Hey, so I know I don't play so much anymore, but I still think about you guys and I thought this might be beneficial.
I believe there should be a major rule revision, including removing theft and grief bans.
Now I know this sounds nutzo, but hear me out. We have a small player base. When we had 600 players regularly, this might have been an OK law, but even then. If someone is to steal from you then they are either a town staff or your friend. If your friends are stealing from you, that's your fault for trusting them. You can dig your stuff in a hole, make an obsidian base, whatever. Removing this will increase the player base because people won't be so dang paranoid about other people stealing from them, and it will remove a lot of drama (I sometimes have nightmares of VKL's stupid "theft" cases with his friends). In the current state of Meep, it would be better to have a "to each their own" rule. Not only that, but this might teach kids a thing or two about trust. It could also make the game more fun (not being constantly policed by staff).
Next, I think we should lift some of the chat bans. We have /google, heck you can even toggle chat from MineCraft completely. There's like 70 people online on a time, so this really isn't an issue in the first place, but I think removing the rule will allow for more adult conversations which is attractive to a lot of the Meep population! "Our kids our growing up," as KlutchDecals once said (paraphrasing but yes).
This might be a bit of a reach, but I think making ban appeals, player reports, and bug reports should be private. They aren't bringing anything positive to the server. Staff shouldn't be influenced by "likes" or receive messages based on their decision. At the end of the day, those three things won't make-or-break someone's willingness to play. If anything, they will be deterred if they see our collection of 1000+ wrong-doers. It's nice to think that people in the community are nice people! And just FYI, y'all can see bugs on the trello. But having them open for everyone to comment/like/judge isn't really beneficial. Again, it isn't doing any harm but it wouldn't hurt to just cut it by the neck, ya feel?
There are probably more rules that could be loosened up. I just think that Meep is indeed "growing up" and so should our rules and the ideology behind them.
Thank you for consideration.
