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Kim Kim was one of my more loyal & hardworking ranks and was due for promotion to Counselor. Unfortunately during this period, someone had convinced her to hop over to their community site on the basis that it is better than Sharkbrew(). She had informed me of her decision in advance and that her intention was dedication to the Pure Community rather than any particular site. She assisted to clear the tasks that was assigned to her before going over. Today she has made clear of her intentions to return as her college semester is coming up and she will not be able to dedicate herself towards building a brand new community site all by herself. I have done the necessary security checks and it appears that nothing from Sharkbrew was stolen except for our Clan Wars League and a couple of glory hunting ranks. Without further ado, welcome back @@Kim and congratulations on your promotion. Critical Damage While CD has certainly earned alot of enemies, their tenacity is admirable and I believe there is an exclusive few in CD who believes quite strongly for the betterment of the pure community. As the rank who got hacked(Lenin) has retired, and looking at the situation at retrospect, the whole debacle could be summed up as the folly of a few immature CD ranks. During the revamp of COTM, I had also received feedback from some clans that because there is only so few pure clans left the banning of CD had affected prep activity. Thus I will be unbanning CD aftermath topics with immediate effect. In the future, I hope clans will think of the consequences before taking the "rap" for anything. Ex-Ranks Some of you had jumped ship thinking it was a really easy way of grabbing senior mod but some of you did appeared to have done so because you truly wanted a better community. I recognized some of my failures back in Sept-Oct when I legitimately had a huge debt to pay off IRL did not have time to micro manage the site, this combined with tiny staff team was a recipe for disaster. I hold no grudges and I will welcome any ex-rank or any ranks from that other community site under certain conditions based on how you departed Sharkbrew, and your subsequent actions on that other site.

I always believed that nazi moderation style are for snowflake pussies who cannot handle an insult, and such modding styles will eventually lead to decreased competitive environment, moderating bias and circle jerking due to the restrictions on new ideas being allowed in the forum. Then again, a forum consisting of troll topics isn't very conducive environment for discussion. So we need a solution that bridges the gap... BANTER Topics BANTER topics is a pilot program at testing whether we could have an environment for people to have discussions maturely and a place for clan members to unleash (almost)anything at each other. If you look at our current rule set: http://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/topic/28599-the-ground-rules-moderation-guidelines/ Inside such banter topics, the only rule that apply will be "Leaking personal content" and "Spamming"(yes, if you wish to flame, try to flame on topic , and no irrelevant posting or repeating other flames like a broken tape recorder ) We will see whether we need to cap the number of BANTER topics per clan per day, but lets hope we do not have to touch on that.. BANTER topics can only be made in clan discuss boards The Enforcer moderation bot Not too long ago, we had this 5 char limit to posts, and it didn't limit spamming the slightest, so I made an auto warn bot which will warn for the following: Repeated quote spamming Excessive insults in a post Spamming repeated text Repeating the same post over and over Posting links in status updates So far, the bot has been quite accurate but it is not 100% bulletproof. If you encounter any issues, feel free to drop us a PM on IRC/TS and we will see what we can do to help you. P.s. Respected has been renamed to Gatekeeper #Overseer #Counselor #Mediator #Retired #Designer #Editor #Respected #Gatekeeper #Kingpin #Veteran #Member

As some may have noticed for a while, our Moderating team has shrunk due to inactivity/lack of motivation to participate in moderating activities which resulted in numerous demotions. Recently I had made a thread regarding numerous Moderator positions that have opened. I received a huge amount of PM's regarding this which lead to a process of elimination, determining our future mods, basing it off of rank/clan/post count/activity/previous history. We also took into consideration for those who applied for mod before I had made the announcement thread. This time round, I aimed to try not have more than 1 clan with a Mediator and allowed those who didn't manage to reach Mediator this time to receive Respected. I feel both groups of members will help me in my goals of helping the community become a healthy forum. @@Fake Smile @@Nixon @@Murd @@DNYS @@Beau @@PRShadow @ @ (SammyT) We hope these two will provide the rank team with some experience and excitement. As usual, these new Mediators will be set to a 2 week trial, closely keeping an eye on their activity and moderating capabilities. As previously stated, with the Mediator rule, I have decided to give some worthy applicants a chance at Respected. Respected members still have a decent amount of power where they will be able to help us clean the website up. Congratulations guys, hope to see you do well as you can potentially all be future Mediators. @ @@Old Nox @@Treehugger28 @@Singles @@Bluewatch @@Sage @@ibro @ @ @ Lastly, I would also like to congratulate @@The Enforcer on its promotion to Counselor. Your constant moderation has earned you this rank buddy! We also have a new set of rules that can be found here: http://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/topic/28599-the-ground-rules-moderation-guidelines/

Shark wallet & SharkBet Due to the lack of ingenious ideas, the shark wallet system has kinda floundered on this site despite having the most potential for expansion. Luckily, upon reading a suggestion by @Don & some Supremacy members that includes 3at, I realized that there is no existing system in Pure Community that facilitates betting or wagering on the outcome of clan aftermaths-all we have are community polls that are generally frivolous. What is Sharkbet? Sharkbet is a betting system that is based on mutual betting pool where all the bets are pooled together. The entire pool is shared among the winners and each winner's take is dependent on how much he/she had bet, proportioned to other winners' bets. For example: Team A: Bob: $200 Tim: $300 Team B: John $500 If Team A wins, Bob will receive $400 and Tim will receive $600. If Team B wins, John receives the whole $1000. How do I add my event to SharkBet? Ask your Ambassadors to request for their event to be added here What are the rewards of SharkBet? The winnings from SharkBet will be then transferred back to your SharkWallet where you can buy items like VIP or the coveted Betting Xpert name style for $50,000. What are the other features of SharkBet? We even have a highscores showing top betters as well! Any questions feel free to reply below. Also we are open for mediator positions, read this topic to know more! http://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/topic/28407-ambassador-rework-moderator-positions/

It's time where another year is down and another year Sharkbrew pushes forward. To strive for many more years, we require active and competent Mediators. Recently we have fell short of this due to either lack of motivation or members not given an opportunity to prove their worth. This time, I have the opportunity for everybody to put their best foot forward and potentially become the next Mediator. Instead of the 'Application' for Mediator, I'll be having you guys PM me, on Sharkbrew, to show your interest in becoming a Mediator. I'm looking for a Minimum of 4 new Mediators, yes, 4. I don't care what clan you're from, I'm open to any clan and there will be no bias towards my decision. I will not be the only person who will vote for your promotion but more or so polled. There are a few things with this new system that I'm hoping to rework again in the near future. Requirements: Pming me doesn't guarantee you'll be accepted as a Mediator. There is a minimum of 700 post count. - Some exceptions can be made. No previous moderation required, we can teach you. The will to take on board of feedback and listen to instructions by higher ranks. If you have a history of warning points, your chances will be lessened but if you provide solid interest, we can sort issues out as everybody will still be trial based. Active within the pure community as well as Sharkbrew. Meaning, you're able to spend a few hours daily viewing Sharkbrew, dealing with reports, hiding/warning any irrelevant or bad behaviour on the website. Knowing what's currently happening within the pure community (by actively participating) also helps in future decisions for the website. You can PM me now to show your interest. Ambassador has now had a complete rework. Those who previously had access have now been revoked and will now need to PM me to regain their access. Previously gaining Ambassador was far too easy for numerous members to gain, leaving the section not as important, lack of quality and overall useless. With the revamp, I'm hoping the new system shows the importance and gives a great environment for healthy discussions between clan leaders. How this will run: Ranked in an a >1 month old Pure Clan with a 40+ Memberlist, 50 Post Count and a legit Sharkbrew forum account. For access, pm Braden A Maximum of 2 representatives can access this forum at a time, there is more information within the section that explains this. Meet the requirements? Shoot me a PM on the site with the following details: Clan Name Rough date/time of opening Clan Site IRC Channel Link/Picture to Memberlist I will go through every PM individually and give access to those who are successful. Ps: Clan awards voting will be released within the next week.

After reviewing moderation logs, it appears that adam has been abusing his powers by removing posts that reflected his clan(s) in bad light. For those posters who think your posts were affected, drop a PM to me if you want them restored.

Sharkbrew Potato Clan Awards Thanks to the rousing success of last year's awards, Sharkbrew shall run the the potato clan awards yet again! http://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/topic/13277-sharkbrew-pure-community-potato-awards-results/ Sharkbrew Potato Clan Awards is an troll award celebrates the worst in pure community. If your clan is on the list, maybe you should do something about it! To prevent bias voting, like the Annual Clan Awards, you must vote for your preferred 3 clans for your votes to be counted. Winners will be awarded to the clan or individual with the highest total votes. Voting will close at Noon GMT on 4th Dec and winners will be announced later alongside the results of the Annual Clan Awards. The Sharkbrew Potato Clan Awards allude to the Razzie Awards that are always held before the Oscars awards. Award name: Sharkbrew Potato Clan Awards Voting end: 1200 GMT 4th Dec 2016 Voting regulations: You must vote for 3 clans or else your vote will be nulled You can only vote for clans that are open as of today Only member+ created before this topic w/ 100 pc votes will be counted Your votes will only be counted on 4th Dec 2016, between now and then, you may edit your votes. How to vote?: Reply to this topic with EXACTLY following voting template copied: Voting template: Quote P.S. Unlike the annual pure community awards, there will be no individual category. This is not some individual witchhunt program

Today a clan meeting was hosted by @@GodStarPk Current and new HPC's have discussed how we'll no longer bring mains to weekend trips. High ranks agreed to creating memberboard threads regarding no longer bringing mains, unfortunately some ranks of clans weren't able to participate but we hope that the rest of you follow. We hope this weekend turns out to be a major success and everyone sticks to their word. Good luck this weekend guys and lets have fun Here's proof of the clans that participated:

Even though he was/is a member of CD, do not take the CD ban as an excuse to dox or hack him as he is still a rank of SB I don't care what you guys do in your rank boards(even if they get leaked) or behind the scenes, however if your clan openly support any sort of hack or irl dox like how CD did during the hacking of Lenin where dozens of CD members went on sharkbrew to mock Lenin while CD ranks & CD SB ranks encouraged them, your clan will also suffer the same punishment as CD. This special privilege only applies to Sharkbrew ranks simply because my ranks put in extraordinary effort in helping the site and the pure community..

I always tried to run sharkbrew with impartiality but this is seriously pushing it. I am not sure which brainless twat in your clan decided to hack an esteemed rank of the sharkbrew community who was not only running a public tournament, but actively working on the fixing the LPC/MPC scene. Moreover your clan benefits quite a fair bit from the competitions we run regularly, i.e. WCOTM Some of you are gunna say "lolwhat" but I know you tried to stop using sharkbrew a couple of months ago. Legitimately, none of the mains actually give a brown sticky stuff about your clan on Zybez so you guys came crawling back. So here's the deal, all your topics will be removed, i.e. banter/aftermath topics until you compensate Lenin fairly for inconveniencing him. If you are going to cry over the whole villager thing, might I remind you that your clan made use of his death publicly instead of keeping it within your rank team, so it's fair game. Payment of RSGP 300m to Lenin before you can continue to post topics on Sharkbrew. #Mediator Also if any CD sb ranks knew about it or partook in the hacking, they will be banned and demoted accordingly.

Ok so we're changing COTM to a point based system instead of the brown sticky stuff W/L thing which we always do. it'll be based more off of who gets the most preps and how many points you can rack up doing F2P or P2P preps! Ok so here's how it's going to work. F2P Prep (If You Win) = 1 Point P2P Prep (If You Win) = 1.5 Points Anything above a 40v40 in either F2P or P2P = Extra +1 Point Fullout Win = +5 Points Side Information To Win COTM, 6 Points is the minimum This system will be implemented in July Anything below a 40v40 doesn't involve gaining extra points it's just a regular win! These are the timeframes in which preps will be counted in Start: The first day of the month at 1 P.M EST End: The last day of the month at 6 P.M EST Change to the minimum for "what counts as a prep" (Anything below a 25v25 wont count as a prep) This only applies to MPC's and HPC"s, For LPC's it's 20v20 min (The only reason P2P preps are worth more is because MASSIVE amount of preps per month are F2P and we feel we should encourage people to start doing more P2P Preps! Now, some of you are going to ask "Why didnt you guys do the points per round in which some of the ambassadors suggest?" Answer: Well to be fair we went through alot of scenarios in which clans can abuse this. Also, something to remember is that if we implemented that system we can differentiate points between F2P and P2P if it's based on rounds because the point differential will either be to massive or to minuscule to even matter. We're trying to push for more P2P not keep it the same way it is atm. Now referring back to what to I said earlier I can see clans abusing the system in a way which a clan wins 0-2 and may be allies with the other clan and the other clan can throw for more points. Also approaching months end we've seen clans throw entire preps and with a point system throwing a 3-0 prep is much worse for us then throwing a regular prep.