Simply put, yes I was the first and original Gym Plugin for Pixelmon.
There was one called Pokemon Gym or something and it wasn’t used for pixelmon and nor did it have 10% of the features my plugin and Dragon’s mod has.
I have been the main Gym plugin for Pixelmon for a long time.
Without sounding cocky, I spent over a year working with servers to come up with idea’s.
Not got any idea’s elsewhere, implemented them as issues came up.
I see what you mean by saying that…
Source
And yes its a bit of topic but it shows that its not “normal” to have this kind of code in your plugin.
But as tridaak said, the pixelmon devs has it as well. But what I’ve picked up over my time as a smalltime plugin/modmaker for just my own server, is that the pixelmon devs are a bit like ABkayCkay.
ABkayCkay has done it and also has Pixelmon, removed the sourcecode. Not sure if ABkayCkay did this in order to remove people like me that will recompile it without the code i dont like, or for some other reason that we dont know. The sourcecode that is will not work for spigot since its the bukkitcode. Its also outdated compared to the version that is available today.
To round this off:
ABkayCkay, will you update your GitHub to an updated version and/or make it possible for your community to add a enable/disable feature for selfpromoting content within the plugin?