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ALRIGHT WE NEED ONE MORE STAFFER

Are you good at any of these clans:
Gangrel, Ventrue, Caitiff, Setites/Serpents, Nosferatu?

Because our Nosferatu/Setite lead had to step down to RL stuff. So, if I can get a staffer to volunteer either take up his old things, or just shuffle clans with you, you can be the grand poobah of those 2 clans.

@Eerie, our love is a pragmatic love.

What I was suggesting is really just inspired by most books and shows I have seen/read recently. Both media often reveal their (often not yet created until you read it) backstory, with details and so on. Often this includes learning things about characters where they colluded with cover ups, committed crimes, or otherwise know more than most about what happened and how it was resolved in a dirty/messy fashion. Cuz how would you know what there really is to know, if you weren't behind closed doors etc? It can be violations of codes or laws, atrocities or actions out of keeping with the desired image, it could just be the sausage factory that is politics, as long as you have something to lose if it's brought to light.

HOW you do it is a matter of taste and complexity. Linking it to the Secrets rating makes it mandatory and tracked by the same Merit.

You could (less) easily throw in Dirty Secrets as another flaw type thing, and let people define it however they like, including linked to the City Secrets.

I like noir, and the intimacy of a shared difficulty, even between rivals or frenemies.

It would need some hacking. The ?col() functions are just for coloration. The hasauthority() function needs to be replaced with a function to check if someone should be able to siteban. You'd also need to provide a means of running @restart after modifying the list.

@create Site Banninator=5 &META_AUTHOR Site Banninator=Sponge/#4 &META_PURPOSE Site Banninator=Enable people other than #1 to add/remove sitebans &META_UPDATED_BY Site Banninator=Sponge/#4 &META_NEEDS_FLAGS Site Banninator=inherit &META_NEEDS_OBJS Site Banninator=#10 #3 #1774 &DATA_DB Site Banninator=#1774 &CMND_SITEBANS_LIST Site Banninator=$+sitebans/list:@switch [hasauthority(%#,SITEBAN)]=0*,@pemit %#=You do not have the proper authority to manage sitebans.,1,@pemit %#=u(UFUN_LIST_SITEBANS) &UFUN_FMT_RECORD Site Banninator=[setq(I,extract(%0,1,1,|))][setq(U,extract(%0,2,1,|))][setq(T,extract(%0,3,1,|))][setq(C,extract(%0,4,50,|,|))][ljust(IP: %qI, 24)][ljust(By: %qU,25)][ljust(On: [mid(convsecs(%qT),0,11)][mid(convsecs(%qT),20,4)],24)]%rWhy: %qC &UFUN_LIST_SITEBANS Site Banninator=[header(Sitebans)]%r[iter(lattr(v(DATA_DB)/DATA_BAN_*),u(UFUN_FMT_RECORD,get(v(DATA_DB)/##)),\ ,%r)]%r[footer()] &CMND_SITEBANS_REMOVE Site Banninator=$+sitebans/remove *:@switch [hasauthority(%#,SITEBAN)][hasattr(v(DATA_DB),DATA_BAN_[u(UFUN_IP_TO_LABEL,%0)])] &UFUN_IP_TO_LABEL Site Banninator=edit(before(%0,/),.,_) &UFUN_VALIDATE_IP_CHARS Site Banninator=not(strip(%0,0123456789./)) &UFUN_FOLD_OCTET Site Banninator=add(shl(%0,8),%1) &UFUN_VALIDATE_IP_RANGE Site Banninator=[setq(I,u(UFUN_IP_TO_INT,before(%0,/)))]and(gte(%qI,u(UFUN_IP_TO_INT,1.0.0.0)),lt(%qI,u(UFUN_IP_TO_INT,224.0.0.0))) &UFUN_IP_TO_INT Site Banninator=fold(UFUN_FOLD_OCTET,edit(%0,.,%b)) &UFUN_VALIDATE_IP_OCTETS Site Banninator=not(edit(iter(%0,gt(##,255),.),%b,)) &UFUN_IP_VALIDATE Site Banninator=not(strmatch(iter(lattr(me/UFUN_VALIDATE_*),u(##,%0)),*0*)) &UFUN_LIST_BANIPS Site Banninator=iter(lattr(v(DATA_DB)/DATA_BAN_*),before(get(v(DATA_DB)/##),|)) &CMND_SITEBANS_DELETE Site Banninator=$+sitebans/delete *:@switch [hasauthority(%#,SITEBAN)][u(UFUN_IP_BANNED,%0)]=0*,@pemit %#=scol(You do not have the proper authority to manage sitebans.),10*,@pemit %#=scol(No such IP ban found. Try +sitebans/list.),11,{&DATA_BAN_[u(UFUN_IP_TO_LABEL,%0)] [v(DATA_DB)]=;@pemit %#=pcol(Ban for %0 cleared. You'll have to @restart for the changes to take effect.)} &UFUN_IP_BANNED Site Banninator=hasattr(v(DATA_DB),DATA_BAN_[u(UFUN_IP_TO_LABEL,%0)]) &CMND_SITEBANS_ADD Site Banninator=$+sitebans/add *=*:@switch [hasauthority(%#,SITEBAN)][u(UFUN_IP_VALIDATE,%0)]=0*,@pemit %#=scol(You do not have the proper authority to manage sitebans.),10*,@pemit %#=scol('%0' does not appear to be an acceptable IP to ban.),11,{&DATA_BAN_[u(UFUN_IP_TO_LABEL,%0)] [v(DATA_DB)]=[if(strmatch(%0,*/*),%0,%0/32)]|%N/%#|[secs()]|%1;@pemit %#=pcol(Added '%0' to sitebans list. Remember to @restart for changes to take effect.)} &CMND_SITEBANS_ADDPLAYER Site Banninator=$+sitebans/player *=*:@switch [hasauthority(%#,SITEBAN)][t(setr(P,pmatch(%0)))]=0*,@pemit %#=scol(You do not have the proper authority to manage sitebans.),10*,@pemit %#=scol(Couldn't find player '%0'.),11,{@fo %#[setq(I,get(%qP/LASTIP))]=+sitebans/add %qI=%1} @set Site Banninator=INHERIT @set Site Banninator=SAFE

and

@Startup Wizard=@dolist u(#1773/UFUN_LIST_BANIPS)=@admin forbid_site=##

On NPM/CoH, #1773 is the Site Banninator and #1774 is an arbitrary THING to hold the siteban data.

Crazy spongecode aside, maybe ZONES could help here? I've never played with them.

Aaaand I'm back from the hurricane party that called itself a wedding

And tomorrow it's back to ST Wednesdays and Thursdays, wooo! I notice there are about five more of y'all, some from MuSoapBox, so, I'm postin' to let you know I'll be on at 7 PM CST to corral ya'll for a scene.