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Ban functionality

This page outlines the various methods players can be banned. Currently, it's only possible to appeal a steam ban. The rest are considered effectively permanent.

Steam Bans​

The standard ban usecase, banning by steam ID. Note the 2 special options for Include Friends and IP Evading Allowed.

If include friends is enabled, then all the ban recipients friends will also be banned. Friends do not receive a entry in the ban table however, and are automatically allowed back once the parents ban is completed. The list of friends is only updated periodically, so you may have to wait several hours for the changes to take effect and existing banned friends get flushed.

IP evasion option allows users to connect from the same ip as a currently banned user. When not enabled, users are automatically banned for evasion and their ban lengths are changed to permanent. If you want a banned users "brother" to be able to play, then be sure to enable this.

This type of ban is the only one that allows muting players.

CIDR bans​

Similar to steam bans, except they also match against a cidr range.

For example, to ban a user and his entire network block, you could ban 50.60.70.0/24. This would ban anyone connecting from 50.60.70.0 - 50.60.70.255.

ASN Bans​

ANS bans are probably the least used option. They should be used with care as they can be too broad in what they ban if you are not careful. If a user connects with a range that the banned ASN owns, the user will be kicked.

Steam Group Bans​

Ban all members of a particular steam group from connecting.

You can find a groups GID by opening the memberslist directly. You can achieve this by appending /memberslistxml/?xml=1 to the url of the steam group. You should end up with something like:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/valve/memberslistxml/?xml=1

Inside here, at the top, you should see the group ID you can use for banning:

<groupID64>103582791429521412</groupID64>

Similar to the friends list bans, these are also updated periodically. Any changes may take a few hours to flush through the system.

Valve does not like hitting the memberslist endpoint that often without getting rate limited. Currently there is no protections for this, so its advised to not add too many entries for now.