Been banned recently for not obeying server rules that you didn't bother to read anyway? Well, that's one way of dealing with that. The other two are:
- Setting up your own public server where you're boss, where nobody can ban you.
- Get some script-kiddie tool and (try to) DDoS the public server you've been on into oblivion.
Seriously, if server owners remove the final punishment for breaking the server rules, they may just as well break the rules. Chaotic anarchists may be in for the times of their lives, destroying cities that took dozens of people months or years to build within minutes just for the lulz and not facing any consequences (even if they've managed to even drown the spawn area under 20 blocks of lava, killing new members in the process).
But some of us like the public servers they frequent to be intact, tidy, beautiful and peaceful, thank you very much. Some of us play Minetest to
build, to
create, preferably to make something that's built to last, something others can enjoy. And then there are still
[expletive]s who think they can break all rules (because rules are made to be broken) and destroy our creations (just to show us how they're better than us). Some even have to resort to modded clients to demostrate their alleged superiority. The only way to stop them is to ban them. And then they still come and complain about (or retaliate against) their ban.
What else are server owners supposed to do? Some griefers and trolls simply never stop. They carry on as long as they can log in and move around. Jail them, and after jail time they'll go on, and they
will go on with the same modded client. That said, if jail mods become more popular, so will client-side mods that circumvent jail.
No, certain players can only be stopped making a mess by making sure they'll never ever return.
IhrFussel wrote:I think you will agree that lots of servers are not serious enough to even think about them (run by kids, run on home PC and only available a few hours per day, minetesthosting free servers etc).
From what I heard/experienced many server admins actually fully apply this "can do whatever the heck they want" attitude.
Sounds like mostly those servers quickly cobbled together by players who have been trolling, griefing, invading private areas or generally and repeatedly going on other players' nerves on public servers. The mods told them to stop, they ignored the mods, carried on, and so they were banned. After that, they set up their own public server where they can do whatever the
[expletive] they want without being banned. Said server usually doesn't have any rules due to either "anarchy" or laziness, but not because the admin would have to adhere to them, too.
GoldFireUn wrote:run on home PC
Must Test spent its first year being run on a home laptop. It is also a serious server. Just saying.
This probably rather referred to those who set up a public server on their Windows gaming computers that they always shut down after use, regardless of other players still being active on the server. That machine is all they have.
(On a sidenote, running a server on a laptop isn't that bad an idea. A brownout or blackout will cause the machine to keep on running until the battery is empty, and then it goes into sleep. A normal server will simply stop working without electricity unless you've got an UPS, potentially causing all kinds of nasty side-effects that come with not shutting it down properly. Laptops have a built-in UPS.)
