should be resolved now.

You were. We know you were. YOU know you were. Please don't waste staff time with joke posts like this.

You are well aware, that your account, along with several others were given two week bans on 11/7/2024. That ban overlapped with your previous one. You are well aware of the extension and since this is a joke post I will be locking this thread. You can appeal on 11/21/2024

@SharpSerac Discord Name: wiz

Reason for your ban: Telling @CommanderCat_ that he was abusing staff power by kicking me(?)

Why should you be unbanned: This is basically just a rehash of what I said in my unfair staff thread. I'll give a rundown of events in the order they happened:

1. I assume I was being a nuisance in the general channel, I don't remember exactly what I was saying but when told to move on, I did. I started talking about Ben 10 and how he would curb stomp some other fictional character because he's pretty overpowered. Tez then kicked me while I was talking about Ben 10, after I had already moved on from whatever she said to move on from. I have no idea if this kick even factored into the ban, but I'm including it to be thorough.

2. In the pictures and gifs chat, there was a lot of heated discussion about the situation regarding pieray and litematica/replay mods. During that discussion, things were being said and I guess CommanderCat told people to stop with the discussion. The problem I have with this is that I fully believe that I was kicked from the server before any such warning was issued. Not only that, but any warning was not even directed towards me (using the @ping function or reply function).

3. After being kicked and rejoining, I said something about CommanderCat abusing his staff privileges by kicking me. I said this because I had already been kicked before, wrongfully, by Tez, and this was getting on my nerves (You guys must have some sort of mute role you can give to people or a bot function to mute people, right? It's a pain in the ass to get the invite link again). Immediately after sending that message, I was banned from the discord.

I believe I should be unbanned because not only did I stop any conversation when asked, I also think that CommanderCat banned me in retaliation for not only having the gall to question his authority, but I also reported him for using a transphobic gif and not deleting it. In his response to me in the "Unfair staff" thread, he mentions he was dealing with 8+ people all talking at once and couldn't see my message about it (I replied and pinged him) yet he still claims that I should have immediately seen his warning after rejoining from being kicked when there were other people messaging and this warning was, again, not directed towards me using an @ping or reply. I think that that same standard should have been applied to me as he used for himself.

And also, when I was banned the only thing I did was say he abused his power. I didn't continue the previous conversation afterwards. Check the logs.

So what I'm hearing is that Tez kicked you. Then I kicked you. And after two subsequent kicks the thought didn't cross your mind that "maybe I should shut up". No? Looking through logs, you were kicked before my "stop this conversation message was sent". You know what you were typing and why you were kicked. The kick itself was your @ping warning you seem so set on not receiving. The timestamps indicate you came back, read my message, and continued anyway. The warning was meant for everyone arguing in the pics & gifs chat, I wasn't going to @ everyone involved. The gif in question was apologized for and removed after I saw your message. This is not a double standard because I didn't type anything after your message was sent. I hadn't read it. You had typed immediately after my warning to stop the conversation. It was literally the very next message after mine. There is no way you didn't see it. Meaning you read it and chose to ignore it. Both you and 4ity were kicked by Tez prior and then me. And both chose to continue. I'm sorry getting the server link got on your nerves. Having a tons of people join the discord for sole reason to troll and not provide any constructive messages may have gotten on my nerves don'tcha think?

I believe I should be unbanned because not only did I stop any conversation when asked, I also think that CommanderCat banned me in retaliation for not only having the gall to question his authority

You came back from your second kick to immediately insult and throw accusations at me for doing my job and are surprised you got banned. The first thought through your mind after getting kicked not once, but twice. Should have been to lay low and not speak, certainly not go and throw around insults.
Since you obviously only joined in order to troll and be disruptive, were kicked twice for obvious reasons, still chose to continue, and made a ban appeal that is not sincere in the slightest, you will stay banned on the discord.

We ask players not to cheat. That is the same thing we ask of those using litematica. In the same way pieray is banned, abuse of litematica is too. Caseys video was misleading in terms of the high render distance and saying it can be done from anywhere. You cannot just set the coords and get a world download and search for chests. Every chunk has to be manually loaded. Which for those that seek to do you harm would just use an actual cheat client. For those that are worried people will be scouring the world analyzing for bases the steps necessary are so much more difficult than xray or even just using pieray as that updates automatically as chunks get loaded and de-loaded. Mass elytra chunk searching would not only require you to go M>area editor>analyze area>search for your query. Rinse and repeat. There are no keybind shortcuts, and the query does not save. The cache would have to be repeatedly cleansed as well. The amount of keystrokes required to make it work is just not worth any cheaters time. If it looks like x-ray you get banned for x-ray. Whether its pieray abuse, litematica abuse, a bobby render bug, etc. Cheaters that join the server will most likely get banned long before they start running around .wild saving schematics. And on that note, maybe you have a NASA supercomputer to load giant schematics but I certainly don't. The same rules to hide your base from pieray abuse still apply. As far as avoiding letting vines, kelp, bamboo, etc grow too long, etc etc etc. Safest place to store your loot is and always will be an enderchest or a billion miles out in the nether.

@j____a____r____d Got it, so you can arbitrary determine "excess griefing and raiding" and punish people for it, meaning griefing and raiding isn't allowed unless you say so.

Sorry, if I join a server that says "raiding and griefing are allowed everywhere expect spawn" I expect to be able to steal some dude's shit if he based 5000 blocks of .spawn. If he cries about it to you and you suddenly decide it's not okay then I'm not allowed to raid whatever structures I find, that's false advertisement. You can't have your cake and eat it too, but apparently you think you can because you want to create a curated, coddled anti-griefing experience but also entice new players in with "raiding and griefing gameplay." That is simply contradictory.

Also, by "old players," you mean builders lol. Of course builders can quickly adjust to new rules that prohibit raiding and griefing. Not every old player is a griefer in a griefing clan.

dude. Are reading the same messages i'm typing? Actual genuine question no bs. When did i say you couldn't raid someone dude 5k out of spawn. No one has ever been raided and then cried to me about it to punish people. This is either some wierd headcannon you have or just complete delusion. YOU'RE ALLOWED TO RAID AND GRIEF. Just don't take down the server TPS when doing it! Is that seriously so hard to comprehend? I feel like a broken record.

@j____a____r____d Sir, this is an advertised griefing and raiding server, it will be treated as such by its long term players. If you do not want people bullying and "grooming" (LOL) players into being bed trapped or accepting teleports or whatever, ban griefing/raiding/PvP outside of the arena with your powers of inventing rules on the fly whenever necessary, and completely change the vote site branding/rules of the server to state it's no longer a griefing/raiding/PvP server.

You can take the server into a new direction of love care and compassion all you want, I don't care, but you don't get to do that and simultaneously advertise that there's factions gameplay with raiding, griefing, and PvP too.

Us oldies can piss off to another server that better represents the old CM experience, which is what you clearly seem to want since you have a clear disdain for the old playerbase that formed the original identity of this server, and you can have 8-14 people building things with Litematica, and everyone will be happy.

There are plenty of old players who have adjusted to the server with flying colors. The server is still a griefing and raiding server. Happens all the time. The difference is when it is done in excess and for the malicious purpose of getting new players off of the server. Which I have personally seen done time and time and time again.

@SharpSerac To add even FURTHER, I did tell you that the gif you posted was transphobic, and even @mentioned you in that message. Your gif went undeleted until I posted in the player reports channel, when finally your gif was deleted. Strangely enough, you also deleted my report for some reason, seemingly to hide it.

Seems a bit unfair for you to quickly kick and ban me for what is essentially me not seeing your message (You still sent your warnings AFTER you kicked me initially) when literally the exact same thing happened with us in reversed roles.

There was like what? 60 seconds between your warning? dude I was busy with the 8 other people arguing. I'm sorry I wasn't on top of your message and @ in the first 5 seconds. It was deleted and dealt with and the report deleted, with a link to a post that doesn't exist. I don't see an issue with that. You cannot compare the two as you were WARNED. And then IGNORED that WARNING.

@SharpSerac I'm going to go through everything point by point so as to not leave anything out here.

Sure the server may be having its highest player count in years, but for years it's also been extremely low. It's a shell of what it once was, which to many of the older players stings. I also completely agree with what @j____a____r____d has said above.

As for saying "staff abusing for their gain" I really should have said "staff abusing their powers in general." Which actually ties in with the point of you kicking and then banning me from the discord. Both you and Phoenix were being antagonistic towards us with your "cope and seethe" memes (which, by the way for a mod 3 to be addressing players this way is concerningly braindead and unproductive) while I and others went back and forth with him. You did not warn me of anything before kicking me. You may have told others to stop, but you did so after kicking me. I would imagine that there are other ways, as a discord admin, you could have stopped the conversation, but you singled me out and kicked me and when I came back to voice my opinion on the unjust kick, I was banned. You seem to dislike it when someone has the gall to question your authority, given our brief interaction, and that's when I would say you stepped over into abuse.

Moving on to lavacasting, I don't believe it causes any sort of lag, otherwise it would not be allowed by Crafty. I'm having trouble understanding when you said "But when areas in survival were griefed with the purpose of disrupting server operations that is an issue." I wonder how griefing disrupts server operations when griefing is not only allowed, but explicitly advertised? If you take a look at this thread here, you'll actually see Crafty himself mention that lava buckets were removed to protect against lavacasting. I guess that that was no longer the case, seeing as how it was lavacasted. You only told gotmojoreck he couldn't lavacast 0,0 (a specific set of coordinates) and not spawn city (different than the 0,0 coordinates) and banned him for it, when it isn't even a "server operation" concern, it was Crafty not wanting spawn to look desolate. It looks like an admin had to take over for you in replying to his ban appeal for whatever reason, which I'm curious to know the reason for.

As for "Issues with pieray and litematica are discussed thoroughly among staff" apparently they are not, as demonstrated in a video by Casey Fluffbat how it could be used for cheating where you said it is "not at all applicable" as if it isn't the same as pieray (protip: they function essentially the same) and yet Litematica is still allowed.

The reason for me believing that my forum account would be banned or my thread locked/deleted is because this is what I have dealt with in the past from other staff that seemingly were cut from the same cloth as you. I mean, after all, you did ban me for saying that you kicking me was an abuse of power. Would any of the other staff have done that? Seeing the reply from @outshOtz has only reinforced that this would have been the response had I not called it out in advance. I'll admit I'm no psychic and can't prove that, but you can see how one could believe it wasn't outside the realm of possibility.

I posted a meme. Christ i'm a monster. A meme was very nice considering what was being said about and to me. I did warn you. I told yall to stop the conversation. You came back spouting the same BS so I banned. Well within my rights and the rules of the discord. You should read them sometime. Casts don't cause lag? Are you being serious? If not this is a very poorly worded joke. Crafty allows casting in moderation. Stuff that doesn't tank the server TPS. The griefing in 0,0 effected the ability for players to teleport to spawn after dying without a bed. Instead they spawned at 0,0 and could get farmed there indefinitely. I don't expect you to know the details of stuff like that but I'm surprised you think I'm lying about the server operations and cannot take my word for anything. A commandline was broken and lavacasting was available for a very short time and the entire thing was casted before it could be fixed. It was never allowed, was a bug that is now fixed. Gotmojoreck fully understood the connotation of what I was saying. And even if he didn't I told him to stop making massive casts, he continued to make one a few hours later. Told him again to stop. He did it AGAIN this time with the largest most lag inducing cast yet. And was banned for it. The situation was discussed amongst the admins and after they made their decision they replied to the post. I know you seem to think there's some hidden meaning behind that but I promise you there isn't. They literally just wanted to respond to it, is that wrong?
As for the pieray litematica thing. It's being discussed. I know that you're not privvy to those conversations so it might seem like nothing is being done but this stuff doesn't get worked out in an hour dude. Be patient, go outside, touch some grass and we'll get back to you.

@outshOtz ThePhoenix definitely doesn't help the issue of every thread getting locked by replying to every single thread with a million little comments, most of the time irrelevant to what was even said, just for the sake of arguing. It clogs nearly every thread that gets posted, and dilutes the original conversation into something childish and unproductive, but I digress.

After spending 10 years playing this server off and on, it hurts me to think of how little my opinion matters. It appears to me the current staff team tends to care little for anybody's point of view but their own. They value being right above enforcing the rules in an unbiased and fair way. Perhaps it is only a couple of the mods/admins who behave in this manner, but they seem to always get their way so as far as I'm concerned they are all culpable.

One example specifically is CommanderCat, who I believe is not only biased, but borderline hypocritical.

When he wants to start an argument, or throw shots in main chat its all fine and well, but say anything unfavorable about him and receive a staff warning. This is just one example of what I believe to be a toxic pattern emerging in this most recent wave of future admins. They value rules only when it is convenient to them, and when it allows them to push an agenda. Players have been using pieray for years, with no issues whatsoever, but conveniently when a player CommanderCat does not like uses it it's now a bannable offense. I will not speak on the lavacasting event as obviously I am biased in the matter, but if you think for yourself about it I am sure we will reach many of the same conclusions. He issues mutes, kicks, and bans not when it is fair and deserved, but when he disagrees with what has been done/said. Sometimes these such actions align with the rules of the server, other times not so much. He has strayed so far from the rules with his antics that CraftyMyner has had to implement a new rule allowing moderators to create and enforce their own rules at any given whim. Answer me these two questions; How are we supposed to follow every rule when so many are unwritten, created and enforced by one mod? How are other mods supposed to enforce rules created by other mods that they may not agree with, or even have any knowledge of existence?

Though advertised as a vanilla pvp/grief server, it seems as though the staff team is attempting to steer the server away from all three of these labels. Players are being punished for griefing, moderators are private messaging players telling them who/who not to trust, and mods are being approved for use that completely alter the vanilla gameplay. My team and I have been told to stop interacting with new players, and to stop griefing people, because they are afraid they might quit. They are worried that we will steer new players away with our antics, and as the old players slowly quit playing, eventually there will be nobody left. What they do not understand is there is no peace and prosperity without conflict. No new player wants to join a dead server, where nobody talks in chat and everybody keeps to themselves. At that point they may as well play singleplayer. The server is advertised as pvp and grief friendly, if new players join and see the opposite they will not stay long. Perhaps it's nothing but anecdotal evidence, but during the past little while I have been active on the server again I have seen many new players come and go, and I have noticed a pattern. The players we interacted with, whether in a positive or negative way stayed much more frequently than the ones we left alone. Obvious as it may sound, people watch drama tv shows for one reason: The drama. Drama, and conflict as a whole is inherently entertaining. Of course people form friendships, and build beautiful things, but at its core this server has always centered around the fact that all of that could be taken from you at any second. Thus, you must remain vigilant. I truly believe without these aspects this server is nothing. And yet the staff push constantly to move away from that, and shun raiders, insult pvpers, and do everything in their power to make sure anybody with that playstyle stays far away from the server.

CommanderCat may think the server is doing exceptionally well, but this is all comparative. He has not seen the player counts we have seen previous to his arrival to this server. Sure, maybe 13 players online during peak hours is good compared to when there was 2, but not compared to when there was 40. At one point in time you would be hard-pressed to find any less than 20 people on at any given time. The fact of the matter is the server is dying. The staff act as they have been, and it continues to die. Obviously, something isn't working. The issue is they refuse to even consider any stance other than the one they have so adamantly taken, so nothing will change, and the numbers will continue to dwindle until there is nobody left.

Wow. Okay your opinion matters, it always has and always will. There are just better ways to share your opinion than rants on discord that quickly resort into 300+ message arguments between many players that just turns into slinging insults at one another. There are so many blatant lies and misconstructions in this post it is unreal. You are neglecting to post context on purpose. The context for the first image is here: You went and sent Konzee a trick tp after I sent him a teleport request in an underhanded attempt to get to our base in order to get coords and raid it. I think that is a perfectly reasonable reason to call you an ass. It was a dick move and you know it.

The second image is my opinion. I'm allowed to have that. That was a response to a player who got insided and raided by one of your teamates, who'm was in his own words "Was super cool and trustworthy. He would never raid me." Your group responds on "faction" posts on forums and talk to new players in game with the sole purpose of insiding them and ruining their experience on the server. Please prove me wrong.
The third image context is your group shitalking me that entire day over me enforcing the rules, and when you start throwing out baseless accusations attacking my character on the server i've been staffing for over 4 years I'm going to give you a warning for staff disrespect. I can only take so many insults being thrown at me. But heavens I use the warning feature!1!!!11!! truly deplorable behavior. Tyrannical even.

Pieray was used for years. It came into the spotlight after I banned VIP for x-ray after he was using pieray in an uninformed way so that looked extremely suspicious. He has since been unbanned and in order to stop any further confusion it was forbidden. Please show me examples of where I have punished one person but let another get away with that same thing. Most people aren't breaking the rules. It isn't a bias for punishing the only people that are breaking the rules who just so happen to be in a group.
And super importantly ****** The rule of staff being able to modify, add, and patch rules has been on the site for YEARS. Showing how little you actually care and that you have not read the rules in quite some time. It wasn't something Crafty threw on there recently to cover my ass or something.
You asked "How are we supposed to follow every rule when so many are unwritten, created and enforced by one mod? How are other mods supposed to enforce rules created by other mods that they may not agree with, or even have any knowledge of existence?" That's super duper simple. YOU DO WHAT THEY SAY. I told you verbally several times to not cast there and yet you continued again and again. And were punished for it. If you simply do what is asked then you're fine. And as for other mods knowing what "modified" rules to enforce do you think we are nomads? That we don't communicate at all? This is such a weird point to make as though the staff team does not communicate amongst themselves.
Again. you are misconstruing things to abhorrent levels. Punishments for griefing were made for casts that severely impacted the servers TPs. Not just for the sake of griefing. You know this. If I pm a player that I see you actively grooming with the intent to inside and raid, bedtrap, and/or fuck with them until they leave the server I'm going to warn them. You're not mad because my warnings are untrue. You're mad because you don't get the chance to fuck with them. That says a lot more about you than myself.
You seem hardset on believing that old players are going to leave no matter what, so why bully new players off the server in order to kill the server faster? It makes no sense. Your actions do cause new players to quit and you know this. You want to know positive player interaction that keeps players playing? Actually helping them and being kind. Sure maybe some stay longer because the get killed and drama or whatever, but I'd wager a LOT more would stay a LOT longer if they weren't bullied. Goes to say its not like that's not allowed, but I have the server interest in mind and player retention is the top of that list. You bullying new players negatively effects player retention.
You have used these same "server is dying" talking points for years. The server is going to continue to do well no matter how much pessimism you want to shed towards the situation. It's true that we're not at 40 players on constantly, but do you honestly believe that your antics are going to somehow attract more players? "The future is now old man" It isn't the same server it was 10 years ago. You have to accept that. The moment you do that you can start enjoying the server like everyone has been this entire time.