I was just kicked with the notice: Flying is not allowed on this server. I am well aware that flying is not allowed. Endereyes are not flying. Neither is walking on a single cube wide dirt bridge after I tp with ender eyes to the top of the mountain. I haven't logged back on yet cause I am not going to jail and losing all my diamond gear with mending and other enchants over something I was not even doing.

I don't need to fly. I do use the random tp and check out others bases. Some are high up: That's what ender eyes are for and that's why I use them.

feel betters

Dennari43, thats sound very much like the day I had my dogs with me and got blown up by two creepers. I wrote the coords down trekked for two (RL) days to get back to those coords only to have the ground items killed when I got in the vicinity!

but the worst was having that cast on my hand and not being able to play AT ALL!

The best was just before we moved to this server... I had found two villages like less than 400 blocks from each other and I spent the summer revamping them, making guardians and fences etc.

Thanks for all the feedback :) I was worried about re-reading my post and seeing if anybody would even respond to it. WOW. I was surprised to see so many post and it was also viewed 298 times! So lots of people, not just me thought it was worthy of a look-see.

Hopefully more people will be able to post opinions here. Please just keep it pleasant.

I really appreciate R4iscool1 and rnc2001 breaking it down for me like they did. Even Crafty weighed in and said blanket kicks can be a warning to others and I was like "Yeah, I can see that." (it really did feel personal when it happened)

I really don't read alot of the chat box while gaming. I did want the opportunity to say I was not pointedly ignoring warnings. With several people talking about several different topics I don't even try to read all the comments in the chat box while playing. I think Bobo did a good job of pointing out what I didn't see to begin with, too.

Overall I appreciate those who actually read and responded to my complaint and what my issue was. Which (by the way) was that I felt VenetorEm had targeted only me without cause.

**please note the word "felt" is a past-tense word**

I do feel like Mr.Stupedous kinda understood how I had felt targeted but, I feel like he got more upset than I even had the chance to, over the semantics of the rule. Which, its good to see people engage in if it doesn't end in flames, ;P (thank you for trying to help me make my point, I am sorry you got mad)

Which brings me to a sub-point I didn't get a chance to make: Emotion negates objectivity.

I come here to visit, have fun, garden/farm, build stuff and have fun. It wouldn't kill the staff to relax a bit and replace their "ban-hammers" with a God Pick and go play minecraft and did I mention: have fun. The authority to kick and ban is supposed to be used to prevent problems to improve gameplay. I kinda feel like I have to avoid Venetorem because from what I have seen he LOOKS for reasons to kick people then he is aggressive about it. R4iscool1 says he is a nice guy and I should get to know him, I'm not sure what to think.

That being said I understand Crafty and Dawn's position that kicking for a reason=reason to be kicked. But if every single mod kicked Anyone Every Time there was the slightest "reason" the place would be empty. But they don't because there is objectivity, grey areas, and not every mod is on the warpath or antagonistic. For the most part it's a great place to play. Which is why I keep coming back. Its why we all keep coming back. I just think balanced objectivity is conversation worthy.

If anyone posts a reply : try to keep it rational and well thought out. I really would like to have a calm, adult dialog about this.

I just got my cast off my hand and got on Monday night. I missed everyone while I could not "WASD". I had fun and logged back on today. I said howdy to Goldsmith. A few minutes later someone said "Trump" I responded : "Trump is the new Snape". Venetorum whose name I had not even seen yet says "That's it" and I was kicked.... I went and reviewed the rules to see what I have done wrong. Here they are:

SERVER RULES​​​

Be respectful to other players - Don’t use extremely derogatory terms or epithets. Don’t insult or personally attack others in excess. If someone asks you to stop, then stop. Don’t cross the line or continue after you’ve been asked you to stop.

Don’t use excessive or extremely offensive profanity - Cursing is allowed in moderation, but don’t go overboard or get shockingly offensive with it. Staff will warn you if you’re crossing the line.

No hate speech in any form - Never engage in hate speech of any kind. This means chat, private message, in your builds, in books, your skin, signs, or any other way that you can think of.

Any form of cheating will not be tolerated - This means anything that gives you an unfair advantage over players who are playing the game the way the game was intended to be played.

Practice good chat etiquette - Don’t use caps, don’t spam, don’t discuss controversial, sensitive or offensive topics (e.g. sex, sexual identity or preferences, race, politics, religion, drugs, etc.), no advertising, no links, no trolling. Please only use the minecraft font and English in global chat. Also part of chat etiquette is having an appropriately named character since your name appears on the player list and in chat. If your name is inappropriate you will be asked to change it. You will likely be banned until you do.

Don’t kill random TP’ers - The random TP is the best way for new players to safely get away from spawn without being slain by geared players. Teleporting with other players and subsequently killing them is prohibited.

Don’t have too many entities loaded around you - Press F3 and look for E: #/#. The second number should be lower than 100. If not, try killing animals/mobs, picking up dropped items, removing paintings, item frames, armor stands, etc.

Planet Minecraft - Do not come on the server saying you’re from Planet Minecraft and you’re here to review the server. Whatever happens to you is justified.

Don’t use inappropriate Names/Skins - your name, item name, name tags, nude skins, body part skins, subjective skins, etc.

No lava buckets near spawn - Lava buckets will automatically be taken away near spawn, you have been warned

No overworld gold farms - Overworld gold farms are a server owners worst nightmare, they cause crashes, chunk corruption and lag. Just for the love of god, don't make them.

No griefing any part of spawn - The staff and I have worked very hard on spawn. Sometimes certain parts of spawn can’t be protected and we have to live with that, however, that doesn't mean that you can grief it. If you are caught griefing spawn, parts of spawn, or the bridges, that staff have full right to give you weakness, move you or even ban you.

Ender Pearl or chorus fruit glitching is not allowed in spawn - If you are found using ender pearls or chorus fruit for glitching into the pvp arena or gaining an advantage in the parkour, you will be banned for 3-7 days. If caught again you may receive a permanent ban.

PVP in or near spawn is not allowed - PVP in or near spawn is not allowed - Unless in the PVP Arena, you should not engage in Spawn Killing, Trapping or any other form of PVP in or near spawn. This applies to all dimensions, especially nether where there is limited exits due to the shape of the terrain.

Random Teleport Killing/Trapping is not allowed - If you jump in to a random teleport with someone you did not agree to teleport with and you kill them, you will be banned. Either one of you, self defence or not.

TPA Killing/Trapping is allowed - It's up to you whether or not you make or accept teleport requests. Use the TPA system at your own risk, make sure you trust the players you are teleporting with, if you are killed and/or your base gets destroyed, its your fault.

Listen to staff members - Enough said! People will always find ways around the rules, staff reserve the right to make changes to the rules to cover these holes in order to keep the server a safe friendly place.
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I don't chat much. I am not a troll. I didn't do anything wrong. There was no argument. When I logged back on he's all "I'm ready with my ban hammer if you want to continue." Venetorum ruins Craftymynes for me. He is forever abusing what he views as his authority to kick and ban. I could understand if I was a problem here but I think you will find more people who have benefitted from me than not. I know no one will really miss me but I would rather play where I am not getting trolled by staff. People play games to visit with others and have fun. All the other staff understand that.

Confederacy: yes that was also happening to me. My wireless connection was "roaming" which is moving back and forth between wireless adapters. It hasn't done that since I fixed the network permissions.

Simply explaining in small words so the simple can understand. (coughCaptiancough) It turns out that there were two modems in the house that were literally within inches of each other competing for the wireless signal. I took Gibsonaxe's advice and chose one to follow and found out how to "ignore" the other one. The problem seems to be remedied now.
Thanks to all.

afk: away from keyboard means I am not doing anything or walking etc. I am being "timed out" whilst gardening and puttering round my camp feeding animals and the like so NO afk is not why.

also: Internal Exception: java.io.IOException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host is another thing that is posted when the connection is lost.

So I have been "Timed Out" like 6 times in the past 15 minutes. I have restarted minecraft after having closed it out completely. This is very frustrating. Any useful suggestions of a technical nature would be greatly appreciated.