Thats exactly what I love. When people can come together and build really cool things like statues or cities, and its small enough so everyone knows each other but large enough to keep things interesting... I don't like large servers, they're just too crowded for me.
Veteran players teaching new people good building techniques, staff keeping us safe from rule breaking, everyone knowing each other well and getting along, the server not too small but not too large....that'd be the best server and the only server I'd play on. Its too bad that MC has been overwhelmed by teenage rebels and children who do the same just because they see other people doing it, and decide its fun and they should go with the flow. They've caused these sorts of servers to shrivel and die and make the dumb raiding/griefing ones thrive... It happens to all games in one way or another.
I remember 1.2.5, the first version of Minecraft I ever played, almost any server I went on was good. I watched them 1 by 1 fall out. Now I'm stuck on a somewhat decent but still not great server network (hypixel) while I wait for these sorts of people that ruin MC to grow up and go away.
Of course, even that won't completely happen. The sort of damage that has been caused is irreversible and can't be undone. There will always be more... What a cruel world we live in. This game can reflect real life in its situation. The outside world is like this, if not worse.
