I just wanna clarify something: as staff we do NOT enforce village rules. Whatever or wherever a village member can build (or any other village rules) is always enforced by the owner(s) of said village. Every single village member has been directly authorized by the owner(s) of the village. Owners can easily remove people if they aren't following the rules and we only interfere when blatant grief happens. Building the catacombs broke no server rules.
VILLAGE OWNERSHIP
1. Villages are owned by whoever is listed as an owner in "/region info". The VC Staff do not have any ownership rights over your village - you own it.
2. Any owner can add another owner, just be aware that you now jointly own the village equally. Be careful who you add as an owner.
3. Owners are responsible for their village, can create village rules, manage how land is used, and manage who is a member.
4. Only VC Staff members can remove an owner, which the other owners much convince staff to do, usually by a vote among owners.
VILLAGE RULES
1. These are up to the owner(s) to determine, must be available for all members to read, and anyone in the village must be given the opportunity to read them when they join or when the rules are changed.
2. Villages are still under VillageCraft's rules: http://www.villagecraft-server.com/forum/index.php?topic=3898.0
Not ok with the owners? That's why they have the power to remove the offending members.
Anyway, although quite minor, I see two instances of actual staff abuse:
-Turning on TNT in the region/village without the owner's consent in order to destroy their own houses. This is the most blatant offense out of the two.
-Using World Edit to remove the catacombs after they were kicked off from the village. At this point Cyphur and Naomi had no right to modify the village without Tina's consent.
Two more points:
Staff abuse: I would like to point out that any talk of banning or demoting Cyphur or Naomi over this is ridiculous. While there's two very valid instances of power abuse here and Tina was 100% justified in reporting them, they're both
nonmalicious and very minor offenses. We will definitely talk to them about it though.
Compensation for Tina: Given that there's pretty obvious evidence of Villagecraft staff power abuse, I think compensation is definitely in order. This compensation would obviously be on top of what Dallas already offered. What that compensation is will be discussed with Tina.
Tina, does that sound fair?