I agree with the 1.8 to 1.9 update point. It made me quit playing this server for quite a few months when 1.9 first arrived. It could have been done with a lot more patience and a lot more thought for what the players wanted.
I know a lot of people were upset and did leave because of it. You can see that just because the player count dropped from over 30k players to about 8k and as you can see it's still trying to climb back up.
I don't like it when people say "applications are open". Coming from someone who has applied a few times it's not as easy as just say "I applied". I know a lot of people, good people go would have done so much to help this place who have been denied, just "applying" doesn't work.
I'm certainly not sticking up for igrayy, but when people say things like what he has said it should be taken as advice from the staff, not something to get defensive over. Out of how many is it? Up to hundreds of thousands of people who have played on this server he can not be the only person thinking this way. I know I'm not an expert on being a staff member but I do know people.
Now frankly I'd let gray just carry on and say whatever the heck he wants and if you all feel you have nothing to improve on then let him mumble away to himself in this thread and just ignore him. I think at certain points (especially now as I'm writing this) he's just proving to everyone he's a bit of an idiot so. I don't blame him though because he's put his opinion out there on how he's can see improvement, it might not be the best advice in the world but laughing at him and attacking him over an opinion isn't the way to go about things. To be quite honest, opinions are one of the only things we have that sets us apart from one another.
I do agree cube needs to find a few more people with staff expirience, especially as a lot of staff have left recently. Im saying though you aren't looking, I know finding the right people can be hard and especially finding the right person who is trustable.
I guess we all have to just "Deal with it" though. *breaths out...*
I know for a fact though that most of the staff team do work hard, yes a lot of them might have much expirience or might not ever be the best at it but they can't gain any expirience or work on getting better if they don't have the chance in the first place. My opinion and my opinion only though, I do think with getting staff it's more to do with who you know rather than how much you help.
You can send as much hate as you want at me for saying any of this but make sure you have evidence to prove me wrong.
I'm sorry if anything I have said has offended anyone but when you take a break for a few days and come back to seeing this, I did get slightly... like... just wow, what is this community coming to.
(Btw yes this a quick overview of what I've read in this thread)