Sticky bans made from within game will sometimes ban everybody

ID:1985894
 
Nov 19 2015, 9:30 pm (Edited on Nov 19 2015, 10:20 pm)
BYOND Version:508
Operating System:windows server 2012
Web Browser:Firefox 41.0
Applies to:Dream Daemon
Status: Open
Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Descriptive Problem Summary:

Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
Use World.SetConfig to place a sticky ban
Code Snippet (if applicable) to Reproduce Problem:
world.SetConfig("keyban",M.ckey,"type=sticky&reason=[reason]&message=[reason]&admin=[ckey(usr.key)]")


Expected Results:
Sticky ban works as intended
Actual Results:
Randomly it will believe anybody who logs in matches the sticky ban and does that until everybody is eventually banned.
Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often?
Completely random, just happened but previous time was a few months ago
In other games?
unknown
In other user accounts?
n/a
On other computers?
Yes

When does the problem NOT occur?
When making a stickyban manually through dream daemon.
Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? (Visit http://www.byond.com/download/build to download old versions for testing.)

Workarounds:
Don't make stickybans using SetConfig

Here is what a stickyban entry looks like with setconfig
joegreyshirt:Exadv1.spacestation13 type=sticky&reason=Test&message=Test&admin=pomf123


and through DD
joegreyshirt reason=Test&message=Test&type=sticky


Is it possible that the game specific part triggers some issue, or the admin flag?

edit: apparently the ban that caused the issue in question was applied a few weeks ago
Nov 19 2015, 11:29 pm
Was jogreyshirt the account name of the user who set this off, or was it someone else?

The game-specific part may or may not play into this. I'll see what I can find.
Nov 20 2015, 11:01 am
Joegreyshirt was just an example name. But it's happened with about 3-4 separate account names I believe.

Also it primarily seems to cascade.

The sticky ban will ban one or two other people, and then very rapidly proceed to ban about 2/3rds of the playerbase. Some people seem inexplicably immune to this and never get sucked into the sticky ban.
Nov 20 2015, 11:03 am
I need to know any specific names it's happened with.
Nov 20 2015, 11:14 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
I need to know any specific names it's happened with.

luffdiuhnenh was the name on this last one.
Nov 20 2015, 1:02 pm
Ideally what will help me is if in every case, you can get me the raw ban info from after it has triggered. Those can be sent in a message for privacy concerns. I think that'll help me piece together the pattern here.
Nov 21 2015, 11:10 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
Ideally what will help me is if in every case, you can get me the raw ban info from after it has triggered. Those can be sent in a message for privacy concerns. I think that'll help me piece together the pattern here.

will do
Nov 21 2015, 8:39 pm
Lummox I sent you a message with some information regarding the most recent incarnation of this.
May 26 2017, 9:36 am
Bumping this, I set a ban and it took about 7 others with it. Was this ever fixed?
Jun 6 2017, 9:12 am
Different post from me with the same issue:

http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=2255137

Count this as a bump, this is just simply something you need to fix, not in 2 years.. But soon.