Post by miwo on Apr 12, 2020 21:25:40 GMT
1. Your Minecraft name:
“miwojedk”
2. Are you using the same forum & Minecraft account that you used when you were an admin in the past? (Yes or No).
Yes/no – On occasion I delete my forum account on a vareity of reasons, but I’ve had this one for half or a whole year.
3. What rank were you (super, telnet, senior) and the approx dates you were an admin: (e.g. super admin from Jun 2010 - Jan 2013)
Executive / Senior Admin
4. Why were you removed from admin? (Answer one below and exclude the rest)
a, c & d:
(a. For long term inactivity? (Yes or No) If Yes, did you post an inactivity notice or did you leave without notice - please explain if no notice was left.)
(c. I quit or resigned (Yes or No) If Yes, explain why you didn't follow the policy to simply go inactive rather than quit or resign.)
(d. I was removed or suspended for misconduct (Yes or No) If yes, explain why and detail your plan to ensure it won't happen again.)
I was removed from Admin because I resigned for a variety of reasons. Mainly because I wanted a break from Total Freedom and the game, and also the fact that I had big disagreements with leadership. Since I joined Total Freedom I have left on a variety of occassions only to come back and continue my duties as an Admin and MB (MB-leader)
I resigned, then got permbanned, then got unbanned. Read about it here:
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64826/miwojedk
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64825/miwojedk-permban-request
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64871/miwo-wanted-last-images-posted
I am not going to apologize for my actions at the time because I simply do not see them as immature or wrong. Even if you were to call my resignation a “rage quit”, which is awfully hard to prove it was.
I chose to leave partly because I disagreed with the way the server was headed at the time – I disliked the way that my suggestions and attempts to better the server was being treated by the upper staff. The final straw in this case was when Zaid (Tigermca) removed several of the MB policies I had made during my tenure as ECD without consulting me.
These policies were:
1: “There is to be no direct voting involved - acceptance or denial of an applicant is under the current CD’s discretion.” (meaning that the ECD had the final say in a player being denied/accepted as MB)
2: “MBs are not allowed to contribute before they have been given directions by the Creative Designer”
3: “The Creative Designer must -always- be an active Master Builder.”
The first policy:
The reasoning behind this policy is quite simple: I did not like the way that players were voting on MB apps prior to this policy. If you go and view several of the MB apps prior to this policy, then you would very quickly see that they were actually sub-par to what we have now. I am not going to call anybody out and call them a shitty builder, but before this policy was enacted, the MB apps were mostly a popularity contest, not a show of skill, which it has ALWAYS been intended to be. I approved 3 players under this policy, 2 of these builders being Captainclimber and burger . I can certainly see that the optics of this policy look quite grim, because it almost makes the ECD an authoritarian leader, but that was kinda the point: Give the verdict to someone who is an excellent builder and has shown they are capable of leading a team of builders.
If I were an ECD today, then I would probably have revamped this policy to only give MB’s a vote in the matter, because they have also proved that they are capable of building.
The removal of this policy happened right after Kai had applied for MB and I was critical of their building skills (https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64810/master-builder-application-kaibbby ). People thought I was being biased because I apparently didn’t like kai (not true) and said I was being way too meticulous in regards to deciding whether or not they would get MB. I said that they should post pictures of their build s WITHOUT shaders, where the player promptly revoked their app for reasons I cannot fathom. I know that some members of this community love to mock my comments regarding shaders, but I still sincerely believe that it shouldn’t be allowed to use shaders in one’s MB app because they can heavily alter the perception of a build.
At that time I probably would have denied the app, but I think I gave the player ample opportunity to prove to me that they were worthy of being an MB, which was not what they did. I can only assume that the player retracted their application because they did not like what I had to say.
So to conclude: My policy was some-what dictator-ish, but for good reason. And today I would probably have revamped the policy and only have made MB’s able to vote on MB apps instead.
Some of the ordeal regarding my disagreements with Seth and the other leadership can be seen here:
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64548/useless-thread-cause-pointless-arguing
I want to reinstate as Admin because I have more free time now than I used to and I still really like the Total Freedom community/server (which is why I have been her for more than a decade). I want to help adminstrate and work with building the new worlds and spawns for TF: work, which is currently not being done.
5. <Snip>
6. If you are reinstated, how often will you be able to do admin duties?
- Daily or every other day.
7. Have you reviewed the server rules and banning protocols to ensure you're up to speed on any changes that might have occurred since your return from inactivity?
- Yes.
8. Do you have a family member that's been on the perm ban list within the past 60 days?
- No
“miwojedk”
2. Are you using the same forum & Minecraft account that you used when you were an admin in the past? (Yes or No).
Yes/no – On occasion I delete my forum account on a vareity of reasons, but I’ve had this one for half or a whole year.
3. What rank were you (super, telnet, senior) and the approx dates you were an admin: (e.g. super admin from Jun 2010 - Jan 2013)
Executive / Senior Admin
4. Why were you removed from admin? (Answer one below and exclude the rest)
a, c & d:
(a. For long term inactivity? (Yes or No) If Yes, did you post an inactivity notice or did you leave without notice - please explain if no notice was left.)
(c. I quit or resigned (Yes or No) If Yes, explain why you didn't follow the policy to simply go inactive rather than quit or resign.)
(d. I was removed or suspended for misconduct (Yes or No) If yes, explain why and detail your plan to ensure it won't happen again.)
I was removed from Admin because I resigned for a variety of reasons. Mainly because I wanted a break from Total Freedom and the game, and also the fact that I had big disagreements with leadership. Since I joined Total Freedom I have left on a variety of occassions only to come back and continue my duties as an Admin and MB (MB-leader)
I resigned, then got permbanned, then got unbanned. Read about it here:
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64826/miwojedk
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64825/miwojedk-permban-request
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64871/miwo-wanted-last-images-posted
I am not going to apologize for my actions at the time because I simply do not see them as immature or wrong. Even if you were to call my resignation a “rage quit”, which is awfully hard to prove it was.
I chose to leave partly because I disagreed with the way the server was headed at the time – I disliked the way that my suggestions and attempts to better the server was being treated by the upper staff. The final straw in this case was when Zaid (Tigermca) removed several of the MB policies I had made during my tenure as ECD without consulting me.
These policies were:
1: “There is to be no direct voting involved - acceptance or denial of an applicant is under the current CD’s discretion.” (meaning that the ECD had the final say in a player being denied/accepted as MB)
2: “MBs are not allowed to contribute before they have been given directions by the Creative Designer”
3: “The Creative Designer must -always- be an active Master Builder.”
The first policy:
The reasoning behind this policy is quite simple: I did not like the way that players were voting on MB apps prior to this policy. If you go and view several of the MB apps prior to this policy, then you would very quickly see that they were actually sub-par to what we have now. I am not going to call anybody out and call them a shitty builder, but before this policy was enacted, the MB apps were mostly a popularity contest, not a show of skill, which it has ALWAYS been intended to be. I approved 3 players under this policy, 2 of these builders being Captainclimber and burger . I can certainly see that the optics of this policy look quite grim, because it almost makes the ECD an authoritarian leader, but that was kinda the point: Give the verdict to someone who is an excellent builder and has shown they are capable of leading a team of builders.
If I were an ECD today, then I would probably have revamped this policy to only give MB’s a vote in the matter, because they have also proved that they are capable of building.
The removal of this policy happened right after Kai had applied for MB and I was critical of their building skills (https://totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64810/master-builder-application-kaibbby ). People thought I was being biased because I apparently didn’t like kai (not true) and said I was being way too meticulous in regards to deciding whether or not they would get MB. I said that they should post pictures of their build s WITHOUT shaders, where the player promptly revoked their app for reasons I cannot fathom. I know that some members of this community love to mock my comments regarding shaders, but I still sincerely believe that it shouldn’t be allowed to use shaders in one’s MB app because they can heavily alter the perception of a build.
At that time I probably would have denied the app, but I think I gave the player ample opportunity to prove to me that they were worthy of being an MB, which was not what they did. I can only assume that the player retracted their application because they did not like what I had to say.
So to conclude: My policy was some-what dictator-ish, but for good reason. And today I would probably have revamped the policy and only have made MB’s able to vote on MB apps instead.
Some of the ordeal regarding my disagreements with Seth and the other leadership can be seen here:
totalfreedom.boards.net/thread/64548/useless-thread-cause-pointless-arguing
I want to reinstate as Admin because I have more free time now than I used to and I still really like the Total Freedom community/server (which is why I have been her for more than a decade). I want to help adminstrate and work with building the new worlds and spawns for TF: work, which is currently not being done.
5. <Snip>
6. If you are reinstated, how often will you be able to do admin duties?
- Daily or every other day.
7. Have you reviewed the server rules and banning protocols to ensure you're up to speed on any changes that might have occurred since your return from inactivity?
- Yes.
8. Do you have a family member that's been on the perm ban list within the past 60 days?
- No
- March 2nd 2018 - July 22nd 2019
- July 22nd 2019 - Present
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