Best Posts in Thread: Staff Reform

I understand your intentions with these suggestions... And on paper they all seem nice. But the more I think about this actually being implemented I think it will just turn into another thing for people to fight over. How long before the staff and community can't agree on who should be chosen to be a community officer? How long before a dumbass becomes community officer and ruins it for everyone? How long before we add in positions for the middlemen between the community and the officers, etc? If you feel that staff members aren't going to listen to your opinions, then trying to implement something that forces them to do so won't be this simple, and it sure as hell won't work the way it is intended to work. For too long there has been a sense of tug of war between the current staff team and the group of players that feel like they're not being treated fairly, or are being over monitored. All of these rules and procedures can be replaced with common sense and being decent and kind to one another. (There is literally none of this right now.) What is the current goal of the server? Instead of focusing on beef between eachother, we should all be trying to work together on trying to achieve one goal. For staff, you should be motivated by making your community happy, and the players should be motivated by seeing their community grow and their server become more interactive and fun.

Once a "goal" of the server is decided, thats when we figure out how to proceed. If the goal of the server is to cater to those who play on it daily, don't make any changes. It is fine the way it is. The ones who staff feel are being toxic will never stop, and they should honestly just wipe them and get rid of them completely and not deal with all this shit in the first place. If the goal of the server is to grow and work with those willing to make better content, then we all need to work together to come up with good content, not just a smaller group of people. There really only needs to be like 5 staff members to accomplish moderation, and there should be a huge amount of transparency in regards to whats going on in the staff team. There shouldn't have to be any barriers between staff and players when it comes to content creation at this point. They should be taking all the input they can get, and updates should honestly just be straight up polled. Why not? I do like the Towny, Timeline, Staff, and Community votes suggestions though, but I don't see why we can't just make the staff team smaller and fill it with those who will focus on these issues...

I guess what I am trying to say is that making more rules and procedures won't cure what is going on in Meep right now. I've witnessed a ton of bullying, mean, and disgusting behavior from a large portion of those who are still active on discord. This comes from people who I respect, people who I've been good friends with, and also people who I don't know very well..Staff and nonstaff.. And I'll admit that I have overstepped in a lot of ways and I am sorry for that. I think a lot of times we're forgetting that the people we are demonizing and calling names are still people, and the people who we are banning, muting, and ignoring are not just a name on the screen. We're all old enough to get along and play minecraft without the shade. No matter what titles and rules and steps we make, we are not going to get anywhere without treating eachother with respect and being kind. Then working together to make the server better won't require all these pointless steps! We're playing a game after all.