So you heard about it, I, just a squid, resigned from Minecord. However, this was purely a follow-up. This is purely a document to miss events that were either not as significant (to everyone, but otherwise, to me) or unknown to the public. I hope that this follow-up will clarify why I resigned, and not just a few events here and there spread months apart. Just to clarify, my memory is not the best, and I would miss a few dates here and there.
Lapis Lazuli has been introduced since Minecord Origins, with a lucrative history. How lucrative exactly? As high as 2 million per piece. This was ok because the dirt pickaxe was priced at 100 lapis, no one really had it, and they were barely traded anyways because of their rarity, so I didn’t care about it as much. The good thing is, it didn’t last for long because of the database corruption. Minecord Classic, the far more superior version, I would argue, populated lapis into potentially affordable material mid-late game users could afford, although still placed high above the “intended price.” Averaging at about 1000 trades a day, lapis took about 5% of all transactions. Panicakr has also emphasized the price of lapis was around 15 thousand, but the market prices soared to the six-digit value. Perhaps there is a reason why lapis is indeed at that price.
Alright, I confess, I may have a negligible influence on Lapis prices after all. Shortly after the trading blacklist the major clans introduced had been abolished (around spring of 2021), I sold emeralds for practically nothing and bought lapis by a hundred thousand each. This resulted in daily averages being 700 per emerald and 70,000 per lapis. Although, I am sure this had nothing to do with the sky-high lapis prices they had reached during the summer of 2021.
Christmas of 2020 had been one of the most fun events of all time, I would argue, but yet, it also had significant flaws. The introduction of the 2020 Pickaxe had rendered the Inferno counterpart obsolete because of its high prices, while the 2020 Pickaxe was cheaper but also event locked. Since I did not have Inferno tools at the time, I had taken the more affordable alternative.
The Halloween event of the same year had also been somewhat useless; the tools were primarily unhelpful, except the Pumpkin Pickaxe which boosted Mystery Pickaxe gains by about 30%, but other tools had been a waste of money, with the Bat Axe gaining a measly hundred, and the Candy Corn Sword gaining a few insignificant hundreds. A complete waste of time, since it really only helped Ultimate users, which were just 3 people at the time.
Discord’s Terms of Service have always been agreed upon to inflict punishments. Furthermore, Community Servers such as Minecord have agreed to punish anyone who violates the Terms of Service, upon agreeing to Community Guidelines. However, not as many punishments have been given to those violating them, these violators include using a self-bot/user-bot and third-party modified clients.
Self-bots were actually common in the Minecord community. Although the verification system exists, users could actually not appeal and wait 24 hours instead of going public and falling under the staff’s suspicion. This system is completely useless because not only was it primarily based on whether the appealer knew how to do verification, but also the unnecessary steps of confirmation that could be avoided. Panicakr had also turned a blind eye to those who use an automated system and not boast about it. The Minecord staff also has not actively looked for automated users. From hindsight, I see nothing, but a wrecked system that would have no return as with Minecord.
The easiest to spot and prevent was third-party modified clients, but no action had been taken against them, and Seth, after I pointed it out to him, claim to be fine with it, unless they use plugins to see things that others could not. However, I am at a loss to see how we can enforce that instead of just punishing all modified client users since using it to any extent was against Discord ToS, and thus bannable.
The other issue was legalese. Minecord does not have a Terms of Service or Privacy Policy. These documents are required by Discord Inc.’s Discord Developer Policy to own a verified bot, but none of these actually exist. This puts Minecord at a state to become an unverified bot or even terminated as of April 30th, 2022, and on. Furthermore, because Minecord takes donations, Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy are necessary even for reasons beyond Discord Inc. In other words, if anyone were to sue Minecord for practically anything at all, they would win.
The complete disregard for Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, or even the Discord Developer Policy makes me question whether such a community and bot even deserve the popularity, if any, it has today.
There were a few errors here and there on my previous document. Out of the errors after proofreading and complaints, I said something about the Minecord “upgrade”/purge being “invasive,” when I meant to say “insane.”
Development for Flash Assist for Minecord will cease (it is no longer a mainstream bot), but it's assistant features for Minecord and if there are any breaking changes that follow, they will not be fixed.
My guide for Minecord GitBook will not be updated, but it's Minecord Classic varient will continue to be updated.