Re: Re: Some opinions...

1. I'll be honest, some of your comments made me laugh. xD (and before I get called out for this)
2. Xray isn't as easy as you think whether you think so or not. Eil deals with multiple xray claims. Not every staff member is good with it. Only a few are really understanding on what they look for. For the three mods that you claim could just not be comfortable with it.
3. I don't really see why grammar was brought up into this. Doesn't really have to do with much xD
4. Mcpvp was bought by Brawl. Brawl has all the rights to everything on the server including the ips. Not plagiarism.
5. Ignore this. Felt like I needed a spot as if I was going to ramble about the rest of your video.
Thanks for the feedback xD

 

This is going to be a long post, so I'll put them in spoilers by the corresponding timestamp on your video.

Spoiler: 1:29

You claim the negative section is only viewable if you have a direct link stored somewhere from a thread that was previously put in the negative section. However, this is not true. The link to get to the negative section is in here (https://www.brawl.com/forums/301/) and the reason the thread is not public is simply that the forums layout was recently changed and some thread sections (ie: negative, test, etc.) were accidentally left out.

Spoiler: 2:25

Communism, by definition, is all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs (merriam-webster.com). Using this official definition, your comparison of brawl to communism is incorrect in that you believe brawl does not make all information equal, while communism strives for complete equality according to effort put in. You also state how Brawl only shows positive threads and moves negative ones to the negative section (where they are hidden). While I believe this should happen for organization purposes (excluding the negative section being hidden, as this is a mistake), your claim still does not stand up, as shown by (for example) this thread(https://www.brawl.com/threads/68425/unread), this thread (https://www.brawl.com/threads/68271/unread), and this thread (https://www.brawl.com/threads/68274/). The first two are in general discussion and the third one is in Battle Royale. I believe the reason yours was moved was that it wasn't constructive nor was it calm in its approach to, as you put it, "suggesting to the server how to make it better".

Spoiler: 3:00

That player that "stuck his nose into your business" was merely commenting on a public thread you yourself posted. He didn't flame or harass you, so I don't understand how you can say what he said was unpleasant unless you're referring to how his opinion wasn't alike to yours. His posts were well thought out and pointed out different scenarios as to why your base may not have been checked right away/wasn't rerolled/etc. Differing opinions is not cause for someone's opinion to become invalid, and claiming so makes you the worse person.

Spoiler: 4:50

There are a couple of things here. Your tone suggests extreme disrespect and immaturity. Whether you like Roke's answer or not, he's an admin here and there's a reason he is. Because of this, he's worth at least hearing out without automatically assuming that he knows nothing. You've also brought up his purpose at brawl (forums ninja). For those that frequent the forums, it is well-known that Roke is admin over the forums specifically. He is in charge of warning and banning rule breakers on the forums and also manages threads themselves (moving, locking, deleting, etc.). As for his explanation, it's staff policy to not ban for little to no evidence. Your base was very close to the surface. Raid is a server that has a tracking plugin and if you spend a couple minutes in your base at a time someone could easily triangulate your position and know almost exactly where you are on the map. Having your base that close to the surface causes problems such as players just digging around randomly and coming across it while looking for iron/coal or players digging straight into it by tracking you. While I agree that having a "secret chest" is a bad way to double-check for xray, I understand that Roke was trying to appease you because I remember reading the cynical messages you were beginning to send.

Spoiler: 8:32

Eil is raid manager, yes. His job is to organize ideas regarding raid and pass them along to a dev for implementation. His grammar is not important in this situation, but I'd like to point out that his sentence ("you need simply ask") is grammatically correct. It's a nuance of English and, though rarely used today, remains a part of our sentence structure as a viable way of communication. As for you not getting an immediate response by the "3 mods on the server", I really do apologize for this if you're being honest about it. It wasn't right of them to not help you, but it's also important to take into account that some may be afk, some may be helping others, or some may not be looking at their chat. This is a simple fact of the matter and there was nothing wrong with simply hopping off the server and waiting for another time to ask (or pm'ing a staff member on the forums). As for Roke's grammar, he isn't a native English speaker. He's native to Germany and English is his second (I believe) language. I don't know why you brought up their grammar in a video talking about responses to your video, but I figured I'd clear it up anyway.

Spoiler: 10:13

Yes, they did buy 3 servers from mcpvp. These three servers are build, ctf, and hardcore games. Survival PvP (now renamed to raid) was already a standing server on Brawl before mcpvp shut down. The reason you can connect to raid by using raid.mcpvp (you can no longer use this IP because mcpvp is not a verified domain name, but for the sake of the argument we'll pretend it's still usable) is because Brawl, in an attempt to generate more publicity and popularity for Survival PvP, restarted the world under the new name, Raid (adding other updates as well). This is because most of the players playing spvp during this time were actually mcpvpers looking for a raid server after their's on mcpvp had shut down. Hearing Brawl had bought some of mcpvp's plugins, they came over here to discover that there was a survival server up and running. Brawl had bought mcpvp's plugins and, because of this, had the rights to the domain names as well. This allowed mcpvpers who had not heard about mcpvp shutting down to be able to connect to a server using mcpvp.com

Spoiler: 11:47

Once again, Roke is German. Please stop nitpicking his grammar as if it's related to the discussion you're having in the video (which it is not).

Spoiler: 12:24

Hardcore Games took a long time to come out of beta because the plugin was not equipped to run on Brawl's bungee, code had to be added to allow cross-server messaging (going back to the bungee situation), new kits were added (which required coding time), and bugs were prevalent on mcpvp's Hardcore Games that were being ironed out before it was released on Brawl. I'm a source of legitimate information on this topic because I was staff during this time and saw everything happening first-hand. I also am an ex-mcpvper so I was aware of which gamemodes were on mcpvp and which gamemodes had bugs. Also, saying "I'm not gonna judge about that" doesn't excuse the judging you just did.

Spoiler: 13:08

This idea is a pretty good one and has been suggested many times before on our forums. However, instead of removing servers, why not just reroute player IP's to more active servers instead of less active ones? This is a lot easier said than done (especially with our dev count being 2), so I'm not expecting someting soon, but this could be a nice little update for later in the future.

Spoiler: 13:53

While I agree that even a dislike means that people clicked on the video (giving Brawl's youtube channel a view), I also understand how discouraging it is to work very hard on editing a video, only to be mocked and ridiculed for trying to "keep a dead server alive", as one commenter put it.

Spoiler: 14:15

Please see above. Roke is German. Grammar isn't imperative on a Minecraft server. Blah blah blah. You know the drill by now.

Spoiler: 14:30

Media submitions were depleting rapidly and, if you noticed, it was mostly the same group of people posting multiple videos. While Brawl's youtube could easily use those videos for their own gain, part of having a youtube is to create your own content. I'm not saying their choice was the right one, but you also can't say it was the wrong one. There just isn't enough information here to create a case for either side. It is what it is at this point and we can only move forward (which we have). There was the creation of the media team (a team dedicated to editing videos for brawl's youtube channel) and they have posted many times since.

Spoiler: 15:31

Seeing as you said in your video that you forgot we had a twitter page, it seems safe to assume that Roke knew what he was talking about when he said our twitter page is easily forgotten. Later you stated that brawl's tweet about the giveaway received "335 retweets and 39 likes", yet you tried to say that 335 retweets from a follower-base of 20,000 is "not little to no attention". Doing the math, 335 retweets of the 20,000 followers we have means that, mathematically, 1.12% of our followers saw the tweet and thought to retweet it. Either this means more did, in fact, see the tweet and just didn't retweet or we only have 1.12% of our follower-base regularly checking in with us on our twitter. Either scenario isn't good for Brawl. You then go on to say, "please don't try to make yourself seem better. Your forums post here says 20k followers, as I was reading it, but, uh, you only have 19k followers". Oh dear him. I'm so sorry he didn't give you the exact numbering of followers. Aw man. 1,000 is a huge difference when we're talking about a following of 20,000.

Spoiler: 16:39

Again with the nitpicking. I'm sure (I can't be absolutely positive, of course, as there are no absolutes) that what Roke meant is that we need staff who have the capability to stream with decent quality. As you're a youtube, I presume you know all the work and hardware that goes into making quality videos. Along with a good graphics card, hard drive, and cpu (among other things), you also need a very good internet connection while streaming, as you are uploading in real-time. As I was once staff here for 2 years, I know the staff very well and, while their dedication is great, most do not have the ability to stream for Brawl simply because of physical limitations either on their network or in their computer.

Spoiler: 17:20

We have almost no control over who posts on Brawl's reddit. It could be that you were on Smash Bros. Brawl's reddit or that someone was confused about your video. Their comment has no bearing on us and we aren't held responsible for it.

In conclusion, I'd like to say gg and good try for attempting to expose something that was completely legitimate, as well as being unable to remain unbiased and calm in your approach to this video. Your opinions, though steeped in untruths, are valid opinions and I wish you the best in your youtube career. However, I'd like to give a word of advice: don't try to pile up evidence of abuse or inability against a staff member unless you have valid proof and take into account all counter arguments you may encounter. Our staff members, though not perfect, try their best for Brawl and I don't think anyone appreciated the slander you threw at any of them. As for your shout-out to our community members that had opinions differing from yours, they're not perfect either, but there's a reason they're a part of Brawl's community. As long as they are, we as staff will do what we can to help them enjoy Brawl to the fullest. I'm sorry you felt we didn't do that for you, but I suppose you get served what you dish out, right? good video editing btw. Very nice assassin gameplay.

 

The negative section was a normal sub-section of General > Discussion. During restructuring the forums it was hidden which I was not aware of when moving your thread. The thread has been moved to General > Discussion.

 

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