By now, we have all been on one of those terribly run servers with an idiot owner and a bunch of ten year olds who don't know better than to play on a god awful server. The sad truth is that many of us people with an IQ above 10 still don't know how to run one of these sorry excuses for a minecraft server. Well I am here to set things straight!

1. Do not buy a server, run it off your terrible internet!
If you don't have a server computer or at the very least very VERY good internet, you have no business running a server from your home. What you should do is buy a cheap server from a place like beastnode or picklehosting or some server hosting company. Anyway, If you want a terrible server, run it off your precious little $1000 mac your daddy bought you for your half birthday and your wallmart-internet.

2. Need a spawn? Use world edit to build a box or sphere!
There is no shame in having a small spawn or a poorly decorated spawn, but nobody likes a giant box or sphere with a few signs in it. That just screams lazy. People like a spawn that has everything they need, like a shop, rules, warps, whatever. Anyway, you have worldedit, why not make a spawn with it!

3. After a week of research you learn how to do permissions, so why not just make 3 ranks?
I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone when i say players love a fancy prefix or a new rank. What ticks me off most is when i join a server and i don't even have a prefix, even if it is just noob or player. The ranks most idiot server owners have are default with no prefix, admin, and Owner or koolkat or aceman or bigman or dumba** or some prefix an ignorant owner would have if it isn't just owner. Sometimes there is a 4th rank, but we will get into that later. In conclusion, Make 3 or 4 simple ranks and no one will like your server.

4. Make a donor rank, even though your daddy won't let you have a Paypal!
Why in the world would you have a donor rank if you don't have paypal? Do you expect players to just give you money via mail? That is just being dumb. Enough Said.

5. Treat your players like crap!
Now there are plenty of people who still play on a server with all the other stuff out of pure stupidity, but I would hope for the sake of humanity's future that nobody would stay on a server with an owner that messes with them all the time. I was on a server the other day with this plugin called icontrol or something dumb like that and the owner, two seconds after i joined, controlled me and dropped me into a lava pit. When I asked him what that was for he said, "lol I was just kidding!" When you are a server owner, you shouldn't mess with players, you should only mess with your fellow staff members. Anyway if you want a bad server, treat your players bad.

I know I didn't talk about unoriginality or lack of plugins and so on but I will make a part 2 later. Anyway, leave a comment on what you think i should add to part 2, please no grammar police.

-Tim4TheWin