05-May-2020, 07:51 PM
I have to say agree with a lot of what has been said above regarding the handling of things on creative. I understand that people go to the network admins when they have issues on creative, and that drags them into creative affairs and that's kind of inevitable.
However, ever since I've been back on the server things been much more draconian in terms of punishments, and a lot of events have been taken out of context or are only seen from one player's perspective and punished accordingly. Something I'd like to put out there is that if the staff rewards every complaint with some sort of punishment, they reward the people who make the complaints and that will encourage them to keep complaining anytime they feel offended in the future, which creates this endless cycle of work for staff.
Creative has always had a very edgy culture and people love the server because they can come on and speak their minds. Additionally many of the builders are very blunt when giving feedback on builds etc so it's common for people to get their feelings hurt. But that's part of the process that makes players improve.
I think creative may be more receptive to punishments if they are strictly dealt out by creative staff rather than NA's, and I think that would also reduce tension between towny staff and creative members in general. Another thing that I think could really help fix this whole recurring issue between NA's and creative is if it was made very clear that punishments were reserved for serious offenses only (griefing, plagiarism, racial slurs etc). Then people would complain less to staff for minor offenses and those offenses could be handled internally on creative, that way NA's wouldn't have to be as involved in petty creative affairs.
Just my two cents, I personally don't have any issues with NA's or staff but this is just what I think would benefit the server after hearing a lot of people out and witnessing all of the drama and events that have unfolded over the past couple months.
However, ever since I've been back on the server things been much more draconian in terms of punishments, and a lot of events have been taken out of context or are only seen from one player's perspective and punished accordingly. Something I'd like to put out there is that if the staff rewards every complaint with some sort of punishment, they reward the people who make the complaints and that will encourage them to keep complaining anytime they feel offended in the future, which creates this endless cycle of work for staff.
Creative has always had a very edgy culture and people love the server because they can come on and speak their minds. Additionally many of the builders are very blunt when giving feedback on builds etc so it's common for people to get their feelings hurt. But that's part of the process that makes players improve.
I think creative may be more receptive to punishments if they are strictly dealt out by creative staff rather than NA's, and I think that would also reduce tension between towny staff and creative members in general. Another thing that I think could really help fix this whole recurring issue between NA's and creative is if it was made very clear that punishments were reserved for serious offenses only (griefing, plagiarism, racial slurs etc). Then people would complain less to staff for minor offenses and those offenses could be handled internally on creative, that way NA's wouldn't have to be as involved in petty creative affairs.
Just my two cents, I personally don't have any issues with NA's or staff but this is just what I think would benefit the server after hearing a lot of people out and witnessing all of the drama and events that have unfolded over the past couple months.