Team Avo
Team Avolition (aka Avo) is the name given by themselves to an infamous grief team of Minecraft players, who make videos of their exploits attacking servers that are usually related to Reddit. They aren't important in terms of what happens at Arcator.
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Members
There are nine well posted people in Avolition, which include:
- Storm_Surge - The one who posted their griefing videos, Leader
- Eradicator (Krysk/Sirenfal)
- Jade.Mage
- Warchamp7
- RelocationAgent
- Happytimeharry
- ElfLeaderMike
- RAW-BERRY
- Canadian
Note that they have multiple Minecraft accounts, and various IP addresses to use the accounts on. There is no way of knowing if it was them unless they post a video about it. So, if we stop them, no videos will be made about Arcator. As of 19 April 2012, no Avo videos have been made about Arcator.
Rabid fanboys
The real problem caused by Avolition and other such "grief teams" is the commonplace nature of young fanboys, who, unloved and friendless in reality, think they are 'a part of something' by griefing in the name of their preferred grief team. Again, when facing reality, they are a nuisance to both server owners and actual humourous grief teams like Avolition by giving them a bad name.
They cannot cause serious damage, thanks to anti-grief plugins, but when griefing simultaneously in large numbers, can present slowdowns due to network traffic and other resource usage, and present difficulties for Admins in keeping up with issuing rollback and ban commands.
A few fan boys have been gutsy, and posted a video about their greifing experience on Arcator. They are short lived, and rolled back instantly. And after posting comments on their YouTube video. The only one so far was TeamSnDminecraft, who have been rolled back. Send your hate to them! Also note, they griefed the Yogscast server, and they were rolled back there too.
Known fanboy attacks
- The first time Avo fanboys attacked Arcator occured during early July of 2011. A video was posted about a player griefing many creations in the freebuild world such as Dweson's megaman. It was the most memorable attack and the only large grief attack made by someone other than an Arcatorian. Admins such as Kyle, Dweson, Banana937, and Pigboy501 stayed up most of the night, keeping a watchful eye over the server. In this case, Helzee was given temporary Mod so he could help keep watch. This is the only case of Temp-Mod.
- The second Avo fanboy attack happened in mid July 2011. Arcator was attacked by not just Avo, but also Team Nexus. The Arcator Admins and Mods banned the Avo fanboys with ease but Team Nexus sent in a bot that flooded the server with spam. They then proceeded to conduct Denial of Service attacks against Fela's router, causing roughly three days of full downtime for the whole network while Fela was forced to upgrade part of the network infrastructure. Jango24 was blamed for this attack, but there has not been any clear evidence that this was the case.
- The third attack was what is known as a griefer trap, aka ban party. Arcator's address was purposefully posted by fanboys, whom were all banned on sight.
- The fourth and latest attack was more serious. It started out in the same way as any other grief attack, and by the end of the day seemed to be over. However, the next day the griefers returned for another, larger and harder-to-defend attack. This involved not only normal griefer accounts, but a spambot attack using 77 different alternate accounts. A previously unknown flaw in Minecraft was exploited, whereby the 'player disconnected' message is spammed to the server in a simple Denial of Service. This led Fela to quickly ban the player's IP address, and implement a plugin to prevent the Denial of Service "rage-quit" bug.
YouTube channel comments
The way the fanboys are called into action is through the channel comments at the Team Avo YouTube channel. Incidents in which Arcator has been posted to their front page have provoked large numbers of fanboys to come to Arcator with the intention of griefing. Many admins now use techniques such as reverse psychology and deception in order to turn them away (e.g. posting channel comments claiming to be a fanboy who tried, and failed, to grief Arcator).
