I'm fairly sure I know the one you are talking about and it's single player only obviously.
It wouldn't be possible for the server to be both night and day at the same time.

Report being dealt with.

You have been pardoned make sure to read the rules.

Yes crafty can do it, best to send him a pm.

@GrinningBobcat
How about just giving an orientation for staff, then if nublet staff helpers have questions they ask a higher up?
If something is unclear or undicussed such as the use of bitch or dick being old examples then make a vote amongst the admins as a form of administrative hierarchy/seniority or have direct voting from all staff members.

There already is an extensive introduction, in fact we have a 6 page guide on it.
Anyone is free to ask any questions directly to higher staff or in the staff chat and they do, that's why I rejected that assertions of cephied, its simply not true.

As for unclear rules, it depends on context really when it comes to those words. We trust the good judgement of any staff to decide. Holding a vote really doesn't help unless we decide to blanket ban the words or blanket allow them.

@GrinningBobcat All this should be more of a conversation amongst staff members rather than players.

An average players will never complain if something OP is given to them or rule enforcement differing from staff to staff then an easy fix would be to specify the rules at least amongst staff memebers.

If everything is so black and white in this world why is there so much grey? Point being is that we all want the server to be its best so stop sounding like this is some kind of civil war. Staff just take the complaind and critism and see if its true

The staff chat is very active, you can go away for an hour in the fun chat and come back to 700 messages easily. Hence why everyone has it muted.

We have taken the complaints and criticism which are true, which every staff has acknowledged there was some things that we need to work on, player retention for new players, voting and the rewards, clarifying texture packs and forge.
That doesn't mean we should take half the barely hidden personal stabs in the OP's post and implement them all, after all if they really were issues they should have been raised when they apparently were one not months later as some sort of payback before leaving post.

Due to this being a long long time ago and the staff member no longer being with us you have been pardoned, do not ever do anything like that again.

Have you installed or edited a firewall/anti virus recently ?

That would help with the utilization of resources however that is not an issue that won't fix your current timeout problem.

I think the issue may be with your actual internet given that you seem to have trouble accessing other websites, I'll have a think of potential causes and get back to you.

I certainly agree Stranger, new players being killed especially has always been a concern of mine but there's very little we can do without stepping into gameplay too much.
An idea of mine was giving them 15 min resistance but it would make them invincible in pvp and spawn would overwrite it.

@Silver_Sonya Ok, how about that: only survival obtainable items only as a part of donation perks. No birthday, retirement, graduation and other gifts at unknown admin's discretion.

Sounds like a plan?

I don't agree, custom gifts add to the fun of the server in my opinion and prevent vanilla going stagnant, really they aren't a big part of the server but they show our appreciation to certain users.
Provided they don't confer an unreasonable advantage I see no issue with them.

It would be very hard to make CraftyCrates worthwhile with giving just survival items, we'd likely have to give out totems regularly or something similar which would have a far greater effect.