Since this happened two separate times just this weekend, this apparently needs to be repeated:

Autcraft is a no swearing server. Not even inappropriate language or topics. There are children on the server as young as 6 years old, many are between 8 and 12. Their parents do not want their children hear/reading things that may upset them, or that they have no business reading.

This includes books, signs and private messages, not just public chat.

We want to see you dance!

For the month of November, we want you to submit a video of yourself doing the Tarzan dance. What is the Tarzan dance?

This is the song:

This a video of people doing the dance:

What we want is for players to submit a video of themselves doing the dance. It doesn't have to be the whole song, just the same part as what you see people doing in the second video. You don't even have to do it exactly as they do it. If you can make your video look good and impress the Admins, you could win. We just want to see you dancing to the music.

Submitting Your Video

Obviously YouTube is the best way to get your video online for us but it's not the only way. There's also Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, Vimeo and others. Here's a short article on some handy ways to get a video uploaded:

https://thevideoanalyst.com/5-ways-to-share-video-for-free/

Once you have it uploaded, submit it in the comments to this thread:
https://www.autcraft.com/forum/m/16338872/viewthread/32326765-new-contest-win-10000-points/page/1

Contest Deadline

The contest runs from now until the end of November, 2018. At the end of November 30th, EST, we'll stop taking submissions.

A winner will be selected on December 15th, 2018.

The winner will receive 10,000 points (value of $100) to use in our store at https://www.autcraft.com/shop

Rules

- Your video must include the music. It can be played over the video (edited in) or it can be in the background.
- You can wear a mask (it was just Halloween after all) if you don't want to show your face.
- The dance doesn't have to be exactly as they do it in the video. Feel free to improvise.
- The winner will be selected by the Admins.
- We will be judging the video over all so it's not necessarily the best dancer that will win.

Other

Now, we know that not everyone can dance and not everyone has a video camera and not everyone wants to upload videos of themselves. Don't worry, we understand. Consider this a test for future contests. If people are willing to participate and get involved, we'll be holding more contests in the future with different requirements... no dancing. 

Basically what we're saying is, if you want to see more fun contests with big prizes, participate! And we'll do more!

Over the last 5 years, we have had some players who constantly cause drama on the server for everyone. Sometimes they're just depressed, sometimes they're feeling very negative. Sometimes a bad thing just happened in their lives.

There's two main problems here and that is when this is a constant thing that is always made public for everyone to see and the other is that this often leads to those players being combative and even downright rude to the other players.

We not unsympathetic. In fact, the reason that we have let it go on and on for so long with some players is that we know it's not their fault. We know how hard it is for them. We want to help.

However... there comes a point when it has to stop.

Here's the thing, it's not fair to the other players. Sure, there will be times when drama hits.... someone was bullied, a pet died, someone's just feeling down... but when it becomes a constant source of drama, then that's just not healthy for the other players. Players don't come to Autcraft to have someone do that to them over and over again.

There are some players who insist on making their drama public rather than talk to us privately about it. They have to be negative for everyone to see. They have to attack other people for all to see. They have to get the full attention of the entire server. They simply will not just talk to a friend, or to us... they always, every time, drag the entire server into it.

Many times they go out of their way to wait until those small moments when no Admins or SrHelpers are on to disrupt and upset everyone. They even go so far as to say "uh oh, an Admin is on. This must mean I'm going to be banned now." any time one of us does show up and then promptly leaves on their own.

So anyway, before this gets too long, this is the point... any players that the Admin team finds to be constantly dragging the entire server into drama, who turns their negativity into insults, attacks or cruelty, anyone we find to be avoiding us or subverting us just to have an unmonitored audience that they can say anything to... will be removed from Autcraft.

Again, we wish it wouldn't come to this and I have touched on this before... the needs of the entire server outweighing the few... but this is the first time we're taking a hard stance.

We have to recognize that some people need real therapy. Actual professionals who have the training and experience to help these players with real world problems. We have to admit that a Minecraft server full of children as young as 6 years old is not the place to be bringing drama and negativity to on a daily basis.

Now, don't get me wrong... those players who feel down a lot of the time, we're still here for you. Talk to us in private, in messages, mail, talk to your friends about it... by all means, Autcraft will always be there for you.

All we ask is that private things remain private and that children remain free to be happy and have fun without anyone constantly bringing them down.

Those players who read this and worry that they fit this description, feel free to contact any of us and talk to us. We'd really rather not have to remove anyone if we can help it.