Griefing Report – dorde9’s house
Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do this again, but that wasn't in the cards. We had another griefing incident occur after the majority of the users signed off early this morning.
As I was doing some testing in Capitol City, I received 5 alarms that Flint and Steel was used by champion1. I immediately teleported to where champion1 was standing, where I noticed dorde9's house burning down. When I showed up, champion1 indicated that he almost died and almost lost his stuff.
When I asked what happened, he claimed that a creeper came up to him, exploded, and burned down the house. Obviously this was a lie since creepers do not cause fire in the first place. Also, creeper block damage is disabled in Eagleworld, and towns are protected from monsters. I told champion1 that I got 5 alerts regarding him using Flint and Steel, which he denied. He claimed the logs were lying.
After a semi-coherent argument back and forth, we came to the conclusion that logs can't lie. At this point, champion1 stated he would rebuild the house and he wanted to drop it. I told him I did not as I wanted to know why he had Flint and Steel on his person. I also told him that lying to me further would be futile.
At this point, he confessed and stated that he intentionally burned down dorde9's house because earlier dorde said that "champion's house sucked." Once I heard this, I had enough evidence to warrant a permaban. When champion1 pleaded his case, I reminded him to read the rules, specifically the one that stated that griefing is zero-tolerance. Once he did, I permabanned him.
All damaage was rectified by rolling back the server to the 3AM snapshot. I do not believe any server work was lost during this time as users had already logged off.
In regards to how champion1 got access to Flint and Steel, I discovered that I omitted it from the item blacklist when I configured the protection plugin. I have retested the restrictions, and they are now as they should be.
To all members of Eagleworld (especially the new members): let this be a lesson to you all. Griefing will not be tolerated, and you simply will not get away with it under any circumstance. Attempting to do something against the rules will not fall under the radar, and lying to me just will not work. I've been running servers for too long to not have a complete history of what goes on, and I am not easily lied to.
I want Eagleworld to be a place where people can build without fear of griefing or bad feelings at all. I am also not too happy that some people are insulting others. This will not be tolerated. It is in the rules that you are expected to respect one another and not cause problems. If you do cause problems with others, you will be warned about your behavior and potentially banned.
Verdict on dorde9's house: champion1 was the obvious culprit due to anti-griefing logs and via confession. Since it was intentional and malicious griefing, champion1 was permabanned.
Leave a comment