The State of Brawl and Minor Suggestions

I'll just start by saying - staff are strict. I've seen JMods warn for people just saying "eZ" in KitPvP. So @ everyone who voted "The staff aren't strict in the poll" - this is wrong (unless you consider "eZ" a mutable offence...)

However, I don't think we should blame the staff members who are strict because ultimately, they're following the protocol. In the handbook, there's examples of each rule violation that we should punish for. The handbook tells us to warn for someone saying "Player123 is stupid". These examples are used as guidelines by staff members to realise how strict we should be - and this is very strict in my opinion.

So, essentially, yes - I do think staff should be less strict. However the fault lies in the protocol - this needs to be changed, otherwise every new JMod we get will see the handbook and be incredibly strict.

People who break the rules aren't idiots. A lot of the time, people break the rules because they disregard them. People come on Brawl to have a break and enjoy themselves - not to conform to even more rules. Keep in mind that most of Minecraft's community are edgy pre-teens who have the "**** teachers!!!11!" mindset.

This isn't being strict - this is just straight up abuse. Saying "kms" is not a rule violation at all.

EDIT: This isn't abuse at all, actually. It used to be against the rules, but it isn't anymore. Sorry for the confusion. On a side note though, this is exactly what I mean by saying it's the protocol being too strict.

People just don't want to do this, though. As I said above - people don't play video games to conform to more rules.

God forbid staff members having opinions!

I love how when it's a suggestion thread for an idea or other feedback, people whine about staff members not responding. When it's a suggestion thread about the staff team, people whine about staff members when they do respond. Make up your mind or stop complaining.

Surely, if this is a good idea, you shouldn't be worried about people with opinions against the idea posting. If you want them silenced, it just shows you're unable to argue your point, which would end up making this entire thread absolutely useless.

 

So by growing up, you expect people to act mature? Why do players need to act mature? It's a game. There shouldn't be consequences of having fun. If that's where we're going, no wonder Brawl is 10% as popular as it used to be.

Or, perhaps, they just think staff members should continue being strict? Just because they might be sucking up, doesn't mean every single staff member of staff applicant shouldn't be allowed to reply. My list of the top 3 dedicated community members have applied for staff somewhat recently.

Also, if staff applicants are constantly sucking up to Brawl staff, it's very obvious and I'll call them out for it whenever they decide to apply. Anyone with the common sense to actually get accepted will know that sucking up is nothing but a bad idea.

You know, putting "Are you mentally ill" is the absolute worst way of trying to make a valid point. In fact, you might as well have not even bothered posting - a response starting with "Are you mentally ill" will just make everyone not take you seriously.

 

I agree with this. Actual DoX is a permban (ban on all of your accounts, cannot buy an unban) and DDoSing people is too, but it's hard to catch people doing this. However, the punishments for threats are no-where near as strict as I think they should be.

We should start punishing for blatant DDoS threats by permbanning them. This includes any dumb way of trying to hide the DDoS threat such as 4 kids who said the following to try to get away with it:
Player1: "You're"
Player2: "O"
Player3: "f"
Player4: "f"

We're giving people a week ban for threatening to send a SWAT team to someone's house, risking their life. That seems a little bit strange.

It's actually very clear to find out whether or not you should mute for someone, and I've been doing it ever since I became trial JMod on CTF. You PM the person being "flamed at" asking if the other person is just messing around. If they say they are just messing around, it's fine. If they say they aren't just messing around, that's when you deal with it.

This is slightly different for chat reports, but chances are if someone has reported Player123 for flaming at them, Player123 wasn't joking.

Either way, yes people can just go on other platforms. However, people aren't on these platforms 24/7 with every single one of their friends. I have 10 pages of /friends and there's no way I could possibly be on these platforms all the time with all these people.

I'm not saying it's a smart thing to do. But, some people don't play video games to act smart. Some people literally play video games as an escape from everyone's expectations on them of them acting smart.

That's not really what they are doing, though. Not everyone wants to be mature over a video game and wants to conform to rules all the time. Similarly, if we had a /ignore which actually worked, we wouldn't need most chat rules because we can just /ignore the annoying people.

There are some people who think that way and think they can get away with anything, correct. However, then there's some people who just don't think the rules should be in place, and don't bother conforming to rules just because it takes away the enjoyment.

One of the main reasons loads of McPvPers quit their gamemodes when Brawl took over were the strict rules.

Yes. This is the Internet - we're not going to ever get rid of edgy people who spam L after every kill. With a working /ignore command, edgy pre-teens playing won't be an issue.

I may be mistaken, but it was actually me who punished for that incident, and it was a 7 day kick instead of a mute. I'm not saying we should just get rid of all rules, but we should be a lot less strict with the rules. Saying "I will rape you" is unacceptable, otherwise I wouldn't have kicked for it in the first place. I just want people to stop being muted for saying "ez" or "**** off" or something.

If people's time is being ruined by some kid the other side of the world saying "you're trash at PvP", they shouldn't be on the Internet to relax. Especially if we implemented a /ignore command which actually worked (which we've needed for ages now).

Also, people don't think the rules don't apply to them, people just think that the rules are stupid so they don't conform to them. Of course, they shouldn't be surprised if they get punished for it, but I don't see why people who just disagree with the rules, so don't follow them, are bad people.

One of our rules is literally "use common sense" - I just consider that another way of saying "be mature".

Also, I've never said once that we should allow harassment. I've just said we should stop muting for minor things like "you're trash at PvP" or "eZ". Hardly unreasonable either, to be honest.

My comment on Brawl's popularity was hyperbole if anything. We're muting people for letting anger out, or not acting mature like they have to in the real world. I have to punish people who are just saying things for fun way too often, which is an absolutely terrible mindset. My point is if we apply the "punishing people who are just having fun" to everything on Brawl, the server certainly would be unpopular.