Posts by Xen

Unbanned. Please notify an admin about a potential exploit rather than testing it yourself.

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↩ @'Ryan' By your argument anything we do is going to “Get boring” so should we just pack up and shut down now, save ourselves the effort? The point is to give people something different they can play on with friends, and jump between our game-mode offerings.

No, that is not what I am saying. If our problem is keeping players active because they are getting bored of the freedom server, introducing a generic skyblock server is not the solution. They will most certainly get bored of it quickly (if they haven't already). I also feel like anarchy would fit well with the theme of the network. This community is notorious for using hacked clients and I assume skyblock will have some sort of restrictions against them, but they would of course be allowed on the anarchy server.

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↩ @'Ryan' We killed Anarchy because it was a limited run event… There wasn’t community support to continue running it in any format, so we haven’t looked to re-launch it, and instead have been focusing on other more important things. It’s not to say Anarchy will never come back, but as I said at the time it’s not on the roadmap at the moment.

Anarchy was killed (earlier than it was supposed to be) because of the "low-uptake" and I guess someone told you that nobody wanted an anarchy server (which is not true). Even under your feedback thread regarding the anarchy event, many people mentioned having more than one life or disabling the hardcore aspect completely (which would be my suggestion). Hardcore anarchy is for a server that can pull in a ton of players and maintain a constant player count, despite people dying and being banned for it. If we ban people for dying, that just kills the very little player base we have.

↩ @'Ryan' I don’t think replacing one gamemode that gets boring with another one that gets boring makes any sense. Skyblock is such a lame gamemode and no offense to the creator, but this just seems like another copy and paste skyblock server. This will not help in retaining players because they’re bored of the freedom server.

Honestly, the anarchy idea was great other than the hardcore aspect. Many people suggested just unbanning everyone and continuing anarchy, but you scrapped the whole thing because you saw it as a failure because no one played on the server. The reality is, everyone was banned and no one COULD play on the server.

Guns are ultimately impossible to ban within the United States. Completely taking away the second amendment (I can promise you this will never happen) will lead to a civil war. There are too many guns in circulation and die-hard gun owners that will fight for their right to bear arms down to their very last breath.

I do believe, to a certain extent, in the "good guys with guns" argument. IIRC, the elementary school did not even have a resource officer on the campus at the time of the shooting. Had there been an officer, the events may have unfolded differently. Another factor to look at is the response time the police had (which is currently being heavily scrutinized by everyone). They took around 45 minutes before getting inside the building and killing the active shooter. Again, had they acted sooner, the events may have unfolded differently.

It is really hard to say what solutions there are to this problem we are having in the United States, but I do not think banning guns is a viable option. There needs to be a focus on mental health and gun safety. Also, there should be some sort of red flag in some sort of system when a person legally purchases a ton of guns, ammunition, and body armor. Restricting the type of guns that can be purchased by U.S. citizens (i.e. banning AR-15s but allowing handguns and shotguns) is tricky and could lead down a similar path as banning guns altogether because doing so would require people to surrender (some of) their guns.

OFT: Admins, of all people, should not be immature and shitposting on this thread, especially in response to Lyicx's moderation post. You are an admin and should be setting a good example.

↩  Paldiu Whilst that is technically a good reason to remove their ranks, I think it is worth hearing them out first before pulling rank, considering the majority of them agree with this post (these topics aren't new). Threatening them will result in resignations (my prediction) which will ultimately slow down the already extremely slow development, tenfold.

Vouch for just enabling the feature. There’s no need to ping anyone about it. Especially with the raids going on, their notifications will just get blown up (assuming bot chats are even detected). Just simply not allow the chat to go through. This shouldn’t even be a debate. It’s quite concerning that this community has a difficult time with auto-moderating simple things such as racial slurs.

↩  DragonSlayer2189 The idea of “false flags” being a reason we don’t even at least attempt it is ridiculous. Same thing with “it’s easy to bypass.” If you are saying things that trigger the auto-mod, then you probably just shouldn’t say them. The feature is clearly for “Insults & Slurs,” anything that may be deemed as hate speech. Don’t say any or something close to them and I doubt there will be any triggers.

If it becomes a serious issue to the point where it’s causing more issues than solving problems, then it can simply be disabled.

Bump - It has been almost two weeks since this was posted and one week since the last reply.

↩  RedEastWood No where in the requirements does it say you need to be nice to be a senior admin. There have been plenty of and still are not nice senior admins.

As an objective reader of this argument, I can say without a doubt that it was you being rude to Telesphoreo. I can understand wanting assistance, but he isn’t required to provide it. Based off of the way you responded to him not helping you, I don’t think you are very nice.

Anyways, I vouch.

↩ @'r00t' He has been temp-banned already. No need to continue replying to this thread or any other ones he has made.

Vouch, but its removal doesn't have to be permanent. If Wild has some expansion plans, then it can be added back when the time is right and it's better configured. At the moment, it is just causing issues and is not entirely useful. To add to that, there is a lack of permissions for admins to moderate in hub, and command blocks probably shouldn't be controlling stuff at spawn.

Vouch for proximity chat. I think that would be cool to add, especially since not everyone wants to use Discord.
Train carts doesn't look like a terrible idea, but could be a recipe for disaster. If it can be implemented without having to worry about server stability, then I vouch. The server needs more things to do and build with.

Object for TranslateMe. The plugin doesn't even work, that is the first thing stated in the plugin description.

Vouch, I suggested giving admins hub permissions a long time ago, but my suggestion was denied and hub moderators were created as a solution. Separating permissions hub vs freedom server is only making it easier for people to break rules and get away with it.

I also agree with the idea of getting rid of hub altogether.

I’ll vouch as long as it doesn’t cause any major issues. TF needs some more unique aspects of it. I think this would be a cool idea, especially for builders.

↩ @'r00t' I think they were just using ProtonVPN as an example.

For anyone who is against the idea, simply because "it is easy to bypass," please provide me with one con that would come about if we were to implement a BASIC chat filter, blacklisting ONLY common derogatory words/terms. Who or what would be negatively affected by this action (other than the people attempting to use the words/terms of course)?

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↩  Alco_Rs11 Slowing down the sending of messages has a drawback to fast typers. I’m a fast typer and I get very annoyed at having a forced delay for chatting. I’m sure anyone else who types fast would feel the same about it.

Regarding this, chat restrictions with time limits in-between messages can and should be exempted for admins.

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↩  Telesphoreo See: TFMs AntiSpam

Whatever system TFM has for AntiSpam, it is either not enabled or not working. Either way, something else needs to be done.

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↩  Telesphoreo If you want my opinion it’s to get rid of the bungeeing entirely. The whole bungee situation has been a disaster and created more problems than solved.

I most definitely agree. Many of the raids were done via Hub using /msg that made it to everyone, despite them not being in Hub. With that, it also made it more difficult--impossible I should say--for admins to moderate due to their lack of permissions in Hub.

↩  Telesphoreo Again, that may be true, but the alternative is to what? Do nothing? Relying on admins and hub mods to stay in-game 24/7 and ban spammers isn't very effective either. Especially when there are none on at all.

With that chat filter, we can at least deter some spammers. Not all of them are lifeless losers who have scripts, a ton of alt accounts, and a VPN. Some are just idiots who try it once and get banned, then never come back.

Object, I agree with everything above, plus many people choose to play with VPNs for security reasons. Wouldn't be fair to make them suffer because people want to be assholes and abuse them.

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↩  Alco_Rs11 Also, as for the chat filter thing, Roblox is an example of how a chat filter is not very effective. They filter certain words when people are creating account usernames and it’s very easy to find ways to skirt it and come up with some pretty offensive usernames, regardless of the filter.

Right, but that filter is still there to prevent obvious attempts. It isn't perfect, but something is better than nothing.

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↩ @' 5 ' blacklisting words is ineffective. there are thousands of ways to alter a slur that wouldn’t trip a hardcoded filter but would remain understandable for a fluent speaker. and then there is also putting it in a different language like they did with the ashaz thing.

Yes, this is true, but currently, you don't even need to alter the word for it to be sent to chat for everyone to see. Why would we ban these words, but only rely on admins to moderate them? If someone decided to send the word "N#GGER" and the server stopped them, then BOOM that is more than what is being done right now.