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  6. What is your favorite song/album?

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    A list of a couple of my favorite albums in no particular order:
     
    The Antlers- Burst Apart
    Atmosphere- Sad Clown Bad Dub II
    Snowmine- Laminate Pet Animal
    Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
    Frou Frou- Details
    Cake- Comfort Eagle
    JMSN- Pllajë
     
    My favorite hip hop albums and artists are probably gonna clog up this post something awful. 
    Special shoutout to Run The Jewels; they just released their sophomore album this morning!

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  16. Death due to Moderators.

    in Minecraft General

    Posted · Edited by Aypop

    I might be posting a list of specific things you can modreq on each server for later this week to address these kinds of cases. I completely agree that dying due to an out-of-game experience like moderator tools entitles you to some compensation.

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  18. Discussion on Donating

    in Minecraft General

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    What would be busywork about it?  Nerd only has a few expenses, and most of them do not vary from month to month.  A single blurb on nerd.nu/donate that just says "Our server costs are $230 a month for hardware, $20 a month for forum software, and $10 a month for mumble hosting" would suffice. (I pulled these numbers out of my ass)

     

    You're right, I didn't think the idea through enough. I thought you were talking about individual donations. In any case, that kind of notification seems useful. I'd be for it unless there was a substantial reason not to. 

     

    On the topic of drives/events, I think we can possibly do things like UHC or CTF every 3 or 4 months, unless it's too much work for the admins. 

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  19. Discussion on Donating

    in Minecraft General

    Posted · Edited by Aypop

    Absolutely not, we are not a donator perks server. Even if your idea is completely cosmetic, it disguises players from one another... which is not a good thing in my opinion.

     

    Completely agreed on this point. Even if there is no official advantage to being labeled as a donator, having a badge in game or on the forums will provide (in my opinion, unwarranted) psychological weight to your posts and opinions. 

     

     

    Thank you Mrloud for bringing up this topic, I think there's worthy discussion to be had.

     

    The nerd servers subsist entirely on donations, and are a charity in everything but name.

     

    Every other nonprofit I've donated to has published a list of their accounts and expenditures.  I think it would be responsible of nerd to do the same.

     

    http://nerd.nu/donate says that the servers have raised $2900 in the last 6 months.  I have been told that nerd's monthly expenses come to around $250.  That means nerd is running a surplus of $1400 in the last 6 months.  What is that extra money being used for?  Could it be used for advertising?  If we're running such a large surplus, what's the motivation for this thread and seeking to "encourage donating"?

     

    I agree with this sentiment in general, but at the end of the day accounting might be more busywork than anything else. 

     

    As for the extra money, it's always nice to have a surplus. I would very much like to see this surplus being used for some kind of DDOS protection, or we might want to hop onto another machine with higher capabilities (I'll default this opinion to those that know more about the hardware aspect of the server and servers in general than I do). At the same time, we don't want to starve ourselves if for whatever reason donations dip. 

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