Post by Keiran on Jun 1, 2015 17:31:56 GMT -4
• For those of you who don't know, our administration would like some help running a few of our 'Outside' pages. The main administration doesn't have time to concentrate on everything at once and so only helps out with the website and the server. Because of this, we need volunteers to help out our Outside pages on a weekly basis. Volunteers receive 20 VIP points per week for all updates and announcements within those pages.
The following pages are available to help out with:
Tumblr (requires my trust)
MSPAForums
As we receive help with these particular pages, more options will become available. If you're interested in helping out, please send Keiran (me) a message!
• As a healthy reminder: The more members we gain, the more likely someone's going to grief, discriminate, or be a jerk in general. Brush up on our Rules if you think you're a victim of abuse on our server. Our main goal is to ensure our server is a comfortable and happy place for everyone that deserves it, which includes you.
• Due to frequent DDoS attacks last month, I'd like to remind everyone that they don't have to remain bored when the server is down. There are a lot of role plays and shops available in our forums, you can still submit switchable characters, not to mention a lot of fun happens over our TeamSpeak and Skype groups. It's up to you how you want to spend the down time.
We'll also be moving our server to a different host and may end up trying several different hosts within a span of a few months. Beta testing is needed first and foremost. Volunteer if you can.
• The guidelines or troll profiles (in general) may receive a new rewrite, depending on how much help we can get from our members. Our administration would like to ask you to participate and help out where you can. If you see anything amiss with the guidelines or don't agree with it, please let us know.
• Temporary bans are now a thing but are only available for those who have bad attitudes or otherwise social problems. Bans, for any rule breaking at all, usually consists of three warnings before the ban. This is when we have sufficient enough evidence to believe that you're breaking some of our biggest rules: 4, 5, 6, 7 (not for delivery but for harassment).
Temporary bans, for those who have behavioural problems (thus breaking rule 5) can be given at least a chance to reform. As agreed to by our administrators, those who are temporary banned will be banned for three to six months along with all the characters they previously submitted removed from our forums (they have to resubmit them one to two at a time depending on their ability). They will still have access to their website account and they'd still have VIP Points if they were banned after they've earned some. There are several other things temporarily banned members will have to go through before they can access the server again but I'm not going over them just yet.
Don't start shit on our server, our teamspeak, our website, or through skype, and expect to get away with it.
And please, for the love of Tridivir, do not start something with me because I'm trying my hardest to make everyone happy and comfortable on the server and you do not know what's going on with my life outside of the server. Be a reasonable person and remain calm if you're concerned about something so we can have a proper discussion. I won't be able to help you if you don't try to work with me on the issue. Verbally attacking (rule 5) me will not help anyone, especially not you as you will receive a warning for a potential future ban if you persist on treating me that way.
Thank you.
• Polaris, sadly, is still incomplete. We still need help finishing it up. If you happen to be online at the same time as an admin, let them know that you'd like to help out. There's a list of things you can do for the city.
• For any of those of you that had joined our server before June, and had completed the requirements (i.e. put your minecraft username in your mini-profile on the website), will have extended VIP Membership by a month and two weeks thanks to all them DDoS attacks. Enjoy!
• Since everyone still has their VIP Membership, there are no winners for this month's VIP.
• Because of the DDoS attacks, we will continue building the Construction Day Candle by two more weeks (ending on the 14th of June).
• Congratulations to thepikawither for winning the lottery! You now have 100k to spend!
• As a healthy reminder: Please do not edit your profiles to break our guidelines after they've been accepted UNLESS your using Project FW and even then, please brush up on the entire Project FW post before editing your character's profile!
• Also on the same lines, do not attempt to participate in a casual role play (different from lore reserve) if your skin does not abide by our guidelines/Project FW. Thank you.
• There may be a change in the future pertaining to the mentioning of humans on the server, which may either be linked to Lore Reserves or something new entirely that will be introduced to our server. But for now, both humans and SGRUB/SBURB are not allowed.
• We now have a thread called The Big Scary Review Process which explains how we review things and such. A link will be added later to the TrollMe AU Starter Kit thread.
• You can only submit one character per month to our Pending Characters once per month. The only exception to this are if you donated for your VIP Membership or if you bought 1 Character Early Submission in the VIP Point shop and only then you can only submit up to two per month.
• Don't forget that you can also earn VIP Points whether or not you're a VIP Member!
• We have made several changes the navigation bar at the top of our page! It now includes a link to our shop and an 'Outside' link. Our Outside link includes things like facebook and such.
• There is drop down navigation for our Shop and Forums links! Hover over them and hover over the links in the drop down to receive more drop down options (if available).
• Speaking of our shop, we now have several things available: Custom headshots of characters, a Spawn of Chaos plushy, and OUR MUSIC IS FINALLY AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. We'll be adding more stuff in the future.
Quick Note: It's okay to provide an address when purchasing a custom digital piece or donating. You'll simply receive an extra email to tell you the delivery to your house has been cancelled - this is to ensure that our accounts are not flagged for delivery. We still have your money and we'll still give you what you paid for.
• We've added a new drop down option for our How to Join page and it's our Review Process.