The server is just going to crap lately . one of the main issues is that people post in the whitelist and jump on the server with no idea as to proper Etiquette . On most servers the spawn area is a house that has simple rules and such as most people don't wanna dig around the forums to find such or they just don't care . instead there is a graal town at the spawn which is all fine and good but it would be a lot better if the rules house wasn't back behind the spawn on a hill behind a bunch of tree's where its not very likely to be found .
a second issue is that currently there is only one OP dealing with the whole server . back in the start everything was fine , but there was also three OP's running around helping to keep things running smoothly . As it stands right now there is only one op and if something comes up you have to contact them on instant messenger if something comes up .
This may just be my opinion , but i think the areas around the spawn should have been protected with world guard, setting owners to either vet's or civilian's who are are often to add players to them to give some kind of grief protection . In the same manor that Ijasom has been doing with his area . Taking new players under his wing where they can learn the do's and don't but also not log on every day to find more and more holes in they're house's .
One thing I'm sure of if things keep up like this the server will die . Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will happen . Over the last month i have seen that alot of the regulars have been coming on less, and before you claim they don't play Minecraft anymore I'm gona call bull**** . cause they have been playing minecraft, just doing it somewhere else .