Hello staff and players of CraftyMynes. Looking on the forums I saw a wave of bans for players recently for what was described as "toxic play" and I would just like some clarification of what constitutes this so that I can avoid breaking these rules in the future. I know that I have not been on the server, but I have the urge to play again and, when my schedule allows it, I plan on returning. Given my history and how I like to interact with other players, I'm concerned about what exactly I will get in trouble for. Are there new rules that I might be unaware of? Are the existing rules being applied differently? What is it that I can do to avoid breaking these rules? Under previous server management, it seemed I was in the clear, but with new staff rulings I am unsure if my previous antics would still fly.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

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.

I was just wondering, if I'm about to lose in PVP while in the arena, will a staff member tp either me or my opponent out so I don't die? I really don't want to lose my items, or worse, let someone have my head.

I'm only going to respond to a couple points because I need sleep.

@CommanderCat_ 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.

Please point to anything I said that was disrespectful to you. I do not believe I was being that way at all.

@CommanderCat_ 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.

This is quite literally "rules for thee but not for me" as you have essentially explained what I explained, yet I am banned. If you have the logs, I would request you post them as I explicitly said you warned me to stop AFTER you already kicked me, and the reason you banned me was because I said you abused your power when you did so.

In any case, you expect me to find it reasonable for you to leave that gif up for a period of 2-3 minutes, ignoring what I said to you about it, but then not extend that same leeway to me, even when I couldn't read your warning (which wasn't even specifically directed at me, how the hell would I even know about it) until AFTER I had to join back?

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.

To add onto my previous reply, I will say that you did bring up a "whataboutism" concerning the ability to use Litematica to x-ray. The point of preventing the use of mods is to stop any attempt to cheat. Yet you say "Me banning litematica isn't going to stop people from using x-ray" as if that somehow fixes the issue of players having the ability to cheat using a mod that is expressly allowed. The players want consistency in the rules, yet you don't seem to be understanding of that concern.

@CommanderCat_ Firstly, thanks for changing the title of this post from "Corrupt staff" to "Unfair staff and inconsistent rules" You're entitled to your opinion but the server has not "gone to shit" We have had the highest most consistent player numbers this map in years. "staff absuing powers for their own gain" is a pretty large accusation with absolutely 0 foundation. A player gets banned. And that benefits the staff in what way? In discord I kicked you and told you to stop the conversation. You continued to troll and disobey that so you got banned. I don't see how that is in any way an abuse of power. You were told to stop. You didn't and then were punished for it. I literally cannot word it any simpler for you. It has nothing to do with what staff PERSONALLY do or don't like it is what the rules dictate. You have been here long enough to know the rules and cannot feign ignorance in that regard. Raiding and Greifing is allowed. But when areas in survival were griefed with the purpose of disrupting server operations that is an issue. When massive casts bombing out the server TPS are made repeatedly after requests to stop, that is an issue. You are not giving proper context. Issues with pieray and litematica are discussed thoroughly among staff you incessantly arguing about it and making a scene on the discord is not helping that matter in any way. The gif had 20 words flashing in a second I apologize for not seeing every word within that gif from just looking up cope gifs. It was deleted immediately after I was made aware. Taking it to the forums is what you are supposed to do. I don't know why you seem to think I'm mad that you posted on forums when it's what I asked you to do in the first place, several times in fact. You seem to have a very biased opinion of me. I have just followed the rules as they're written and upheld them with the best interest of the server in mind. I don't understand your feelings against me as we have barely spoken to eachother over the past 4 years. I told you to make this post as a discussion why would I lock it or ban your forum account? I'm not going to say that even though you haven't had any interaction with the server in many years that you don't have a right to have an opinion on it, but if you look at the stats, the server is not dying. It has had the best player retention, interaction and overall numbers in years. This is the direction the server has taken and I am sorry that you do not agree but it certainly isn't killing the userbase. This server is also incredibly special to me. That is why I have been an active member for many years and a part of the staff team for the past 4. You should maybe hop on the server and play for a bit instead of posting pessimistic forum posts every few months about how the server is dying while it continues to do well in spite of you.

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.

@ThePhoenix Nice photoshop!

Right, like you didn't accidentally leak your private discord server link while playing rust on twitch. Okay lol