Tharine

I hope i'm understanding it right, but would disabling hopper minecarts be a good, at least quick, solution to this? I know that we can also track dispenser and rail edits made near chests suspected to have had the loot stolen from, and ban on instances of that under the rule that Vortex has highlighted, for anything that crops up in the meantime.

Would you say this is an accurate representation of your approach to PvP?

I'm not really keen on the reputation system personally (it doesn't really work well with what we use the forums for, in my experience), and I think moving to make it more reddit-esque would kind of nullify the point of having a subreddit entirely :/

Bad timing, sorry :(

In following the trend of the recent AMA threads, i've been asked to set up one as a Survival admin as well, so let's do this! I'm open to answering questions on pretty much any topic, but I will refrain from commenting on things that may compromise the servers themselves, spoil (potential) surprises for future revisions, or questions pertaining to my life that I may not be comfortable answering. I'm a pretty candid individual otherwise, so ask away and i'll let you know if it's not something I can give an answer for. I've left the topic for this one open so that any of the other Survival admins can join in and answer questions pertaining to the server itself, or even if people would like to direct questions to them personally. I'll try to respond in an appropriate time frame to any questions I receive, and I look forward to seeing what people are curious about!

Hey kyle, Incredibly disappointed to have had to issue this ban, but I appreciate you being so forthcoming with the truth. As Barlimore rightly noted, this is your second ban for xray. You are fully aware that this is against the rules, and a long time player here, so i'm sad to see this has happened again. Following your ban, you also logged into the servers using the account yardleysoccer, which has been permanently banned from our servers as per our policies on ban evasion. I'll be looking into some additional details and discussing your ban with a few of the other moderators. If I haven't responded within 48 hours, feel free to bump your appeal by commenting here. Ban for kyle_yardley on c.nerd.nu for Xray nerd.nu/appeal by Tharine on 2013-05-16 06:29:38 (no more bans, 3 notes)

I think we've always kind of looked over this because Optifine has been one of those mods that most people use, and personally speaking I remember doing some checks for xray only a short while ago and being completely baffled by the fact that I couldn't see through the lava to check the edit I was viewing. I had thought something was wrong with my client, but it had just been the first time in ages that I didn't have Optifine installed. If you're using the mod, it's one of those things that you just take for granted and don't tend to think about, in my experience. I know of people who swim in lava to find diamonds, and it's honestly slipped my mind that you can't do that in vanilla minecraft. I looked into what setting this is, and it appears to be the Fog option (Video Settings -> Fog) which you can set to off or fast (or additionally 'fancy' if your graphics card supports it - mine does not) that actually makes seeing through lava possible. It's not immediately obvious (unless you're stood in lava at the time) that changing the setting does this, but the difference between off and on is quite clear. We've allowed this method so far, but not necessarily in any official sense, so you're quite right to bring it up for discussion so that we can settle on something as a group. I think I would be in favour of moving to make this method of locating diamonds into the category of 'not fair gameplay' as it does require you to use an external mod, however popular it might already be. I'd like to keep this discussion going, as I see we've breached into discussing other mods as well (such as Rei's minimap), and i'm keen to hear player feedback on such things in general. Additionally, if anyone has any counterpoints to the original topic please voice them! There's usually two sides to every argument, so I think it would be good to hear both the reasons for and against allowing using Optifine to locate diamonds under lava.

Hey greytoxic, thank you for being so forthcoming in your ban appeal. I can't easily locate the relevant screenshot I had for this ban right now, but I believe you're quite right and that your ban was for replacing another player's claim sign with their name edited to include the word 'gay' in it. You've gone ahead and read the rules, and that's all I would have asked you to do upon appealing anyway, in addition to understanding how we handle issues such as this. Being that you've already done this, i'll go ahead and unban you now :) Ban for greytoxic on c.nerd.nu for Homophobia nerd.nu/appeal by Tharine on 2013-05-02 02:32:21 (no more bans, no notes)

Seconding hoping this isn't a permanent break <3 I hope you enjoy your time off though, it's well deserved :)

Was discussing this offhand with some other moderators upon seeing this thread, and I don't feel there would be any issue with moderators having this command at all. I have to use this myself if I get stuck outside of /mode (as admins can't be /tphere'd), and I feel comfortable extending that ability to moderators outside of ModMode as well. Just don't use it whilst in combat situations, or in a player trap, and you're pretty much good to go.