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  • - I was in the pub with this man the other week

  • - Hello!

  • - And we were talking about moderation.

  • - Yeah, I've got a friend, Mark. Hello Mark!

  • Who streams on Mixer,

  • and I go along and I moderate for him occasionally.

  • When they ban somebody out of the chat for being offensive,

  • or dull, or using too many emojis, he calls it:

  • 'the banhammer'!

  • - Which is a name that has been going for a long, long time.

  • Like, back in the forum days, 15-20 years ago, moderators

  • wielded this metaphorical banhammer.

  • - However, in the pub I say this, and his eyes light up,

  • and I'm not 100% sure why, but here we are now...

  • - We've made a banhammer. Do you want to, erm...

  • - Yeah, alright.

  • - Agh! There is, in fact, a hammer in here.

  • - There we go, there's one end of it, there's the other.

  • There you go, that's it.

  • - Thank you!

  • - So what's going to happen is: over here we have Mat, who

  • actually did the design and build on all the technology here

  • He's going to be typing in the names of anyone who needs to be banned.

  • Over here is Dan. Nerd³, you might know him as.

  • - Hello!

  • - If you want anyone banned from your chat today, let us know.

  • - Can do!

  • - And the harder Chris swings this hammer,

  • the more time they're going to be banned for.

  • So Chris, if you're ready, let's take out someone.

  • - Oh, I like this!

  • All the pieces move as well!

  • This is great!

  • - So we have a server running locally on the computer,

  • and that has a command line input, so you can type in

  • the username of the person you want to ban,

  • and then that tells the game to trigger all of the visual stuff.

  • Then when the game does the ban with the hammer,

  • that then pipes it back through the server to Twitch

  • and then just sends the ban command from that moderator account.

  • That can just send ban stuff into the chat with the chat commands.

  • - Line 'em up, knock 'em down!

  • You can't see what I'm seeing, you'll see it at some point.

  • But this is a beautiful thing I'm witnessing in the background.

  • - The avatar stuff was a little bit complicated to work out.

  • With the Twitch avatars, firstly they're kind of unreliable,

  • especially a lot of troll users don't actually have an avatar.

  • But we ended up going with, it just spawns a sort of generic totem,

  • and then it has your name above it,

  • but then the colours randomise each time,

  • so hopefully that's enough to tell it's a different person.

  • It starts off as just a model of a totem, then as soon as you hit it,

  • it swaps out for a bunch of chunks that are from the totem,

  • and they all start simulating away, so you can

  • actually hit it and then it will react to the hammer

  • and you can swipe at the chunks afterwards and it will

  • kind of knock them about.

  • A huge sort of extra trick, I guess, with this stuff is to

  • add as many different visual effects as you can,

  • like having sparkles coming off everything.

  • A lot of impacts really only make sense when you see dust

  • and smoke and sparks flying up.

  • - Someone has just said, "this is so sad, Alexa ban Despacito."

  • Now, there isn't anyone in your chat called Despacito, but

  • is that going to stop me asking Mat to type the name Despacito into here

  • and just banhammer it anyway?

  • No, of course not.

  • - There we go! - I'd like to point out, this is a competent...

  • - And it's gone!

  • - I meant that one!

  • - So you can literally just put any name in there?

  • Wow, 575 seconds.

  • - Wow, that was a big one!

  • You really went for that one.

  • - MrRiddleMan has never played Theme Hospital and is braced for a ban.

  • Give it to him! That's "MrRiddleMan".

  • With the green tick.

  • - We didn't expect it to work at all for the first 10 times.

  • But the first time Chris was in there and hit it, everyone

  • just laughed because it just worked so well.

  • - I wish... you see, you need an option to ban half of the chat.

  • You need the Infinity Gauntlet in your next one,

  • that's my patch notes for this.

  • You need to be able to wield an Infinity Gauntlet

  • and just ban half the thing.

  • - We'll try in version 2.0.

  • - Good, nice, I like it.

  • - All right, well Dan, thank you for letting us join in here.

  • - You're welcome.

  • - We're going to leave you and your chat in peace now.

  • Chris, I know you can't see me at the minute,

  • but shall we have one last ban for the road?

  • - Yeah!

  • - Give us one last name, please, Dan.

  • - One last name... ChutneyCubed!

  • - ChutneyCubed. Mat?

  • - Dan, it's been a pleasure.

  • - 365 seconds.

  • - Yes! 6 minutes!

  • - Chris, thank you very much. Mat, thank you very much.

  • Dan, thank you very much. That's been a lot of fun.

  • That's entirely useless but it's a lot of fun. Bye!

  • - That's quite a cardio workout!

  • - Chat saysbye Tom”!

  • - Get one, it's good.

  • - Just getting a close up of the sweat.

  • - Oh lovely, thanks for that(!)

- I was in the pub with this man the other week

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