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Hey there, fellow Minecrafters! I'm just your average nerdy law student juggling a hectic life. When I'm not expressing my unpopular yet valid opinions on Discord and getting muted for it, I find solace in Minecraft Bedrock. It's my go-to escape from the chaos of working full-time and attending college. In fact, I used to run the GROWN Minehut player-server, a safe haven for grown-ups and mature teens tired of the immaturity and toxicity found elsewhere. After a two-year break due to frustration with the community's moderation, I returned to find things mostly unchanged. However, I did stumble upon a couple of player-servers that I genuinely enjoy playing on. Looking forward to connecting with like-minded players and creating awesome Minecraft memories together! See you in the virtual world!

We, as individuals? We are responsible for our accounts. We're responsible for logging out of our accounts and clients when we're done playing or stepping away, as well as securing our devices when we're not using them, with passwords, PINs, and so on. If we fail to do that, or let people access our accounts, we accept responsibility for whatever they do while taking our account for a joyride, which includes changing your MC Username to something obscene, and using a hacked client on your account. It's one of the harsh truths of life, but that's one of the lessons that come with getting older: there are consequences for our actions and/or our carelessness. This, at least, seems like a pretty straightforward case of "Appeal the Ban". They're liable to say much the same as I have, though.

Well, good thing nobody here is doing that. Even if they were, purely for the sake of argument, that doesn't justify jumping in and minimodding. I repeat what I've said before: exemplary behavior won't get you treated any better than anybody else. It didn't earn me jack squat. When I ended up on the wrong end of a Mute, it played absolutely no part in the decision making. I was treated the same as the wee tykes who legit run around breaking rules all the time. They made no effort to create a distinction between the different varieties of user and/or customer. I have taken a few steps back in terms of my relationship with Minehut. Maybe other people are happy apologizing when they're not in the wrong, and appealing/begging in vain to have unfair Mutes and whatnot undone, but I take a break for weeks/months/years at a time when it looks like I'm reaching my fill. If the other players were always pleasant and friendly and the staff were a bit mean? I could just avoid the staff. If the players were unfriendly but the staff were personable and friendly? Same there. I wouldn't need a break from that either. Minehut has its merits. But thoughtful customer service is not one of them. My only reason for saying as much here and elsewhere, is because I think people will enjoy their MH experience better if they realize that it's an endless and futile struggle to get that idyllic customer service vibe, so they can maybe focus instead on what it takes to survive their MH experience with the fewest headaches. Hardly the untoward behavior minimodders suggest when they hijack people's threads to tell them how wrong their observations and opinions are.

Wow. Just wow. "Hey guys, lock this. Let's pretend it doesn't happened, never happened, and erase all evidence to the contrary moving forward." Hey, instead of a Lock, how about you go follow a different thread you like more? Maybe choose the civil, respectful route? You won't earn brownie points with Minehut for this.

Way to repeat my words, almost verbatim, and respond by popping open an umbrella during a tsunami and declaring the world is dry. I never said they treat literally everybody like this. But those they do? Better believe going "NO DEY NEVR D0 TH4T", that kind of malignant behavior is a big part of the problem we're addressing in this thread. And no amount of Whiteknighting for Minehut is going to encourage them that they need to do anything different, regarding those occasions when they've been less than professional moderating the Hub and/or responding to tickets. If you're on these forums to gaslight people and tell them that they're delusional/crazy for the things they've experienced, maybe you'd feel more at home on another platform where people do that sort of thing? Because it's entirely unnecessary, and more than a little narcissistic to try and mess with people's heads like that. We're not asking Minehut to overhaul their entire process. Just READ THE TICKETS, RESPOND to the tickets without the copypasta. I mean, the person answering my Ticket QUOTED me VERBATIM, then misquoted me while saying the staff were justified for saying <misquoted text>. When I said as much, I got snark in response. That isn't a me problem, that's a them problem that they're making my problem.

They won't be trained properly. They've said more than once that if we don't like the horrid ways we're treated, and are tired of being treated with dismissive and snarky attitudes in response to our tickets, we can take ourselves elsewhere. I'd advise looking for non-minehut servers out there, or spending $6/mo on your own server elsewhere that may be a little off the beaten path, but be tremendously rewarding if you put the time and effort into it. To be honest, Super League Gaming is, and only is, a bunch of gamers working to make a profit. There are enough people who throw money at them no matter how badly they're treated, that their bedside manner is going to get worse before it gets better. You can either deal with what you've got, or go somewhere better. Somewhere people actually will stop doing business if they start being disrespected by the hosting providers, or where the providers don't need to be at risk of losing an enormous chunk of their earnings just to try a little bit and pretend they care.

Obviously, this is aimed at those who actually get to know the other people on Minehut, who have conversations with the community, and who take the time to know the people who join their subservers. Learn how to tell players apart. Nobody's impressed by owners who treat everyone who enters their server like a rabid 12 year old looking to spam, grief and cause problems. We come from different backgrounds, and while many of Minecraft's player base are extremely young and immature youths, there are others (some youths included) who are chill, mellow, and who have a good head on their shoulders. This isn't aimed at any one person, I'm applying this to myself as well: treat every new name like a clean slate, and get to know them. There are a ton of trolls out there on the internet, who use sincere-seeming language to troll and harass other people, but that's no excuse to then act like everyone you encounter is a troll, or a troublemaker. Having run online communities for some 15+ years, and not having a hasty nor impulsive bone in my body (at least no more than the bare minimum any other human might have), I do resent the dismissive tone and language a lot of the older players use towards everybody, as if they're the only older players on Minehut. No human being is innately "better" than any other, I'm just saying that it's important to judge a person (if one must judge) on the basis of their merits, not based on a stereotype of Minecraft players (or even Minehut stereotypes). Now, if someone has been finding themselves lumping in every minehut player, and treating them like they're all the same, I'm game for hearing what your experiences have been and why you have acquired that habit, as well as what you might be doing to get away from that habit.

I could spawn into the middle of a vast wilderness, no Holographic Displays, no signs with rules on it, no indication of what to do. I could spawn into the most flashy ripped-from-the-Schematics-website Spawn, there could be Ender Chests, Anvils, dragon heads, etc. I could span into some Minimalist spawn that just has maybe a platform with a list of commands, and then nothing but wilderness all around. I could span into a chunk that basically only has portals into different biomes all around me. You know what's going to decide whether I enjoy it or not? The Staff. Here are some questions I would ask myself: 1.) Are the staff social and friendly towards everyone? 2.) Do the staff do a thorough investigation (including talking to someone) before doling out punishments? 3.) Do the staff have a cavalier attitude when acting in their capacity as staff, performing Kicks and Bans, or go "lmao" after? 4.) Can the staff answer questions without being irritable and rude? 5.) If the Owner or his/her staff takes disciplinary action in error, will they undo it if it's pointed out that they acted in error? 6.) Is the Owner and/or their staff, quick to act, and slow to think and analyze a situation? 7.) If you tell the Owner they acted in error, offer to show proof, will they listen or just keep parroting "UR WRONG, U DESERVE BAN"? The Community 1.) Are the members able to have lucid, sensible conversations? 2.) Are there a bunch of hyperactive kids running around swinging their weapons on everyone? 3.) When someone loses, are they a good sport about it, or do they become toxic? (and do staff handle the toxic ones?) 4.) Are players who don't solely use slang or "txt speak" ridiculed and harassed for it? (ie: "/r/iamverysmart" remarks) 5.) When you bring up serious issues (people using hacked clients or bullying other members), is the reaction to your input positive or negative? The "/plugins" and "/help" Commands I can't stress this enough, neither /PL nor /HELP bring any risk to a server nor its operation. If someone thinks they're being clever by using Skript or another plugin to hide the Plugins, or to hide /HELP (which merely lets us see which commands we're allowed to use), I'm not going to be impressed. That shows me that they took the time to conceal perfectly harmless Vanilla elements of a Minecraft Server, rather than other things I will probably encounter that probably should have been a higher priority.

People need to learn how to listen before they can become adept at anything. Not listening when someone is explaining how you're wrong, and can provide actual proof, and you're just ignoring everything they say and repeating the same arguments over and over and over again? You're probably not going to get very far. So much for being a quick learner! There are far too many on Minehut who think they've become good, but they're actually pretty unskilled and inexperienced, and too hardheaded to listen when people try to offer them constructive feedback. They listen to flatterers who will sink their server in a few weeks' time, but will be rude towards people offering them solid advice, even offering references (from official sources) to back up the feedback they're providing. Minehut is a small pond. While I encourage people to try out MC Server Ownership in such a small, controlled setting, I wouldn't advise anyone to really get their hopes up for a server whose staff personify maturity, professionalism and integrity. I'll think twice before ever again donating even $5 (let alone more) to a sub-server whose owner's intelligence I haven't really seen evidence of for at least a few weeks or so. When you find the six or so good servers on Minehut, don't do anything to screw it up for yourself, because it isn't like there's a whole ton of good servers to choose from. I'm holding on tight to the six I found, because all everyone else seems to be trying to do is to use their server to provide live examples of what a bad server (or bad business model) looks like. Don't even get me started on the kind of head case who accepts my money in PayPal, who lets me hype his server/service to other Minehut users, then bans me from his forums for a legit (allegedly "trolly") staff app that literally outlined 15+ years of Online Community administration, web development and entrepreneurial experience. The guy was just a scumbag, no way around it. He wasn't the first scumbag, I'm sure he won't be the last. He definitely won't ruin me on continuing to look for actual promising talent on Minehut to support and contribute towards.