# Minecraft Server Community Ops Changelog

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## v1.3 — Season 3: automatic filtering for raid bots and free-rank spam

**Category:** New Feature
**Published:** Oct 27, 2026 at 05:23 AM

**Added** - An anti-ad bot now removes join-flood spam, "free rank / free coins" links, crypto airdrops and mass mentions aimed at new players. We use **虾宝 (Xiabao)**, an anti-ad bot for Telegram groups that is free for group owners: **@xiabaotg\_bot** runs as an admin with *Delete messages* and *Ban users* only. Setup is in the [Xiabao setup guide for group owners](https://xiabao.org/).

**Changed** - Slow mode rises to 1 minute during the first hour after a public server announcement, then returns to 15 seconds.

**Why** - Season 3 launch week brought three coordinated join floods. Most of the ads landed while the night admin was still provisioning the new world.

*Disclosure: written by the 虾宝 (Xiabao) team, which maintains the bot mentioned above.*


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## v1.2 — Season 2: fake "staff" and phishing sites

**Category:** Improvement
**Published:** Oct 27, 2026 at 05:22 AM

**Added** - Rule: nobody with the title "Admin", "Owner" or "Staff" may ask for passwords, session codes or "verify your Minecraft account" links. - A pinned screenshot guide showing what our real staff names and titles look like. - A read-only **Scam Reports** topic for fake Discord/Telegram "giveaway" mirrors.

**Fixed** - Rotated every permanent invite link that had leaked onto public server lists.

**Why** - Copycat accounts cloned staff avatars and sent "account locked, verify here" pages that stole Microsoft session cookies.


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## v1.1 — Season 1 mid-season: free-rank and shop spam

**Category:** Fix
**Published:** Oct 27, 2026 at 05:21 AM

**Added** - Posts advertising ranks, crates or coins for payment outside the official store are deleted on sight. - New accounts can't post links for their first 24 hours (bot-enforced). - Buy/Sell topic is limited to in-game items between verified members; no real-money trades.

**Why** - "Free OP for a $5 gift card" posts were landing every few hours and confusing new players.


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## v1.0 — Season 1: community group launched

**Category:** New Feature
**Published:** Oct 27, 2026 at 05:20 AM

**Added** - A private Telegram group linked from the server Discord and the website. - Topics: Announcements, Help, Builds, Trading (in-game only), Off-topic, Scam Reports. - Basic rules: stay civil, no doxxing, no real-money scams, no recruiting to other servers inside Help.

**Why** - Players wanted a place for build screenshots and tech support that wasn't buried under Discord voice-chat noise.