1.8 will bring about massive changes, including how the sponges can be used. And if the server updates to 1.8, the sponge may not exactly be as viable as before, seeing how ocean monuments aren't too rare, and those monuments usually spawn with a room of sponges. A decent replacement would be the command block (assuming command blocks are disabled), or really any unobtainable block. Even if the economic ramifications are of no concern, the fact that water could disable anyone's protection would be a major problem to everyone, even to the point where a wet sponge would be a better choice for security purposes.

- Did you break any of the rules? No
- Did you grief another players work? No
- Did you swear excessively? No
- Did you upset an operator/ moderator or cause general disrespect to other members/ players on the server? No
- Did you draw hateful symbols or say hateful remarks? No

If you truly believe your ban was:

1) Not warranted Yes
2) Not appropriate Yes
3) Handled badly by a moderator or operator No
4) Not correctly entered (sometimes a moderator will mistype the ban command and accidentally make a ban permanent) Entered correctly, but not the truth.
5) A miscommunication Yes

I was helping Gamerflame build and I asked him if I could build a luxury apartment adjacent to his current one. I decided to make it rather large and I didn't want any one to see it until I finished the entirety of it, so I placed a sponge and built a wall to hide it for time being. Later, Gamerflame_sis came and asked me to remove the sponge, which I did, but i didnt have much stone so I used cobble.

Let's play a game. You have an E.M.U. (Energy Manipulation Unit), and you can manipulate energy ( ). This includes magnetism, so therefore you can control all matter through their magnetic bonds. What would you do with it?

E.G. I would use it to make gold!!!