It's been a few years now. I have had a lot of time to grow and change from who I was to who I am now. 

When I was a CAdmin, I was certainly far too immature and up my own ass for my own good, though in some certain scenarios with personal disputes with trouble players, many of my choices felt justified, such as the wars of the Creative Union, the bitter elections, impeding on others' regions for a quick laugh with massive warships.

I am freshly twenty-two as of last week. I've suffered through imposter syndrome and a myriad of issues in university and college, and am finally beginning my career, and I feel like a good step in terms of personal growth is this:

I'm sorry.

The dicey things I said and did back then are no longer who I am or what I deem is acceptable. The veiled racism, sexism, homophobia.. the lot of it, really. All edgy humor I did not actually believe in, nor do I still, but I know now what is and isn't acceptable. Nerd, in a strange way, taught me as much, though it was a confusing lesson to learn in a progressive world in my late adolescent years what sort of dumb shit I can, can't, should, and shouldn't say.

I don't see myself ever returning to the server, unfortunately (or fortunately for some of my old nemeses.. 😉), but it's had a profound impact on me. 

Thank you, to these specific people, for offering me snippets of growth in my time on c.nerd.nu.
Bardidley
Hollifer
ExcessiveToker
fazaden
defiex
Deaygo
buzzie71

Yours formerly,
Mae O'Sullivan, aka Mewcifer

My MC username has changed, it used to be _Ryan__. I made a new account to avoid confusion on who I am. My crowning achievements were successfully building an absolutely massive sheep statue by spawn in one of the revs and subsequently getting absolutely rekt in pvp every time I logged in. 

My clan on s was with djt832/djtpls, Emery17, chewsonthemove, and Hamsale, if any oldsters recognize those names. Off the top of my head I remember JacktheLumberr (fuk u, srsly), pkome, iDANUB, Mumberthrax (best librarian evr), n00ble. a lot more escapes me nowadays. I'm djt's younger brother, if that helps jog some memory.

I'm old and busy now, but thought I'd pop in, say hey, and check out P. missed u nerdz.

I'm trying to gauge support for adding the Vivecraft plugin to the server. This plugin fixes some bugs that would otherwise exist for vr players, such as

1. The direction your player model looks will vary depending on activity and does not follow the HMD direction.
2. Arrows and projectiles will spawn at your face, rather the controller, like it should in single player.
3. Endermen aggro will use the pointing direction and not the looking direction.

There's also the cool feature of being able to see other vr player's hand movements and gestures. I believe with the rise of affordable vr headsets and the holiday season quickly approaching, Nerd.Nu should take VR players into consideration.

Hello all,

Recently there was a discussion about about a player with IRL issues with child pornography. Though there was no accusation of inappropriate behavior on the server, we decided that it was necessary to issue a ban across nerd platforms. While we think the risk of harm was low, if an on-server issue did arise it would have caused more harm to the community to not be proactive. We also determined we needed a consistent policy for taking action in the future.

A few players expressed, in #pve discord channel, their concern that this ban took too long to enact and wanted to see clear action in the future. We believe that this policy will enable faster action in the future.

To that end, the following two statements have been drafted to be included in the general "All Service" Nerd.Nu rules. As with all rules these will need to be evaluated and handled on a case-by-case basis, but having a policy in place should allow for quick and consistent enforcement. Please review and provide feedback and/or suggested edits.

Thanks
      -pez

Outside Conduct Policy
We do not want to police people's lives and actions outside the server, but some outside issues can spill over into the community and have high enough potential to cause irreparable harm to our player base and community. This written policy is needed to mitigate that risk.

Anyone found to have a conviction for, admission of, or credible evidence of having committed the following will be banned from all Nerd.Nu platforms:
    Financial, physical, sexual, or other types of abuse of children, dependent adults, or elders. This list is modeled after real world mandatory-reporting requirements.
    Any crime where a conviction results in a restriction on a person's participation in public spaces, or requires notification of proximity/participation, in all applicable jurisdictions.
    Violations of other Nerd.Nu rules directed towards Nerd.Nu players such as doxxing, harassment, racism, etc.

Why this policy is needed
Nerd.Nu staff has historically avoided bans for outside conduct, but as people's online lives and offline lives become more and more intertwined we feel that the risk to the Nerd.Nu community of inappropriate real-world actions by community members has increased. It is no longer possible to completely separate online/offline personas. Knowledge of any of these real-world concerns and failure to act by Nerd.Nu staff may be construed by those unfamiliar with our existing rules as tacit approval of their actions and result in damage to the community.

    It all started one day in Ambrosia. I was caught stealing things and selling them for nerdcoins. My membership was revoked, and I moved to Rose. When I moved they sorta welcomed me. Then came the bad part, the part that made me crash the server. I was smelting their raw diamond ore. They caught me and got mad at me. Why? Because I didn't mine it with a pickaxe. They never told me, but I'm not putting the blame on them, I'm putting the blame on myself. I got so mad I wanted to quit. Although there are some nice people (for example UpsideKen, hi if you're still there,) these were the people I got mad at. I wanted to get my revenge, so I figured i could crash the server with W/E. I later got banned, which I still am. I also did this because I wanted to forget about nerd. I sincerely apologise for this. 

    This is not a bribe to unban me, it's just why I wanted to get banned. I did this on purpose, intentionally to get banned. I have today reflected on it, and realised it was only good for me. 

    If you wonder what I'm doing now, I still play Minecraft. I am also a big fan of TV idents (ABC, NBC, CBS, BBC, and most recently I'm interested in Australian news intros like Nine News (love their theme), and the Australian ABC.) Thank you for reading all of this. Thank you to the admins for fixing the server. Thanks to everyone in the CTA (mostly chall lol.) Thank you for the good memories.

    Sincerely,
MrMinecraft1423 (Mr_CTA.)

because that would not be very good

Thank you in advance for all of your feedback, and thanks for a great fundraiser!

I'm pretty confused - Perhaps I'm being silly, but I don't seem to have the ability to delete (or even edit) my own comments that I've made, so what gives? Have certain staff members gone through old forum threads and used their mod powers to remove comments to save face? Is there some sort of public moderation log available to monitor that sort of stuff?

This year's fundraiser has come to a close, and we'd like to hear your feedback on it. What did you like? What did you not like? How was this compared to CTF and/or last year's Zombie/Carnival event? How can we improve things for next year? (You don't have to just answer these questions, you can give any feedback you want.)

Thank you in advance for all of your feedback, and thanks for a great fundraiser!

It might be a big stretch to think anyone here remembers any of this, because i'm sure everyone has moved on, but I just found this again and wondered if anyone in this video was still around or whatever. If anyone does though please reply aha :)

• A server text based quiz. (would require server admin permission) This would involve a series of multiple choice questions most likely on nerd.nu trivia. You'd type in your answer either a, b, or c using a command such as /a /b or /c. If your answer is correct, you move to the next question, if your answer is incorrect, you are kicked out of the quiz. If you make it through all the questions you could have a prize, this could be split with all the winners. I have heard there was a similar thing, non-text based called "tics trivia run".
• Game show events: we had mcpublic squares a while ago which was great fun here's the link.
• Server wide scavenger hunt. A scavenger hunt that would utilise all the servers.
• Server challenges: This would involve doing specific tasks on each server. For instance, on creative you may have to build a certain thing and take a screenshot with it. On PVE, you may be required to collect several items. (First one to complete all challenges wins).
• Team speed build
• None competitive group building, so you'd get a couple hours to all work on a build project (this would most likely take place on creative).
• The usual sort of mini events such as spleef and speed build.
• Puzzle builds. There have been a few events like this, where you may have to solve a riddle or puzzle to progress.
• Parkour, I know it's generic, but I'd quite like another 6K :P

I understand a few of these events are common one's we've done a lot, but it's just a thread to get them all down, and discuss the ones we'd like to try out. If you guys think of any, please put them down here, it'd be very useful, and would also allow this thread to give people ideas on potential events they could run.

The 2018 Fundraiser event is in the works and we invite all community members to join in by building dungeons to be used in the event. 

To participate:

• Log onto the Creative server 
• Use /warp FundraiserDungeons to teleport to the building area
• Stand in an empty plot and use /nerdplot claim. This will protect the plot to you.
  • If you would like to build with others you can use /region addmember <regionname> <playername> (Find out your region name by standing in it and typing /rg i)
• Build your dungeon.
• Deadline is June 1st!
• Contact cujobear for all things dungeon related 

Basic Information:  (updated 3/5/18)

• Plots are set at 50x50x50 for the dungeon and 10x10x10 for the above ground entrance
  • https://imgur.com/a/cpK7m
• All builds will be referenced as dungeons as most will be underground 
  • Dungeons can be or include mazes, traps, parkour, mob battle arenas, etc, and can be lethal!
• Dungeons should have only one point of entry (There should be only one entrance. The exit can either be through the entrance or via an easy sign warp)
  • Use yellow wool to designate where the 10x10x10 section will connect to the 50x50x50 section should you choose to include it
• Dungeons will have a treasure that will need to be found by players
  • Admins will place the prizes, so please place a gold block with a sign that says ‘TREASURE HERE’
• All builds will be completely protected as they will be visited by multiple players throughout the duration of the event. Players will not be able to break or place any blocks.

Advanced Information:

• The use of non-vanilla mechanics (including, but not limited to, command blocks, easy signs, and spawners) can be discussed with Head Admins.

Disclaimer: 
Admins reserve the right to edit your dungeon if necessary to fit it into the world properly.
Admins may make exceptions to any of the above, but also reserve the right to say no. 

Please ask if you have any questions. Cujobear can be found lurking on P most evening hours (Central Time)
 

I can't speak for the community, but I don't want to see this loss of functionality come to the server. I'd suggest that, unless Mojang decides to not alter off-hand mechanics, we not update the servers to 1.14 when the time comes to do so.

Thank you in advance for all of your feedback, and thanks for a great fundraiser!

The goal would be to occasionally offer a different experience to what is on our other servers and give some variety to things. I had a few ideas for things I wanted to do already and have been given other ideas from players and staff. I'd like to use this thread as a place anyone can suggest ideas for events for consideration. While I can't guarantee that all ideas will actually be used we will definitely consider them all. Here's a few of the ideas that I or others have come up with:

• (Monthly?) UltraHardCore night
• Zombie Apocalype in an old Nerd city (this is happening, date tbd)
• Skyblock/Skygrid
• Base building attack/defend pvp
• "Guess that song" with players creating songs with note blocks

A couple things to keep in mind while suggesting ideas: 

• We have a limited number of techs with a limited amount of time, so anything overly technically complicated or that requires writing a custom plugin is less likely to happen.
• Anything that is too close to the gameplay of our other servers is likely to not happen. (e.g. doing Speed Build on Event)

Thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

Suggested new structure (would be happy to hear thoughts of it and possible improvements):

NEWS AND INFORMATION

- News & Information
- Events
- Archives

MINECRAFT

- General
- Creative
- PVE
- Minigames

COMMUNITY

- General
- Other Games

SUPPORT

- Ban Appeals -> Closed Ban Appeals
- Problems & Issues

STAFF

- Mod Chat

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Notes about the suggested changes:

- Suggestion forum in itself would not be needed. Suggestions would go to the forum it concerns. So suggestion logs for P and C would go to their respective forums under Minecraft and general community suggestions to the Community General forum. Suggestions have been quite active though, so would like to hear how people would actually prefer this. If it was a separate forum, it could just be put under the community section.

- Community and server changelogs would go to the News & Information forum where they're easily found.

- Introduce Yourself isn't used at all and Ask Me Anything quite rarely. Topics like that could be included at the Community General, though if people like having them separate, they could just reamain at the Community section.

- Remove The Lounge totally and redistribute things.

- Archives would be under News and Information.

- Past Events wouldn't be needed, since they'd just also go into archives.

- Problems & Issues is a low use forum, but because people might want to have notifications up to be alerted when someone posts there, keeping it separate is probably good.

- Off-Topic not needed, since things there would just go to Community's General forum.

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These are my suggestions for changes. I'd be interested in hearing ideas from others! Reorganizing the forums as such isn't such a big task, and it would be a quality of life improvement for everyone using it.