Hi all,
It's come to our attention that a large number of structures at Maidenpool have been removed from the production world and copied to the personal test plots of the builders who made them, without notification or prior approval. We want to clarify the rules around project leadership and decision-making: when a builder volunteers to build at another solo project, they're gifting the products of their efforts to that project. As such, the decision to remove or modify completed elements of the project ultimately rests on the project leader - or in this case, since the project has been orphaned, the mod team - and not the original builders. We were informed that the former leader of Maidenpool was not aware of the extent of the changes due to a miscommunication, and neither was approval given by any of the mod team to remove the structures there.
Additionally, regardless of questions of project leadership or abandonment, we've generally followed the precedent that large changes to a project such as removing or redoing substantial portions are typically expected to be passed by the approving mods first. This is to help ensure that projects stay on track for eventual completion and that changes that set back overall server progress are not made spontaneously. We feel that the decision by the builders in question sets a concerning precedent and goes against the overall server culture of collaboration towards a shared goal. Removing many of the existing high-quality structures and established styles at Maidenpool upon abandonment needlessly sets back the progress of the project and increases the workload of whichever builder steps up to finish the project in the future.
Hence, we've attempted to roll back as much as the project as we were able to, although some structures were not able to be recovered. Any builds that were copied to the Test world still remain there. If anyone who previously contributed to Maidenpool has any stipulations over future use of their builds, or tests that they consider outdated and do not wish to be used, or tests that they wish to be used elsewhere instead, please feel free to post them in this thread or bring them up with a mod in-game, and we will do our best to accommodate those requests (as we always do with high-quality abandoned builds). However, in the future please make sure that the appropriate permissions have been granted to remove builds at a project or it may be considered griefing.
If anyone has any concerns with this decision, please feel free to discuss them with me in private.
-The mod team
