Bring Back Voting Rewards

[Power Ranger]

If you give anything in return for voting for your server, such as “Vote tokens” or other items, the same restrictions apply as for hard currency.

This was the statement that caused cubecraft to remove voting rewards in August. The old voting rewards were 1 cubelets and 300 experience which could also be a daily gift or such for donators... but wait a second...

...the same restrictions apply as for hard currency.

This means that the old voting rewards were completely fine as it follows the same restrictions as for real money (hard currency) by being purely cosmetic. Experience gets you more glass colors and stuff and we all know what cubelets do. This means the old voting system could easily be brought back without cubecraft havingn any fear of being blacklisted.

Let's talk about what vote tokens were and why I believe voting to get in game advantages was removed. I like going onto various random servers other than cubecraft every now and then and I found a server that have out vote tokens. These vote tokens could give you donator ranks if you had 500-2000 of them (1 token per vote) so they used this to justify having their donator ranks have in game advantages (even though it is against the EULA to sell in game advantages regardless of whether or not regular players can get them.) This method probably annoyed mojang and to clear up confusion about having vote tokens as an easy way to avoid the Eula they released the statement above.

No real part of the minecraft EULA is specifically about voting but this may apply.

let other people get access to anything we've made in a way that is unfair or unreasonable;

Minecaft EULA

spigot thread on the topic

 

[agent320]

Rhe eula doesnt allow you to reward individual players for voting.

 

[Thaus]

I think that there should be just a server reward.

The eula doesnt allow you to reward individual players for voting.

It's because of ^^

So, you can't give individual rewards but you can receive a server reward.

 

[Power Ranger]

Rhe eula doesnt allow you to reward individual players for voting.

With in game advantages but if you read the quote you can stop give voters the same things you can give donators. No where in the EULA does it mention voting to reward individual players

I think that there should be just a server reward.

It's because of ^^

So, you can't give individual rewards but you can receive a server reward.

You may want to read this:

Spoiler: EULA that applies

ONE MAJOR RULE

The one major rule is that you must not distribute anything we've made unless we specifically agree to it. By "distribute anything we've made" what we mean is:

give copies of our Game to anyone else;
make commercial use of anything we've made;
try to make money from anything we've made; or
let other people get access to anything we've made in a way that is unfair or unreasonable;
unless we specifically agree to it. And so that we are crystal clear, "the Game" or "what we have made" includes, but is not limited to, the client or the server software for our Game and includes Minecraft Pocket Edition on all platforms. It also includes updates, patches, downloadable content, add-ons, or modified versions of a Game, part of those things, or anything else we've made.

Otherwise we are quite relaxed about what you do - in fact we really encourage you to do cool stuff - but just don't do those things that we say you can't.

no where in there does it mention rewarding individual players and if it does then it doesn't say anything about voting meaning that all donations are against EULA as they reward individual players

 

[WolfShine]

This was the statement that caused cubecraft to remove voting rewards in August. The old voting rewards were 1 cubelets and 300 experience which could also be a daily gift or such for donators... but wait a second...

This means that the old voting rewards were completely fine as it follows the same restrictions as for real money (hard currency) by being purely cosmetic. Experience gets you more glass colors and stuff and we all know what cubelets do. This means the old voting system could easily be brought back without cubecraft havingn any fear of being blacklisted.

Let's talk about what vote tokens were and why I believe voting to get in game advantages was removed. I like going onto various random servers other than cubecraft every now and then and I found a server that have out vote tokens. These vote tokens could give you donator ranks if you had 500-2000 of them (1 token per vote) so they used this to justify having their donator ranks have in game advantages (even though it is against the EULA to sell in game advantages regardless of whether or not regular players can get them.) This method probably annoyed mojang and to clear up confusion about having vote tokens as an easy way to avoid the Eula they released the statement above.

No real part of the minecraft EULA is specifically about voting but this may apply.


Minecaft EULA

spigot thread on the topic

I don't think it should return, because if you think the server is great then you vote. You shouldn't vote if you don't like the sever, or if you don't think it deserves your vote.