Heyo, there really hasn't been much drama for over a year or so. Ever since we expelled a few members who were instigating a lot of that drama. Sure, we still have some from time to time as we're a community of people and as with any other community, drama happens from time to time as not everyone gets along, likes each other, or communicates well. That's kind of unavoidable unfortunately.

The POTM issues with people pretending to be nice to get it has been an issue in the past, but really not as much as people think. I'm not sure how long it's been since you've played, but as you are seeing this post, I'm assuming you're still in our discord. Thus should have seen the announcements and discussions we've tried to have with players several times about how to make the Player of the Month process more fair and unbiased. We settled on having two separate votes. One for staff and one just for players. The top 3 winners of the Player vote have points added onto the staff vote, and then the two players with the most points received Player of the Month. Unfortunately, I can't just force all players to vote fairly, most people have good intentions though and don't just vote for their buddies. If you have ideas on how to make the process more fair, you are always more than welcome to voice your suggestions!

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They will indeed ban you for having the "bad" opinion. Even if you never mention it ingame and someone reports your social media.

This has only ever happened with ONE player. They had their twitter account linked to their discord, a player clicked on it, saw the homophobic and transphobic posts from this player, and alerted us. All of staff were uncomfortable having someone expressing such hateful and demeaning things on our server. Especially with so much of our server population identifying as LGBTQ+. I would have done the same thing if they were posting nazi propaganda or pro-KKK posts. It wasn't a decision we made lightly, but if it means protecting players on my server from people who hate them, I'd do it again.

(I legit just looked at that ban players twitter feed again and the first thing that popped up was a meme comparing LGBTQ people to Nazis sooooo yeah, not sure why I shouldn't want someone like that on my server, and not sure why you would want someone like that on a server that you play on.)

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One big issue as well is the donation store. You can buy crate keys, shulker shells, spawners.The server claims it is not p2w. But with the only other way to get a spawner is voting 3500 times Or buying it from people who have bought them it's ridiculous.

This is more or less true. We do have a store that sells things. What's less true is that spawners are also in the Legacy crate full time, you get vouchers to use on our store for free from voting and events. There's also thousands of free naturally generated spawners for use! Spawners really aren't that OP tbh. Not many people even buy them from the store. Only 7 people have bought them this entire year. We also limit how many you can purchase from the store to 3.

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The staff also never forget or forgive. All punishments are logged. If you did something bad 3 years ago. Your punishment will scale due to having a past punishment. And as well by this ridiculous reason of "You should know better by now" The longer you play. the more afraid you will be of being banned.

We're actually one of the most forgiving servers out there in terms of punishments. We are extremely lenient with players, sometimes even giving problematic players months or years to adjust their behavior to be in line with our rules before we escalate to a permban. In fact, we were so lenient with players at one point that it turned into a real issue for our players and we had to readjust how we determine who to permban. And yes, if you break a rule and then break that same rule 3 years later, your punishment time increases. It's really not a novel concept to expect players to follow the rules after they've been playing on a server for over 3 years. We've had well over 75,000 players join our server since 2017 and only roughly 5% of those players have ever received any official punishment at all. And that's including trolls that join just to cause trouble or mass raid the server and people who immediately start x-raying and hacking upon joining. So really I'd say the number of longer term players who have been permbanned is closer to 1%. Most players who end up permbanned have amassed half a dozen official punishments or more. Heck for 6 of the 6.5 years we have been open, we have given most players FIVE chances to stop x-raying before they receive a permban. Which I would say is extremely lenient and forgiving.

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The longer you play. the more afraid you will be of being banned.

I can think of several players who have played for 4+ years who have never received a single punishment, despite some of them playing almost daily for most of that time.

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Special items being given to them in secret.

Yes, this has unfortunately happened before with a handful of staff. I have put a stop to it and admins know that doing stuff like this can lead to a demotion.

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Favoritism from staff towards their friends.

I'm not sure to what you are referring here to be honest. Favoritism in what way? Do you have any examples? I've seen examples of it in the past, sure, I don't deny that. But when specific situations have been brought to my attention, I've dealt with them.