Quote from Plutarch
Awesome. I might be going. Just have to purchase the tickets on either the 3rd or 1st day. Those will be the best since the 3rd starts at 12:00 AM in the morning when all the little kids are asleep and on the 1st, I won't have to stress over it on the 3rd day. Also, doesn't the MCF team get in for free like in 2012 or was that only last year?
It's really not the little kids that you have to worry about....they don't have $150 in any case. It's the losers buying all the batches they can to resell them at a premium on Stub Hub that you need to watch for.
Thankfully the batch limit of 6 tickets should slow them down, but I highly recommend making your purchase as soon as they're made available.
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I turned the Admins down twice, when they wanted me to join. Just being a good member is far more important than any inherent ability to run a website. That stuff you can learn.
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But I would ask, then, what sort of "punishment" would you suggest? Not for the expulsion-level actions, but the sort of mistakes you linked to in the OP?
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There's no specific answer I can give, like "x number of posts" or "x number of good reports." The best way is to just be a good member, be an upstanding member of the community, and obey not just the letter, but the spirit of the forum rules. Earning the respect of the moderators, helping them out (but not back-seat-moderating), and encouraging better behavior in the users around you helps to distinguish yourself as a user that can be counted on not only to not participate in flame/troll/spam-fests, but to be the voice of reason when things get heated.
And then, when we start looking for the next round of moderators to add, that sort of user is at the top of the lists.
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Of course. We've taken action before, as needed and as appropriate, and will continue to do so.
You make it sound like you want something done publicly. Like a whipping. We're not going to do that any more than we would make a thread announcing every Warning and Ban we issue.
Often all it takes is a word or two with the moderator in question, in private, and observation of their actions moving forward. Keep in mind that for every incorrect (and human) mistake made, they're handling hundreds and (in some cases) thousands of reports properly. The good they are doing far outweighs most minor mistakes, and we're not going to risk losing any of our small staff on a "public flogging" to repair someone's wounded pride. That's just silly.
If it's a vicious attack sort of bias, obviously we would take more serious action, but ideally that person would never have been made a moderator in the first place. Those sorts of bias should be brought to the Admin's attention immediately .
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I wouldn't trust a gun to a person who's never had a class on it's use, and I wouldn't trust the banhammer to a user who hasn't proven capable of the responsibilities that comes with.
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It may sound stupid, but the system was set up (as far as I know, I'm the newbie Admin) on the premise that moderators are just doing their jobs when they issue Warnings and Bans. A reversal of that job's actions would need to come from higher up. We rarely repeal Warnings, unless the Warning was just not called for at all, but we repeal and lessen Bans all the time, based on the circumstances surrounding individual cases. That's not the sort of decision that we put on the Moderators, and that was a choice made when these forums were started, not a failure of phpBB
Think of it like a traffic ticket: Once you're issued a ticket, and it's in the system, you can't go to the cop that issued it to get it reversed. You have to go to traffic court (or whatever appeals process is set up) to do that.
But Admins can (and do) reverse actions, it's just that the Support Tickets are handled by the Administrative Staff only.
As for why the system, ineffective as it is, is in place....well it wouldn't be ineffective if we didn't explode in size as we did, and if the new website wasn't being constantly worked on. If we had experienced more linear growth, and if we weren't in the middle of a [long] transition, the three Administrative Staff would probably be sufficient to handle the Ticket system. But we ARE experiencing growing pains, and it would help a lot if some users accepted that until things get ironed out this place won't run as smoothly as they might want.
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We do not want too many subforums around here. it just muddies things up, and people are already confused enough about where to post.
In the end, this is a Minecraft forum, not a banners forum. We have no problem providing general subforums as are seen in Off-Topic, but we're not going to be getting so specific on things like a whole subforum just for banners.
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Besides, with the IPB switch so near on the horizon, we'll be doing a full update to the Rules at that time.
But, you need a rule to tell you that fake mod edits is wrong?
As for videos, do you mean people posting Minecraft videos everywhere, or replying to posts with nothing but a video? Both are considered spam.
EDIT: There are users around here that feel that they should be allowed to misbehave unless the Rules clearly tell them otherwise. Those users are the ones we can do without around here.
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If I'm not mistaken, this will happen with IPB. Same with whether a Warning was issued for the post.
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I really wish users would realize, "Hey instead of getting upset that I was Warned for breaking the Rules, maybe I should just....not break the Rules?"
Is that really so hard?
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Thread Closed.
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They are opinions grounded in the trust that have been placed in the moderators to do what is right and bolstered by guidelines laid out for the moderators to follow.
The moderators are relied upon to use their own judgement, which we trust. If we tried to make rules that didn't rely on judgement,
1) The rules would resemble a Terms of Service contract, 50 pages long to cover any and all circumstances, and be too long to read, maintain, or enforce
2) The ability for Staff to adapt to loopholes in the Rules would be hindered.
3) Users would find loopholes anyways just to be dicks.