Minecraft creative mode server with plot protections controllable by owners with public spaces and rollback for emergencies and lots of admins for disputes, redstone for all but with redstone machine scouts for abusers, AI (citizens) and survival areas with keep inventory on with IRC plugin allowing for.. Ok I ran a server from 2012-2014… They still ask me when I’m turning it back on…
Wait… Can a political philosophy be extracted by how one runs online communities? (Lateral thought…. Mindblown if true because all the data I ever needed was within my behavior and responses to situations as they happened …)
(I had no economy but wasn’t against ppl starting their own in their own ways… Had a factions world until ppl starting abusing each other.. Yes I think it can probably map to some kind of political philosophy … Hm)
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using your categories, anarchist server is what I ran. I took guesses as to what people wanted, put in what I wanted too, and I modified it as I went along. The community helped identify for me what might be good too. By the 2nd year, I realized it had turned into a roleplaying server (”can I be the dog?” “only if I can name you Boofuzi” “ok”) so I just ran with it.
I was less hands-on the 2nd year directly, mostly concentrating on keeping it running and dealing with truly awful things my admins couldn’t handle [one was a dreadful boyfriend/girlfriend situation.. I had to shut down the IRC connection which sucked ’cause I was really proud of my technical work there]…
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But everybody knew my name – and by hands-off, I was never really hands-off… I mean I took the default position that “If you place trust in people who don’t expect it they won’t let you down”.
I made a lot of trollers + griefers admins with the assumption that if I thrust responsibility on them and give them power, they’ll not abuse it. One did but the rest respected the power I gave them and did a good job. They just wanted to be noticed.
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One mistake I made was letting one of the admins get too close (power wise). It started as a prank : he wanted to pretend to be my 6 year old son who was just very smart. So I ran with it. It was so absurd. He even used my last name online for a while. It was flattering tbh.
Then I decided to test my ability to trust other people. I gave him the server. I wanted to see if he’d get greedy, be fair, not care. I didn’t know.
It was hard. I was still running the plumbing and engaging with people, but only when he wasn’t around. When I showed up and he was there, he felt it took away his power.
Users complained that he was ruining the server. “Take it back!” They’d find me in other places online and contact me. It was chaotic. But I had to stick to my word and I did.
It worked out fine really. He did a good job considering. But I learned what it was like to be the “King in exile”. Did it for the 2nd year.
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It was metaphorically an island in the mega-multiverse of minecraft servers. I never joined the communities of other server owners. I didn’t know how they ran servers. I didn’t need to compare. There was just “Ken’s Server” and I had a rule about not talking about other servers on there. It was one of the very few rules.
So maybe it was a protectionist monarchy? I never even visited other minecraft servers until the 25 month experiment at running a server was over.
I had to keep myself ignorant of what was done in other realms. To visit them would invite comparison and with comparison would come shame or pride. There WERE no other servers as far as I was concerned and if other people went to other servers, don’t tell me about it. Weird. No idea why I did it like that.
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