What is your FORUM username?

Is your in game account linked

What is your FORUM rank?

How many years have you been on the forums?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how often would you say you use the forums? (1 being not at all, 10 being quite a lot)

Which section do you use the most?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how open are the forums in terms of allowing discussion to take place

(Optional) Why did you choose that rating? (Tell me what you answered) i.e (Rating: 5) I chose that rating because...

What do you think could be done to improve openness of discussion on the forums?

Which of the following do you think are the most important issues facing the Hypixel forums right now? (Can choose multiple)

(Only if you chose "Other") what is the issue?

Why did you choose these issues?

Of the problems you chose, select one and state how Hypixel could fix it.

Of the problems you chose, select one and state how COMMUNITY could fix it.

Are you okay with me sharing your response on the thread?

If you want to be tagged, please leave your name with the @ symnbol (i.e @S2eforme). If you do not I will not tag you.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I choose rating 5 because discussions doesn't get you much far.

Poor staff interaction, because sometimes they take so long to ban some ban speedrunners that they could ban much faster.

Select gm for forums exclusively.

Making petitions, and giving ideas.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

Honestly, its pretty open already. Nothing really jumps out at me

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Honestly, be more strict when it comes to people that constantly keep getting warnings. I keep seeing the same people get banned for 6 months, post for 2 weeks (as you can figure, they dont have many good things to say) to just get banned again. Ig make warnings expire slower.

Stop being pricks I guess? I doubt that would ever happen however.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Off topic trying not to cause flamewars when they see a LGBT thread

Most game forums are also pretty stale, it's meta and nothing else exists (or the game is just dead lol)

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Newer members shut down by older ones

I'm currently banned for a message I posted on my own wall.
I have no idea what was bannable in it, and being given a list of what it could be doesn't help.
People also being unable to use forums because they got in game punishments isn't the right answer to ban complaining threads. It does get rid of them, but along with people that were just foruming. But i guess that's the Teddy way of handling stuff, just shoot blindly until there's enough hits to make all the collateral damage "worth" (man this change just feels like the one that happened in like august)

Forums also are way too biased towards more known players

Don't issue warns for random stuff, delete the message. Have the mods be more involved and more clear, we have no idea of what's happening besides that one hidden reply on that one hidden thread, to which you find the explanation in another reply to a thread.

don't look at who posted before writing your reply

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Rating: 7 I choose this rating because some discussions could end up in flame wars.

I think that the forums can become more mature when it comes to certain topics and to learn to chill out.

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Because the toxic community is self explanatory, but the newer members taking over the old ones is also kind of annoying because they are full of egos and all that stuff.

Toxic community: more moderation

The community can fix it by minding their own businesses and actually learn to take jokes and also not always cause arguments.

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

rating ; 7

a lot of flamewars often take place, though apart from this rules are lax and permitting

nothing, really, it's mainly human error that causes this

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

the community's grown toxic, staff and rules have both gone bad, and oldgens (cough cough istompedyou) are constantly egoing other, newer forumers

for forums rules, just revert the current changes on unlinked accounts and banned members being unable to use the forums

newer members being shut down by older ones, just have less ego lol

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

6, have the wrong opinion and you are getting nuked

remove the reaction bar, it is too easy to instantly judge people based on their green to red ratio

Poor staff interaction, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Prithee O Lord Simon Hypixel, wish I upon thine heavenly grace that forums moderation was consistent and not just a coin flip omg bruh, like literally sometimes the mods will remove a semi alright post for "spamming" bro nobody wanted or needed you to remove that bruh and sometimes they just refuse to punish people who are blatantly breaking the rules. they are also slow af sometimes it takes days for a report to get to them

centranos and someone else i forgot are the only ones that really interact with the community, it feels like the mods just do their own thing and do whatever they want without input from us

interact with us more :( we r cool and not mean apart from like a couple people lol

I choose the rating 6 because you can talk about a variety of things without getting banned.

Poor staff interaction, Newer members shut down by older ones

Staff aren't very clear with their forum updates until people start to complain. Also people from 2020 try and act like their not new-gens too. :skull:

Easy, just make the forum changes that you add have more clarification

The community could stop making bad posts and make effort posts.

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Currently looking at the state of off topic, I personally think the diversity of topics have drastically dropped. I personally do think this is due to not only age difference which causes people to not want to talk about certain topics because they don’t think others would want to talk about them as well as the more fragile egos people have now and days about opinions.

If people were able to have debates without trying to defame the other in doing so. It’s alright to express an opinion, however both trying to shove it or insult others when they disagree with your opinion is both childish and meaningless in the long run. As most likely the person you are arguing with will just ignore you or they just won’t care. Heck I noticed the trend before people who tend to do this tend to not be listened to as much in the future

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

General laziness to respond to subjects

The staff while I do understand why they need that separation in order to remain unbiased they should you know interact with the community more. It’s kinda bad if the only staff you can notablely remember interacting and talking with the forums community is one person. On the other hand the toxic community is another problem. In some sections of the forums I would argue or make a case for it that they’ve gotten better, in others I’ll say they gotten worse. The general mindset of the current community sucks and that is tied in with laziness
Laziness contributes to why little big events happen on forums. Most of your time is spend browsing for content why not spend the extra 2-3 min to read and respond thoughtfully.
Take for example, Hypixel mafia community. It is generally untouched mainly because people can’t be bothered to learn or understand concepts which is another way issue connected to laziness.

Or let’s say lengthy post. Some make amazing arguments such as Wallress’s school rant post, but unfortunately those that are less well known often don’t get their opinion a chance to shine

Toxic community def
I don’t want my friends arguing anymore over stupid Drama that could be resolved by these words: I’m sorry or I realize what I did was immature, forgive me , or let’s respect our differences and move our seperate ways

Laziness. Literally just spend more cognitive power into writing your post. The community should not be a carbon copy of another
Be your own you
Make your own series
Ex: lore series - me
Forumer showdown- pas
Daily news
Questions about the deeper meaning of life
Activities that are both inspired from your hobbies and make what’s you, you.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

It's... ok
Not that it's very interesting, most threads are just about questions that have already been answered/ppl that can't bother looking on wiki

Probably a filter just like in game. I don't want to see the seventh post about timmy getting abused on the internet todag

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

oh my god please have the mods actually know what they are doing. Got a warning for encouraging rule breaking for asking if i should get carried in bingo, wich is not bannable, neither today or when i made the post.

Also, reports are way too inconsistent and very easily abused. You can dig stuff up, report it, and get the person banned. Reaction abuse is insanely obscure, three dislikes on a post count as it but profile posts spamming reactions to each other is okay somehow

Staff that doesn't know how skyblock works out of skyblock moderation
Remove reactions from forum games and profile posts (or add a bigger cooldown)

Stop spamming the report button whenever someone calls you an idiot or something

I was here since the beginning (9 years)

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Less than a year

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Can't think of anything that could be done to improve the openness, as the forums aren't to restrictive.

Toxic people/trolls: From what I've seen, there are quite a few toxic people/trolls on the forums, although it isn't too bad compared to other social media and forums I looked at.

more enforced rules, although it can have more consequences.

You can't really control the toxicity of a community, as every community has one, but the best you can do to help reduce the toxicity is to just not be toxic, and hope some toxic people realize that being toxic isn't worth their time and energy.

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Because I want teddy to talk to me more :c

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Rating: 4
Everyone these days seems to call any argument that gets slightly heated a "flamewar." Plus, all the newer forum users I see seem to choose to stay quiet/not express themselves/only bring up noncontroversial takes to preserve what they view as a "healthy bar."

Any reaction score should be hidden. In fact, even removing reactions as a whole would make sense at this point.

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Lack of visible meaningful discussion

Most threads these days are either two lines or flame wars. I am aware that there are probably long profile post chains being made every day, but those are hard to find and may seem insular to some. Any discussion or advice-based post that is made is filled with 5-word responses or joke responses.

This is more of a community problem, not really a staff problem.

To all the profile posters, if you are discussing a meaningful topic, try to make a thread for it as well. This would allow more perspectives, and encourage people to post. If you hint that these discussions spawn from profile posts, that might even encourage more people to join you.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Everyone on the forums is open to diversity, but more experienced players are annoyed to see a post about someone getting scammed

Newer members shut down by older ones

A lot of more experienced members write "cope" for an answer when a newer member is angry that they get scammed

Remove "public shaming" because scammers and cheaters should get punished

Less than a year

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

Poor staff interaction and forum rules. We don't get told what we broke, normally it's just 'rules violations' as ban reason

clarify which rule we broke

i don't see how the community can fix this

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

There's a few topics that obviously aren't allowed to be shared, and that's fine. Sometimes restriction isn't a bad thing.

Staff can tend to jump the gun on threads trying to make people aware of bugs. Most recently, someone in the Housing community figured out how to give themselves Co-Owner on a certain house without being given it by the Owner in any way. Admins dismissed it as probably fabricated at first because they couldn't find any evidence to suggest that it was a recent thing that was happening (a similar glitch happened about a year ago, but it's long since been patched), and the thread discussing it was locked. It took until another thread about it was made before someone came forward with proof of the glitch happening to them fairly recently, and the Admins actually had something to look at (they thankfully didn't lock that thread)

Outside of a few, the Admins don't really interact that much. I get that they're busy guys and they likely can't help it, but I still think it's a problem, whether it's their fault or not.

I can't really think of one. I think it's just a hole they've dug for themselves that they have to live with. They could hire more staff and I guess that would fix the problem with staff having less work between them, but that comes with its own difficulties.

Not really any. I didn't choose any community specific questions because I didn't think any were problems. The community isn't really any more toxic than the rest of the internet, and I think the rules are fine enough, I still just feel like Hypixel needs to be a bit more 'in your face' when it comes to displaying the rules though.

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

8 because rules can be weird but still loose

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community

Toxic community and unclear rules: have moderators call people out on their mistakes using a reply on the specific thread as a warning so they like call out the person in the wrong while also making rule more clear


2 birds with one stone

toxic community: call the person in the wrong out and say what they are doing is wrong

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

If your post got removed you must have done something very wrong as the rules are very lax

Stop using the 30 days necroposting rule, only if its irrelevant. Even staff occasionally do this 30 day rule when reported.

You have a lot of passive aggressive toxicity or homophobia.

Ban people saying "I dont care about you being lbtq+ but my church says its a sin(or not allowed)". This just means your hiding behind your church to be a jerk.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

While arguments do often get locked I've never had an issue with casual discussions

Have stricter rules on starting flamewars, people turning a discussion into an argument makes actual discussion impossible

Newer members shut down by older ones

In certain sections (skyblock) newer members are made fun of which could drive them away from the forums

remove posts that insult the thread maker IF they are in the skyblock community help forums or regular community help forum

(also ban anyone who actively uses the skyblock forums)

just answer people's question no matter how obvious the answer is

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I dont know i mainly use the hypixel discord, the forums are too confusing/strict for me lol

Eh, probably nothing. Rules/strictness is pretty good for the most even if I dont like then

Newer members shut down by older ones

I seen it happen kinda often

Maybe automatically check certain msg before they get posted that are unwanted. And like redirect the poster like “something like this has been posted before, do you still want to post” etc. then a lot of accidental spam/annoying post would not be sent

Be more kind to newer forumers

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

Must be VERY PC (politically correct), nothing of ANY sort of political discussion at all which is fine for a video game forum but should be noted. Public shaming rules seem a bit overbearing at times, I agree that users should not be allowed to solely make a thread shaming someone but we should not have to go way out of our way to censor screenshots. Also way too many posts are deleted because "rude" it is annoying.

Looser public shaming restrictions, allow a bit more through rather than banning it as rude.

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

I don't mean to sound rude but the shear amount of people that make a thread throwing a fit like a little child about various things around the server drives me insane. An all caps post about how watchdog sucks and the staff are lazy helps no one and it infuriates me that people who have zero clue what they are talking about think they can just fix watchdog by creating an if statement. Also lag complainers are another huge issue, specifically when it comes to people saying make an EU/APAC server, if they had read previous posts they would learn why that is not possible. People complaining about bans also drive me crazy, again if they had even once read the past posts they would know these are dumb, also a lot of them purposely omit details or straight up lie which drives me CRAZY.

Pin the transfer packet thread, if someone puts "ban" in the title of their thread make it so a little banner pops up below the field saying "just as a heads up this section is not for appeals and will not be treated as such"

The community could work to be more straighforward with newcomers about this, link the resources and explain why they are wrong.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

It its pretty open for discussion, the shame is most discussions are complete utter dog shit that waste anyone with a sane brains time. But once in a while there are those threads that just explode and draw in a good discussion that lasts for pages, and they can be good and bad

I think being allowed to express yourself more would be nice, but I know I am asking too much considering in the end it is a children block game forum and majority of users are underaged

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

I chose poor staff interaction for obvious reasons. Besides centronos and teddy, I personally don't see many other staff ever interacting with the community. I know there are different groups of staff for different issues, but having like 3-4 people be the whole team that handles the entirety of the forums is absurd and is asking way to much form the staff imo
As for the toxic community, I choose this issue because I am also apart of it xD, but in all honesty I would see why new members wouldn't stay on the forums consider how unwelcoming and rude we can be as a community. Ofc there are players who are quite nice as well, but they are way overshadowed by the not so nice ones. If you don't have tough skin, the forums can be quite a horrible place to be on, even worse if you got to specific game forums *cough* mega walls *cough*. All in all, we aren't nice

Poor staff interaction. Just hire more staff innit. I know it's not that simple and easy, but it's honestly the only working solution that actually does something for the issue at hand.
Toxic community, Just punish more innit, but they would need more staff for that to be more efficient and effective

Toxic community, just go to therapy man, it's not that hard xd

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Most issues with openness to discussion are a problem of the community's behavior.

Have a CLEAR SET OF RULES AND GUIDELINES for what is and isn't allowed. No loopholes, no gray areas, none of that.

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Horrible behind-the-scenes community problems that affect the forums from the outside

Forum rules and moderation continue to be filled with gray areas and bad decisionmaking. Rule-breaking threads are taking longer and longer to be deleted, and bad staff decisions keep being made to compensate (ie. if you're banned in-game you're automatically forumbanned). The removal of every unpaid staff member has caused moderation everywhere to tank in quality.
The community is a shitshow; I personally have not gone on forums very often, but when I do it usually only takes me 5-10 minutes to find someone openly denying or attacking my gender identity or sexual orientation (I know you personally don't believe in such things s2e, but I think it's important that people keep such beliefs to themselves rather than spreading hate about it online. It's frankly extremely disheartening to go on a fucking MINECRAFT FORUM and seeing people being homophobic or transphobic.).
On and off of the website, the community is filled with off-putting sexual content, quite literally insane people (take the Wheatgod incident as an example), young teenagers openly talking about severe mental health issues (though many of these are likely exaggerated, many aren't), manipulation, attacks, brigading, and a bunch of other shit I can't even remember off the top of my head. A lot of this can't be solved by the Hypixel staff, but it is a fucking scourge on the community.

Hypixel needs to start issuing severe penalties for people who post unsafe content and locking peoples' accounts for talking about mental health problems. They need to crack down on toxicity via better and faster moderation.

The community needs to crack down HARD on NSFW content and off-site discussion that is frankly damaging to everyone involved. They won't, of course, but it needs to be done. There are so many problem users about that need to be evicted from the internet as a whole, and kicking them out of the Hypixel community would be a start. I can detail far more on Discord if you so desire.

This might be slightly unrelated, but it would be better if staff would remove the 30 second limit for profile posts. A lot of discussion is done on profile posts, and the 30 second limit makes it harder for people to discuss a lot of things.

I chose toxicity because I’ve seen so much of it. Some of my friends have left the forums because of its toxic community.

Hypixel could fix toxicity by adding an option “Toxicity” to the reporting menu. This could be the case if the person is openly insulting (as in being racist, sexist, and so son) others.

The community, if they see a toxic person, could ignore them, so that nobody would care about them anymore.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I chose 3 because its a mix of a little too much moderation, and people not being able to speak their mind without being ass blasted by a swarm of 12 year olds who got offended.

less moderation and less people with their head up their ass

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, No room for discussion

These are the three main ingredients to the cesspool that is the forums

OK so a quick side tangent, the copious amount of threads bitching about the lack of skyblock updates drives me insane. Either the community gets a thought out and fun update with a long wait time, or a rushed and buggy update. If they get a update with a long development time they whine about how skyblock gets no updates, despite the fact that skyblock is the most often updated game on the server. If they get a rushed update, they complain about the bugs (rightfully so though). No matter what the admins do its a bunch of retarded pre teens complaining about the game and how its never updated. So just a few statements from the admins showing what its like to make the actual game so people can see why updates take as long as they do would be nice. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk

Quite frankly nothing, a bunch of keyboard warriors dont ever get anything positive done

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Certain types of discussion are obviously limited, its a Minecraft forum after all. But for the most part Hypixel lead a healthy balance with what content they allow and disallow, at least in my experience.

More transparency from the staff team when content is removed and accounts are punished, more detailed reasoning would go a long way to help people understand why they are breaking a rule and may stop the conflict that follows.

As of late the staff team, over the entire network not just the forums, has become increasingly worse at interacting with the community, and its caused quite a bit of conflict.

I think if Hypixel become more transparent with their reasonings for certain things, and also took the time to listen to community suggestions or at least acknowledge that they exist, it would go a long way to showing that they actually do care about their community.

A lot of people feel ignored which is perfectly valid but screaming and cussing about it in a thread is not gonna help the issue. Stay civil, be open minded.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I feel like I don’t see any discussions being hindered because of anything the forum admins have set in place themselves. The reason it’s an 7 instead of 10 however is because of disallowed thread types and rules and the recent change by teddy to make it so that banned users can’t make posts

Revert recent change by Teddy I do not understand how this man thought that was a good idea. People can have genuine questions about the ban appeal system and gets rid of a bunch of skyblock forum mains specifically. I don’t see eye to eye with him on how bad those extra filler posts are, there are 20 threads on the top page and you are not having even half of those being about banned users. If there’s an active and interesting discussion, it’s gonna be up there.

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

I don’t see any of your preset ideas as major problems for the forums nor can I think of any myself. Forum rules have to stay vague in order to have moderation proper cover things without some community uproar. Staff interaction is not a necessity in a site that is a glorified Q&A quiz (maybe if this were the hypixel community in general instead of the forums I’d put this as a major problem but as it stands right now I don’t think the forums are in a position where that could be a problem). The community is not toxic for literally 99.9% of posts no matter how much people may want to spin it in that direction (I’m a sky block main who has 18k messages, if there was toxicity I’d know there was toxicity but that simply doesn’t exist forum side). While discussion might not be clear as glass as it stands right now it is not an important issue, more like a minor inconvenience. I am also yet to see older members shutting down new ones, I just can’t find that on the forums. So… there’s really nothing I see as an issue.

There’s only one sooooo. Just don’t make stupid ass decisions. A good example of a bad decision is the one Teddy made recently. An example of a good decision is shitposting ban (specifically their definition for ‘shitposting’)

Think for about three seconds, even just 3 seconds before doing something. So many things seem so stupid in hindsight if you just thought about it for a bit longer.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

There is usually a few threads that deserve a reasonable reply to whilst the majority are just posting nonsensical and repeating threads.

less PSAs on the forums and good open ended question threads whenever hypixel does something

example of the useless PSAs or unanswerable questions that everyone in the community already knows and doesn't invoke much discussion:
- https://hypixel.net/threads/dont-get-scammed-guys.5139541/
- https://hypixel.net/threads/is-there-a-sale-this-year%E2%80%99s-black-friday.5155552/
- https://hypixel.net/threads/be-careful-when-joining-discord-servers.5155180/
- https://hypixel.net/threads/when-is-the-halloween-event-ending.2415049/
- https://hypixel.net/threads/is-baubles-allowed.5157987/

i can give more examples just by sifting through the hypixel discussions forums but lez not put so much effort looking for examples

nice threads that invoke discussion: https://hypixel.net/threads/the-problem-with-restricting-accounts-with-punishments-on-them-from-posting-on-forums-and-a-solution-confirmed-to-be-controversial.5144455

better structured discussion thread: https://hypixel.net/threads/my-thoughts-on-the-new-forum-update%E2%80%A6.5144729/

No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

previous page contains my reason for "no room for discussion"

newer members shut down by older ones
i've seen this issue before in the past year but not very recently.
new members that suggest controversial ideas with good structure getting shutdown by semi-old ones who are like "ha lol like you know any better" and using the same argument again and again without actually replying to the thread's points

re: any bedwars ranked matchmaking thread

very controversial and will spark more fire than the great fire of london

put a rule for these threads that invoke very little discussion but not threads who talk about their achievements because hype train farming is still a thing right???

i just mainly hate the questions that no one except staff can answer or questions that you can google search in a minute.

don't think the community can fix this issue since it always comes from players who recently joins and comes on the forums to ask 1 question and leave

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

Pretty open just some topics are generally best avoided. Also some people don't know what they're talking about so it further complicates things.

Would be interesting to be able to sort replies on a thread like reddit does so you can see who replied to what in big chains. The current format isn't bad just it makes it hard to keep up with certain things which can cause things to be missed or repeated.

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

The only interactive staff I see on here is Centranos. The staff just seem more like robots behind a screen accepting or declining reports and liking each others announcement threads. It doesn't feel like they do much beyond that.

Some people are just to vocal about their incorrect opinions and are not fun to be around. However this is mostly just a select few people and they get over it after a while.

Add ways for staff to be more interactive with the community or create jobs that handle this. Staff shouldn't have to create their own discord server on their own time to be interactive with the community.

People should be more supportive to those who end up falling victims of getting targeted by toxic people. However a lot of those people come and go so it's not really a concrete solution. Reporting them can also help out but reports have been pretty slow recently.

Less than a year

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

for overall rating because hypixel is still good server except some moment where "fire dumpster" moments aka toxic/flamewar happens

For toxic, however. despite big h forums is bit wild, but sometime, it can get out of control with lots of toxic.

Hypixel could create a corner for some ppl can't cope with toxic environment, like "off topic non toxic" section for some ppl don't really like toxic

we can nicely treat, and we benefit all, it's not a just a account sat behind monitor and spill over hate just to satisfy toxicer (aka person who toxic)

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

To be honest I don’t really know. I think it may be more of a problem with the community than hypixel itself. It seems pretty straightforward to me that we can’t discuss things like politics, religion, etc. It seems like every time there is a thread about anything lgbtq it always turns into a flamewar. I also think that there isn’t a lot of good discussion on the forums anymore. It’s mostly just people post farming and shitposting which also doesn’t help.

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

The forums are hella toxic, I swear no one has any braincells, everyone is rude, and the staff barely even interact except for Centranos who does a decent job.

I don’t think hypixel can fix any of the problems I chose skull. I suppose the staff interaction but it’s not like that’ll improve any time soon.

Newer members shut down by older members - I guess this could start with everyone being more welcoming especially on milestone threads. Not everyone is a fan but I don’t really feel like it’s necessary to get dislike spammed because someone made a thread about them getting 500 messages.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I feel like I can still shitpost but not as much as I could like 2 years ago. Though I think that some of the posts getting removed is perfectly justified, so prob like around that.

i feel just remerging all of the skyblock forums into sbg

not gunna lie every other forum is pretty dead other than sb offtopic

whenever a new player comes to ask a question or complaina bout getting scammed/ratted theres always that guy (sometimes me) that posts a sarcastic comment/rude comment that contributes nothing.

though it is quite funny sometimes 0-0

maybe a better FAQ or smth

ideally actually punish scammers and stuff but thats not really a forums thing

stop being an asshole lmao

Not many rules in that regard, but I still dont think swearing should be banned

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community

The rules arnt very clear and vary by the staff member's view

Off Topic (Creative Lounge, Off Topic, and so on)

There's a lot of discussion for general normal people topics, movies, video games, events in life, et cetera, but for a few topics, ie religion, lgbt, drama, that create toxic arguments / "flamewars" are often shut down and given no room to allow civil discussion, typically because of a few controversial users.

I think their change to loosen up the public shaming rule was already very good. I don't think discussions about topics that don't fit on a kid forum are really all that necessary but it would be nice for them to be a bit more relaxed with the bans with them. I also feel like "goodbye" threads shouldn't be deleted unless it's very clear that OP is nothing but an attention seeker.

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

the removal of unlinked accounts

The forum rules are a bit unclear on the topics of: What is classified as "Spamming", what crosses the line of "Reaction abuse" and how low effort something has to be to be "just a shitpost".

The only person in the staff team who interacts with the general forums community nowadays is 90% centranos, other staff talking is still very rare to this day.

And as always the community has problems with toxicity, though it appears to mainly just be some argument between a group of people as opposed to with the entire community like a few years back.

I feel like the change that removed linked accounts was a huge disconnect from the people who are on the hypixel community for the forums and the forums only, no playing or the minigames or nothing, just people who wanted to hang out and relax.

They could add clearer examples of what exactly breaks the rules of something, this would make it very clear and help prevent new forumers from making stupid threads about it.

They should also try to get more staff on the team working under a community manager of sorts as this will greatly increase the staff x normal players relationship.

Toxicity isn't something a community can magically fix, they're mostly just reliant on the staff to ban people as they can't just control the emotions of someone to stop being an asshole, but as of recently forumers like goodlife, purple, etc (or kift before he quit for the 2nd time :( xd) are trying to make more of a positive environment by spreading friendliness on profile posts, which I do genuinely think is a good step in making the forums less toxic.

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I feel like the forums already has the capability to have discussion, but the main issue(s) I see are either lack of ideas to get a discussion going or lack of support from community members whenever an idea pops up, even if it's bad.

Example :: I used to look forward to Hashito suggestions, even though they were bad. Just so I can try to improve them to a good idea!

Pretty much just the community willing to build/improve bad ideas and turn them into good ideas. (Trim away the fat, and buff it up.)

Newer members shut down by older ones

Pretty much the same as the last answer before this page.

Idk if it's a problem Hypixel could really fix. They could issue bans, but that seems way too harsh. So I rather not.

Be a bit more welcoming to newer forumers. Not too overkill, but enough where they don't see the forums as a hostile place.

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I mean you can't really say anything dark humorish or something the admins find as a "shitpost" i recently got banned for 3 months because i said "your mom"

There's nothing much we can do until admins stop being snowflakes

Poor staff interaction, Newer members shut down by older ones

Poor staff interaction because of how private they are witb practically everything like bro it's a minecraft server not area 51, and newer members being shut down cuz people are called nons all the time and told to leave cuz they're irrelevant

Poor staff interaction, the staff could open up more about people's problems, stop being so sensitive, be more open minded and acknowledge problems.

Newer members being shut down by old ones we could fix by simply welcoming newcomers with open arms

Less than a year

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

There really isn't any excessive restrictions going on in my opinion.

I feel like people should be allowed to talk about cheats and cheaters. As long as they aren't promoting clients they should be fine.

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Toxic community: I think that this is rather self-explanatory.

Newer members shut down by older ones: just go to the Bed Wars section. You can see stat shaming there basically every day. It seems to make sense to some people that only the top players should matter in a community.

Unfortunately there are no ways to fix a community: unless Hypixel makes its games more casual which would not be good, toxicity is always going to be a thing.

Become better people I guess. Or if you are a toxic person, just leave. Nobody will do that though.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

The restriction of off-topic conversations, that in itself being a vague rule has made having a discussion harderl

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

A community that thrives off of petty arguments

It just ruins a lot of conversations. Troll accounts aren't being dealt with well enough

More clarity on how forum rules work

Just don't call people "generic newgens" (I haven't been called that but it happens alot)

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religion/politics are discouraged but lgbtq is?? like cmon hypixel.. along with even hinting to a cheater gets you warned. not a fan of the idea. along with jokes, i joked that i will steal someones ip and got banned for amonth (still are lmfao)

saying no talk of lgbtq because gtfo idc if your a homo

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

forums rules - give a example of what is not allowed

#5 - i posted on my alt celebrating 100 messages and 250 reactions and got dislike bombed by a guy called llama and his crew of misfits

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

The community is way too toxic.

More moderation against toxicity

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

They are very (and sadly) prominent in the forums these days

Dedicated staff for community interaction

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The forums have too open of a discussion.

It shouldn’t be improved, some of these children legitimately don’t deserve freedom of speech.

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

New Members too horrible

They’re just generally atrocious across the board, honestly.

They could not allow new accounts to be created, also fixes the elitism “problem”.

They could go outside and touch grass.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I choose 4. Honestly, there are some "taboo" topics in the forums (I mean, and not only in the forums), which could be honestly interesting.

They could add a new option for Forum Nerds and above, which allows them to mark a thread as a "warning" for those people who might not find enjoyable the conversation (Obviously only if they are the thread owner). This could allow people to talk about things like politics/religion (Saying nothing bad, of course, if not, moderation would still apply).

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Most of the "veteran" users are toxic to new users only because the new users aren't used to the community and most of the times they fail using some forum features (For example, making a thread in the wrong section) or sometimes they are "cringe".

Poor staff interaction - Easy:

-Bring back the old bug report system (Manual staff responses and make bug rating obtainable again), this would encourage people to actually bug report more and it'd also show to people that staff interaction we lack of, since I only see a staff member posting a message like once a week, and most of the times it's just Centranos, but I doubt hypixel can change that, so yeah.

Newer members shut down by older ones - This one would be a bit harder since it's easier said than done:

-Instead of sending hate to new users just because of the fact they are new, we should just welcome them and treat them well.

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Sorta tired so I'll just go through these pretty quickly. Forums are usually pretty good overall in terms of allowing discussion to take place. Some communities have their own preferences, but in general it fits its purpose, as it's ultimately for all ages. The only major things that suck are "public shaming" and sometimes staff going on weird power trips and deleting random stuff that's perfectly fine.

Get better/more staff, change the whole feel of the forums in general, and define public shaming more and be more loose about it

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

It feels like staff just don't know what's going on anymore. They're constantly putting off important stuff like updating main games (megawalls phase 4 moment) in favor of developing new games like Wool Wars. I mean, the game literally averages like 100 players and it's not even a year old. There are so many important things that just haven't been fixed throughout the years, and I just don't get why they thought Game Masters were a good idea. Overall just a step in the wrong direction across the board.

The community can't really fix it, though it would help if there were more competent people in general. It feels like there aren't that many strong voices in the community these days.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

You never see staff anymore, and the rules make no sense, especially when quoted by random forum members

Appoint some volunteer forum moderators from the community

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Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, No room for discussion

There's really no need to explain why, if you've used the forums at all you know what I mean.

Have your staff stop acting like robots.

If you try to use the blitz or mega walls forums, good luck. You will cast as an outsider. There is no real fix to this kind of behaviour (that's obvious at least)

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

SBGD does have rules, but it’s pretty easy to still make funny/controversial posts that work around the rules. Game related discussion certainly happens, but because it’s SBGD it’s only so useful.
However there have been certain instances where forums become pretty toxic (egoing, flexing, etc), but not too often thankfully.

Unban shtposting, increase average iq of forum user, stop using one phrase toxic replies

Forums Rules (unclear), Newer members shut down by older ones, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Shtposting was great, and brought more interaction to SBGD. Now that it’s gone it’s just trying to do the same thing but without crossing the line. Really a pain.
Also new players are sometimes dogged on by old users. I felt this in my 1st 2 months getting back into forums, where quite a few people will rag on you bc you just started posting.

Unban shtposting, it will bring more people back to SBGD

Stop egoing on new forumers/players

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I chose 5, because I feel like with the new "update", its just caused a lot of well, censoring for those who want to interact, but they're either banned or muted, meaning they can't do nothing.

I feel like reverting the update is one idea because it'd cause a lot of stress and controversy, and because of that, Hypixel might lose their players

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

I feel like there is enough room for discussion, but not the censorship, because I feel like the Hypixel server is a dictatorship, and not a democracy...

Forum rules, because a lot of the rules might not be understood by those with influent English or mental health problems

By suggesting future changes by using the ideas and feedback properly

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

The censorship system.

There is basically only one possible opinion you can have, being that hypixel moderation is perfect and isn't doing anything wrong.

They silence banned players to make it seem like they aren't mass banning thousands of people for BS reasons like VPNs. You get a major forum warning for talking positively about cheats and other forms of rule-breaking, which is now an automatic 7d ban, this usually happens WEEKS after the post and sometimes you'll warned bc of an old post getting reviewed for "pUblIc sHaMiNg", which brings me on to my next point.

Public Shaming is the most bullshit rule hypixel has ever come up with, pointing out the fact that someone is cheating/a scammer is not public shaming, it's only when you actually harrass or encourage harrassment that it becomes problematic, it's the most controversial rule but is still heavily enforced

Allow banned players to post, stop taking the rules so strictly, unless it's clear that someone is breaking the rules, delete the post but don't apply punishment, atm grey-area posts will get deleted and you'll get a warning/ban, an example would be saying that "Closet cheats make it easier to fight bhoppers" in a thread complaining about bhop being unbeatable

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

The Ideas and Feedback section is useless because they don't implement things from there no matter how many upvotes they have (take the public shaming rule criticism thread as an example or ricefarmer11's proposal for countering sumo bots)

Because it ties in with everything else that's problematic

Poor Staff Interaction' - Better appeal replies, at most we have:

-Denied (Dog)
-Denied (Manual)
-Denied (Security)
-Accepted (Security)
-Accepted (Anything else)

I don't know if manual/dog denied messages are different, it would be really nice if they were so we can know if our config is flagging or if staff is banning so we don't waste as many alts without having to rely on the API and the timing of a ban to tell automatic and manual bans apart, anyways, here's what the new messages should be:

-Denied (Dog) - References common "false ban" mods, aka mods that trigger watchdog without actually giving you an unfair advantage like Pojav launcher, Vivecraft, explains that visual mods will never trigger watchdog

-Denied (Build Battle) - Explains that you're responsible for what your teammate builds (which is bullshit and it would be really easy to just log who placed which blocks to see who is actually at fault)

-Denied (Manual Cheating/Boosting) - The current message is good enough here

-Denied (Skyblock) - Explains that you're responsible for your coop's actions (which is bullshit but hard to fix this without it being abusable)

-Denied (Security) - Explains that your account was repeatedly associated with banned accounts, warns about VPNs

-Accepted (Non-security) - Explains what caused the false ban

-Accepted (Security) - Warning about VPNs, siblings and the possibility of actually being hacked

There isn't really a way to force staff to change their ways, the only thing the community could do to prevent forums censorship would be to give out forums alts, of which there's a few kinds that can be defined:

Unlinked FA (the account is past anti-spam checks and can be used by anyone with a working mc acc, comes with mail access for the forum acc)

Linked NoRelink (Has a linked account that can't be accessed anymore due to lost credentials, microsoft locked or an expired gamepass)

Linked MCBanned (mc acc is accessible but has to first wait out/appeal a security ban before the acc can be used)

Linked NFA (Has a usable mc acc that is unbanned and but no mail access)

Linked FA (Has a usable mc acc that is unbanned and has mail access)

Linked 100 Posts (Can give out negative reactions)

This can't be done bc alts cost money to get and there would be no profit unless ppl had to pay for them either in cash or through slave labor ingame by earning items in Skyblock/The Pit that would be given to the alt provider.

TLDR - It's just not feasible.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

You can open a thread. But other than that you can not really go deep into a discussion like people used to.

You can't. There is just too much kids (especially on game forums)

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community

Forums all just full of shitposts or duplicates of threads. It is cluttered with useless information. Toxic just comes from skyblock forums acting they are smarter and better than one other.

Forum rules unclear. I guess there needs more monitoring on what is a shitpost and an actual valid thread. Close down threads that are recent duplicates and so forth.

For toxic environment it is simple: If one feels offended through a "controversial" post, one should not react in the first place.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

I believe with the more recentish changes to the forum rules and the restrictions on being only able to use the forums made forums a pretty closed place contrary to last year. Sure, being restricted from using the forums while banned also removes a bunch of shitposts and threads which are deliberately not telling the whole story, however, I am pretty certain that it also removes a bunch of geniue questions about hypixel's punishment system and related topics.

Its kind of a double-edged sword, actually. In recentish months Hypixel has taken a more restrictive approach, with benefits and disadventages which I have already partially adressed in the previous question. Choosing the right level of restictions and the type of restrictions is a difficult job, and it seems like Hypixel is currently going a path that makes it easier for the staff team to handle issiues, but more difficult to actually discuss things.

Poor staff interaction, No room for discussion

(No room for discussion) I chose that particular point, because (as I have already adressed in previous questions) I see Hypixel has chosen a particulrelay restrictive approach about discussions. If you look at the Community Help Forum, for example, it is now regularely the case that discussions from the last one or two days don't fill the first page anylonger. Additionally, Hypixel choose to restrict people with ingame punishments from using the forums altogether (with the exception of the appeals section). As stated previously, this has adventages and disadventages. Obviviously, because I am not a staff member, I cannot accurately tell how truthfull threads about ingame punishments are, however, I believe some people might have actual questions about their bans which can be answered by the Community.

I don't actually believe there is an easy way to fix things, as many problems have double-edged sword solutions. Telling too much about Hypixel's internal Systems will make it easy for people who want to circumvent them, telling too little will have people question the validity of the admins.

I don't believe there are actually a lot of things the community can fix, maybe apart from refraining from deliberately lying about hwy they got punished, however, as far as I know humanity that will probbably never happen.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I don't fully understand what you mean, but I don't think that ideas or discussions are oppressed or stopped. Seems like most things are open to discussion, even bannable things or controversial things. People just don't care

I don't know, remove all the rules! It's technically right

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community

I chose Forum Rules because you can get banned for rules that are really vague, such as Rude Behaviour and the Public Shaming rule. I have once been banned for using one vulgar word in an acronym ("stfu") to a necroposter. I just thought that was stupid, and then another time I was banned for posting a thread about a hacker in Sumo duels whose name was toxic cheater, which I found funny, ofc for public shaming.

Make the rules less vague.

I also believe they should think about the big picture of why we have rules. Making these rules and banning people for the sake of banning people is stupid. Ban them because it's bad for the community, ban them because it's getting out of hand, ban them because it's actually causing a problem.

For example, when I was banned for talking about a cheater named ToxicCheater, there was no point in banning me there when the reasons they ban public shaming is because it creates a toxic atmosphere for those who just joined the community and to avoid harassment of the player.

Neither of those are going to happen, the dude's name is ToxicCheater obviously it's an alt account and new members won't think that you get shamed and bullied if you do something bad like hacking. It's obvious that the post's reasoning isn't that deep. Just haha funny man's name is toxiccheater and hacks

Toxicity. I posted something about a funny joke a staff member made and me and a friend I just met said lol about it and I took a screenshot, posted it on the forums, got many negative reactions and people trying to defend the staff member and calling me and the other person "childish."

They just saw "kids getting hyped about a green name." Literally, people need to have more fun sometimes. Stop thinking you're the main character and stop having this thing in your head where you believe you're doing good and thinking you're smart.

They basically thought that person and I were harassing a staff member and saying "bro just let the staff play the game," the staff obviously is not just trying to play the game, they're interacting with the players and they're un-nicked/not vanished meaning they obviously want to be recognized. Literally braindead, the staff member literally made a joke, like sorry? Can I not post staff interactions on the forums anymore?

Or them saying "not even funny," OK, edgelord.

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Skyblock general discussion is, as you probably know, the most active subforum. This is problematic for people, like myself, who browse the “What’s new” tab could not care less about Skyblock. I just wanna find good friends instead of new posts getting clogged up by dumb questions.

Nearly every internet forum has toxic members, so there’s really no surprise there. Signing up for the forums is a pain with the rules they established in April. I already talked about sbgd and how useless questions and other low effort threads drown out meaningful threads.

Hypixel should add an option for us to filter what posts we get on our “what’s new” feed.

As for toxicity, I believe less users should gang up on others for having different opinions.

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The Staff are reasonably lenient on what they allow to be discussed, so the only real risk that comes with discussing controversial topics is the issue of flamewars.

More Staff moderation, stricter rules against flamewars, more info on what counts as a flamewar and how to spot one.

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

Many of the rules are open to being perceived different ways, making it easy to get banned for something you didn't know was rule-breaking. I also chose poor staff interaction, not because the staff don't do a good job of interacting with the community, but because there's simply not enough of them. There's only a half a dozen or so staff who regularly interact with the forums, meaning many areas can feel like the staff rarely touch them at all.

I will choose to explain how they may fix the "Forum Rules" issue. The staff could fix this issue by
1. Refining the forum rules
looking through what should remain a rule, what rules should be added, and cleaning the wording on some of the rules
2. Add examples for some rules
if a rule is especially confusing, give some sort of example or further clarification of what is or isn't rule-breaking.

Both of these problems are staff related and could not be fixed by the community.

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

(Side note: I am active member because my well-known member account was wiped.)

Definitely by reversing the recent ban that prevents banned and muted players in-game (especially muted ones) from not being able to send messages on the forums.

Forums Rules (unclear), Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

1) When it comes to "religious and political" discussion, the admins should be more clear as to exactly what this means and the extent to which it's tolerable. I know that you personally have discussed this issue before and connected it to "prompting" and "initiating" as shown here:
hypixel.net/threads/why-is-this-allowed.4999348/post-35977507

2) Wokeness is an issue that is hard to keep at bay in 2022 unfortunately but it really does make the forums less enjoyable when people are encouraging diversification, pronouns, equity, LGBTQ+ (most importantly this in a profile picture but also through written messages), and other woke/extremely liberal agendas. It makes the forums look very "soft" and ultimately the site can get laughed upon. I know someone (who actually once sought entry to your guild) that felt this way.

Regarding the second one:
- Ban profile pictures like Hyperion's
- Prevent woke discussion on highly-viewed threads such as the recent tournament announcement threads or the Technoblade Memorial thread.

Regarding the first one:
- The community should ensure that they don't say something that is bound to cause a flamewar or keep a flamewar going
- The community should refrain from using dislikes just because they're so by the book and don't want to see anything mildly religious or political.

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Removal of linked account access to be able to post on forums, and in-game bans/mutes should not affect the ability to post on forums.

There is literally just one staff member who actively interacts with the community. Both in-game and on forums the staff interaction is extremely limited.

Re-addition of volunteer staff team, or hiring GMs specifically for a specific purpose (like Forum Team, Competitive games, etc)

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I chose toxic community because the community in a lot of the game forums have been noticed to be quite toxic.

The toxic community could definitely be fixed by slightly more restrictive rules surrounding toxicity, where the hypixel staff team could change the definition of the rules surrounding expectations of behaviour on the forums, where they could specify what qualifies as " disrespectful or abusive behaviour" and provide some examples. Stronger punishments for " disrespectful or abusive behaviour" should also be warranted.

for the problem of the community being too toxic, the best way would be for forumers to fix their attitudes towards each other. The forumers behaviour to one other is quite sickening, I think that although the staff team could do some things to contribute to reducing the toxicity of the server and forums, the majority of the change relies on the forumers treating each other as human beings.

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They make the rules unnecessarily strict in unimportant parts and too allowing in important parts (e.g. the recent mute thing

Staff could look at community suggestions more

Making better suggestions for the staff ofc

Pretty open, but the -3 points comes from things that HAVE to be closed from discussion (religion, political shit etc).

It is fine at where it is, can't really unban topics like that.

Poor staff interaction, Newer members shut down by older ones

Newer members are often classified as "newgens", which seems like a little issue but at the end of the day makes they are treated based on message count and reaction count, and if the message count is high they "postfarm" and if the reaction count is high they "abuse profile posts/forum games" and if both are low they are a "random." For poor staff interaction, there is not one issue in the past year-ish that the community got listened to and their feedback was added.

Make more public statements; listen to community feedback more often.

Remove the term "newgen."

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

Make the rules more specific rather than keeping everything super vauge

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

Fairly self explanatory, community has went down hill a lot.

Get community managers to take community feedback and sit down and consider ways to fix the issues listed. Community managers aren't very community focused currently.

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I chose my rating of 5 because there is a lot of unnecessary censorship on a forum which has an intended user base of 13+, therefore you usually have to censor some stuff in a conversation or ignore a subject entirely

Personally I think the admins just have to be less restrictive in terms of punishment for sexual or political discussion

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

I chose all except “Other” and “Poor staff interaction”
Forum rules unclear: As someone who has been banned 8 times in the past, I can say that it would be really fucking helpful if the admins told us what we did wrong
No room for discussion: Along with what I mentioned earlier, a lot of times you have to cut conversations off short for the sole purpose of “discussion being off topic from the main purpose of the thread”
Newer members shut down by older members: As a proud ban evader, I can say with certainty that experienced forumers are quick to gang up on newer forumers, and even follow the wave of other people ganging up on them. On my alt I said a perfectly harmless statement which I couldn’t recall right now but it proceeded to be disliked by some random non that was mad for some reason? Other forumers saw this dislike and also disliked the post for no apparent reason, just for the fact that one person already “rightfully disliked the new guy” or whatever. Even a trusted good friend of mine disliked the post when it harmed them in no way at all. This is only one way in which “relevant” forumers gang up on new forumers but I won’t get into others as I am typing on a phone and I need to do my homework.

Hypixel could really easily fix unclear forum rules by… just telling us what we did wrong.

The community could fix the problem of being biased against newer members by just taking everything everyone says into equal consideration. If a new member, a somewhat relevant forumer, and a really popular forumer all did the same thing, the responses would be really different. It works on other levels too. As a somewhat relevant forumer, I recently wrote a satirical 10-15 sentence paragraph about “My superiority complex over small children.” (If this post goes in the thread you don’t have to censor the title, as I really couldn’t care about being anonymous.) If someone like Timmah, who is well known for writing satirical threads, wrote the same exact thread, he would’ve easily gotten twice the reactions, twice the responses, and so much more engagement than I ever would’ve gotten.

Less than a year

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Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Newer members shut down by older ones

Because I personally agree with what I put

Get real staff interactions. Everyone can tell this is fake

Honestly accept new members.

People usually shut out new members because of their forum rank.

I would say that people would need to accept that everyone was once new and options aren’t subjective.

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

I chose the issues because the new members being out is a product of toxicity and staff mostly refuses to interact with the community.

I would say that staff could interact with us more but that might take time away from them to improve the server.

The community could be less toxic to new members.

Can anything really be done to improve openness of discussion on a forum where cursing is censored and politics & religions aren't allowed to be discussed lmao

I can only name 3 staff I've interacted with since the removal of mods and helpers. Of those staff members, I've only had a meaningful conversation that lasted more than a post + response with one of them.

Maybe staff should consider actually using forums outside of work every so often lol

I don't know man, I can't expect this community to do anything lmao

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Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

I feel like the community is just going down hill, and so is the website, really every bit of it feels like it's falling apart. People are taking the site too seriously, there's too much toxicity, the rules aren't clear, and Hypixel isn't exactly helping because they just shut people down over dumb reasons and are making the forums stricter and stricter.

Bring it back to fun conversations and take it less seriously. Cut down on toxicity and hang out, stop making it live up to the toxic wasteland most people see it as.

I say 5 because while the forums are not very open to discussion in the rules, sometimes stuff that is obviously not allowed stays up

it's nothing staff can do but snowflakes need to realize everyone has different opinions

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Terrible moderation reports take days to be resolved and staff is very inconsistent in what gets deleted and punished and what doesn't

It makes the forums an overall frustrating experience when you don't know what you can and can't do and what staff are going to do

Add consistency on the staffs side

Some people in the community need to grow a pair and stop arguing on the internet and use the forums as a forum

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(Rating 6) it depends on what type of discussion, talking about specific people in a negative way is just basically not allowed at all because of "public shamming"

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

I do not like how the forum rules are so vague.
In my experience, I have one forum warning for public shamming, but all I did was ask if someone used a specific bug to get a weekly leaderboard spot :l

Anytime I look at the skyblock section (seldomly) I see people getting shit on and "veterans" being rude to new players.

Staff needs to state specifics for the rules.

Just be less of an asshole to people who don't know as much as you and don't have much experience.

i don't know lol but i'm tied offtopic and profile posts for activeness after this i go to bed

the people should just mature, and i guess we just give it time? i want us to be able to have diverse opinions with civil discussion

Forums Rules (unclear), Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

people don't recognize actual effort posts, leading to less and less of their creation

i want to read and create good stuff on the forums and have it be appreciated!

hypixel cant really fix it, it's not their fault

maybe make less useless posts, but again it isn't really their fault and their posts are still interesting

Server Related (Server Discussion, Community Help, Ideas and feedback)

A lot of the people are posting about the recent scams. In response, some of the non community help forum users will post "L" or "Your fault u lost ur account". It's not very appropriate or helpful to post stuff like that - especially given that these scams are targeted towards the entire player base, including (especially) higher leveled players/sweats

Not really much to do to fix. A majority of people with toxic mentality will maintain it rather than be open to discussion

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I feel like you can talk about basically anything as long as it isnt political or offensive/insensitive

I believe the community would have to make a change in the way it thinks about posts, opinions are opinions and you can like or dislike them, this doesnt mean people should say whatever they want, they have to take in account that other people are here too and they want to feel welcomed

Newer members shut down by older ones

Although i dont believe older forum users suppress newer ones, i feel like their opinion holds a lot more value and a ton of posts are all around them

I feel like the only ones who could solve this are the community

Include newer members in posts, help them collaborate with older forum users and help understand how the forums work

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You have people who accept opinions and others who just suck

Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

Toxic community is self explanatory, no room for discussion happens sometimes whenever a flamewar occurs or if you try to change the topic, and newer member dont really get a chance when you have the og ones hanging around who are much more respected snd well known.

Toxic community and the only way to fix it would be more moderation which means hiring more people or just have the moderators work harder but those arent great solutions.

Newer members could be given a chance and the og ones could instead help them instead of using their higher status (if thats a thing) to just shut them down completely and repel them off the forums

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Discussion about the servers issues get deleted for either spam or for "don't discuss punishments" (**SOMETIMES**)
Talking negatively about someone is punishable if severe enough though there has been a change so that might've changed.
Threads can get locked for going out of topic or "flame war", when sometimes it is not even true.

But putting 5 because the rules are enforced randomly.

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, No room for discussion

I don't want to say something to not get banned.

Make rules clear what bans and what doesn't, while making them a little bit less strict.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MAKE IT SO PEOPLE CAN REPLY WITHOUT BUMPING A THREAD

You sometimes get beemed and you don't know what for

Tell people what it was for

Tell the admins to Tell them what it was for

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staff usually dont take down comments for no reason, some people can be toxic but usually doesnt happen

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

fix forum rules make more clear and remove public shaming

I was here since the beginning (9 years)

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

community quick to shit on new players, older communities gatekeep just about everything while old but not old-old community sections like duels and pit all seem to think they're in a minecraft gang of some sort and won't allow any meaningful discussion to taka place.

in all honesty, the turning point was 2018 and, especially now with a massively reduced staff team, nothing can be done. cheating is a culture now only encouraged by the lack of clarity regarding what's a qol mod and what's a cheat and this same lack of clarity goes for the forum rules. shitposts are everywhere, and while i understand the average age of the playerbase is even younger thanks to skyblock, rules are rules.

Forums Rules (unclear), Toxic community

forum rules have always been massively unclear and what's considered a necropost etc. differs from staff member to staff member. toxic communities plague most competitive games.

redesign forum rules with clear examples of what is breaking a rule and what isn't... not "a necropost is when you post on a thread that is no longer relevant." relevancy is subjective...

community could obviously just stop being obnoxious, but teenagers immensely lack any kind of self-awareness, and, while it's beautiful in a way, it's irritating nonetheless

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I chose 4 because in some of the forums discussions I have had in the past, people (who had replied to the original post but not been in a discussion) just popped in and said stuff like "i don't care", stfu",etc

Allow threads to be created (like on discord) as they might have more of a use than on discord.

Toxic community, No room for discussion

Because i have seen them be a problem before.

For toxic community, maybe enforce rules such as no put downs, or making somebody feel uncomfortable in the forums for no specific reason.

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Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

"No room for discussion" maybe hypixel can make messages more visable, helpful ones on top, and there should be a place to necropost in the forums

"Toxic community" don't be toxic in the first place

I was here since the beginning (9 years)

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Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

I canti fuckin using forum cus me Is muted and in Legend!1!

By banning fucked Joe mama aka me

Yes FUKIN BAN JIOE MAMA

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I chose rating 2 because many people are assholes and very narrow-viewed so won't accept others' viewpoints

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

Newer members are often shut down due to the toxic community which leaves no room for open discussion. This isn't helped by unclear forum rules and poor and limited staff interaction.

[Newer members shut down] remove the forum ranks

[Toxic community] stop acting like entitled assholes and learn to have some compassion. Hold each other accountable and have some clear boundaries.

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

sometimes adminz be bozo ngl ongong fr i keep getting banned for nothing

i think if they hand over hypixel to me i can be more based

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

cause rules are bozo and vauge and staff never talk ngl but quack and centranos are cool ig

PLEDGE THEIR ALLIEGENCE TO DOGGE DOGGE DOGGE DOGGE DOGGE

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The Hypixel forums has no problems and I can discuss anything

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

The biggest issue is that the forums haven't been deleted yet, they need to hurry up 💔

Forum Rules: All the rules suck I want to break all of them
Poor staff interaction: I want more staff reactions
Toxic community: These people argue over the most STUPID shit, flamewars are too common!!!111

I think the requirements for Forum Nerd should be lowered from 450 -> 440 so I could get it easier.

We can't fix anything if we tried

i chose that rating because i feel like hypixel allows a lot of topics to be discussed, however they also have some pretty stupid rules on what not to discuss

allow things that should have been allowed in the first place

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

Forums rules because teddy has done a lot of stupid things. like the in game ban = forum ban thing. absolutely unnecessary. Poor staff interaction because ever since helper and moderator rank were removed the staff interaction has been very VERY limited.

1st one is fire teddy. Second one is to re add helper rank.

community cant fix these problems because feedback section is ignored by admins

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

I choose 5, because the admins let you get away with some stuff sometimes. But I got 1 week banned once for saying "vape v4 is the answer" or something around those lines.

Adding a comedy section to the forums where the threads are mainly about jokes and memes would be nice.

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

I see a lot of times people with a lot of messages and High Forums Titles just answer "skill issue" or "get better bozo" to new players. Also in a lot of threads I seen a lot of people say "Well (person 1) has a higher reaction score than (person 2) so he is right, more relevant, and your totally wrong"
Also too many people just straight up say "skill issue" or something else just to be toxic, be annoying, and get their message number up.

Idk if there really is a way. Toxic members are just how people are. No matter what toxicity will be around in a certain quantity.

Maybe some members could stand up for the lower ranked user, (unless the higher rated member is correct) Instead of joining with the higher ranked user and bash the lower ranked user.

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With the requirement of having a linked minecraft account to post having been implemented, fewer and fewer people have been able to participate on the forums. I will say they did at least make some positive changes this year regarding public shaming but overall the linked account requirement has been highly negative.

Remove the requirement to have a linked account to post. What was accomplished by adding this can easily be achieved with improved moderation and all the negative side effects would be gone.

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction

The staff have overall done a pretty poor job handling reports on the forums and and rules are extremely inconsistent in their enforcement in my experience. On top of that the staff just simply don't respond to ideas and feedback posts.

Enforce rules consistently and competently.

Nothing the community can do to fix either of these, they're both on the staff.

I was here since the beginning (9 years)

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Choosing 9: ****posts exists and i'm completely fine with this.

Public shaming is a stupid rule and requires some adjustments.

Explaining in the next question

The public shaming rule itself is completely fine, if someone is very angry against me and start saying a bunch of swears for whatever reason, in the end it's just words of an angry player, it's not gonna change how I play the game, and i'm not allowed to reveal the name of this angry player in the forums. All good

If someone is going around hacking everyone, the community must be alerted of this dangerous and real threat. Keeping the hacker's name secret because of this public shaming rule is stupid.

Other than begging the admins... idk

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Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Cuz they are issues (too lazy to explain)

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Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

Because they’re issues, duh

Idk, hypixel can’t really do anything about these issues

This will probably get cut from the final post seeing how radically religious you are, but be accepting of everyone

Less than a year

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has its restrictions but overall it‘s not like covid-19 political twitter being full liberal and no conservative talking points allowed

Poor staff interaction, Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones, Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

staff can be inconsistent at times and some forumers tend to have sizable egos

make posts available to be grinded in forum games (tpxic community fix)

keeping track of staff enforcement of policy

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Toxic community, Newer members shut down by older ones

Anyone who is actually clueless doesn't always get the help they need due to how experienced users usually react.

Too lazy to think right now.

..I don't feel that this is possible

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

it's around a 6 for me because i feel like the new addition that muted/banned players cannot participate in the forums is an ehhh update to the forums

probably remove the update that says that banned/muted players cannot participate on the forums

Forums Rules (unclear), Poor staff interaction, Toxic community

i honestly don't see that many staff interacting with the community particularly often, maybe im just looking in the wrong places but it just seems to me that the staff team just isn't that transparent sometimes

please. get more people that interact more and seem human with the community.

uhhh probably stop posting shitposts every SINGLE DAMN TIME

Game forums (Skyblock, Bedwars, Skywars, and so on)

Well, the Forums have no problem at all with allowing discussions to take place if you consider that they follow rules. Discussions that are against the rules are rightfully removed, and therefore, I do not see a problem with discussions.

I think the current state is pretty fine, though I'd like to post political stuff and/or be able to do Giveaways (which do not include Requirements that are outside the Forums).
Though I do understand why Hypixel disallows both discussions / thread types.

Other - if you choose this, explain in next question what the problem is

I think all Forum Rules are very clear, the problem is just that no one reads them. The first thing you should always do before doing anything (in my opinion) is reading the rules.
I also don't think there's poor staff interaction. I think it's completely justified that there's little interaction with the staff team and their community. They're busy workers, just like you're busy on work (if you're an adult). There's mostly no need for staff interaction as well, and I can't think of an Example for it.
As I stated earlier, I also think that there's enough room for discussions, and I also don't think that new members are "shut down" by older ones. There's a ton of examples of new members rising to the top. An example would be AhmadTing, who appeared out of nowhere and is now treated like a king on the forums.
And for last, I don't think the Forums are a toxic community. It's something different ingame though.

Now, let's come to what I chose.
Other. What does other mean? Well, I think the Moderation of the Forums could be a lot better. I'm on the Forums for at least 6 hours each day, and I see a lot of threads breaking the rules, so I report them (obviously). The problem now is that these reports can take up to a day to being solved, and that's my issue.

My proposal would be to "hire" normal forumers as staff, non-paid though.
I'd love to take a place in the Forum Moderation Team.
There could just be a normal application, just like for SN (SB Nerds) to "hire" said people.

basically, above.
The Community as its own can't fix it, as new players won't read the rules, and that will continue forever.

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As much as I hate to say it, I don't think it's easily achievable. There's going to be toxic people and there's going to be non-toxic people. Same with immature and mature people. The forums pertain to a wide age range so the categories are always going to be far and wide. I think it just comes down to the more frequent forumers to be more welcoming or open to discussion.

It's always been a major issue years ago and still now. I only really see its prevalence in forums for more competitive games like duels.

I guess more regulations or stricter rules? I don't really know. Toxicity comes from the community and therefore should be addressed through the community.

Treat the forums like an actual place for discussion. Be positive and open minded and swallow your pride. (corny af but I don't know, it all comes down to each individual and how they want to act on the forums)

I believe the forums as a whole are not as open to discussion as I would like. Shitposts get a ton of low effort replies that aren’t encouraging discussion, meanwhile effort posts often receive little attention. Not saying the former is bad, but it feels there is a difference where there shouldn’t be. I've also noticed there seems to be an inability for people to have disagreeing opinions without there being a flamewar. Many times when a disagreement exists, instead of it being respectful, it quickly devolves into a flamewar. It’s to the point where I often see people not wanting to controversial opinions because they don’t want to start a flamewar, even when those opinions likely could be disagreed with very respectfully and civilly. Finally, old gens being elitist towards new gens also lowers discussion. Not all of these issues seem to be directly related to the openness of discussion, but old gens being dumb towards new gens allows less discussion between generations and disagreeing always leading to flame wars causes constructive discussion about controversial topics to be extremely hard to come by.

However, I would give profiles a much better rating than anywhere else. It feels like a completely different forum. The most meaningful discussions I’ve had on here have been on profiles.

Less elitism towards new members, more effort posts, more thoughtful replies, less flamewars, more welcoming to other opinions, more civil disagreements.

Poor staff interaction, No room for discussion, Newer members shut down by older ones

Poor staff interaction: staff often feel very distant. Good job to centranos to being more engaged, but it’s still just not enough. Consider the GMerald Championship: Centranos announced a cool thing last year where anyone could submit a thread, he and a couple others would judge them all and the winner would get a GMerald. Only problem: he didn’t. Nothing was ever done with it, the submissions happened but nobody won, nobody got a GMerald. When forum changes happen, staff often don't give very clear answers (if they give an answer at all) to questions. I'm not really a staff hater like a lot of people, but I do still think they could be doing more to engage with the community and be more open and transparent with what they are doing.


No room for discussion: I’ve already explained why it was an issue in the last page but I’ll do it again. Copy and pasted: I believe the forums as a whole are not as open to discussion as I would like. Shitposts get a ton of low effort replies that aren’t encouraging discussion, meanwhile effort posts often receive little attention. Not saying the former is bad, but it feels there is a difference when there shouldn’t be. There's also like an inability for people to have disagreeing opinions without there being a flamewar. Many times when a disagreement exists, instead of it being respectful, it quickly devolves into a flamewar. It’s to the point where I often see people not wanting to state controversial opinions because they don’t want to start a flamewar, even when those opinions likely could be disagreed with very respectfully and civilly. However, I would give profiles a much better rating than anywhere else. It feels like a completely different forum. The most meaningful discussions I’ve had on here have been on profiles.


Newer members shut down by older ones: Already stated this too, but I’ll do it again. Newer members often get shut down on the sole basis of being new. The insult “new gen” is used a lot by elitist old gens to bring people down solely based on their join date/experience/activity time. Day after day I see new gens getting attacked on the sole basis of being a new gen. I've seen people leave because of it. Additionally, milestone threads often get disliked on the basis of being unimpressive. I do to some extent understand the reasoning behind this, milestone threads were at one point pretty spammy and there would be a lot of them, but the way they go about it is bad. Instead of explaining how milestone threads often clog up the forums, they just dislike and leave. That's the sad thing to me, a lot of them have a lot of experience with the forums. They know their way around, they have more wisedom about the forums than your average forumer, and yet they choose to communicate it like this. They could guide new gens, they could try to help them, instead they give them dislikes (which many new forumers frankly don’t understand the point of, guiding them would help with that) and insult them.

Staff interaction. This definitely easiest for the staff to fix. They need to actively participate in more threads to make them seem closer to the community. They need to clearly respond to questions and concerns about forum rules. They need to give out more staff reactions and pins. Giving out more staff reactions and pins would also help the room for discussion by encouraging effort put into posts. It hits two birds with one stone. Staff reactions shouldn't just be handed out, though, they should still be very rare.

Newer members shut down by older ones. There's not much that the community can do to FIX this, but they can decrease it and the effects of it. By welcoming new members and not acting elitist or better than then, we can do our best to make those who shut them down a minority.