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Originally Posted by cbk1994
I don't see any point in a field for a staff comment which is not shown to players (we already have /opencomments for this, and all servers most likely already log bans here).
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A staff comment would be useful for expanding on certain scenarios within the ban history of a player on a global level. If I open a ban on a server and see that a player has been banned elsewhere, a short sentence aimed towards the player is less likely to be specific in terms of the situation or context it has arisen. I can make use of one of my bans¹ for this.
I was banned on Classic for going on someone else's account and hosting events because the players were bored. My ban reason states that I "went on an account without permission and hosted events" and that might suggest I'm an account thief or that I had been doing sinister acts on the server on accounts that weren't mine. I would have known what it meant if I'd seen the reason, but people looking at my ban history, deciding on whether they should hire me or not, or whether I've got a history of doing similar acts, can look at that and say, "Well he's got a history of stealing accounts." The truth would have been that I was given the password by the player for the purpose, didn't steal his account at all, and harmlessly hosted events which I had prior experience with. There's a difference between the two reasons, and a simple message that the player receives when logging on just wouldn't go into enough detail to explain the situation.
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I'm not disputing a ban here, this happened a long time ago and over and done with. I'm just providing an example.