Community Chest

[Eggnaug]

Earlier there was a thread about a possible community chest that would allow any player to access it using possible commands. Maybe through the use of /chest . It would be the exact opposite of /trash in that you could access a limited amount of resources thrown away by other players. I am suggesting another idea to fill the community chest. If a player drops items, dies and drops items, or the item burns and the player does not pick up their items, then the item will be placed within the community chest when it disappears. However the community chest will be limited to the amount of resources  in it. No more than 1 stack of any item will be in the community chest so that the chest does not get over filled with dirt or cobblestone or any other extremely easy item to obtain. Also, the chest will be like /trash in that it will hold the same amount of items as a large chest.

[Lynxy]

If your item burns away whats stopping you from immediately opening this chest and getting it back o_0

[Eggnaug]

Well there is a chance that the item will not appear in the chest if the chest is already full. I guess using a small chest for community chest would help reduce immediate item burn pickup.

[Lynxy]

Well my idea for Community Chest would be the server holds of list of hundreds, perhaps thousands of items. When the chest is shown, it will pick items at random to show. To prevent abuse, we could only allow you to see new random items every 5 minutes. Perhaps any item that YOU drop/burn/trash wouldn't be visible to you in the chest, but that would be a serious implementation and take more memory.