Posts by fssp

I'm objecting to this appeal because of your lengthy history of violating this server's rules in a manner similar to the reason for which you were punished in this instance, and because there comes a time when no more chances can be allotted to somebody who's already shown considerable disregard for authority.

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For religious reasons, I can’t swear however I do promise not to break the rules.

I believe this section of your appeal signifies the attitude of general disregard which has prompted me to be dismissive of your request to be unbanned, because it appears to make a mockery of the faith in order to transact a cheap joke, unless you actually believed that this appeal's template has requested of you to blaspheme, which is a preposterous notion. If neither of these hit the mark, then the simple act of making a solemn statement before the authorities present does not violate any faith to my knowledge, because you are not swearing before a higher power in that capacity nor desecrating the sanctity of a solemn oath to go forth with respect for our rules, thus indicating to me that you do not actually intend to do such a thing in future time.

Vouch + recommendation for admin.

@StevenNL2000#1783 @wild1145#1790 According to Telesphoreo there is no API functionality on behalf of CoreProtect for toggling the inspector and IntelliJ has personally declined (to him) the possibility of it being added.

Object.

https://beta.geteso.org/

Oh yeah.

@Miwojedk#1445 So you're telling me that fascism isn't when a leader does something bad?

You've been an active player on the server and always participate with others. From what I've seen, you get along well with everyone, and have definitely taken a turn for the better over the past five years that I've known you. As a staffmember, your knowledge of game mechanics would likely prove valuable once more, and for the above reasoning, I vouch.

1. grntbg#1685 / colloquially "fssp."
2. I was banned by Darth to the best of my knowledge.
3. I was banned approximately on the date of 11/14/20.
4. I was banned for "advertising i.e. providing outlets to other third party entities."

I recall being banned shortly after saying "try out aedi.app [a great] server" in response to one player indicating that they could not find a building server that wasn't "dead," because TotalFreedom had been offline. "aedi.app" is the informal name of my server, and always has been, having not been referenced as some sort of "third-party outlet."

I believe my ban to be extremely pedantic and shortsighted on behalf of the presiding guild moderator, because never did I provide "an outlet to other third party entities" as directly accessible through Discord, which would usually imply the posting of a link (either to one's website or listing?) or some "outlet" to that "third party entity."

It should not be against the rules to mention the name or address of other servers on the guild, and this sort of policy differs from the standard both in-game and on this forum. Most importantly, it should not be met with a "ban on sight" attitude without prior warning.

From personal observation, the Discord server has always been a notch below the "standard quality" in terms of just punishments being handed out. To the best of my knowledge, the rule for which I had been banned has since been revised to be "clearer" although I can't speak for the truth of that, being unable to directly view them.

According to Amon, my ban could be appealed one week from the original date (paraphrased) however I received contradictory information from the server owner who stated to "file an appeal with evidence of no wrongdoing" therefore I've averaged the two sentences and am posting my appeal on 11/19/20, or five days past the original date.

If my appeal has been filed prematurely, you may ignore it until that date, at which time it may be addressed. If that is not the case, I would request that I be unbanned, justified by the above explanation as my witness.

If you don't wish to read through this post, here is a thread which aptly sums up the stupidity of the rule for which I was banned: https://forum.totalfreedom.me/d/167-change-the-discord-rule

I'm still experiencing this delay and from my experience, it's isolated to this installation. Other forums (e.g. the Flarum community forum) perform fine on my end.

@elmon#278 Policies which are directly pertinent to administrator activities make sense because operators aren't inclined to understand how they work. Integrating them into our conduct policy wouldn't make sense; the executive/ownership policies don't contain information which would be relevant to regular members. For that reason, I agree with you.

What's being suggested directs the handling of server files, which is comprised of individual people's work, therefore it's the kind of designation which everyone should know, meaning it belongs in the conduct policy.

@wild1145#312 Correct, that would make us a server of multiple categories, and to claim that "we are not a creative server" just isn't true. The server is what we make it, and judging suggestions because they do not fit into arbitrary categories isn't sensical.

If you look at the server's own website:

<meta name="kewords" content="TF,minecraft,totalfreedom,free op,server,worldedit,freebuild">  

We've advertised this server under multiple keywords, we fit under said categories, which makes your argument against Panther's comparison flawed.

Flarum isn't intended to include the features you're flaunting because of the importance of removing bloat from packaged software. Calling people moronic or idiotic because they don't subscribe to the same mindset as you is toxic, just as insulting an entire team of people (who've put time, money, and effort into the project) without understanding what you're talking about discredits your character.

@wild1145#281 This server is by definition a creative server whether or not it is advertised as one, because players are placed in creative, and several commands implemented into the server's core set of plugins have the functionality of placing others into the creative game mode. It's silly to argue that we are not a creative server because players can change their game mode; players can be de-opped if they so please, as well.

The ownership policy is relevant to this suggestion just as it is relevant to any suggestion being made at the time, because without there being an owner, there's no legitimate figurehead to approve this. Fionn has stated that he's unwilling to make changes such as the one described therein because of his unelected status.

@wild1145#110 Light themes should take precedence over dark themes because of the varying contrasts across different platforms capable of browsing this forum. In my case, it's not as easy to distinguish user interface elements. I implore you to set this forum's default setting to that of the light mode, at least until it becomes possible for accounts to choose for their own.

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I switched to Dark theme because it looked better and the forum we had before was themed dark.

The forum we had before could switch between themes, and in my opinion, the old forum's default theme looked like shit.

Ignoring how terribly written this suggestion is, we've developed a preference for suggesting new "policies" instead of expanding the current conduct policy as if we're writing some convoluted package of federal legislation. There's no practicality in doing this: players don't want to hire legal advice so they can understand how this server works. This is also a bad idea.

@wild1145#230 Last week, we were averaging thirty players because something of interest had been ongoing which attracted former actives to the community. Since then, we've slowed to a grinding halt because there's been no clear sign of this "ownership policy" being carried out, making it unjust in the eyes of others to pass changes under the interim position of fionn which has in turn lead to our player count declining to levels it had seen before Seth's outburst.

We should not be looking to reverse suggestions that were agreed upon, instead focusing on issues that are in immediate need of revision, such as there being no real owner(s) of the server.

@wild1145#233 How are we not a creative server? When players join, they are in creative, therefore our server is a creative server. How are we not a "freebuild" server when players can build freely? Do we not meet the definitions of these categories exactly?

The paragraph you've written makes several unfounded statements about what this server isn't, yet fails to clearly define what this server is. In the end, we are what is made of us, and arguments for or against changes shouldn't be predicated on our name, nor should they be stricken because of arbitrary categories.

Flarum has a light theme by default. Please enable it, because the forum is unusable (at least for me) when it looks like this.