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Limelight - Link watcher

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Material URL Tool

Description:
The Material URL Tool is a tool that lets players use any image with a URL
(that is on the

Limelight - Link watcher

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whitelist) as a material for props. I propose that we add this tool to the server.

Why?:
This tool would be as - if not more - useful, as the Advanced Material  tool
suggested in my previous post. It would allow players to use any material they wish
that can be found online, such as posters, screenshots, or even custom car liveries they've created!

I believe this could also be put behind a 1 REP limit, similar to the sign.

Footnote:
I have consulted with @bimkx‍ and on first look any potential security issues could possibly be ironed out, similarly to the Sign we already have.

(Feb 6, 2025, 03:08 AM)Bambo Wrote: The only way this can be successfully moderated is we had our own image hosting service which allows us to approve, delete images and only use our services.

Otherwise although it's a great asset, it opens Limelight to ToS breaches and similar issues.

We would need several things to be able to pull it off while preventing misuse.

- Tool specific blacklist and/or REP point tie in to combat misuse
-- This is the most possible moderation method. A misuse would mean a tool gun blacklist and that would mean 80% of gmod is out of reach.

- LL based approval or moderated image hosting system which is the only whitelisted host. Sadly many existing options could cause issues even if a whitelist is used. This would allow us to combat other misuses but this adds to the process.

We'll need to discuss this internally if it is viable in any way, I see the positives but also I am aware of the negatives and the headaches it could cause moderation wise. New tools that allow creativity to such degree always begin their life span with a flood of misuse, while we do have a general way to combat this, and staff can surely warn for such use but a blacklist alongside a REP requirement would definitely be necessary.

Please keep these in mind as this suggestion goes forward / if it goes forward.