East Coast Miners Griefing Policy
East Coast Miners Leadership - 24th August 2016 - Revised April 2018
The East Coast Miners Community is a special group of cool kids who love creating and building in Minecraft! Each member agreed upon registration to treat each other with kindness, honesty and to be respectful. It is important that everyone holds true to this agreement when engaging with other members and the leadership team.
We hope that the East Coast Miners Community can be a positive and fun environment for everyone involved. For this reason we have developed the following policies to continue the growth of our unique community.
The East Coast Miners Community is a special group of cool kids who love creating and building in Minecraft! Each member agreed upon registration to treat each other with kindness, honesty and to be respectful. It is important that everyone holds true to this agreement when engaging with other members and the leadership team.
We hope that the East Coast Miners Community can be a positive and fun environment for everyone involved. For this reason we have developed the following policies to continue the growth of our unique community.
What is Griefing?
Griefing is the act of irritating and angering people through the use of destruction, construction, or other means of interfering with normal gameplay. Examples of prohibited griefing:
If you feel you are being griefed clearly tell the other player, in text chat, that you do not like what they are doing and to please stop. (The use of text chat allows the leadership team to be aware of what happened.)
If you continue to have the issue, you should speak to one of the moderators about the issue the next time they are available.
If you find yourself in a disagreement or heated exchange with another player, it is usually best to just back off and leave them alone. If this means you need to log off for a bit, just make your apologies and do so. It is better to take a break from the game than risk breaking a friendship.
If the problem continues, please report the incident to the East Coast Miners leadership by sending an email to [email protected].
- Put downs and negative comments
- Offensive language (swearing)
- Chat Spamming (typing large amounts of text to fill users screens)
- Interfering or preventing builds (unwanted "helping")
- Destroying others' builds
- Using fire to be destructive
- Lava or Water Flooding
- Unwanted use of potions on other players
- Spawning excessive unwanted mobs
- Purposefully annoying others
- Repeated killing and ganging up on others in survival
- Anything else that is not respectful and kind
If you feel you are being griefed clearly tell the other player, in text chat, that you do not like what they are doing and to please stop. (The use of text chat allows the leadership team to be aware of what happened.)
If you continue to have the issue, you should speak to one of the moderators about the issue the next time they are available.
If you find yourself in a disagreement or heated exchange with another player, it is usually best to just back off and leave them alone. If this means you need to log off for a bit, just make your apologies and do so. It is better to take a break from the game than risk breaking a friendship.
If the problem continues, please report the incident to the East Coast Miners leadership by sending an email to [email protected].
Hacked Clients
Use of cracked Minecraft clients or modified clients that give you an advantage over other players, cause mass destruction, or otherwise interfere with other player’s fun is not allowed on East Coast Miners.
What happens if a player breaks our charter
Players will be warned
The moderators read both Minecraft and Discord chat often between Guild Builds. We expect members of our guild to treat each other with respect and kindness at all times. When this expectation is not met, members deemed to be disrespectful may be temporarily taken off the ECM whitelist and/or banned from the ECM Discord server. A member of the Leadership Team will attempt to contact this player through private message in Discord or by email. After discussing the incident, the player will be put back on the whitelist. When the player rejoins the server we will expect them to remember how to follow our agreed rules.
The moderators read both Minecraft and Discord chat often between Guild Builds. We expect members of our guild to treat each other with respect and kindness at all times. When this expectation is not met, members deemed to be disrespectful may be temporarily taken off the ECM whitelist and/or banned from the ECM Discord server. A member of the Leadership Team will attempt to contact this player through private message in Discord or by email. After discussing the incident, the player will be put back on the whitelist. When the player rejoins the server we will expect them to remember how to follow our agreed rules.
Repeat offenders
Players who repeatedly break the rules (or if the offense is severe) will be taken off the whitelist and will not be able to login to the server for minimum of 2 guild build sessions.
Players who repeatedly break the rules (or if the offense is severe) will be taken off the whitelist and will not be able to login to the server for minimum of 2 guild build sessions.
Final Offense
Players who continue to disregard the Community Charter will be removed from the whitelist for an undetermined amount of time. Once a player has been removed from the whitelist, they have the option to go through a formal apology process in order to be considered for reinstatement.
It is the leadership team’s hope that these clear expectations and consequences will foster positive experiences within the East Coast Miners Community.
Players who continue to disregard the Community Charter will be removed from the whitelist for an undetermined amount of time. Once a player has been removed from the whitelist, they have the option to go through a formal apology process in order to be considered for reinstatement.
It is the leadership team’s hope that these clear expectations and consequences will foster positive experiences within the East Coast Miners Community.
