LadyRavenOwl

Re-opening this as promised if a policy changed on your behalf. Unbanning your alts as well now. Welcome back!! <3 -LadyRavenOwl <3

"From an outside standpoint I can understand how there could be the reasoning that Abroosky did nothing wrong." (LadyRavenOwl, 50) Then I went on to say that "when all the facts are compiled and everything is said and done, there were defining factors on why the ban held." (50) This meaning, other things that were not posted to the public. That all said, could it be said that jchance's phrasing was a little harsh? Yes. Could it be said that it would have been appreciated if jchance had posted more reasons as to why? Yes. I'm not saying that the situation in question is not without issues. I am saying is there were other things taken into consideration that led to the ban holding.

From an outside standpoint I can understand how there could be the reasoning that Abroosky did nothing wrong. However, when all the facts are compiled and everything is said and done, there were defining factors on why the ban held. Due to the sensitivity of the issue, I personally would prefer a head admin to clarify the factors that were brought into play rather than disclose anything that shouldn't be said accidentally myself. Also the whole point of this thread is to get away from calling each other "toxic" etc. so I am rather confused why you said your last sentence.

You quote me and then go off on something I didn't even say, so allow me to clarify. I am fully aware that people have issues (legitimate or not) with our head admin team which is why I said bring it to AN ADMIN, not a head admin. I've had a few players (they can name themselves if they feel the want to do so) bring up issues with me that have concerns about and I deal with what I can or I bring it to the staff team's attention to get it sorted out. You can ask anyone, I'm pretty relentless when it comes to getting things done usually, especially if it's impacting our community. As for humiliating players in ban appeals, I will agree that it's a problem. I will say that it is something that I am working to address and fix because I view it as unnecessary, rude, and counterproductive. However, this goes back to my point of "just take responsibility for your own actions. Don't blame your actions or reactions on someone else." and "No one can make you do or say anything, it's your choice. So let's make it a positive one. :D" (41) You can't justify your actions based on something else. If your actions are negative then you have to take responsibility for that. There are so many different ways to solve a problem, not all of them are negative, so it's in everyone's best interest to pick one that is positive. If you approach a problem with a positive and open mind, people are more likely to receive what you have to say rather than shut down and get defensive. The thing I am getting at the most here is that I'm not taking any particular side on this matter. Am I on staff and do my best to create a positive outcome with other staff members? Absolutely. Will I defend the staff team against things that I don't agree are true? Of course. However, will I also stand up for players when I think that it's necessary (and more often times I do than don't)? You betcha. I did so as a moderator and I will continue to do so as an admin, it's a side effect I guess from being a sociology major. Both sides of this issue have merit, whether each side wants to admit or not. We ALL have things we can work on and nothing is going to change until each side starts taking responsibility for their actions and start listening better. This isn't an issue of well players (or staff) need to start treating the other side better first either, we all need to just do it.

Just a reminder to people, this isn't a thread to target people about their actions or reactions. It's about discussing a particular type of behaviour. There is no need to insult or be disrespectful to each other. In regards to issue with staff, if you have any concerns or evidence supporting inappropriate staff actions, then please bring it to an admin. There are several of us on the team so if you don't feel comfortable with one, then take it to a different one. Posting mild or moderate threats in way, shape, or form, isn't an appropriate to deal with an issue. In addition to all of this, my opinion on this whole topic is just take responsibility for your own actions. Don't blame your actions or reactions on someone else. Both the staff team and players are guilty of this and it's ridiculous. Not liking someone is no reason to be rude to them and to create waves. If someone is being obnoxious or rude to you, there is a point where you just have to let it go and move on with your life. Responding to it in a hostile way will probably just provoke them further and make you both look like asses. Ignore it and just get on with doing what you like to do. I know it's hard but eventually people get bored and get on with their lives as well. Just because you don't like a person doesn't mean you can't work with them in this community. Every single person here has strengths that add to this community, it's not fair to let some people's weaknesses undermine it. Being different adds dynamics to our community and I think that is an awesome thing; it'd be boring if we were all the same. As long as we all (and that means both staff and players) take responsibility for our own independent actions then we'll be fine and get through this rough spot. No one can make you do or say anything, it's your choice. So let's make it a positive one. :D

I think that the new Sadmins have learned a valuable lesson from that entire fiasco, so I wouldn't put that on the list of reasons that admins shouldn't build their server's structures.

The Sadmin team has a question for our Survival community. Would you prefer to have the SAL arena designed and built by the admins or would you like to have a chance to build it yourselves in a contest? As a whole we are making an effort to bring the community into the decision making process for the server we all play on. Please vote in regards to one way or the other. If you have anything additionally to say, please do not hesitate to reply below. We will decide on the course of action Friday, March 6th, and act accordingly on the majority vote. Cheers! :D

I find your experiences limited being that this is your one and only post on the forums. Staff has never been beyond reproach with their actions and has made plenty of mistakes. Granted, as staff members we do try to keep our actions in check and respectful, as well as lead by example. That being the case, I see no reason for our staff team to be calling players names in public or even in a limited staff group conversation. I've mentioned to the whole staff team and other players before that if you wouldn't say it to a player's face (and even if you would) then don't say it if it's rude. There is just no reason to be disrespectful to other people here. That all said, I am not quite sure where you got the impression that Eehee acted like toxic had no definition. I'm not also sure what your intent is in targeting Eehee is other than trying to illicit a reaction that validates your point. If you have an issue with the actions of a player, then there are better ways to address it than this.

Great news! WorldEdit now works on the contest build world! We considered that as an option but the goal was to make it so that you all would not have to modreq for a place to build and then wait for someone to assign you a location. This lets you guys as the builders select and claim your plot and have control over it as you see fit. It also generates the plots for everyone so that there is no need to create each individual region like in previous contests. :D

I am locking this thread due to the original poster asking for it be done a couple times. I apologize for the delay. Darkelmo, if you have changed your mind about locking the thread, please feel free to PM me or begin a new thread. In the future, just a reminder for everyone to be respectful and open-minded to other players and their standpoint as always. <3

If your build is selected, it will be put on the upcoming Survival rev's map. More detail will be given to the candidate closer to rev launch. :D Hahaha, we have been in contact about this with the Cadmins for some time. Sirtacoface and I have been discussing the contest world since before the Creative launch. He, Bardidley, slide, and I finally got it up and live last night and they gave us Survival Admins to run a contest on it. I understand there is some kinks in it (such as no WE) but we are trying to work issues out so that things run as smoothly as possible without impacting your ability to build. I'm sure that if there were any suggestions on what plugin would be better to use than /plotme that the Cadmins and Tadmins would be more than happy to hear about it. :D

Greetings My Fellow Builders, Great news from Creative Admins, Survival Admins, and Tech Admins! Creative now has a new contest build world for our events! You'll still be able to participate in Creative chat and see all your friends but there will be a flat world with designated plots for all your contest needs. Look for a different post explaining more about this brand new aspect of Creative. For our first contest, the Survival Admins are hosting a sunken ship build contest. Requirements: Build an elaborate ship wreck that can be pasted into the bottom of an ocean. This ship ideally would have multiple decks and seamless breaks in the ship body. The ship should be approximately 50 by 100 blocks in size. Please note: Your build, if selected, will be submerged underwater in the upcoming S rev. You're welcomed to use any blocks of your choice. Contest ends March 23, 2015, midnight CDT. Winners will be announced March 25, 2015. Selected winner will have their ship featured on Rev28 of Survival and their name featured at spawn. For any questions, please contact any Survival Admins.

Fazaden, I am so sorry I didn't see this sooner. I am very excited to see this put into action. If you're interested in having Survival oriented prizes, myself and the other server admins would love to talk about it. I also love the idea of the subreddit flair. Feel free to hit me up on IRC or here. :D

NOTICE: Voxel Mini Map is now allowed on Survival! If interested in obtaining said mini map go here. For any question or concerns, please reply here in the thread. :D

Just an update. The theme for the donation drive will be very very similar to this. It will in fact be so similar that we will be giving buchanman credit for his idea. We are considering a map of approximately 1,000 blocks wide or so. The idea we were discussing entailed end islands spliced together to create planets with bits of smaller rock between them A jump boost would be in effect for most of the server. We were thinking about having two larger "planets" or "asteroids" for the spaceships to be docked to in order serve as a home base. We were also thinking about having something like buff blocks instituted. For example, mining a certain ore would give them a buff. Or having little ore islands for mining. Mini Games that were being considered were: -Mini Maze Races -Connect 4 -Parkour -Spleef

This is a thread for any questions or comments for the upcoming Rev 28 on Survival. Please be respectful and on track, posts that are attacks on other players will be hidden as well as anything off topic. You may reference the Introduction to Rev 28 here.

Hello everyone! It is our pleasure to be your new Sadmins and cannot wait to launch Rev 28 for you guys. We know you have a lot of questions and hopefully some will be answered in this post. All further questions can either be left here, addressed in IRC, talked out in Mumble, or PM'd in the forums. As a whole, the goal is to institute more events and activities to help promote and retain players. This includes the Survival admins logging in more consistently and maintaining communication with our player base. There would also be more advertising and promoting done by the Sadmins in an effort to gain more players. We're looking to launch the new rev the first weekend of April 2015. We're very excited and plan to coincide our launch with a special Easter Event for you all on Survival. More details will be given on the Event as launch date nears--don't worry though, it's not maze related. The foremost thing that we would like to announce for changes, and this begins now, is proper communication. The first part of this plan is at least two community meetings per rev; this is to touch base with what the community likes and dislikes that is going on. This will also give us feedback on what we should be looking at to change for the next upcoming rev to help alleviate the issue of not being able to change rapidly enough with what people want. The goal of this is to also be a positive discussion, this is in no way permission to attack other players, we want you to voice your opinions in collected mature ways. Secondly, if players come to us with something that is completely messed up or that they really do actually hate (not one or two of them, but like 95% hate it) willing to make adjustments mid-rev for some things. If it’s something like “We hate that chests don’t auto lock anymore” then are we willing to be like, “Ok, we’ll compromise and put auto locking chests back on the map, however, this does not mean that refunds will be given on gear you lost because you didn’t lock your chest.” This being said, after the community meetings happen via Mumble and the notes are posted, any immediate community changes will be put on the forums to be voted on as well, just in case people who use the forums don’t use Mumble. Though we strongly encourage everyone to use both avenues of communication. Another thing you all can look forward to is SAL coming back. While there will be some minor (and exciting) changes made to it, we're happy to make this a thing that is going to happen successfully. Along with this regular activity, we will be adding in new fun events and activities. Have a standard arena that you want to see used for SAL? Hit up LadyRavenOwl. If more than one arena is submitted, we'll have a community vote! Make sure you submit the arena by March 28, 2015. Something that has been asked several times is "What is the orientation for Survival that you're taking?" We're going to have basically a hybrid of ideas and with five people throwing in ideas, it should be. We're focused on increasing PvP, bringing back in aspects of raiding, still being build friendly, and generally building a solid and positive community. We have some new plugins making an appearance, including some custom plugins being written, making things generally more of a challenge.

Hi all, I am interested in getting some feedback as to what sort of arena(s) you all would like to see on the new Chaos rev that is coming. Let's keep on track and be respectful. Feel free to leave your comments or questions below. Please be advised, that anything off topic or unnecessarily rude will be hidden. P.S. I smell like socks

Hi there Nightshit3, Your banning moderator isn't available to handle your appeal, so I will be taking it. Ban information for nightshit3 on c.nerd.nu for griefing - nerd.nu/appeal by cmdrtebok on 2013-02-03T09:48:23 (1 more bans, no notes) As you were banned quite some time ago, I will unban you now. Here are the rules for reference, and if you have any questions please ask. Look forward to seeing you back. :D Unbanned. <3 -LadyRavenOwl <3

Ban information: Ban for dejordzta on c.nerd.nu for Griefing; all destructive edits on C nerd.nu/appeal by CROCKODUCK on 2013-11-27T08:23:18 (no more bans, no notes) Please be patient and let CROCKODUCK respond to your post. If two days have passed with no response, please bump your appeal.

Well said. I think a better question than what is going on with S (since we all have an idea of what is going on with it, [redacted]) is what would you guys like to be seeing going on with S?

This Saturday we will be hosting a Speed Build Arena on Creative at 4p CST! Don't live in the sandwich of Canada or the United States? No worries! Calculate your time here! What's Speed Building you ask? Traditional Speed Building is a game in which players are presented with a topic and only have a certain amount of time to build something. In our case, this event will have 4 rounds of 10 minutes each. Each round, I will announce a theme, and you will have 10 minutes to build the best thing you can within your plot, myself and a panel of judges will then choose a top three and we will move on to the next round! Think you want to try your luck of abstract building? Meet us at the arena built by the lovely ExcessiveToker on Creative! Don't be late though, plots won't be reserved, which translates to it's first come, first serve. What happens if you win? Winners of each round will be announced in an awesome post and linked to the MOTD of the day for the Creative Server. In addition to the MOTD, we will also be listing the winners at spawn on a specially made announcement board made by one of the Cadmins, SirTacoface! We look forward to seeing you all there for some exciting rounds of Speed Building!