Aegean

Hey guys, I'll clarify a few things for everyone, and @Arthman can chime in when he has a chance. First things first, although Rhododendron and I can provide input, accept or deny any promotion if we have enough reasoning, we generally allow the division leaders to make their own decisions on their division. Arthman gave reasonings to why he believes Yadingo would still be an asset as mod to the minecraft division, and wanted me to trust his decision. If @Kypariand the other TF2 staff for example gave me reasonings for a certain person to get promoted or demoted that I personally might not approve, I would 9/10 give them the go, as I trust their judgement which is why they are in the position that they are in the first place. @Caribou staff applications being open means they are still being considered, and I am not a factor in the case you are referring too. Minecraft will always be ran fairly different compared to CS:GO + TF2 due to the difference of responsibilities, player counts, and what constitutes helping. Regardless, I completely understand people's frustrations, and apologize for the error in my judgement for approving it. I will just like to clarify @virr and @LeToucan told me it was a bad idea, so it was not their fault at all. I will talk to @Arthman but we will most likely demote @yadingo from moderator for the time being, as we do care about the community's opinion and I do agree it was unfair. Once again, I appreciate you all voicing your opinion, even when you disagree with decisions higher-ups make, as it helps us improve as a community. ~Aegean

the next person to comment is demoted to xG's juiceboxboy next promo/demo

~Denied for obvious reasons, you'll be banned from the forums if you keep spamming and posting creepy comments to make other people uncomfortable.

He would have applied sooner but his account got randomly flagged a few weeks back and we got @virr to approve him as soon as we found out.

Anyone who donates will be getting recognition as well soon, thanks for giving whatever you can!

CS:GO has a ton of members that were in xG back in 2010 - 2012 and generally older than the TF2 crowd which leads it to being more laid back as others have said. A lot of us grew up with xG and matured so it's definitely different if you're used to ONLY the TF2 side of xG. Both are fun though, with great staff so come stop by if you want ?

Thank you for your service!

Spoke to Caleb, he will be stepping down from staff, but will help code plug-ins and help the TF2 higher-ups if they need it. He'll always be a higher-up in our hearts, even if he doesn't want the position

Alcoholic = Blue Hawaiian (Blue Curacao, Malibu Rum, Orange/Pineapple juice) Non-Alcoholic = Coke Zero

It's fine if he gives his opinion on someone @SegFault, if it was a controversial person we would just discount his vouch.

Take it easy and we'll see you when you're back

There was some issue with his account, he told us in discord about the issue and Virr fixed it in 1 minute lol

If this is the Polar that played the Winter maps with us one late night, then +1 Good player and seemed really chill.

Hey bb girl

I've felt the same way for many years, but honestly we've had one good spawn in the past 6 years in xG, and that's because ruki, supermaddud, klure, jaydow, jubens, hannah and myself spent over a week working on it and constantly tweaking it so it looks aesthetically pleasing. (It also helped that ruki, supermaddud and klure are super creative). I'm honestly down to buy spawns that we can tweak since it will take a long time to build aesthetically pleasing spawns, and everytime we trust members to build a spawn, we just get meme'd about how bad it looks. I'll PM you the spawn for hub, towny and skyzone that I'm thinking of and I'll be doing all the payments myself so it's not an issue.

Klure + I will be looking at prebuilt spawns and I will purchase one so we don't need to worry about spawn. If anyone wants to pm me ideas on spawns that I can buy, feel free to message me on discord!

It's important to care about yourself, and I wish you all the best. Thanks for volunteering to work on minecraft, I know it's not easy working on it solo, and people who have volunteered in the past usually quit before it gets going so it's not just you. We'll be here if you decide to return!

Welcome to our community!!

Not getting unbanned due to the context and your history, but I would not have banned you a whole day over such an issue. If you ever have a problem, feel free to message a higher-up if you want a second opinion. For everyone here, getting back on to dispute a kick or a mute is not grounds to be banned. That being said, the way YOU try to dispute just ruins the server experience for everyone which is why I'm not unbanning you. You knew exactly what you were doing by playing music in your background despite previous warnings, and you were just baiting staff. Play on our servers to have fun, stop causing unnecessary conflict. ~Closed

We have decided to unban him. Please don't be an edgelord Brian, don't try to provoke the TF2 community or anyone just for some laughs, it's okay when it's with people you know since they don't take your jabs seriously, but when you are disrespectful to people who don't know you, they take it to heart. ~Closed

+1, RNG crits are shitty for both sides involved.

I'll give you guys my reasoning for "invisible promotions". People don't need to apply to be a good candidate for being a staff member. You guys have to remember that higher-ups are the position that they are because we have a lot of trust in them. We believe in their judgement, and they have experienced through a ton of good and bad staff throughout their time in xG. They take time to discuss if a member who hasn't applied deserves to be staff, and they always reach a consensus before doing so. Of course, we have changed it so we ask the individual if they want staff or not before the promotion takes place. The higher-ups also talk to their fellow staff / friends to get more input, so it's not 1 person who single handedly promotes a member to staff. People can easily get demoted if they don't deserve staff. Please do not confuse member protests with admin abuse threads. Staff do get a few chances as human error is bound to happen, but people can make mistakes even if they had everyone +1 them. There are also multiple instances where admin abuse threads popped up on people that only had one side of the story, where the accusers were hiding the information to make the staff look bad. If someone is caught Slay All or other abusing instances, they can get demoted if it's a problem. People under 14 can still get staff. This is rare, but is always on a case-by-case basis. You can think of it in the real world as someone who gets a job offer without filling the requirements. That is also why (at least in CS:GO) we sometimes allow people to post a mod app without getting 50 posts on the forums. If we feel like we need more input on if someone should get staff, letting them apply doesn't hurt. These discussions never hurt, and I'm happy to improve a system if you guys feel it is broken. From the staff we have promoted that haven't applied themselves so far in recent memory, at least to the best of my knowledge, none of them have had a negative impact on our community. After a while, you get a good idea if someone would be a good staff member or not just from interacting with them. If anyone has anything that they feel contradicts any of my statements, I'm happy to read it so I'll keep this thread open.