Nah, contraband items are never going to be a reportable offense, since I made a severely stupid mistake. >.>
What's funny is Cyp promotes a crap ton of mods and within days you guys are reporting them for stupid mistakes. So quick to call those mistakes abuse. If you don't want the staff to go cut them some slack. Especially in their first few weeks. I made so many mistakes... Those mistakes are how I learned. That's how all of us learn. So when Cyp does promote remember this thread and maybe cut the new staff some slack or even offer up advice or a hand in helping. Kindness and understanding goes a long way.
What did you do? Aside from that I agree, factions has no mods at all, nor does opfactions. It gets really irritating when there are "battles" in chat and hacking at spawn pvp. Factions gets insane when the players know no one is watching. We need more mods on those game modes, mods who actually play that gamemode. Not just all global, the kids now don't play factions at all, so making them global won't entirely fix the "no factions mod" ordeal, but it will help it. Factions needs dedicated mods, mods who like to play and interact with the community. I really gets annoying when flame war starts and no one is there to stop it. TL;DR Factions needs dedicated mods, not just global.
Basically, I jailed a person because they had a contraband item, when they were framed (another player gave them the item,) thus resulting into contraband items not being reportable. But yea, the server does indeed lack staff to moderate every gamemode.
I hate how these threads are ignored. If a player makes one of these, Mods and Staff should realize something is wrong, and it needs to be changed. Your job is to manage the community and make sure their visit is nice. Even if someone isn't very good at describing what they find is wrong, you should still pay attention and attempt to do better than you already are. Some people give themselves more credit than they deserve. Oh well, good luck with your thread. You're going to need it.
It goes for a lot of game modes, really, all I'm saying is that the amount of flame war and hacking, all the problems, it is insanely high. Nothing at all is being done about it. It's been, what, almost 2 months since that promotion spree. Since then we lost TOO many mods and we are down a very good amount. We have no mods on gamemodes that need them. This thread will possibly get locked like all the other threads like this. I honestly think we should just promote more people, I'm not asking for myself to be promoted, just anyone who is capable of moderating Factions. It is getting old now, we need moderation on these servers.
@Bantz With the hellblock thing, I have no idea what happened there. I was the only moderator until after some sort of restart, most of the staff team became mod there. I am still confused what happened but I'm perfectly okay with it. Anyways, the balance between hellblock and more popular gamemodes is sort of off. I agree with you, maybe 1 or 2 mods can stay while the others can get other more popular gamemodes. Most of the staff team didn't even sign up or intend to moderate hellblock, it just sort of came. Strange what happened. But back to the main topic of this thread. I mean, I can only do the few hellblock, skyblock, and skywars reports that come in. I know this has been stated by other staff members but we have no power to do anything in that situation. It kills be to see the stacking up reports but to be powerless about it. Sure, we can alert globals but their abilities lie to a certain extent. I know this is old but is true, the globals are also people and most of them have exams and/or things going on in life. More mods and possibly all globals could be promoted. I am in no way trying to 'crave' power. I am simply suggesting an idea that could strengthen the staff team. Most of us left which really put us on our heels. The amount of reports for the globals is reaching too much to handle. Which is exactly why the reports take a while to be resolved. They are trying their hardest but 50 reports is impossible when most of the team can't touch them, plus the globals are inactive due to school and other good reasons, which is why it is so hard to get gamemodes with no dedicated mods done. I am not taking any credit away from the globals. They get it done and try their hardest but even that can only go so far. More globals and mods in general would improve the staff team in the reports aspect and many other as well. Moderators leave which is normal. When this happens the team just gets a hole blown in the side of its boat. This is pretty much leaving a gaping hole for water to pour in whilst at sea. Say a skygrid mod leaves, then cypriot should search for a moderator who would suit skygrid. The staff team should stay at a stable amount of people. Dropping to numbers below 16 is bad for us when it comes to reports. While the replacement tactic could work, some of the staff that leave are one of a kind and can't be replaced. This is all around a hard situation to overcome. More moderators could be hired to fill the gaps on unmoderated servers. I would say 2-3 mods per mineverse server would be great but I do not make that choice. We all are also volunteers that give up the time we have to moderate the server we love dearly. All we want to see it mineverse thrive. It hurts us all to see weak spots. I applied to be active, moderate, and keep the server clean. I try my best on the gamemodes I can, but others I have no power upon. I think we all know cyp is trying his very best. He has always kept us alive and has promoted new mods in bad times. We all know he will do the same thing again. Even cyp needs help sometimes. Maybe the admins could listen to the suggestions for a support team or other forms of things that players could receive help from. But we all have to give it to cyp and crew and others who helped mineverse be how it is. Sure there are flaws like any other servers, but they patch holes and keep the server alive. That, I have to thank them for. Everything eventually has to be overcome and I think we can do this as a community. But please cypriot, listen to us and add some things that could be beneficial for the server. Hands down to both of you, respect.
If they continue to spam/be disrespectful/use excessive caps after I've warned them then I report them.
Mods do their jobs, the problem is the amount of moderators and what those moderators can do. There are 15 staff (Excluding Cyp & Crew) that most of moderate only 2 servers. The solution would be to allow current moderators to apply for global moderator. Given the application and response they could be promoted to global.
@bananaman11223 is very active in game in my timezone and he replies fast on my reports. #Banana4Global <3
when u log onto kitpvp u go out and u get killed by some random nub in like 4 hits when ur wearing 4 and they take 0 damage... also when u sign up to be mod u say your going to be active so you cant not be active + Cyp doesn't promote enough mods what so ever...
Ok I'm going to be honest here. This issue is A Cyp and crew Issue. Why? We need a new admin, possible a forum admin too, and we need a Head Mod. Why do we need a new admin? We need a new admin due to Cyp's work is cut across 3 servers. Before you yell at me and say No, He is a admin on 6 of crews servers, Wrong. Crew merged 3 of his servers into one. Skyblock.net skyblock.org and skywars.com, were merged into Skyblock.net. However he still has to look after 2 Main Big servers and a few small ones. Crew and Cyp need a admin that they trust, who's only a admin here. He doesn't have all the perms like Cyp does but some. He can fix ranks, fixed grieved maps, Handle in game and forum issues. We also need someone like @Pile_of_Butts on CraftCadia. She is the Staff manager. Basically she can do all the demotions and promoting, helping the admins out significantly because they can worry about other issues like new game modes or fixing an old one. We need a Head mod that can train and lead the mod team into the correct path, Control any abusing, make recommendations who should be promoted next. I Hope some of these ideas can be listen to. They will help mineverse out alot. ~King
I say @larrythebird101 for Admin. She's been here for 2 years and she has a ton of knowledge about the server. Either her or @fryzigg
