If someone has personal issues with a staff member, using the command won't get rid of the personal issue. It's not helping to get rid of the issue. Either you get rid of the issue by speaking about the issue or you just don't pay attention to them until you really have to. I don't think a personal issue with a staff member should be resorted to an ignore, especially if the staff need to speak to you.
then there needs to be an override function to allow staff members to bypass this when it's needed to speak to a player.
If staff members are harassing others, it shouldn't be something taken lightly and just /ignore'd.
The override solution seems to be the best equal-rights solution. Either for us all or for no one.
So now I am about to go and say what a lot of people have been seemingly afraid to say. Maybe no one has wanted to say? I'm not saying this to start a fight with anyone, just to get a point across.
Its as though people are afraid of text, you see a big wall but you don't and won't comprehend and read. Like I said in an earlier reply I was really going to ignore this thread as it really went nowhere from its initial posting, now as it seems its being pushed into motion is the time to act.
There are people on the staff, past?, present?, future? Well that's none of you concern now is it? Just know the instances are there. These staff have portrayed speech mannerisms and actions, tendencies that are portrayed that I find unsatisfactory, unappealing, vulgar, negative, annoying, unnecessary any number of those and more and I downright do not want to have to have those people bleeding into the chat to which I have to look at in order to maintain some semblance of enjoyability and bear with if I want to have the chat system active to maintain sociality on this server. I don't think anyone should be limited the ability to ignore the staff as they see fit should they have similar feelings, I will go on as to why below.
On another small point the only time I afked, were the moments I was truely afk bathrooming or fooding or something, otherwise I was on the game enjoying the game and putting up with these negatively appealing things. Thus I actively payed attention to chat, because I enjoyed the game.
It had gotten to the point where 'manning up and dealing with it' isn't something I could do. It made the server unpleasant, unenjoyable and lead me to not wanting to play it. RoF isn't a server where one can simply decide to do what they wish at another time, its a round based progression system- you leave and come back at the end of a round you risk getting nothing and getting zero progression or true enjoyablity out of the server. I didn't ignore people ever, staff ranking or not. Why you ask? Not because they were simply staff I can tell you that much. Rather it had more to do with this being a personal distaste. They were not a 'problem' there was nothing to 'fix' I didn't lack any respect for these people or not like the individuals themselves. There was no 'issue' between me and them. I actually reached out to some of these people and attempted to make friends. I'm sorry, I loved the server as it was the backbone of what I played inbetween the smp servers. I still do love it and all our servers as they are what makes us a community, but that is neither here nor there.
Individuals used teamspeak /msg /tell and more to go about their private lives and funs, but now its all spilling about everywhere. The people who do not want to deal with this, those players who we all know are not going to muck up the rules and fun for everyone should have the right to use this command. I don't care about your role-plays, they don't bother me in the slightest. Go build that castle to ward off the world flooding with lava from the evil dragon! Woo! It actually makes the server more entertaining sometimes. I don't care about your lovely dovey bullsheit either. Get married on the server, talk about having kids or whatever! However this falls under role-play all the same, albeit I'd rather you do it like some staff in the past who would kindly segregate that stuff, but whatever I'll deal. Not being able to block a staff doing all this for those that don't want to bear it, no deal. Its started to get down to the server being 'Role-plays Of Friends' and 'Relationships Of Foreigners' Those are no insults. I've seen many jokingly and seriously refer to the server as 'relationships of fire' This is really how the servers social structure is evolving and there is nothing wrong with this.
Its not about those things, its again, back to the very manner to which one may speak with the words themselves in text. I truly feel for those who are grammar aficionados, OCD on a painful level, have trigger phrases or some sort of personal disorder they would rather not make public which can lead them to be thrown into a rage or depression or any number of emotions. I hope no one has the audacity to say these people do not get to enjoy this server to its fullest and be limited the ability to actively avoid the triggers just because it was a staff who triggered it. In the past I happened to view a staff say a trigger word that caused a player distress for 'the funnies' which everyone had the shits and giggles and it was swept away. The player sorta shrugged it off because it was a 'im just breaking your chops' kinda moment but still.
I didn't think anything of it at the time, but damn that was cold. These phrases said directly or indirectly or mannerisms while even staff saying these things may not be harassing, another user having to directly see their words spoken at all are a harassment themselves. So your saying the afflicted is supposed to force someone who has a way of speaking to kindly stop? Why? Everyone has every right to speak well type any damn way they please, within reason. Just because someone in particular does not like it or find it bearable doesn't mean we can or should dictate how they carry themselves, but it sure as hell doesn't mean one should be forced to put up with it just because the one causing the anxiety are staff and with the change will be powerless to ignore them.
The simple fact that a player has the plugin knowledge to know about the /ignore command and execute it means they are familiar enough with minecraft to know some of the following if not more:
A: know what a command is
B: know about plugins
C: understands that servers will have rules
D: understand what ranks and titles are
E: know what greifing means
In turn a player knowing these things has no excuse to break rules because they /ignore a staff and in turn should be treated even harsher for this command abuse to get away with rule breaking. After all if they have the comprehension to /ignore then they should be able to understand /rules when its announced even. Its the my xxxxx was using the account not me situation but worse.
The fact that it has come down to suggesting we limit the rights of the players simply for the ease? Really? the fucking EASE? The staff, all staff, when they signed on for the duty inherently and fully understand what they have agreed to set forth on. That is the arduous task of willingly submitting time and effort. Emphasis on Effort. This is really reaching towards ushering in a new age of totalitarianism for the Blocktopian community. Someone is causing trouble kick their ass out. Hell there is usually two or three staff online at most given times even.
If a police officer is talking to a person they are trying to get under control and the person isn't listening what happens? They get tasered or droped to the ground. I will not idly sit by and support this stranglehold of equality. Staff deserve every right to be adhered to and respected. Players have every right to be respected just the same. Every wall is built brick by brick and block by block with this being the first block to building a wall between what it means to be a 'regular' player and a 'staff' player. 'Rights Of Finite'
Now this right here is going to burn some people, but you know what why can I not voice my opinion? Nothing classy about being un-allowed to voice deep concern. No one is getting any names from me because why should you be allowed the right? We are here and now that was then and there. I've resisted saying all this up until this point however the biased attitude towards 'being a staff member' in this thread and the attitude that they are supposed to be damn 'flawless' is sickening.
tl;dr? Too bad. I don't want your reply if you didn't read it then. no right to just skim and fight me based on lack of comprehension and context. For those that have read, thank you.
Humans are flawed, staff are humans, staff are flawed, we can only do what we can to co-exist without error and continue on respectfully and pleasantly.
