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jji7skyline wrote:

elfin8er wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

At it being a game, the point of a game is not to destroy others stuff. The people come on with no intention of gaining status (e.g. A competitive atmosphere where burning stuff will allow you to be richer), but seeing people get mad or angry about it, then leave and never return (most likely banned).

But part of the game is to "survive from the baddies that come out at night". Shouldn't this also mean players? Should players have to protect themselves from other players? Also, it's not that different from pvp. You kill someone, and you get their items. Although pvp can be disabled, as can griefing by getting plugins. All in all, I think that griefing isn't a bad thing, and is part of the game.

You can't "disable" griefing using plugins 

Prevent, disable, same thing.

soupoftomato wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

I really don't think we should be talking about the destruction of other's communities and hard work via the forums. 

Possibly "griefing" is considered acceptable game play, on some servers?

On most it is not. While some have a "everything goes" policy, this is obviously not a discussion of such.

Griefing is so named because it causes grief. Often people without good intentions destroy other's hours of hard work to see the reaction. It is essentially the "trolling" of Minecraft, and while most servers take measures to prevent it (so yeah it's bad) not all can or will, and end up having their server burnt to the ground. (It has been the death of a few servers on here itself)

Griefing is generally not acceptable gameplay.

At it being a game, the point of a game is not to destroy others stuff. The people come on with no intention of gaining status (e.g. A competitive atmosphere where burning stuff will allow you to be richer), but seeing people get mad or angry about it, then leave and never return (most likely banned).

Upon reading this I have decided not to grief on servers, but instead ask the OP for the map and blow it up. Or grief on my own servers.

Great idea 
My policy is that I ONLY grief people who deserve it.
If someone is scamming people out of donation money, then I can grief their server and still have a conscience. Same for if people are being really racist and/or homophobic.

I don't grief servers that don't deserve it. It's not fun or funny.