Posts by wild1145

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@Luke#3833 Have you considered the fact that we are a server from a game that is declining, and that the advertisement team while doing their job (as evidenced in their activity log) it's much more difficult given a lack of budget (Seth refused to give assistance from what I could gather), as well as this they have real lives. If you're unable to see this then the community should be making the decision as the community is much more likely to know personal circumstance with each executive, no?

Minecraft has rocketed again in popularity over the last 18 months... And yet we're nearly empty for the vast majority of the day... The game is certainly not declining in popularity as has been proven by a lot of the larger streamers getting into it and servers being very busy and popular, but yet we remain quiet, but again that's not anything to do with this, it's an example of why I feel re-hiring senior staff every 3 months so the community can have it's 5 min power trip.

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@Luke#3833 I'm sorry, why does the executive in charge of designing shit need access to all of ATLAS' things? Why does any of the execs need access to all of ATLAS' things to be completely honest? Just give a panel or some shit and let them do with that - none of the execs aside from the security officer at most should need access to anything more than that?

It was the entire selling point of me being appointed an owner to this server, to enable the servers senior staff to reach-back to expertise we have within ATLAS, given I own ATLAS, and bought TF into being an ATLAS project. Was on my ownership application and is something I have been very keen to push so we can use that knowledge we already have.

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@Luke#3833 Brilliant mentality. Not childlike at all.

I can't have my hands tied behind my back because the server are scared I might do something wrong and still be expected to run this server in a sane and sustainable way. It doesn't work. If you want the community to own every decision then people really shouldn't have voted me in because I was very public about the fact I would not be governed by this community at every decision.

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@Luke#3833 Yes but that's not relevant to what I'm saying. Afaik Seth didn't even get involved with the decision. The EAO at the time proposed a system to hold executives accountable and everyone else agreed. That's got nothing to do with 'bullying'

And I'm not saying executives should not be held to account. There is still a requirement to post activity logs and are held accountable to me, and I am ultimately held accountable to you and this community. It's in my interest to appoint people that are right for the role and who will do their jobs so this server grows and the community don't vote me out... This just means the Executives can get on and do what I need them to do and I can be worrying about the server liking / disliking me.

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@Luke#3833 You're forgetting that people grow up and, as said before, Minecraft is declining as a game. In typing this I'm not even sure if your point here as it's got nothing to do with the fact that the community decided to make this a policy, not Seth?

But that is exactly my point, this server is not a democracy, it's a Minecraft server. You can't have the community decide every decision, if you want that then to be honest, I wish you luck because I can't see it working, and it's not something I'll be enabling as an owner of this server... If people here won't let me be an owner, then there's not a lot I can do.

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@Luke#3833 Well, we know you have friends in the admin team. I've actually seen a few reinstate conveniently in recent weeks. How do we know you're not just going to appoint them in random places and, when we confront you, you just spout this 'Don't like it? Leave.' bullshit?

There have been a lot of reinstatements, though actually I think Fyrsta is the only former admin I'm actually friends with who has re-instated who hasn't even been successful as he went inactive again... Note I haven't gotten involved in that application or other for the most part.

Also note that I pushed for the ownership policy to be changed, because before I made this post, I (As the Forums owner / manager) had to approve my own vote-off before it would go to the community, something I thought was stupid but ultimately is something I could have just left because nobody else noticed. Would have meant there was no way to remove me even if the entire rest of the exec team / senior admins wanted me to.

I'm doing the best I can for the server, and changes like this allow things to be more stable and ultimately I hope will encourage people to better do their jobs.

@zeseryu#3832 I'm making a general statement, but can give you a example which is not executive related (But did make me think of this).

James was appointed admin in around 2 weeks from playing on the server, and I've known James for a number of years. All it took for him to be an admin was to get friendly with enough staff here and have a laugh with them. I'm certainly not saying he isn't qualified, otherwise I'd have objected to him being an admin, but the fact someone can effectively social engineer the entire server into voting for them after less than 2 weeks of being a player, is the problem I have here.

I also don't feel as I've said before, that it's an effective way to run the server if the community want to tie my hands behind my back. I made it clear when I applied for owner and when I took over that I would be guided by the community, not ruled by it like Seth was. We have an ownership policy for occasions where the community and staff feel I am being negligent and that's the only thing I feel I should be being governed by. The rest of this server I should be able to adjust and work with as I see fit to move it into the direction I want it to go.

To answer your question directly, no, I have no current intentions to remove anyone at the current time, I want to enable them to do their jobs effectively and without fear or being removed because they tread on some toes in doing their jobs / annoy people. If people don't feel they are being effective or I don't feel they are being effective, then I'll look to replace them or remove the executive position entirely.

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@Luke#3829 Seems to have worked well so far. No exec has been voted out aside from the ESL named Wize, who was inactive anyway. They've only resigned.

But it hasn't... We've got a shitely low player base where we max 20 players in a 24 hour window, and the exec's are scared to do their fucking jobs because they don't want to lose the next popularity contest and get voted out... It's just not sustainable to have the entire senior staff team re-hired every 3 months because they lose a popular vote which has absolutely fuck all to do with their actual skill set.

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@Luke#3829 Get a proper panel and make it easier for yourself then?

It's not even about the panel... It's about getting documents signed to grant individuals access to ATLAS resources where they can work with our team, things like introductions and getting them up to speed with how things work and how things have been ran, and getting them pointed in the direction we want to be going in. It's a MASSIVE amount of admin and wasted effort just because people want to go on a little power trip every 3 months and potentially re-hire the entire servers senior staff.

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@Luke#3829 So what if you just appoint a good buddy of yours to the role? Then what?

Then either take it up with me, vote me off, or find somewhere else to play...

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@Luke#3829 Sane to you because you weren't around nor active enough to see the consequences of having things done your way be. This wasn't a system that was just introduced by Seth on a whim. We all voted this in and thought it was a better idea than having random ass appointments.

I've observed the server during most of Seth's leadership, and the community bullied him into doing what they wanted him to, despite much of it being to the overall detriment of the server. We went from AVERAGING 20-30 players constantly when he took over to now peaking at 15-20 players in the holidays... I'm quite confident enough shit was done that actually is doing more damage than good and this is one of them. You're not voting people in because you think they're good, you're voting them in because you like them... That's the issue I have with this.

I've at no point said I was going to remove applications or anything like that, but I've said I'm no longer going to be doing blind voting for people to hold one of the most senior ranks on this server and the responsibilities that come with it.

@Luke#3826 I think a lot of what happened over the last year stalled if not took the server backwards because people didn't feel they could trust Seth, instead of doing what the community should have done (Like having a conversation with him or voting him out) they decided to add extra beurocracy which frankly is overkill for what we're doing here.

Executives do the jobs that I can't / don't want to be doing myself, that's what Mark used them for when he originally set the server up, and that's how I see it appropriate to run things...

And to expand on my last post (Don't wanna edit for transparency purposes).

A server cannot function if the senior staff are fucked around with every 3 months on what is nothing more than a popularity contest. It causes massive amounts of administrative overhead for me and the team at ATLAS to re-jig peoples access around and means you lose any semblance of stability.

If you don't like who is being appointed to the role, then you can bring it up with me, but the entire point as I've said of an executive member of staff is to do the work that I would otherwise be doing, and that's how the role was historically managed before Seth's ownership, and what I feel is the more sane way to be managing it.

I absolutely can... The entire purpose of an executive admin is to do the work that I would otherwise be doing, but don't have the time or expertise to do by myself.

The alternative is I call the role something else and remove executives entirely.

To be brutally honest, if the admins really don't like the fact that I want to have control over who has unrestricted access and owner level delegation to this server, start a vote off.

Changelog 28/12/2020

• Re-named Executive Server Liaison to Executive Evangelist to better reflect the role they should be doing.
• Removed community voting and clarified that executives will be appointed by the server owner.
• Added information on the scope of this policy.
• Cleaned up the roles which never did have voting as well.
• Un-Re-Named Executive Server Liaison to Executive Evangelist to better reflect the role they should be doing.
• Re-defined the Executive Server Liaison role to better clarify the role
• Re-Named Indefinite Ban Manager & Cross-Network Ban Manager to just Executive Ban Manager as that's more appropriate.
• Explained why Exec Ban Manager needs forum / discord admin.
• Added clarification on owner appointment
• Added option for community removals of Executives.

Updated to ensure all executives are involved in voting, and not just a selection that are no longer accurate as per https://forum.totalfreedom.me/…ons-update-executive-part

Given nobody seems to be objecting. I'm going to approve this and make the change as appropriate.

So I've been looking at using something similar for the hub (Though subtly different) but think this could potentially be an interesting thing to add for the freedom server.

So as a temporary measure to try to get things working better, I've disabled the NetworkManager nicknames, social spy and anti-ad system.

This will all (Well a lot of it if not all) have to get re-enabled in the longer term but they're things to tackle in the new year.

@Noah#3672 The freedom. and smp. domains are only temporary and will in the future be removed... They were implemented more for legacy advertising support than anything else (Well smp was and I added freedom because people were moaning)... We won't be advertising those IP's outside of the server and generally we won't advertise them internally either.

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@Noah#3673 you cant post links in chat is one of them

That's semi-intentional. I enabled anti-ad and it'll block any links that don't link to a website on TotalFreedom.me

@simplynick#3674 That's the result of the way chat is formatted. I need to do some further testing to make sure any changes I get NM to do won't break other things, because atm /nick is a bungee command so never makes it to TFM. It'll be the same issue on SMP but it hasn't been noticed there yet.

For the record, I (The server owner) warned you in chat quite nicely and suggested you needed to tone the caps down. You ignored that and got even more aggressive with me. I muted you. You then damaged the spawn with signs and when an admin came online who (Even though they could) did not ban you for that, and again warned you. You were then continuing to be aggressive towards that admin and a player so were banned from the freedom server.

After this it kicked you back to the network hub where instead of getting the hint, you got aggressive again with an admin and were swiftly temporarily banned.

You should feel very lucky you had as many chances as you did, and I will tell you now if you continue to power post in all caps, I'll ban you from the forums as well.

This thread will outline the currently maintained repositories / organisations that we encourage you to contribute to if you wish to help the TotalFreedom Project.

At the current time all active development takes place on the ATLAS Media Group Github organisation, which you can find here: https://github.com/AtlasMediaGroup - All previous organisations are no longer officially maintained by the team here, and at the current time we're not looking to support the now legacy orgs.

Where it is within our power to do so, we will look to transition the GitHub repos themselves to an archived state to enable them to be preserved for the future.

Unofficial Mirrors / Archives

Please Note: We are unable to guarantee authenticity / stability / maintained status of the following links, please use them with care.

Telesphoreo / Plex:

ATLAS Media Org (Sub-Set of the org): https://git.plex.us.org/AtlasMediaGroup
TotalFreedomMC (The entire org from what I can see at a glance): https://git.plex.us.org/TotalFreedomMC

If you have your own public archives / mirrors, please let me know and I'll update them.

As I'm sure is the case for a lot of people around the world this year, the New Years eve celebrations for 2021 will almost certainly be a little bit different, here in the UK there are no big fireworks shows going on in London and we can't meet up with family and friends from other households (At least where I am anyway!) and as such this year is going to feel for a lot of very different to years gone by.

Given the current circumstances I'm pleased to announce that within the server we will be holding our own celebrations this year, and they will range over a number of timezones which seem to be common with our players, and we will be looking to run a number of events on the Freedom and SMP Servers throughout the hours before and after the main New Years event.

I'm also pleased to announce that we will in a number of timezones be running a small celebration in our hub server which all players will be welcome to join us for. This will happen in the following timezones.

• Sydney, Australia
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• London, United Kingdom,
• New York, United States of America
• Los Angeles, United States of America

We appreciate there are a lot of players in other time zones, and while unfortunately it's not practical for us to run this in every possible timezone this year, we would really love for you to join us in a timezone that is closet to your own!

I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas, and I can't wait to announce some of the events we'll be undertaking throughout our new years celebrations!

@Noah#3659 It already should be. It may need to be checked.

But also in short as you've said we already have a party system that Network Manager implements.

@Miwojedk#3620 Yeah it's certainly possible, just something I'll tie up with the guys that made the Parkour to make sure they can factor that in, as there are some things that do get applied already so adding something like that won't be a big deal, but don't wanna make the change until they give the nod.

@Miwojedk#3618 Yeah, I'm thinking if I can set a sensible default like you say to something like 3, and then also allow people to customize it if they want that might be the best way to do it. Just aware there is a Parkour in the hub so wanna make sure that won't break things / make it able to be easily cheated!