I was staff for about 95% of the time /dice was here. /dice is evil. /dice is bad. We did it as a town staff kinda thing to just trade around money, and that was fun, but that's not the point.
Dicing caused so many issues. There were rifts in the staff team over it, too many refund requests, too many bans over it. Yeah, nice way to gamble on your money. (sarcasm everywhere) Someone always one, and someone (sometimes more than 1) always lost.
For all those saying that staff don't want to deal with it because it is more work: That is bull. It wasn't more work. We all care about the community, and seeing people upset 99% of the time with dicing was irritating. We just wanted to do right by other people, and we didn't like having to tell people that we couldn't help them. That was the worst part.
Why don't they bring back /dice but say that you HAVE to have screenshots of the dice before anything can be done? In the event of a scam, a player can throw the screenies on imgur, and staff can issue a ban; if the player doesn't have screenies then nothing is done. I don't see how that is super hard to moderate.
~ @metr0n0me
It was super hard to moderate. Let me run an experiment. You dice 500 times lets say. Are you going to take 500-2000 pictures? I don't think so. Now, imagine trying to flip through all those images to find the one you want, and oh, look, it's not there. You didn't take proof of it. The point of removing it was to lessen the amount of bans. There were probably 5 bans a day that could have taken place just on dicing. Now, those 5 bans a day don't exist. Lots of players were getting away with scamming, and they know who they are.
Example: I'm new to Meep. Someone shouts: dicing 1k /msg me. (Let's say I went through the tutorial and have money and know how to message.) Okay, so now I am there. I'm dicing. I lose. I pay the 1k. I quit because that was the worst experience on a sever I just joined. Hello? No one sees a problem there? This was happening all the time.
+1 if it is made that you can't get banned, don't have to pay, and there are no associated consequences. However, that is mainly how it started out, and then it went down hill.
-1 if it is just going to cause more and more issues - which it most likely will.
Dicing was a bad thing to implement in the first place.
