Dave, I just remembered part of ChessPark's work, essentially Chess games within a MUC, time affiliations would have made that a little easier, the time for each "move" could have been automatically handled by the server only allowing a response for a certain period (thus avoiding excess chatter etc).
Just a thought. Cheers Kirk On Monday, 5 September 2011, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon Sep 5 14:29:29 2011, Florent Le Coz wrote: >> >> On 22/08/2011 20:10, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> >>> Beeing a long time IRC user, I've often seen that a concept of timed affiliation could be usefull for other reasons too. >>> >> I think timed affiliations could be useful. Having a way to ban someone for a defined time is a good feature, for example. > > Also timed memberships, and use-it-or-lose-it timeouts on affiliations might be useful. > > We're also asked about timeouts on rooms, too, from time to time. > >> Wouldn’t it be better to just reset the affiliation to the previous one? >> For example, with your proposal, if you ban a member for, say, 10 minutes, she will come back with no affiliation. That can be disturbing and I don’t see why that would be the prefered way. >> Reseting the affiliation to the one that was set before seems more logical and useful to me. >> >> I don’t know if that could be integrated in XEP 0045 or as an separated XEP, but I think this is simple and short enough to be included in 0045. > > The problem is that requires a bit more storage and manipulation. I'm not against that, but if you banned them, why have them back as a member straight away? > > Dave. > -- > Dave Cridland - mailto:[email protected] - xmpp:[email protected] > - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ > - http://dave.cridland.net/ > Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade >
