Zedling Council Meeting 2015-09-12

Originally posted on the forums.

Attendance

Council Members Present

Host: OneEyedTurtle
Werble23
Zedwick
Ladybountiful
HOMINIX
gigabite123
BigBuilderAl
BengalBoi
SneakySkeleton
Forseth
__Laurens__

Apologies

Dax23333

Absent

GEMINI7099 [Strikes: 5 (Removed)]
echosong421 [Strikes: 3]
ScarySpider21 [Strikes: 2]
lilweeph [Strikes: 2]
IProBlanchard [Strikes: 1]
GrimTent [Strikes: 1]

Guests

47_Chromosomes
Earthcow
SwayLight
LaLaRichter
StarGazer588
Suizie1
Calzah

Topics

Anvils

SwayLight brought to light that players have not been re-placing used anvils in the End farm. SwayLight suggests people need to learn to bring anvils with them. Everyone was in unanimous agreement with SwayLight. From this point on everyone must supply their own anvils. OneEyedTurtle says she will be placing signs in the End farm informing people of the new policy

Respect

In addition to the anvil issue, SwayLight brought up a problem she has been having with fellow Zedlings. She believes that players have not been treating new players with the respect they deserve. Saying that many players say things such as, "how long do you think they'll last? Let's bet."

Again, most of the council agreed with SwayLight. To add to this some think that showing new players !totalbans is a little intimidating.

Some solutions to these problems were suggested by the council. Zedwick informed us that, "Yes I planned to add a reminder about just that to the chat following the welcome them messages." Councilmember __Lauryns__ suggested, "I think we can all spread the word," in reference to respecting new players more.

Along with this lack of respect some councilmembers thought that a more clear message needs to be sent to jailed players. This message would outline exactly how to appeal, as well as telling zedlings to respect the jailed player. Innocent until proven guilty(usually).

Justice

Next up was your's truly, me, Werbs. Werble23 brought up a topic that was met with quite a bit of controversy. Zedwork's justice system. Werble23 felt that the system has no standard system, punishing different players differently when commiting the same exact crime. Some councilmembers felt the same way about the system. On the other hand, some councilmembers believe otherwise. This remained a relatively split topic. Werble23 decided to publish a forum post detailing his ideas and plans. BigBuilderAl suggested a standardized list of crimes and their following punishments.

Pranks

Pranking is brought up again. It appears a minority of players either overdo their pranks or are overly sensitive. To combat this Zedwick proposes a system to create a !prank -esque profile. This'll allow someone to voice easily whether or not they welcome pranking. A forum post will be made by someone to go into more detail.

!prank system will not be avaible soon. Other arrangements should be made until then for signing up for pranks and providing a standard set of rules for acceptable pranks.

Sell! Sell! Sell!

Going once... Going twice... It's open! __Lauryns__ announces that the auction house located in the market has officially re-opened!

I apologize for the next few topics are lacking in detail. This meeting was long and I needed to grab some food :roll:

If you build it

Ladybountiful will be holding a build-off competition on Sunday Sepetember 20th, starting at 4 PM BST. There will be a warp available from spawn. For more info: [1]

Ladybountiful also mentioned that previous winning builds are now beginning to appear at spawn, these are available for all to go look at.

Redstone School

BigBuilderAl introduced his idea for a redstone school. The classes will be taught by Professor Al himself! More info can be found on his forum post here: [2]

Nominations

Nominees for council election were Earthcow, SwayLight and Zed_192.

Vote tally:

SwayLight: 0

Zed_192: 0

Earthcow: a lot

DISCLAIMER: May not be entirely accurate.

Congratulations on being elected into the council Earthcow! Mooooooooooooo!

Next Meeting Host

Pre-Pre-Meeting Agenda

Date: Probably September 26-27th 8 PM GMT

Next host: Bengalboi

Backup host: BigBuilderAl

Backup-Backup: lolWerble23

Thank you OneEyedTurle for hosting! You did a great job and the venue was beautiful!

Phew, that was exhausting to write. I have a lot of respect for you now Sneaky. This was my first time being scribe, let me know how I did!