What we do here is try our best to keep the bad players out and keep the chat clean, helpful and fun. No spawn buildings and no walls of signs for tutorials, just good old survival mode. Our aim is to make an online server just like any singleplayer gamemode, so you can come on here and play as if you were playing on your own in singleplayer, but have the different interfaces, e.g. talking to other players, trading, forming towns with other players and other awesome things.
We have a variety of plugins that help the gamelpay of the server and keep it as close to normal survival as possible. An example of the user friendly plugins is GreifPrevention, im sure most of you know of this, but if you dont, you use the golden shovel to claim an area of blocks that no-one can build on or destroy (except you) that are ultimately yours. This prevents greifers if used correctly, and is extremely effective.
We are 100% Vanilla with friendly Admins who are always willing to help.