I know most people don't read my lengthy posts, so I'll just leave my bulletpoints here.
Things that people should be reminded of to improve things around the community:
- There is no one problem to fix, nor is there one silver bullet to every problem.
- All problems take time to fix, but we're always working to fix them.
- We are definitely not a small community anymore, so we can't expect to behave like one. We've changed, and we should expect to change with it.
- Everything, especially staff decisions, are more complicated than they may seem. That's just unavoidable.
- Time, Effort, and Skill are all limited resources, but wants and desires are infinite. The economic truth of the matter is that we cannot please everyone, and we must do what makes most economic sense.
- We realize that there are hackers and rule breakers on our servers, but we're doing our best to see to it by constantly hiring new mods. But at the same time, the staff can't be everywhere at once, and as such we depend upon player reports as much as we do moderator patrols.
- The majority of the player base here are good people. But as with all groups of people, there are bound to be bad apples; it's everyone's responsibility to weed them out before they make things worse for the rest of us.
- This is just a gaming community. There's nothing here that's worth insulting, flaming, trolling, hacking, attacking, hijacking, manipulating, and making other peoples' lives miserable over.
And a few other things that I wish I could do once/if I have less of a workload. Perhaps these will encourage others to improve, knowing what I have planned:
- Official MCSG tournaments
- Non-MCSG games and events (I was thinking CS:GO a few days ago)
- Contests for Art, Writing, and other creative skills
- A written history for the MCGamer community history
- MCGamer video series
- More forum games
- More staff events
- More livestreams and special events
I think all of those ideas would help improve the community as well.