TOPIC: [SSRP/PS] Rapsheet Notes

Server Name: SSRP, Prophunt, TTT, Deathrun, Bhop, Surf

Suggestion Title: Rapsheet Notes

How would it benefit the server:
Would let admins leave notes on a player's rapsheet for better indirect communication between staff.

For example, a player may have been banned numerous times and keeps getting banned for the same reason and is likely to cause more trouble. An admin could leave a note on the player's rapsheet that would display a notification in chat when they join displaying the note's reason. The note would only appear for staff and would not be visible to regular players.

If a player had numerous notes, it would simply say "[Rapsheet] John Doe (STEAM_0:1:7999) has X notes on their rapsheet."

Potential Issues/Exploits:
Staff leaving notes for silly reasons.

Shouldn't really clog rapsheets with notes for silly things like: "might be hacking". Notes should only be made when there's a valid reason to do so, i.e. numerous bans for the same rule(s) being broken.

To avoid this, we could open up the remove option to Super Admins as well as Head Admins?

Clogging up the chat box which some people might find annoying. Could allow for a setting via the scoreboard to disable join messages?

Additional notes:
Example of a join message:


EDIT: This was a feature in an old SA:MP community I used to be in and it worked really well for the admins.

would also be great for TTT, to note if someone already got informed about the ammount of recents he has

Isnt that guy in chat the one abusing when he flying with people from sits?!

As Martin said, this would be a really good helping hand for staff members. So this suggestion got my full suport. Better start coding Dead!!

Tom. wrote: Yeah this could absolutely be applied to all servers; they all use the same addon.

will better identifying rule breakers


so damage logs too?

Spicy wrote: Yer heed's in the clouds mate

I'm gonna implement this onto my test server and get it reviewed by Xnator/DEAD before having it put to all servers

.uzi wrote: Yea this should be pretty simple to add you just have to call rapsheets function for saving punishments.This is from my user guide.I don’t know that I really want to be spammed tho when ever anyone with a note joins. And Im not sure I really want people being targeted like that. Sure if someone if breaking rules after you join then the more information we habe the better. But I don’t like the idea of the popup in chat for admins.

This could be really useful!

EMP wrote:
Yeah I totally get that people don't want their chat spammed but I also like the idea of having a join notification incase it's a somewhat important note? I could have this option disabled by default by allow staff to punch in a concommand to enable/disable it.

This might clog up the staffs chats more and as a result people might be able to throw shade and shit at people and potentially get away with it.

Thought instead of just agreeing I would give you a potentially issue

EmptyMagz wrote: Same as regular punishments - they'll be categorized as 'recent' for two weeks.

Yes.

Curios at to what's happening with this, it would help out greatly on TTT

Jim_Jam wrote: I haven’t really had a lot of time to develop this recently as well as the prototype I had was crap and I didn’t have much motivation to build it for Deathrun. However, I’m gonna have another go and start from scratch considering I’m a bit more clued in on how to script such an addon but I’m gonna speak to Xnator/DEAD/Chute on how it should be set up.

You know it's crazy because I had a fairly similar idea today and I suppose the timing of me seeing this couldn't have been any better.

Anyhow, my version of this would be similar. Let's say, for instance, a user has been banned (10~) times for the reason (scamming), and let's suppose the staff team has decided that it is best if we keep the ban unchanged for an extended period of time. The staff member(s) could add a note to the ban saying "Do not unban before at least - (6 months) - have passed," essentially allowing a potential appeal to be denied without it being necessary to spend too much time talking to the staff member who originally elected to punish the user, if any time at all.

Obviously, in this specific situation, the note(s) are useful for clarifying the minimum time to wait before other staff members can start to consider unbanning the banned user in question. In which case you would probably want the note itself to stay on the rap sheet for at least (6~ months). However, notes could be set to last virtually as long as possible. There are also various different uses for these notes, such as "Verbally warned (2) times prior to the punishment that was given", etc. and any other information that might be generally helpful in understanding the actions of a user, or determining an appropriate punishment for the user.

As for the front-end of things, I believe punishments could have some form of an indicator that a note has been left, for instance like this (Latest punishment):



This is only a draft, though, and I'm open for better suggestions on how to tackle the front-end aspects of it.

This would not void the Reason/Type tab as it already serves its purpose to display the type- and/or reason for the ban (which would be something along the lines of "scamming," "hacking," etc.), whereas the notes would specify anything from the conditions of the ban to instructions for other staff members to read in the future. Notes would also be more detailed and generally longer, whilst the reasoning still stays short.

Anyway, I haven't gone through the details of this idea entirely, but I'm leaving it here for anyone to improve and elaborate on. I'm sorry if this turns out to be vastly similar to the original thread, but I'm drunk right now and I usually fail to do certain things.