Posts by Miwojedk

  • [ONGOING] Trump Supporters break into White House

    @Madea#4700


    This is literally fake news,


    She didn't "accidentally crash her car. It was a full-on attempt to gain entry


    First paragraph on WikiPedia:
    "On October 3, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Miriam Carey, 34, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Connecticut, attempted to drive through a White House security checkpoint in her black Infiniti G37 coupe, accidentally hit a security rail, and was chased by the Secret Service to the United States Capitol where she was fatally shot by law enforcement officers. A young child, Carey's daughter, was found unharmed in the car after it was ultimately stopped"


    And I think it's quite a leap to compare a group of armed protestors to a single person whom A) could be a bomb threat B) HIT a secret service personnel and two police officers with her car.

  • [ONGOING] Trump Supporters break into White House

    @root#4659
    To be fair to Mr. Trump: He tweeted:

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    I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!
    https://twitter.com/realDonald…/1346912780700577792?s=20

    I.e. he never advocated for violence at the capitol, but that's not to say that he certainly hasn't indirectly encouraged this vile behaviour. This is his legacy. Crying about "election fraud" when none of the court cases were taken seriously.


    I disagree with veering this in to a race debate, as if black people would simply have been shot en masse. Perhaps they would've been treated differently some-what, but either way: if you open up fire on a group of "patriots" (lmao) equipped with firearms, then that's just a clear recipe for disaster. That is simply the reason for nobody getting shot. And I also disagree with chanting the police brutality shown in clips of these rioters: police brutality is wrong, even if its against somebody you disagree with. Do I personally think they "deserve" getting a good beating? Yeah, undermining a democracy is no cool, but principally I disagree with it.
    These people should simply be called for what they are: terrorists.


    This is like when Hillary lost, and the Democratic establishment claimed Trump was a manchurian candidate installed by Russia. Russiagate happened, and none of the following investigations found any evidence of this. For emotional protection, the Dem party developed this shitty narrative, and now this exact same shitty narrative is now being taken to the extreme by the radical right. Alternative reality 101.

  • Re-add the Zero Tolerance Policy

    @Darth#4653 I just don't get why we're supposed to hold one belief (religion) over any other belief (e.g. ideology), when both are completely voluntary. Yeah, of course claiming all muslims are terrorists is obscene and wrong, but I don't see why it should be disallowed, unless that person is talking muslim as in an ethnic group (e.g. like Jewish can both mean a religious and ethnic grouping). This is where an Admin should be able to judge whether or not this is meant racially or simply as a disagreement with a religion's practices.
    I still think I should be free to call anybody silly for being a member of any faith. Mormon, Scientology, Muslim. As long as I am not discriminating on something that a person can't change, then I don't see why it's fair game, nor is it really discrimination, when you go off any popular dictionary's definition of discrimination:


    "Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong." - Wikipedia


    "the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability." -Oxford


    "treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc" -Cambridge.


    literally the top three google searches when typing "Discrimination definition"

  • Ban advertising (your mc server) on discord/in-game

    Object.


    Limiting ads should fall under the judgement of the moderator, which is why I also object to the idea of a "10 min interval" for ads. Otherwise you might as well just make an auto-ban for listing the same ip within a 10-min time-span, instead of having a human involved.
    As long as its not being a nuisance/cluttering the chat, then I don't see why players shouldn't have the freedom to do so.

  • Re-add the Zero Tolerance Policy

    As @StevenNL2000#4488 noted here: the policy in itself is redundant if the intention is to simply ban certain types of speech. This is the 13th time this has come up for debate. I think most of the people vouching on this thread were unaware of the already in-place policy.


    Object. We already have a policy for this, and the Admins' job is to enforce/interpret it. The previous policy contributed more to drama than anything else.

  • Transparency with OPs

    When a player has crashed the the server, there are two possible causes: exploitation or abuse. Being banned for using //sphere lava 10000 is different than using minecarts in a particular manner to burn the server. Therefore, in a big chunk of permban requests, there is no information associated with the actual request that any player should not be privy to.
    For the other instance, you are prescribing a solution to a false premise. The issue is not that other potential griefers get info they shouldn't - the issue is that the exploit has not been patched by our developers.
    As soon as an exploit is abused to crash the server, the developer team should fix this immediately. In case the exploit is deeply-rooted within a plugin or the game itself, then the first step would be to - temporarily - ban the command/block in question, or mitigate the issue in some other manner, until a proper solution can be found. Or you could simply censor - classified infomation -. And classified does not mean the evidence, nor the reason for banning the player, only the manner in how they exploited or IP adresses, but then again, you also need to remove ops' ability to vote on permban requests if this is enacted.
    The vast majority of people viewing permban requests are not griefers. This also neglects the fact that the vast majority of our playerbase simply don't attend the forum, and certainly not the permban section. And in case that some-how another griefer exploits a bug before a solution is made, then they can simply be added to the permban roster as well. It is ridiculously unfair to the defendant (lol) not to give them access to their own trial (lmao) based on a miniscule of hypothetic cases.
    Edit: forgot to mention that other ops (witnesses) can provide input on the matter as well.


    This same principle is also why we have a public vote on Seniors. As long as there is a limited waiting-period for new accounts on the forums to vote on polls, then there should be noting to stop them from actively participating in decisions that affect the community as a whole. Many ops have just as much (or more) "experience" as Admins on Total Freedom (E.g. Feueristic), so barring them from participation is silly in my eyes, but I can also see arguments to the contrary (e.g. political leaders selecting their cabinet, but then again Total Freedom =/= democracy when all three branches of government(roflmao) are in the hands of Admins, and to a lesser extent, ops.


    Unless I see any practical issues with ops voting for seniors, then I will still be leaning against your proposal.


    Object.