true, i guess this would only solve a tiny bit of the large formating guide lines no one ever uses

I like the relevant results idea. The forum name search might be a bit hard to implement because that requires us to hard-wire into the forums itself. Currently, the ban search feature is wired to the server's database itself-- extending a connection to the forums might make it messy.