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I've been on the server for a bit now, so I suppose you can call me biased. Well, I'll stick my oar in anyway.
Am I wrong? Did I totally misunderstand policy? You guys were placing beacons and giant zombies and things, you did offer to use the console to spawn villagers, you were talking about handing out perma-creative mode to four players for that city thing that was under discussion.
A single beacon marking the spawn hardly constitutes a reason to be annoyed. As for spawning villagers, well, as mentioned everyone got a single wish as it were, as long as it was wellll within the bounds of reason. Perma-creative mode is not happening. I am one of the people making a city-I am not using creative for a single part of it. If you look at discussion, it was just that-creative mode is off the table for building the city. Giant zombie is a type of mascot, and doesn't effect gameplay at all.
Sometimes there's a difference between gameplay and appearance. The gameplay is surival, utterly and completely barring I think two buildings at spawn. Which, again, are appearance and don't effect gameplay.
mod/console/creative/call-it-what-you-will privileges there. So you have a community patting themselves on the back about how hardcore they are, then using the console to create beacons before they'd even built a nether hub, and generally conjuring stuff out of nowhere. EvilNancy was the person I'd mentioned earlier to offered to spawn villagers for me.
No building whatsoever besides one or two in spawn were created in creative mode. This statement gives a rather misleading sense...the server is not based around patting ourselves on the backs, but rather enjoying the game. We enjoy the game through survival, and so stick to it. You seem to feel the same; it's a pity you found issue with one or two exceedingly rare occurrences.