It's exciting for me to see threads like these pop up every now and then, community members are in all of their right to complain and point out what they disagree with, and these conversations add much more to our network than deciding wether people above 100 ping should be banned or not.
First off, I won't comment on the EggWars part because I myself am not very experienced with it and my opinion might come out as misinformed.
I do think that the handling of suggestions is a problem as well, it's only the most controversial things that receive attention, but that's mainly because it's easy to reply to something you strongly disagree with. At times it may feel like we only pay attention to the smallest and least relevant suggestions, and leave the high-effort, well supported and justified suggestions unattended. But we do make an effort in granting recognition where recognition is due, like what happened with
THIS thread. It's really nothing QOA related, it in fact proposed an entire new gamemode, and yet it was escalated because the community support made it clear that this was an idea worth contemplating. The problem with "bigger" more important threads is that, the more they propose to change, the harder it is to come up with logical solutions for all of it. And the easier it is to question the ideas that are being proposed.
I'm not sure as to what you mean with the translator applications. I believe Spuuuni has already explained this, Translator applications are only reviewed by a group of 6 Moderators who voluntarily offered their time and effort to handle applications. It's not like it is an overwhelming staff duty either, nowdays we average around 20ish applications per day, which is not a lot, much less for 6 people.
I do see what you refer to with liking posts that make other members feel bad, and at least personally I recognize that as a mistake. We shouldn't be supporting posts that attack other members regardless if within our personal judgements we agree with it or not. There are points in which we need to remain neutral and that was one of them.
I was skeptical about reducing staff qualifications as well when I was a member, mainly because these changes resulted in the hiring of some people that I initially questioned were adequate for the job. But later on I realized and was helped realize that for too long we had the wrong idea of the person who should be a Helper and who shouldn't. The Helper rank was treated as a Prize, when it should be treated as what it is, a trial. In the spirit of commitment, anyone is able to improve themselves. And lowering these requirements is extremely useful for the server since it has been lacking moderation presence for a long time. The fact that Bedrock every time has more dedicated staff members, and that timezones different to Europe have more staff present, does show off a few of the multiple benefits that hiring more staff brings. I made a suggestion some months ago, where I compared the amount of staff members CubeCraft had with other servers of similar size, and to my surprise the servers I found had 3,4 and even 5 times more Staff dedicated to Moderation. Which came to me as a shock, since i thought the 20-30 Moderators CubeCraft had were more than enough.
It is only damaging to want to only hire those candidates that seem to be perfect and near ready to become Moderators immediately, it's only closing yourself to more opportunities of people that could potentially be really useful and have a positive impact on the network in the future.
I mostly agree with you on this one, the Helper Information threads recommended players to be active on the forums and in suggestion making, which definitely had an interesting yet not completely negative outcome. In a way the forums are not even close to what they used to be, since the threads that are frequently posted nowadays are mostly low detail, rushed and just repeat ideas that have been suggested before over and over again. And in its core the cause of this must be the Helper requirements/information threads. And while it is nice to see the forums being livelier by the day, it's not enjoyable to find out that your 20 notifications every morning are just 2 sentences suggestions that don't really add anything, and most don't even make sense. It makes me feel like the conversations going on in this website have severely decreased in depth and quality.
That is not entirely true, Bedrock is its own world. Yes most of its content is the same/similar to Java, it is directed to a separate demographic. Bedrock and Java don't really need to be different, because they're played by different people already. Which is also why it's also called CubeCraft in Bedrock and not something else. Regardless the gamemodes and mechanics do feel vastly different in some aspects, which gives the Bedrock network its own unique feel. And today the Beta Games were announced, through CubeCraft's instagram page. Which also evidences that it's receiving the new features and updates it deserves.
Yes, personally I didn't find SkyBlock that great, it really does get boring overtime, and seemingly the solution to make the game feel more complete was just expanding waiting times for crops and ores and whatnot by ridiculous amounts, so that it cannot be completed in just a few days. Which I understand in a way, but it's not fun at all. Not a fan of SkyBlock
Well that's really on the people, they decide wether they like something or not and vote yes or no. What I really don't like is how some people don't seem to stand the fact that not everyone is able to write an entire essay explaining their position on a certain idea or suggestion. A lot of people take voting/liking as their oportunity to express their own opinions without having to justify themselves, it's just participating of democracy. You don't have to explain why you want a certain candidate to win, you're in your right to vote.
That's something I've always liked as an idea, though it seems like it ends up being overly complicated so I don't know if something like that would ever make sense to add. But definitely a fan of it.
I encourage you to continue to make threads like these, having more serious talks once in a while feels refreshing. Everything you brought up is very important, and it is most appreciated that you take your time to give your feedback.
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