I like to add my personal viewpoint first;
Onionzzz and Hyphen have set up the server and have put a lot of time into the community. Without them, even considering there personal character flaws from my point of view and all the wrongs there done morally there there would be no Jailbreak without them and there hard effort. What is happening now, is the normal cycle of a server, because what is happening now has happened 8 times before sadly in the community alone since 2009. It starts off with excitement > then slowly over time the leaders (in this case Onionzzz and Hyphen) lose interest, the hobby becomes more work like and they become more impatience and see the community more of a a cash cow to make some $$$ and everything slips like it is doing so now.
All admins often complain in general that they feel attacked randomly, that players often seek them out and there just over it... However this is no excuse to drop the ball or allow abuse in my view (and I can personally say, I personally get way more attacked by random admins and players wanting to be a admin thinking attacking me is a path to higher rank or adminship in there eyes, yet never once have I or another PU officer had a breakdown or complaint about it, and so shouldn't the admin who have volunteered to have a bigger impact). Remember admins have made a decision to be an admin, they were not forced to be one so they should always be held to the highest standard of adminship. However even though I support the main message in this thread and those commenting, what worries me particularly in this case is the motivation, this is not kids trying to have fun getting an admin reaction, this isn't people fighting for a message they truly believe, this is people using "players rights" as a method to seek revenge on a former friend/partner/boss who there split ways with, however saying that I still generally support the message of "players rights".
From an Players Union (PU) viewpoint.
The PU has over the course of years been advocating for consistent banning and unbanning policies for all players. Some simple but yet very effective methods would be to have a warn/mute/kick/ban policy regarding all mutes. And that all mutes must be 1,2,5 minutes in that order, with no mute allowed over 5 minutes. A separate unbanning admin outside of the team would allow for all unbans to be independently review. In general intentions should be accounted for when administrating rules and mistakes forgiven, players should not ever receive a CT ban unless the intention was malicious. All ban reasons must be clearly stated, no more ban reason like "is a dog". And this goes for admins respawning players to do massies as well. Remembers JB is a social game, rules regarding what should and can't be said, should all be left alone and not enforced and there shouldn't be extra protection for certain category of players or actions made against people because of mob mentality. In general prisoners shouldn't be allowed to be punished in almost all cases as the entire point of JB prisoners is to menace. And in general, there should be a high level or accountability for those who chosen to take on the role as a online leader such as an admin. I won't go on about every change which can be done, but the theme should be clear from whats above. As its the theme which has always led to the most open, funnest and best Jailbreak community which we all proud to be a part of.
Onionzzz and Hyphen have set up the server and have put a lot of time into the community. Without them, even considering there personal character flaws from my point of view and all the wrongs there done morally there there would be no Jailbreak without them and there hard effort. What is happening now, is the normal cycle of a server, because what is happening now has happened 8 times before sadly in the community alone since 2009. It starts off with excitement > then slowly over time the leaders (in this case Onionzzz and Hyphen) lose interest, the hobby becomes more work like and they become more impatience and see the community more of a a cash cow to make some $$$ and everything slips like it is doing so now.
All admins often complain in general that they feel attacked randomly, that players often seek them out and there just over it... However this is no excuse to drop the ball or allow abuse in my view (and I can personally say, I personally get way more attacked by random admins and players wanting to be a admin thinking attacking me is a path to higher rank or adminship in there eyes, yet never once have I or another PU officer had a breakdown or complaint about it, and so shouldn't the admin who have volunteered to have a bigger impact). Remember admins have made a decision to be an admin, they were not forced to be one so they should always be held to the highest standard of adminship. However even though I support the main message in this thread and those commenting, what worries me particularly in this case is the motivation, this is not kids trying to have fun getting an admin reaction, this isn't people fighting for a message they truly believe, this is people using "players rights" as a method to seek revenge on a former friend/partner/boss who there split ways with, however saying that I still generally support the message of "players rights".
From an Players Union (PU) viewpoint.
The PU has over the course of years been advocating for consistent banning and unbanning policies for all players. Some simple but yet very effective methods would be to have a warn/mute/kick/ban policy regarding all mutes. And that all mutes must be 1,2,5 minutes in that order, with no mute allowed over 5 minutes. A separate unbanning admin outside of the team would allow for all unbans to be independently review. In general intentions should be accounted for when administrating rules and mistakes forgiven, players should not ever receive a CT ban unless the intention was malicious. All ban reasons must be clearly stated, no more ban reason like "is a dog". And this goes for admins respawning players to do massies as well. Remembers JB is a social game, rules regarding what should and can't be said, should all be left alone and not enforced and there shouldn't be extra protection for certain category of players or actions made against people because of mob mentality. In general prisoners shouldn't be allowed to be punished in almost all cases as the entire point of JB prisoners is to menace. And in general, there should be a high level or accountability for those who chosen to take on the role as a online leader such as an admin. I won't go on about every change which can be done, but the theme should be clear from whats above. As its the theme which has always led to the most open, funnest and best Jailbreak community which we all proud to be a part of.