Posts by erin

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      Ivan Telling people to check your application I believe is against the rules, but maybe it should be changed so you can drop your link to it every now and then…

    I would say the singular sending of the link is fine. Its not something I would do personally, but I saw the message sent and didn't take any issue with it.

    > @'r00t' Edit #1: I would like to bring to your attention this conversation, an argument between TheRedX and pixlqp in the Astra Discord. It’s worth noting that TheRed posted this Admin Application mere days after the above conversation, which suggests that there may be ulterior motives at play. I, however, hope that such is not the case.


    I don't see any evidence for ulterior motives, but I do see enough aggression to have me object. There's no need to escalate situations in that way, and while something that happened in September could get my benefit of the doubt, something that happened 4 days ago cannot.


    I appreciate your activity and enthusiasm for the server - I am just not a fan of the way you have spoken to, and about some players in recent months.


    All being said, best of luck in this application and going further forward.


    Retracted my objection but leaving the words up for transparency.

    I don't think my entire vote should be riding on this, but I did identify an incident of concern back in September. While it was long enough ago that I don't feel it's a massive issue, it was still just a few months ago. This is the incident in particular.

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      _TheRedX What personal qualities do you have that would make you a good admin? (Answer with a short paragraph).
    I am pretty active on the server and I do often spot griefs and other sorts of abuses, I do not report them on the forum, however, I report them via the /report system. I want to help the server in terms of moderation. I would be happy to contribute to the good of this server. Of course, nowadays, the rulebreaker count is lower than what was previously, but still - sometimes some admins are not online. I have moderated some small servers before, however, this was a long time ago, and I have not gotten a chance so far, ever since.

    Is there anything you'd like to add to this? As much as reporting things and activity are useful traits there's not much else that you've detailed in this, and administration is more than just spotting griefing and dealing with your average rulebreakers.

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      Ivan Still is, and still is.

    You only log into the server occasionally and you aren't in the discord, so how are you able to measure this so confidently? Sure, compare the current player counts to previous years and they are lower. But compared to a few months ago, player counts and general morale for the future of this place have been on the rise especially these past few weeks.


    To get back on topic, I haven't really gotten a vote yet. I see both sides - on one hand, behaviour hasn't exactly been fantastic since the ban, but on the other hand the reason for the ban pushed me the other way. So I'm still tied.

      matscalle


    I think you're missing the point here. A bot like this would allow discord banned players to bypass the discord ban. It allows server banned players to bypass the server ban. It makes the entire discord punishment system completely and utterly irrelevant. You might as well be asking us to clear the discord ban list.


    Also yknow it wouldnt be hard to just set up a spam bot in your own server to spam the freedom-01 channel.

      Akefu-Brewer you have to vote 17 days in a row or complete 250 reactions to get the login message (1 reaction every 5 minutes means 21 straight hours of winning every single reaction)


    If anyone's going through that to just break the rules with it then a staff member can just take it away from them.


    I do vouch, but the character limit should be reduced from 100 to 50. You can have pretty spammy ones.

    This got a little buried but nonetheless I don't see a reason to delay accepting this any longer, welcome back!


    Since you're in game I've already added you back on the various platforms. Let us know if you need any retraining.

    Listening to quite a bit of the more well known prog rock albums, in particular the opening album by King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King, with Epitaph being my favourite song


    https://youtu.be/vXrpFxHfppI


    Marillion's Misplaced Childhood is also a cracker of a record, picking one song out from it, I'd go for the five piece Bitter Suite.


    https://youtu.be/tam3O2VaJN8


    And I mean.. this wouldn't be me talking about music if I didn't mention Pink Floyd. Obscured by Clouds is one of my favoruite albums and it's opening two instrumental tracks are goosebump worthy.


    https://youtu.be/eDquAIksmsg


    I could probably talk about this for hours..

      matscalle again, the system of having paid ranks for anything goes against the intrinsic purpose of the server. That was already explained in the suggestion thread.

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      Luke I don’t think we should be going at Ryan for this, because he’s just a dude whos doing his job and is protecting what he sees as the best interest of the server in regards to not getting it absolutely nuked by Discord

    I think this is what a lot of people are missing. Ryan isn't doing this because he hates us, he's doing it because he doesn't want the entire discord to get deleted. Sure, it's strict, but he's erring on the side of caution to make sure we don't give discord a reason to do anything.

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      OperatorTheDope Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical

    Not to be that person but this is chemically inaccurate, the basis of it is the hydroxide and Hydrogen ions - the hydroxyl radical usually comes from organic peroxides. You don't usually get hydroxyl radicals from water, at least not in the standard state.