Posts by man

  • Regarding Nick

    ↩  Luke


    I edited my original post yesterday, after Bob clarified it to me.

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    ↩ @'wxtermelon' Edit: It appears that Sperience/Bob was actually banned by Discord. However, that still does not excuse Nick’s dismissal of this joke and how he feels a lack of guilt for what he has said.

  • Regarding Lyicx

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    ↩  lyicx because i am the magic man mwhahahahahaha

    It's been a minute, and it's obvious that the user in question feels no remorse for their actions. Will the right people make a comment about this? We are fighting for justice here.

  • remove the rule not to speak languages then english

    I object. The way the rule works is pretty nice - you can still talk your language as long as a staff member can understand it. Maybe we should create a list of languages we can accommodate? After all, languages are beautiful, and I feel that we should decide on which ones we can allow.

  • Regarding Nick

    ↩  RedEastWood


    It is very obvious that this is a joke, but certain messages such as this are ones that I think are inappropriate, especially coming from an individual that currently manages one of our most active platforms.


    https://images-ext-1.discordap…399311351818/IMG_5475.png
    This is from the original events-01 chat, which I believe has been deleted. The shot of the message was taken on what I believe to be the day of the Jackbox event.


    When I asked Nick about this, he replied to my message with this:
    https://media.discordapp.net/a…3792179822693/unknown.png


    The screenshot above is from the freedom-01 chat channel.


    Now, I usually wouldn't post this. However, I looked further up from my original message and found the reasoning for Bob's ban:
    https://media.discordapp.net/a…4320259444756/unknown.png


    As you can see, Bob's joke is similar to Nick's joke. The sanctions are different, though. Bob, a common user of the Discord, was banned here, whilst there appears to be no sanction for Nick.


    This leaves me with one question:
    Are individuals with more power given a free pass for their actions in our community?


    Edit: It appears that Sperience/Bob was actually banned by Discord. However, that still does not excuse Nick's dismissal of this joke and how he feels a lack of guilt for what he has said.


    Furthermore, if Bob was banned for something which could be interpreted as less offensive than what Nick has said, then does that mean our own server manager has broken Discord's TOS?

  • Regarding Lyicx

    Sorry if this is the wrong tag


    I’d like to bring everyone’s attention to this


    this image shows lyicx streaming breaking bad, an r-rated show, to me and some others. he streamed 2 episodes, violating copyright laws and also showing an 18+ show to minors. he began streaming after most people had left the VC, and after they had left, lyicx began streaming. I was in the voice chat before he began streaming, a person has testified to it being pirated/taken from a pirating website


    petya asked luke about the investigation


    this raises the question of why lyicx has gone unpunished for all this time while others have been punished aptly. Ryan has said that he’s been investigating the matter but with these events having occurred there should be no question of how to proceed, seeing as piracy and the distribution of copyrighted content would likely go punished if the offender were not a discord mod. Ryan has taken a hard stance on banning players for what he interprets to be illegal and so there doesn’t seem to be any reason an exception should be made here.


    Laws violated:

    1. Copyright

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976 (U.S. Law)


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…igns_and_Patents_Act_1988 (U.K. Law)

  • Improving our Events system

    ↩  Allink Currently, event hosts don’t have access to the events server. They need to request the current team leader to add the required files, and it actually uses up so much time.


    What I think is best is for there to be allocated days for event hosts, where they can actually have some uninterrupted time with a server admin or the team leader to get the event up and running.

  • Improving our Events system

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    ↩  erin amount of rules and regulations in place here will likely put people off wanting to become or remaining as an event host.

    I feel that for the time being we will need some form of rules and regulations to ensure high quality events take place.

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    ↩  erin And honestly for things like this we need to focus on quality over quantity. Way too much focus is put on player count, and while that’s often important, I’d rather have 4 players having a fantastic time in an event than 8 or even 12 players kinda just there.

    The reason for this suggestion is both for high quality events whilst keeping a focus on player count. Recent events haven’t been as high quality and I feel that if they had more planning it’d have been better.


    Edit: I’d also like to add that these ideas are similar to what we use in other communities I manage. More spontaneous events like golf are still planned - they just only have a time planned.


    Events are something that Ryan has said he most likely will phase out, but I don’t want them to be and I don’t think many others do.

  • Improving our Events system

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    ↩  videogamesm12 I’m going to be honest, I actually prefer events that are more spontaneous. They tend to be more successful from what I’ve noticed.

    During my time as an Event Host, I hosted events spontaneously as test events including random spleef games in freedom-01. However, I also hosted events such as bedwars and SMP.


    Both my spontaneous and planned events had good turnouts. In fact, my unofficial spleef event in January caused the server to reach 32 players.

  • Improving our Events system

    At the time of writing, it is currently unknown if there are any events scheduled to take place within the following days. However, what is known is that the most recent event was not successful, nor was it close to it either. As you all know, I've hosted countless events on Total Freedom in the 1.5 years, and I feel that my words could have an impact on how the team is managed, as well as how events take place.

    Score-based Approval

    My first suggestion applies to how an event comes to fruition. Back in Lyicx's time, and more towards the start of his term as Executive, event hosts had to fill out a document detailing their event and chronologically order how the event would play out. We also had to feature a ruleset as well as highlight any possible problems we could encounter, with their solutions too. This system didn't make it too far, but I think it's a good idea. I'd like to improve on the original idea though with a score-based approval system.


    The way this approval would work is by featuring multiple points that have a score and you add these scores up to form a total. If you don't meet a certain threshold, your event cannot pass through. An example is shown below.



    Given that this event is missing 2 marks off of 20, which is the threshold, this event shouldn't take place but should be reviewed further to see if it can be executed better.

    Using one week per month for planning

    I can't lie to you all, the management and scheduling of events is all a shambles, mainly due to poor scheduling and a lack of communication across the team. I'd like to bring forward something that might make it easier: the use of one week per month for the purpose of planning events for the next 3 weeks. There's around 4 weeks in a month, that's at least 8 potential events, if 2 took place every weekend. Although we'd only have around 6 with this system, it'd still be a lot higher than our current amount.


    Every event host would be required to attend a meeting in this dedicated week - the meeting would go over who could host which event for each month, with their being a backup host for each event. After the initial scheduling stage at the meeting, each event host would be granted access for one day in the following weeks to run test events, using players on freedom-01. If this is implemented, we'd probably see more events taking place.

    Utilising Discord's Events System

    In the past we've just posted an announcement in the dedicated channel in our server for events. However, Discord's got this amazing Events system which I'm sure those in the server have seen. It's really good as when an event is ongoing, it lets people know so those who don't show interest will still see it. Furthermore, this system can help to build up hype for an event as people can show their interest. This is a really good feature and I'm not sure why we're not using it yet.


    I want to know what people think of these suggestions. Speaking from the perspective of an experienced event host, as well as a Discord Manager for 2 servers with over 15,000 members, I think these suggestions will help our events system greatly.