Telanir

Everyone, We’re adding a new section to our Player Conduct Policy. Here it is. It is our duty to protect young folk from malicious behavior on this server. In parallel, we recognize that adult content is not inherently harmful. Adults engaging with mature content in their own spaces is a natural facet of life and we aren’t looking to police what you do in your spare time. With that said, underage members must not be guided/coerced into this content. We find that advertising or otherwise distributing sexually-explicit content in the LotC space falls dangerously close to that territory, and that neither we nor our community are comfortable with this activity. If your LotC-related space has a sexually-explicit section gated behind thin barriers like “roles”—please take this opportunity now to eliminate these areas. Then, please do your part—ensure minors don’t find their way into sexually-explicit servers.

Hi everyone, @The60th is parting ways with the Administration. This weekend we reviewed a substantial amount of evidence regarding a particular case and his involvement—and we found the roots are far deeper than we anticipated. We're sorry it came to this. We don't see an alternative, and I believe it is the right path to heal and restore community trust. Thank you, Telanir & the Admin Team

Going to miss you, Alex. :') Welcome to the team @The60th!

I've read a lot of posts in this thread and much of it is genuine, high-caliber feedback. Thank you for that. I made the mistake not to to point this out but please focus on the state of the server and not individuals, for example "your idea made me ill" is not a valid reply lol There is no need to defend your opinion, a well thought out reply will do that more than hitting reply on someone else's musings. Thanks for reading through my obligatory janny insert, I hid a bunch of posts, if yours was hidden it will be discussed anyway, admins can still see them.

How do we balance this with red-tape? Giving notice…is that RP-friendly, or dynamic…or even interesting? And, suppose we do remove ladders, then the problem of perma-locked settlements returns—gates down, 24/7. (my problem here is not that players behind gates are safe, it is that it's that community interaction is (literally) gated, and new players be sad for sure). I liked the beginning of this map a lot, gates were wide open come-on-in—but flat turning off conflict would be worse. What else can we try?

Yeah, I waited a whole week to make the thread before I realized there won't be a "good time to post" 🤔

Hi, I've been hearing some chatter regarding server direction recently—I thought it might be helpful to get ahead of this. Does anybody smell smoke, or are we happy with our experience? Since there is a smattering of topics I figured I would keep this mostly unfocused. The question I would ask: are we doing enough to defend our position as the premier roleplay server? • Mission Statement

at last fishing is back…anthos fishing memories :)

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threats, doxxing, phone calls to homes and institutions, and worse. it's not the same community it was, and that is comforting. a lot can change in just four years.

enjoy. you're a nice face to have around, see you later I hope.

nice, you should collect an FAQ as you go along and post a step-by-step thread. would love if this picks up steam, been thinking about mpm lately

Lol that's weird, if it sent through it's not supposed to show that. Will fix that lmao

Hey, I deleted your favorite message. Instead, you’re going to start seeing some lovely little asterisks. Don’t want them? Type this. This will only affect your account, others will still see asterisks in your messages if they haven’t toggled it. You, however, won’t see them on any message! The filter has been updated to be far less intrusive on roleplay and moderator privileges adjusted so they can't accidentally enable serverwide forced message filtering…lol. Happy roleplay!

How do you feel lotc culture has changed in the five years you've been here? And a more boring question but more to your experience…what should we be doing (or not doing) to make friendships and connecting diverse communities easy and natural?

A lot of people wouldn't put in the love and time into this server that you do, if they were paid $1k for it. It's just not the kind of passion that can come from hamfisted self-indulgence. Correct me if I misunderstood, but you're saying the reason for your motivation is ultimately rooted in meaningful connections you share in the community—especially the kind where you and your friends can nerd over initiatives/concepts and get excited together over doing something worthwhile (else why would you still be here). What in your mind should we be doing to encourage organic friendship and bonding on this server? Or at least, what can we move out of the way? By the way…I wanted to add I loved your triad of map related thoughts (map concept, region post, and discussion on map storylines), thanks for leaving nuggets like those around.

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Summer, I don't think he's your target here. You and Alex want the same thing. I understand from this that you feel hurt that you haven't been consulted on the Safety policy…but we really are happy to integrate your feedback, and do read your comments. I just want to thank you for sharing your voice and want to let you know that we hear you. Safety is a challenging space to work with not because there is a lack of motivation—but because it is grey and delicate. Despite that, I don't believe it is impossible—especially given how much progress we've made in the last few years. It gives me hope that we're not that far away from a bulletproof policy. @itdontmattathank you for taking feedback seriously and for making a commitment to improving the policy. The reality is that we take safety exceptionally seriously in this community, perhaps more than any community I've seen on Minecraft. That means we've got a very high bar to meet; this can't be the last revision. +1 on the thread, thanks for caring frill.

@itdontmattaThanks for driving this initiative, and to everyone who helped pitch in feedback & shape this up. Transparency with this policy has been a long time coming.

Wow, lovely work :) The babushka made me laugh, that's great

I certainly laughed reading your post, nice style. Thanks for sharing your experience—and for bludgeoning your way through the barriers that we put to prevent new people from joining…how rude of you to stick through it. You'll have to put up with us now by the way, good luck !! P.S. it's very encouraging to see you have a pleasant experience with our old fart server, we just turned 11 this year :)

Lol, you're not going to believe this. I was the first critic of WT idea when it first came to be…after two years turns out I was right. I only ever wanted four teams, less tape is better. edit: i'm curious is that a common opinion that I heralded WT? honestly taken aback…

ty for your service, rest in peace

Much love and Happy Ramadan to you!

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