Banlist Help

Configuring Custom Comments

What are Custom Comments?

Custom Comments enable you to set the comments for people to be banned within a second without losing important information about why that certain player has been banned. A keyword identifies the kind of reason. To each keyword belongs a string that contains variables. These will be substituted with the information they stand for. I.e. if you use "/ban BadGuy leaver" within Warcraft III, BadGuy will be banned with comment "leaver (5*v5) on Northrend (02/2005)". The asterisk is behind the first five, because he belonged to that team. Each team had had five players before he had left. -WC3Banlist Help

What are Valid Reasons to Ban?

Ban Reasons

• Leaving (5v5;4v5;4v4 in 5v5 games) (4v4 in 4v4 games)
• Leaving (without any reason; normally just after dying)
• Leaving (all team leave at one time, chain-leaving or team-leaving)
• Flaming (Personal trashing another player)
• Laming (Stealing all items from leaver and selling with own hero)
• Laming (destroying own items; Giving own items to enemy)
• Laming (Sending out leaver heroes for dying)
• Shittalking (Talking shit, talking trash to an excessive extend)
• Afk (Going idle for longer periods > 10 min)
• Banlist abuser (Players that ban other players without valid reason)

How to Create Custom Comments (with pics!)

1. Open Wc3Banlist!
2. Open the "Preferences" tab.
   
3. Click "Custom Comments" on the sidebar.
   
4. To create a new custom comment click the [+] sign, in the box that comes up type the name you wish the comment to have (make it something short and easy to remember for quick use). Then select the comment from the list and type in what you wish it to do in the text bar.

Using Custom Comments

Example: AFK example

You type "/ban [player name] [keyword]"

Custom Comment afk: AFK for more then 10+ minutes without explanation ($month/$day/$year) on Azeroth

If a player named "OmegaX1" went AFK for a prolonged period of time and it warranted a ban I would of type out "/ban OmegaX1 AFKs for a long time without saying anything on azeroth" BUT with custom comments that I have created I can type out something much shorter and get all the important information in my ban "/ban OmegaX1 afk". The ban would turn out to like this "AFK for more then 10+ minutes without explanation (08/05/2006) on Azeroth".


Adavnced Example: There is a variable called $param which you can use in custom comments to easily add in extra important information that you want to include in a ban.

You type "/ban [player name] [keyword] [extra details which will replace the $param]"

Custom Comment leaver: Leaver ($ratio)@$gametime $param on Azeroth

If a player named "Gato23" had a score of 0-24 and left the game 10 minutes in and I typed "/ban Gato23 leaver score:0-24 fed the other team a lot" then the ban would turn out as "Leaver (5*v5)@00:10:00 score:0-24 fed the other team a lot on Azeroth". The variable $param enables us to put extra important information into the ban.

What Should Custom Comments Include?

There are many important variables that a custom comment should include.

Neccessary Variables - ($ratio/$gamestate, $day $month $year, $realm)

• $ratio or $gamestate - This shows the current standings of the game (5*v5, 5v3* etc.). $ratio is preferred over $gamestate by many because it is more detailed. This variable should be used in all leaver related custom comments.
• $day $month $year - This variable will give the date in your bans which is required in all your custom comments. Use either D/M/Y or M/D/Y.
• $realm - This shows the realm and is in my opinion, required in all custom comments.

Optional Variables - ($gametitle, $gametime, $param)

• $gametitle - Shows the title of your game, useful for finding replays and in cases where the game does not start 5v5. Can be used in all custom comments.
• $gametime - Shows the current gametime, useful for knowing at what stage of the game did a player leave. Usually used only in leaver related custom comments.
• $param - A variable which can help you substitute information into a custom comment, useful for manually adding in extra information into a ban such as their score, hero, and etc.

Example Custom Comments (Mine!)

• Leaver: ($year-$month-$day) leaver $param ($ratio) @$gametime on $realm
• afk: ($year-$month-$day) player afk for over 10 minutes $param on $realm
• flamer: ($year-$month-$day) flamer $param on $realm
• lamer: ($year-$month-$day) lamer $param on $realm

Why do I list date first?

I list the date first so that I can order my bans chronologically. You do not have to list the date first but it really helped me order my bans.

There are many other custom commments that you can create. Some split leaver up into leaver, first death leaver, countdown leaver, leaver on death, and first blood leaver. I like to keep my phrases simple and just add those comments in the $param. Check out other people’s custom comments here to find other custom comments.

Special Thanks

• Link: Thanks to ragnorok999 for his creating custom comments guide.
• Link: Thanks to Accurim for his custom comments guide.
• Link: Thanks to DKHost for his banning reasons.