Declined Is there a reason why /report or /votemenu don't show up in the chatlog?

[Perseus Dash Jackson]

What the title says. !report/!votemenu show up in the chatlog but the / versions don't. Is there a reason for this? If not, it could help a lot with reportspamming and all.

 

[PsychoRealm]

I believe it's because of "/"

 

[Tomatketchup]

I believe it's because of "/"

The question was why it's like that.

 

[PsychoRealm]

I used to observe the same behavior in IRC. I'm not a programmer, but I'd assume that "/" sends direct request to the server whereas "!" is just an alias. Just an assumption though.

 

[HowIMetYourMother]

So far my knowledge goes, if you type / it goes directly in your console, so its the same as typing in console, witch cannot be tracked

 

[DaivdBaekr]

I used to observe the same behavior in IRC. I'm not a programmer, but I'd assume that "/" sends direct request to the server whereas "!" is just an alias. Just an assumption though.

Pretty much this. Makes me wonder why we need the exclamation commands in the first place since there's a way to do all these functions without clogging up the text chat.

 

[Lord Killington]

I was thinking about suggesting the removal of /commands actually, as someone can votespam with /commands and they won't show up in the chat

 

[Bottiger]

This is a feature built into sourcemod and I am not sure how to remove it.

 

[LastTalon]

I was thinking about suggesting the removal of /commands actually, as someone can votespam with /commands and they won't show up in the chat

You can't votespam using the slash version any more than the exclamation point version though. They're both on the same timer. In sourcemod the hook for the chat is just handled differently if its an exclamation point versus a slash. Also, if I'm correct, it should still log it for admins to check if necessary.

 

[KinCryos]

You can't votespam using the slash version any more than the exclamation point version though. They're both on the same timer. In sourcemod the hook for the chat is just handled differently if its an exclamation point versus a slash. Also, if I'm correct, it should still log it for admins to check if necessary.

correct, when someone calls a vote, the details are added to their chatlog. that's how we know when an instance of !votemenu or !report has no vote/report being called

examples:
http://stats.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chat&filter=/votemenu
http://stats.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chat&filter=/report

 

[LastTalon]

that's how we know when an instance of !votemenu has no vote being called

This is good. I often use the votemenu to check if alltalk is on. :P

 

[KinCryos]

This is good. I often use the votemenu to check if alltalk is on. :p

I'm guessing at least half the instances of !votemenu without any votes called are for the same reason, lol

 

[ozzeh / dave]

This is good. I often use the votemenu to check if alltalk is on. :p

Same here.

 

[LastTalon]

Like DaevidBaekr pointed out, there would probably be a lot of chat spam if there were no slash commands.