The point of my post was to bring attention to how I personally felt about this, give my reasons and point of view, and be done. If you really want, I can try to explain myself further.
Like I said before, this is my third time being forced to start over. I do not like that. As you said, it is a game, and games are meant to be fun. At the point I'm no longer having fun, I may as well not play. Why would I? I'm under no obligation to stay. I have plenty of other entertaining things to do. I have other ways to chat with whoever I want to chat with from here. I have other Minecraft servers to play on, even, if I want to do so.
As for compensation of items, it's a personal view that may seem weird, but it's the kind of thing that has always, always applied to me. I prefer to work by myself, for my own things- this collaboration with Penta that I've been doing is really, really unusual for me. For the most part, as much as I can in life, I accomplish what I want by myself. I work for it and I learn how to do whatever I want to do. I learned CSS, HTML, and graphic design because I did not want to use others' work as themes. I know how to alter and make clothing because I wanted specific things. I learned to cook because I didn't want to eat what Mom made while she was a vegan. I don't like using hints or guides to further my progression in games. I'm stubborn as hell. So everything I build and make and collect, it's important to me because I did that. Well, and Penta, but as I said. Really unusual. The other part of it is, I don't like unfairness and I don't like estimation. I don't know exactly what I had. And if I guess, I'm either being too cautious and not getting my stuff, or overestimating and getting more than I had. Either one of those is terrible to me. Beyond that, we had a ****load of stuff. To replace all of that would be a massive chore.
So that's my take on the situation, and a bit of an insight into my weird worldview. But don't be postin' like that please. I ain't taking that kind of guilt trippy language when I shouldn't have anything to feel guilty about.
