Brotherwolf

@PopcornGoesPopping thank you for everything! It’s been nothing but good memories with you and I’m so happy that I got to spend this much time with you as part of the staff team and as a person! You are an amazing person and way too fuckin wholesome, keep it up! I wish you the best of luck in college and I know you’ll have a great future life! You have been nothing but great to the server and to me and I really can’t thank you enough. 
 

Also I’ll never stop being your #1 simp ❤️

-Wuf

19 minutes ago, Joshy said:

I will have to wait until it's in the promote/demote log since I don't make those promotion decisions myself, but I am pretty sure it will happen very soon and I will happily help in the areas I can 🙂

 

Is it okay if I ask what do you plan on studying?

Foreign relations/international studies

2 hours ago, Joshy said:

Thanks for your help and leaning into topics; also finding a replacement or at least ensuring the community has a great support structure as you move on to your next adventure.  I hope you enjoy your time in the university and do well.  I think a lot of us are going to the university.  I am too, and so if you want or need to talk to someone I hope I can be helpful 🙂 maybe you aren't asking or wont need it, but just throwing it out there.   I feel like a professional student now haha I started university 10 years ago 😮!  Don't worry I don't think that will happen to you (unless you want it to) I'm kind of like a Van Wilder who graduated and just keep signing up for more classes anyways.

On the note of finding a replacement, can you plz add Popcorn to Manager on the discord and on the server? I wasn’t able to do that and idk who else to ask.

I don't see your ban on here, so you should be fine. I'll be moving this, if you have any problems then let me know.

Appeal accepted, you should be unbanned now. Sorry I forgot to do this earlier.

Shoot I'm late, congrats @Joshy

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Why should you be unbanned?

test appeal, for seniors

Pretty sure Mbs is having problems with forums or is very busy, so I'll respond here.

Mbs said this should be denied and you need more time before you get ungagged. The seniors also asked me for my opinion and I agree with Mbs on this. Frank later said he's ok with a deny if we are, so this will be denied.

Both seniors are ok with an unban so I'll accept this.

Both seniors are okay with an unmute, so I'll unmute.

It's in 2019 so I'm ok with an unmute if you all are. I don't even remember this mute specifically.

Seniors are ok with an unban, so I'll accept this.

Spray bans don't go to GFLBans, they're just in advancedsprays btw @FrankAL

Also it was Harakoni that banned you off sprays.

0.13 right, 6.15 libertarian. About where I expected to land since I'm pretty centrist economically but I do identify as being a liberal on the social scale. Idk where I was in 2020, but I know I was also just barely in the purple.

Main GFL - My dad’s username was Brotherwolf and I just sorta kept it once I got his steam bc I thought it was cool.

HnS Steam - Not really a reason behind it, but I changed my name to Wuffywuf bc I thought it sounded cool. I experimented with Hatschat colors before sticking with [Royal]Wuffywuf. However, people just called me Wuffy on the server so I decided to change my name to [Mint]Wuffy. That’s still my name on the server on HnS.

HnS Discord - My name was the same until recently where I thought Awoofy would be cool. That’s still my name on the HnS discord server.

Toxic basically described exactly how I feel sometimes, but that's a different rant for a different day. I'm also not going to go about the wording on this post since I don't feel like getting into that. However, I will get into some things I've noticed about population.

This is just off my experience from HnS and a little bit of the main community. The way to get a gamemode to survive is definitely a dedicated staff team, as @Salad mentioned. If not for a very committed staff team and playerbase coming together, HnS wouldn't even have been here in the first place thanks to some dumb stuff that happened in 2020. If you have a dedicated staff team and playerbase, population can be very large. A good manager also helps tremendously. 2019 was a terrible year for HnS in large part due to bad management. Our manager from late 2018 had a ton of stuff irl and couldn't get on. He was replaced by an absolutely terrible manager in the middle of 2019, who was replaced in 2020 by an extremely inactive manager. This contributed to some drama between staff and also bad relations with players, resulting in lots of arguments and toxicity from some older players and the manager specifically. When @Fafy came along in 2021, he was the best manager we might have ever had to my knowledge bc he did his job without getting into a ton of arguments and led the server as it should have been led. I still try to follow Fafy to this day while I'm managing HnS.

However, there are a lot more factors (that people have probably already mentioned) than this. One is the server's reputation in the main community. At one point, it felt like everyone was going after HnS bc of some shitty misconceptions and a couple bad eggs that we had that went onto other servers (Nblock, Pigeon, Rennadai mainly). There were some people who didn't really do much digging into HnS and spread rumors about us, which didn't help at that time. Thankfully, this doesn't really happen anymore to my knowledge and HnS is having good activity and better relations with others, though we still like being by ourselves. Idk if we'd be here if we had continued to get completely denigrated through 2021.

Gamemode itself is also very important. There's no way certain servers will outpace others (take CWRP for example, that gamemode is a lot more popular than HnS and GFL has a very good server there). However, within gamemodes, a server can be pretty successful if there's little to no competiton. For HnS, that was S1ke (which got shut down) in 2018-2019 and then Brococli (which is clowned on for its mechanics) up until now. HnS, especially since 2021, has been running very smoothly. TTT is an extremely popular gamemode and having 4 different servers may help in terms of at least having a couple have good activity, though idk how split the playerbases are for the servers. I'd have to do more digging there. GMod as a whole is also not being played as much, which could contribute to lower activity in a couple of GMod servers.

Another thing is some servers have gotten really unlucky with issues. Prophunt has had some issues with connection and it also kinda sucked that a lot of their staff resigned. However, @TheThirdReaper and @Toxic in particular did a phenomenal job managing the server and made my experience very enjoyable, which contributed to a lot of Prophunt's success. It was really unfortunate that issues seemed to come up through no fault of their own. Now we're here where the server is struggling, which really makes me sad since this isn't any fault of their own. There's been an effort to get players back on, but I fear that it isn't the best way to go about it bc it felt sort of unnatural. Salad pinged everyone to get on once and he wasn't on, causing a few people (including me) to get annoyed. This didn't happen again though bc Salad was on when he pinged people to get on again, along with others (thank you Salad). The one concern I had was that I saw mostly higher ups (SM+) playing prophunt. While the intention is a good one, higher ups have other stuff to deal with and probably can't be playing prophunt much. There would need to be more staff that actually worked their way through the prophunt server, as well as a dedicated playerbase, going back to my first point. The growth of a server is best done naturally bc that feels legitimate to everyone. HnS has seen entire generations come and go, but we've just rolled with it and tried our best to welcome the newer players into the community.

Servers are going to have times where they go up and down in population. For HnS, that's always April-May due to lots of exams and school getting in the way for many (me included, thank you CollegeBoard). The best thing to do is to not panic and just wait for activity to go back up imo. Summer is usually going to be a better time for all servers and not just GFL. You can obviously check Gametracker and see how servers are doing in comparison to others.

My last point is don't focus too much on competition. Just do your own thing. If you focus too much on competition, you may lose focus of your own servers. This shouldn't really be a race between different servers. People join a gaming server to just chill out and have fun most of the time. Just focusing on your own server will probably result in the best things for your server. HnS (since Fafy became manager) has done a very good job with that. Given, we still hold pride that our server is far above anyone else's in the HnS gamemode, but we just go and do our thing. Focusing on competition can also be pretty dangerous, as both sides may end up going at each other. Brococli's server is our main competition, but I have a couple of staff there friended bc we were able to be nice to each other and one of their staff and I go way back.

You all may be worried, but GFL is still a big gaming server and tbh I'm not that worried about our future in terms of population.

Why

Awoo

Denying this bc this appeal is a duplicate.

I had already blocked you before this. Me blocking you had nothing to do with this, so there’s no need to put that in your appeal. Personal beef doesn’t need to be in here.

That being said, it’s still up to the seniors, though Swibbers isn’t admin anymore and we won’t have that input.

It's already expired, moving this to closed. Sorry I didn't see this earlier.

I don't remember exactly what the mute was, but 2 things stand out to me.

One, as @FrankAL already mentioned, you have 5 different appeals, which doesn't look good at all. There's no need to spam the appeals channel over this.

Two, this appeal has very little effort and I'm not sure how serious this actually is.

Based on these 2 reasons, I'm going to -1 this appeal and since the other senior is also leaning towards -1, I'm going to deny this. You may appeal in 1 month.

KIWI KIWI KIWI

Since seniors and the admin that banned you are leaning towards a no, this appeal will be denied and you can appeal in 1 month.