Bringing back our good old friend: The whitelist

Firstly - vanZeben, you've changed my mind on the whitelist.

Secondly - I like this "quiz to join" idea. Can we put a spelling or grammar test in there? >.>

 

Thats the best idea evar, and a quiz on the foruns too, with a grammar test too

 

Can't tell if trolling or if bad spelling/grammar. ;-)

 

I think both, english is not my first language

 

i couldnt agree with Leviathan more. i abhore all the lowbrow riff-raff that has infected our precious server. i belive we need to purge this disease by use of a whitelist.

(no, im not on anything, im in literature class)

 

I don't think this is an existing feature yet... Or even possible... + This wouldn't prevent griefing, most problems are caused by new people, that have been on the server for less then a week or longer.

This is basicly the idea of a whitelist... it's a test for people, but then a test that costs them around 5-10 minutes, which shows they actually spent time on it, unlike the starter quest, or a quiz, in which they just read, pick the right answer, or the wrong, turn around, going forth, and forgetting what they just answered.

I sometimes get the feeling we're not providing enough (all) information, which is just impossible, but do you not agree that there are plenty of people who act moronic on a daily basis, do you not agree that the greatest part of our player-base, that has been here for over a month, has learned, or already knew how to read, and never, or almost never acted like idiots ?

I never claimed that one thing doesn't lead to another, i even agree on that point, but a whitelist does improve the overall quality, and whitelist means less noobs, which also attracts more players of higher quality, just as the no whitelist attracts more people that just want to play quickly, and end-up never conversating to someone, and not contributing. Do we really want lonewolves? I'd prefer ImDeity to be more of an medium to high quality server, with a slightly lower population, instead of being a slightly larger server with slightly less quality. I do not care about the workload, as whitelist adds a similar amount of work to the server, i'd prefer just to be busy for maybe even twice or even three times as long, as long as i know i am providing the server with friendly work, instead of just policing.

I do not wish to go back to the server when there were less people online everyday, however i do want to bring back the feeling of general "homeyness" as you describe it, i see home as a place where people get together, do fun stuff, enjoy social behaviour, the whitelist does help alot in this. Re-adding the whitelist is only going to stop players that /care about stuff, and play like they would do on the singleplayer, alone, build stuff, not really inspired by others to make this server awesome, by giving it a hand.

I would like to remind you that the towns on this server, and probably on all other servers are "disconnected" communities, adding in something like nations. (for which i have proven myself, that you CAN make it work, as long as you put in some EFFORT) Making the server feel more like a community is not handled by a no-whitelist, or having a whitelist, people always form tight communities, it's not possible to destroy these walls, if people don't pick up the sledgehammer themselves.

However i do think that the whitelist will not decrease new players that much, it might even increase our daily player base, at the expense of alot of loners, but tell me, would you like 10 newlings, of which 9/10 that do not do anything that has something to do with others, or making nice things, or one player, that might even end up playing ten, or hundred times more in total then those 10 players, spread over a longer time, that adds something to the server, makes friends, makes other people's day, just like during the "Homey-period" ?

A whitelist is a tool to make the server a better place, quanity is not all, neither is quality, and the whitelist will shift the balance back to a mixture of those 2, instead of, what many people ,that know the server, agree on quanity.

 

Ok, I see the reason for a whitelist now. I vote yes!

 

brought back a good old friend, me!
the main reason i left is because of the whitelist beign 'broken' at that time. back then, only 4 new persons would join a day, and they were instantly recruited.
now, because there are so many, it isnt a big problem to get new people.
whitelist, yes! quality over quantity.

 

I can't say nothing more than I am amazed!
The amount of people that wrote a comment on this thread, shows how important and vital a subject this is. The whitelist is a great thing to have, and pretty much cleans up the server. Removes annoying noobs that literally do nothing but spam, and clears out La' Griefers.
It's nice to see someone finally taking it up Personally I do not know how many times I've told noobs, and others, even laborer's, things as "Read the signs at the spawn.." "Go to the forums.." and much more. Yeah there are things that not everyone knows, and then you ask, but not 20-30-40 times in a row. And seriously, how hard is it to READ the Signs?! This has been said before, and it is a serious problem. So yeah. I vote for a whitelist. Please bring it back <3

P.S FANTASTIC idea Leviathan!






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EDIT:
After reading Deity's response to this, I must admit that I am starting to doubt, but I still personally believe it'll do better for the server itself to have a whitelist.

 

I still think it should be able to have new players prove they are serious, by having them accomplish something in a separate world, might aswell call it a 'ingame whitelist', that way players can hop on the server right away when seeing the name on some website, and they can play on the server whilst proving the are honest players looking for a good time, shouldnt that cut down the amount of idiots and grievers a little?

 

The idea has good and bad effects but I think its up to the admins in the end.

 

I'd have too disagree, because votes will be less because less people are joining the server even if it for one day they do the 1st vote cause they need that dei. I don't think I would have joined a server that was white listed because of the wait for acception, normally if I want to try out a server I'd like instant access.

 

I wouldn't mind either way, I I'll apply anyway xD

 

i love the IDEA of a whitelist.

in the perfect world, we would have only honest, active, helpful players apply, taking the time to think about how to answer the question "Why do you want to be a member of our fabulous server?". No noobiots would apply, feeling that we would be on them like a bee on honey if they dare lie in their application, or as we check their past ban-history before we approve them, we discover their .25 MCBans score and their "naughty list".

I, too was here when we had to manually add names to the whitelist. and, although I think it would do some good, I think that truly it wouldn't make much difference at all, and just create more work for those who do the whitelising. much more fun to ban those noobiots, or troll them like Sock or Bone regularily does to my delight We will always have our dedicated core group of players who make this server as special and wonderful as it is...

so, i give my thumbs down to re-adding the whitelist.

 

To stop this, couldn't the towns make there t spawns private? Or make a area around the spawn to keep it inclosed? Also, I would not likeap a whitelist. (changed my mind XD). Is is because I tried to get on a whitelisted server. 3 months later, and I STILL have yet to be whitelisted. And as said before, the whitelist does not stop noobs. It would have to be extremely long, and even if it was, it would repel active, good players from joining.

 

One would think that the 1500 blocks radius prevents griefing and stealing, yet it doesn't. Griefers and thieves will still find their way to people's homes, tough i have to admit the amount of tickets have decreased, probably also being helped by the map reset, seeing the fact that people's builds are able to be overseen better and people do not know where to find stuff to grief yet.

The whitelist is just one possible solution, a more extensive test however would be better, as the starter quest and the 1500 blocks walk does not prevent as much griefing and stealing as i'd wish.

 

Well after thinking about it, I support the idea of whitelist on ImDiety