Being as the thread OP is from someone banned for thinking they should be the exception to following rules that have *not* changed, I am responding to this thread for other people that might read it...
Minetown's activity has lulled a little bit, but so has populations for other servers. Like all other games, people playing Minecraft is impacted by current interests and current life activities. While the weekday crowd still is low, the numbers are in fact gradually recovering. I'm not saying this in vague hopefulness, but by seeing the average player counts, server traffic, and website registrations increasing.
As for the suggestion in the OP thread, top list voting and SEO are different things. If someone is concerned that Minetown is not holding high enough on the votes sites, I recently updated the forum post listing all the functional vote sites for Minetown. Some do reward credits that are not on the normal vote page.
http://www.minetown.net/forum/m/672632/viewthread/1127676-vote-for-mt-full-list For people concerned that there are "not enough players", remember that the chain has to start somewhere. If you only log on long enough to see "not enough players", you are unlikely to see many at all. Especially if you are intent to only count the population of a single server...something I'm assuming is the case because a couple servers often have enough people on to maintain an active chat.
It is worth noting that there still are staff around, working to improve Minetown. That many changes do not involve a big show of having been done, does not mean they are not happening.
A few examples from the last month:
- All servers are updated to 1.7.2
- The hub server status signs are working again
- Pets on Agharta are available
- Fresh events, both official and unofficial
- Orion(Gaming) has partnered with Eximius/Minetown to make the OrionFTB server
- An updated rules page is now one step away from public presentation
- Some new custom plugins are being made for Minetown
But of course, one has to actually log in for more than a minute to fully appreciate these things. <object class="emojione" data="
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