Denevien

I tried bringing this up once, but it was a busy time and it was forgotten. My thought on it would be treat it like a ban. They file a request on the forums, and whoever issued it removes it. That way we still have evidence it existed, though mods would have to check the forums when they plan to warn someone. It has its ups and downs, but I feel it is worthy of discussion.

Alright guys, it looks like the winner was #3. We will work on getting the ad up today, though I beg you, don't go looking for it. It only lasts for so many views, and we want to attract new people, So let's try to make the most of the views.

Do it, you won't! :D

Kitcatbar only issued the mumble ban, because I could not from my phone. The rest was handled by me. Seeing the screen shot of mumble, I can rightly tell you that Tom did not "involve himself". Notice, this isn't a link that he had to click. This isn't just something sent to the whole channel, that he happened to not like. This was a targeted message, to Tom, with what I can easily consider a NSFW image, that has been photoshopped to have the targeted person's head on it. "You tell me here, on recorded text, that that's alright for someone, anyone, to do."

I was personally in contact with Tom throughout the whole ordeal. He completely avoided handling the situation himself, to avoid claim of bias and abuse (which did not seem to work at all). I issued the warning in his place, warned Andrew that he was "crossing a line". You said: I stepped in, I was involved. I issued the warning as a staff member, to him and others involved. So, yes. A warning was issued "in the time leading up to Andrew's ban". Andrew knew what he was doing was wrong, given that we discussed the warning in mumble, yet continued on his action. You claim: From our own set of rules (I'll bold the ones I've personally witnessed Andrew violating):

You just don't want to hurt everyone's feelings by letting them know it is me

But this is where we post about the video entertainment of which we all partake. There is no room for games here!

There has been some questions about getting the steam group up and running again. Looking at it, it looks like something we could do. Here is a picture of the control panel you can use to set up each groups perms: http://imgur.com/MkYEu3d. This is the ideal set up of groups that I'd like to use (not our current set up). Mods would be mods on our staff, and Officers would be admins. No one is required to be set up on perms here, but can if they'd like. I'd like to also remove power from those who are no longer on staff. I'd like everyone's thoughts on this one. The event perm was left as officer only, because it wouldn't be the one we want to use. Ideally, we'd just use announcements, because it will pop up a message on their comp, similar to having a friend join a game. It goes away without any interaction, unlike the event that requires you to click OK to dismiss it. I'd suggest using the forum on steam to set up games, and anyone is welcome to grab any online mod to announce their game when it is starting. That will allow people to see that it is happening and allow people to join. Thoughts?

Alright, the time has come to get the voting started. This will be set up so you can vote for more than one submission. Try to narrow it to your top 3-5, so that all entries do not end up tied. In case of a tie, we will randomly choose one of the tied images to be used. We hope to do more ads in the future, and plan to use some of the other submissions then. A collected gallery of all the submissions (with what number they are) can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/ozCm3

This is why you're not getting a Christmas card this year...

I've been under the mindset that if you feel you will regret something, don't say it. The inability to remove threads by users, in my opinion, forces people to think before they post, or be forced to live with it. Admins can remove things if they violate or rules, but many cases we leave threads to be referenced back to if a similar topic arises. What type of threads do you feel should be able to be deleted?

I've been out of town since last Friday, but I have admin access to that steam group (which I didn't resize until I looked it up on my phone). I'm going to look into what all I can do with it, and may try to get it up and running again.

As we've been saying, it was followed. You were warned multiple times. We are not required to warn you once a day. When we say don't do something, that doesn't mean don't do it for the rest of the day. It means never. As I asked you in a PM, I don't understand why you would think it would be ok to send pictures to someone who had already warned you not to do that (and he even gave you a note for, which I feel was the start of all of this). To answer something else you brought up earlier: Per our Expectations for Staff page: In the logs, I saw you discussing this topic with some other people: The person you were speaking with was wrong, we do not ALWAYS go straight to a ban for these situations. Many people do, but it is not required. We teach the new mods basic guidelines, but since each situation is different, they are welcome to be more lenient to players if they wish. We are not in the business of trying to ban everyone we can, we do our best to fix behavior without bans if possible (thus the multiple warnings sent to you, and the time I took in mumble to discuss it with you). If you have more questions regarding any of this, let us know. Though regarding your request for a length adjustment, that will be for Draykhar, since he was the one to issue it.

Just posting to let you know that we have seen this, and per your request, I will not be handling this appeal. I've passed all relevant information on to Draykhar.

Just jelly. You wish you could make a spawn like mine, mwahahaha.

Does that mean I get dibs on 10 when I get home?

That is exactly how we did it in the example I gave.

This worked well on pve when switching to hard mode. Many who were against it decided that it was actually better. I'm all for a trial run

It's OK crock, my college team made it to the National Championship, and lost it. We can cry together.

I'd like to see the seahawks win, but I feel the broncos will actually win it.

The plants in the garden are blocks, not entities. So, by our reasoning, you should NOT be able to take it without replacing the blocks (plants).

You can already add tags when making posts, and if you click one, you can see other posts with that tag.

If someone could make a full list of which ones need to be fixed, Deaygo said he can work on it on his home machine from time to time. A list like this would be best: Rev 22: need latest carto Rev 24: wrong size carto Etc...

Maybe (when you get time, I'd do the rest first) you could make one of all the Heads together, then another for the SAdmins, one for CAdmins, one for PAdmins, and one for the Techs. I don't know if I'm allowed to request 5, but I done did anyway!

Sorry for the delay. We're hoping this whole mess is a one time thing, and that we don't have to end up here again. You've stated that you re-read the rules, so that should help prevent that. Unbanned, behave, and welcome back.