i can only agree with that. I have a server thread that's gotten no updates except from admins and people apply on our forum. This puts us at a severe disadvantage:
Have a looksie if you want, it's Golemland. It's a very nice vanilla server but because of the lack of Application "bumps" this puts us at a severe disadvantage, We get pushed down to below page 10 nearly daily, and thus have only recruited 2 people in 2 days.
Somethings wrong here, and I hope the powers that be will listen.
Humorously enough we where considering starting a white list system just because we cannot compete with white listed servers due to the free forum legal bumps they get.
On first glance it looks like it was due to spam posts underneath. If you'd like, I can PM you the OP post, and you can post it again.
It was deleted because you stated "cracked" in the title, which is promotion of piracy. If you host an offline-mode server, you should not be advertising it as "cracked", but as "offline-mode" or something that doesn't imply piracy. I can still get you the OP if you'd like.
Opinions? I don't approve of them. Are they allowed currently? I believe so.
I will say, it is much better if you have your players leave feedback and opinions rather than:
On first glance it looks like it was due to spam posts underneath. If you'd like, I can PM you the OP post, and you can post it again.
It was deleted because you stated "cracked" in the title, which is promotion of piracy. If you host an offline-mode server, you should not be advertising it as "cracked", but as "offline-mode" or something that doesn't imply piracy. I can still get you the OP if you'd like.
Sorry, I will change it to offline-mode but can I get my thread back please, I didn't know that cracked was not allowed.
Sorry, I will change it to offline-mode but can I get my thread back please, I didn't know that cracked was not allowed.
Offline-mode = cracked, both of which are not allowed to be advertised on the forums. AmberK was not correct in that offline-mode was allowed.. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.
Sadly I am looking at this section and I can't seem to get my server on top for more than two seconds. I have everything I need. Quality machine to run it on that supports 150 slots easy (only running 30 atm), a world that can continually grow forever and I won't ever need to worry thanks to over a terra byte of hard disk space, a good plugins guy and a good world edit guy, and from what I can see a good server Idea that brings some fun and fresh things to the table.
I just don't have any freaking players. I get maybe 1 or 2 a day, and I rarely get more than 3 new arrivals a week and they don't tend to stay on. From what I can see my 4 or 5 members are making for a interesting raiding server building towns as opposed to bases complete with castles and walls. I did not ask for that but I my admit to being pleasantly surprised. Everyone says its a fun and great server and I am proud of the work I and my team stuck into it.
I can think of 3 or 4 safe places to advertise my server. I happen to know a team avolition guy on skype and he told me never post on reddit or i run the risk of an attack that I don't want. I can't post on minecraft servers cause of the same reasons. Planet Minecraft, minestatus, and here are the only places I can advert easily. Except this forum is more of a feeding ground for the big servers to gobble up members. I know people are saying that the good members will go to the back and look there but I can't afford to wait for 1 out of a million. I want to see people play, and my members are frustrated that no one is joining them.
Either make some limits for the big server threads so they stop with this rpg and white list request bs or just lock down your servers thread and toss the key. It's pretty clear that as things stand its more of a spam fest than anything else. I have seriously considered bumping my thread repeatedly just so people will look at it consequences be damned. At least if I get banned from here its for something worth while but I can't just sit here and watch my thread get slammed to the back because server fatso here has about 100 players spamming it up daily. I liked some of the ideas about adding filter stuff but the bottom line is that minecraft forum staff is letting the big guy walk all over us and hasn't done a blessed thing. Please help us little guys. Let us make our servers full of fresh players so our hard work and in some cases money isn't wasted. Let our servers shine through for a bit. Don't let the usual real life issue happen here. Let the little guy grow.
I propose locking servers that are full of whitelist/spam related crud. Screw what the big guys say. They have hundreds of players. They don't need more. We need players. If you made it this far then thanks for reading.
Sadly I am looking at this section and I can't seem to get my server on top for more than two seconds. I have everything I need. Quality machine to run it on that supports 150 slots easy (only running 30 atm), a world that can continually grow forever and I won't ever need to worry thanks to over a terra byte of hard disk space, a good plugins guy and a good world edit guy, and from what I can see a good server Idea that brings some fun and fresh things to the table.
I just don't have any freaking players. I get maybe 1 or 2 a day, and I rarely get more than 3 new arrivals a week and they don't tend to stay on. From what I can see my 4 or 5 members are making for a interesting raiding server building towns as opposed to bases complete with castles and walls. I did not ask for that but I my admit to being pleasantly surprised. Everyone says its a fun and great server and I am proud of the work I and my team stuck into it.
I can think of 3 or 4 safe places to advertise my server. I happen to know a team avolition guy on skype and he told me never post on reddit or i run the risk of an attack that I don't want. I can't post on minecraft servers cause of the same reasons. Planet Minecraft, minestatus, and here are the only places I can advert easily. Except this forum is more of a feeding ground for the big servers to gobble up members. I know people are saying that the good members will go to the back and look there but I can't afford to wait for 1 out of a million. I want to see people play, and my members are frustrated that no one is joining them.
Either make some limits for the big server threads so they stop with this rpg and white list request bs or just lock down your servers thread and toss the key. It's pretty clear that as things stand its more of a spam fest than anything else. I have seriously considered bumping my thread repeatedly just so people will look at it consequences be damned. At least if I get banned from here its for something worth while but I can't just sit here and watch my thread get slammed to the back because server fatso here has about 100 players spamming it up daily. I liked some of the ideas about adding filter stuff but the bottom line is that minecraft forum staff is letting the big guy walk all over us and hasn't done a blessed thing. Please help us little guys. Let us make our servers full of fresh players so our hard work and in some cases money isn't wasted. Let our servers shine through for a bit. Don't let the usual real life issue happen here. Let the little guy grow.
I propose locking servers that are full of whitelist/spam related crud. Screw what the big guys say. They have hundreds of players. They don't need more. We need players. If you made it this far then thanks for reading.
I don't believe that we are "letting the big guy walk all over us" Try going to the search bar and putting in the word "bump". That, among many other things, is the workload of about 5 sectional moderators, the FA of servers, and one global moderator.
I agree, it is a bit hectic, but the truth is the more servers people make, the harder it will be to get players. Perhaps somewhere in the future there will be a bit of sectional change for the advantage of the smaller server?...
There's only one thing I can say. The current system will get rid of small servers in a matter of minutes, already established. But at night, the traffic slows down. Can we try to limit the amount of posts that can go into this section in let's say about 5 minutes or so? Because that will let people read about the servers and then be able to find another one without a gigantic server just popping up? or maybe a randomly picked server gets stickied for a day?
There's only one thing I can say. The current system will get rid of small servers in a matter of minutes, already established. But at night, the traffic slows down. Can we try to limit the amount of posts that can go into this section in let's say about 5 minutes or so? Because that will let people read about the servers and then be able to find another one without a gigantic server just popping up? or maybe a randomly picked server gets stickied for a day?
*Pretends Post throttling isn't something already being considered as a possibility.*
Perhaps, another thing is the sections will most likely be split in the future.
Are we allowed to Bump our thread if it becomes inactive?
If your thread becomes inactive, it could be for one of two reasons.
Your server has been offline for a large amount of time, thus causing the thread to reflect off that.
Your thread simply isn't throbbing very well.
Posting in threads that have been inactive for a very long time just to get them bumped is known as "necroposting", and is not allowed. Now let's say you have a thread that nobody has posted in for a week. If you need to say something important, such as a large update or new feature, that is fine, as long as you're not bumping while doing so. However, saying things like "bump", "join!", "Anyone?", etc. is still considered bumping and is not allowed.
I just kinda feel sad because of whitelist apps, my server will never reach the top. I get no new visitors. I only have my Admins and friends. It's just like getting ready for a cake, but getting a crumb of a cookie instead while others are getting TWO CAKES! I know I already posted here and should move on. But because of whitelist apps, the threads turn HOT and then instantly get a BILLION PEOPLE COMING TO THEM. That all begins with the whitelist apps bumping up the thread. Some people don't want to use whitelisting because it takes way too much time. I prefer applying for member status. Just when you have Permissions, then you add 1 extra step to your whitelist. And there's no affective way to speed up whitelisting, because you need to reload the server. Wow, that was an unintentionally long post.
EDIT: Oh, and, best part, the PVP servers always win no matter what. Most of what I see in the top section if littered with PVP servers. And it's mostly like ban appeals or even asking for people to be banned or even just random results to someone saying the server's terrible. As well as 24/7 dedicated servers
Have a looksie if you want, it's Golemland. It's a very nice vanilla server but because of the lack of Application "bumps" this puts us at a severe disadvantage, We get pushed down to below page 10 nearly daily, and thus have only recruited 2 people in 2 days.
Somethings wrong here, and I hope the powers that be will listen.
GENERATION 9001: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment
A modded server follows the same rules. In here if survival, in the creative section if it is creative.
Any response / opinions on IGN bumps?
Opinions? I don't approve of them. Are they allowed currently? I believe so.
I will say, it is much better if you have your players leave feedback and opinions rather than:
On first glance it looks like it was due to spam posts underneath. If you'd like, I can PM you the OP post, and you can post it again.It was deleted because you stated "cracked" in the title, which is promotion of piracy. If you host an offline-mode server, you should not be advertising it as "cracked", but as "offline-mode" or something that doesn't imply piracy. I can still get you the OP if you'd like.
Sorry, I will change it to offline-mode but can I get my thread back please, I didn't know that cracked was not allowed.
Offline-mode = cracked, both of which are not allowed to be advertised on the forums. AmberK was not correct in that offline-mode was allowed.. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me.
I just don't have any freaking players. I get maybe 1 or 2 a day, and I rarely get more than 3 new arrivals a week and they don't tend to stay on. From what I can see my 4 or 5 members are making for a interesting raiding server building towns as opposed to bases complete with castles and walls. I did not ask for that but I my admit to being pleasantly surprised. Everyone says its a fun and great server and I am proud of the work I and my team stuck into it.
I can think of 3 or 4 safe places to advertise my server. I happen to know a team avolition guy on skype and he told me never post on reddit or i run the risk of an attack that I don't want. I can't post on minecraft servers cause of the same reasons. Planet Minecraft, minestatus, and here are the only places I can advert easily. Except this forum is more of a feeding ground for the big servers to gobble up members. I know people are saying that the good members will go to the back and look there but I can't afford to wait for 1 out of a million. I want to see people play, and my members are frustrated that no one is joining them.
Either make some limits for the big server threads so they stop with this rpg and white list request bs or just lock down your servers thread and toss the key. It's pretty clear that as things stand its more of a spam fest than anything else. I have seriously considered bumping my thread repeatedly just so people will look at it consequences be damned. At least if I get banned from here its for something worth while but I can't just sit here and watch my thread get slammed to the back because server fatso here has about 100 players spamming it up daily. I liked some of the ideas about adding filter stuff but the bottom line is that minecraft forum staff is letting the big guy walk all over us and hasn't done a blessed thing. Please help us little guys. Let us make our servers full of fresh players so our hard work and in some cases money isn't wasted. Let our servers shine through for a bit. Don't let the usual real life issue happen here. Let the little guy grow.
I propose locking servers that are full of whitelist/spam related crud. Screw what the big guys say. They have hundreds of players. They don't need more. We need players. If you made it this far then thanks for reading.
I don't believe that we are "letting the big guy walk all over us" Try going to the search bar and putting in the word "bump". That, among many other things, is the workload of about 5 sectional moderators, the FA of servers, and one global moderator.
I agree, it is a bit hectic, but the truth is the more servers people make, the harder it will be to get players. Perhaps somewhere in the future there will be a bit of sectional change for the advantage of the smaller server?...
Whitelist applications are allowed, and ban apps as well.
If you find such large threads that are bumping, report them.
*Pretends Post throttling isn't something already being considered as a possibility.*
Perhaps, another thing is the sections will most likely be split in the future.
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didn't know that was already suggested. Thanks for letting me know.
If your thread becomes inactive, it could be for one of two reasons.
I believe he means bumping their own threads when they fall off the front page, etc.
No, you should not be bumping your thread in any form.
EDIT: Oh, and, best part, the PVP servers always win no matter what. Most of what I see in the top section if littered with PVP servers. And it's mostly like ban appeals or even asking for people to be banned or even just random results to someone saying the server's terrible. As well as 24/7 dedicated servers