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Personally I'd just like to make it publicly known that you can put tell a staff member that you are interested and know that they will put your name into a brainstorming thread. I don't really see the need for commands or submission pages if a player really wants to be a member of the staff team why not let them talk to us?

I like forty_two's suggested wording. Although I still like the video idea. What I'd do is publicly announce that the rule of don't ask has been abandoned and that players that believe they have the necessary traits to become a moderator or know someone with the necessary traits to become a moderator can inform a staff member who will bring their name up in the next brainstorming thread.

This is what I was going for however I'd say they could approach any staff member and we'd put their name in a thread for discussion.

Goodbye Dex, I hope all goes well in your life. Remember you can always come visit if you ever feel like it. You can also keep in touch in mumble and irc. But seriously hope you do well in university and in everything else that life throws at you. Goodbye and take care. :)

gdavison you have hit the nail right on. I spent a long time after joining wanting to be mod but not wanting to ask in-case I pissed off the staff team. The nerd.nu/applyformod page is clearly a joke however we could just write on the page that if you really have the community at heart you can ask a mod/admin to add your name to a brainstorm. I feel a lot of people just enjoy the applyformod page so I wouldn't remove it just change it to show the player who to ask ect. Also I can't speak for everyone but I've only ever used that page for brand new players demanding op.

Sorry I think I may have given the wrong impression, I am meaning make it public that we don't mind people expressing that they would like to be modded. We would then stick them in a brainstorm thread even if we were not too sure on them ourselves so others can voice their opinions. Most players feel that they are not allowed to express that which causes a lot of players to go under the radar for a long period of time, where as if they could tell us we then know at least they are interested and we could keep an eye on them to see for ourselves if they are mod material. I was not meaning for the players to make an application with the answer yeah you're in or nope sorry as a result.

I'd keep this here for now but once we have made a decision on the matter we should move it to the archives. I'm actually all for it, it seemed odd as it doesn't go with our usual traditional ways however thinking about it I found more positive aspects for it than negative. I would actually like this to happen one day.

With Cyotie911 joining the head admin team we have decided to look for another cadmin, please message me with any suggestions for the position or any reasons why certain players should not be made admin and I shall put it in the thread. Thank you for your time :)

Nick how would you feel if we had a half world painted half vanilla generated map, this would allow us to have the interesting normal terrain of vanilla minecraft and it would also allow us to incorporate things such as interesting volcanoes and custom biomes. I am not very sure how to work this on world painter however i'm sure thrawn would be willing to give me a few pointers and i'm fairly sure it's been brought up in one of her video lessons. In terms of the spawn I agree next spawn should be more open. We could still add in the detail that has gone into this spawn but people would prefer to be able to escape quickly especially after the 10th time of /spawn :P. The idea you had with /builds is a very interesting one and one i'd like to see implemented I think it would be an easy and quick way for players to get to community projects and I can see it being very useful. The hub idea I actually quite like, although it goes against what i thought to be traditional mcpublic ways I think the idea of unifying the servers together with a hub could help server relations. This will have to be discussed with all admins though as it is a huge change. In terms of flight speed I will have to discuss this with the other CAdmins and tech admins, it could be useful but as pointed out there may be some problems with it. Thank you very much for the feedback it will allow us to speed up the progress of creative a lot faster and should make it much more enjoyable for the player base in general :)

Some excellent points here I'm on my phone just now so I'll make my comments later. Last point nickeox those points are all valid you should not be worried about being banned for that at all.

This is extremely useful thank you for adding it :)

Funny you would bring that up I was thinking the exact same last night. In my opinion the reason that there are few videos is that only a couple of players have the youtube account, perhaps adding a few more staff members to youtube perms would enable us to get more done. Also we would have to advertise it more as we need players to submit videos for it. My computer is useless when it comes to recording so if anyone has a video they would like to submit just send it away :) just remember to ask permission of the players involved in the video for them to be in it.

I would not intend for people to be modded based on their application, what I am meaning is that if a player puts forward the fact that they are interested we then could keep an eye on them for a month or so and build up our own opinion on them. It would just be used as a tool to help us know who is interested and who isn't.

Agreed it would be nice to see that they genuinely want the position however there are many cases where this may not be a good way to determine maturity such as if the player had dyslexia, they may not have very good grammar however they may still be very mature. I don't know I'd just say let's find another way to determine maturity.

The training does involve all the servers in detail I said that it would be useful to have slight reminders every now and then on ways in which you moderate the other servers. So generally mods and admins as I am guilty of this as well, should try and keep up to date with moderating on all three servers.

Thank you for the reply LetsB, I am pleased that you brought up some of these points. It is a problem for new players, next spawn I shall keep in mind a new player joining and make it signed better to allow them to go about getting out easier. Do you think using more ordinary blocks for spawn city would be a good solution to the odd landscape problem? we could also scrap the plots that aren't next to roads and make them gardens ect. CTA is my fault I will have to step away from leading it and allow someone with more time on their hands to organise that. The warps are a problem, next revision I shall try to add plots straight away, protect it and add child regions. We could re add the rules for big town this would allow us to know for sure that a statue will be properly built. We can possibly add a section to the map to move builds that do not follow rules for areas such as 3D builds in pixel art I will discuss that with the other CAdmins. For community projects I'd say once an hour is an ok rate to /broadcast about it, moderators could be encouraged to advertise community projects (not excessively) and maybe we could reintroduce the idea of prizes inside the projects e.g. steam gifts ect. In terms of the creative presence on r/mcpublic that is up to the players themselves you can use the subreddit for advertising community builds showing off your projects or arranging meetings or games. That is up to you guys. I hope these would be suitable compromises for some of the problems you have brought up any thoughts on these suggestions would be useful and I will discuss it with the other CAdmins.

I like those ideas Cyotie, I'd add in that applicants must have been at the server for a minimum of say 2-3 months although I don't think a short essay would be necessary we could leave it as optional however i'd prefere to just have the fact that they are interested brought to light so we can keep an eye on them. Also i'd like to add into that list that applicants must be prepared to be rejected, applying does not guarantee a position

One way in which we are able to bring the servers together is through events, usually these things are said as circlejerk however I find that it can push the bounds and it can split players into groups which I'd like to avoid as much as possible. In terms of bringing the community together perhaps mumble nights e.g. open mic nights where all the community can get together and participate in something. In terms of minecraft based things I'd say huge spleef tournaments involving all the servers would be one possibility. These can both be organised by general members of the community so if you would like to combat the possibility of the players on each server growing apart, I'd suggest organising something along those lines. Hope this is useful Diff as you have brought up a valid point.

The aim of this is to group ideas into 1 thread thus making it easier for us to note down what the community wants, also to allow users to upvote ideas in one location to help prioritise them and also to allow the users to see that we are listening to their input. So post any ideas you have for creative into this thread, you may pm me on the forums if you don't want to make a public post. Ideas brought up in here shall be discussed with the other CAdmins and then depending on the topic moved over to the archives to allow players to see the outcomes of the discussions. I know this is primarily creative based however if you would like to add in input for any other aspects of the server that could do with changing/removing/improving then feel free to put it down.here. Please keep suggestions serious and I will review them and hopefully we can improve our community as a whole from this. :)

This is going on the idea brought up on r/barneygale I think it could be beneficial for us to allow players to put forward their name for nomination, I know many staff members already would accept players to put their names forward however I feel if we make a thread stating that they could do this and just lay out some general guidelines to what we expect from moderators and state that if you are not made a moderator to not take it personally, I think it could be a step in the right direction. It would also combat the problem of players that are of mod material going under the radar for a long period of time. I would like to hear some feedback on this and would if possible hear some of the negative sides of this as there may be some ways in which we could combat them. Thanks.

Taco piston pony or cobble pony?

Aww yeah! singing ftw, maybe we could add it as just a general open mic night? so have guitar playing, mixes people have made ect? thoughts?

I'm up for this I think we should go for something a little different than the usual build event / survival event and think of something original and interesting... Nothing comes to mind for me just now but if I think of anything I'll bring it up.