Ok found the issue, SMP8 decided to not restart with the update was the problem.... So the code that blocks placement wasn't deployed.
This is my first little video I created in a very short time for a YouTuber application, as you can see it's quite amateur but I thought I'd post it anyway
Happy Birthday EMC. After being a member here for about 2 years, ALOT Has changed. Even met Alot of great people along the way ;D
Time has passed myself personally have seen EMC grow so much thank you all for making EMC a great place
http://empireminecraft.com/threads/launch-of-empireminecraft-com.4/ Those were the days! I still remember staying up 15 hours at a time some weeks for a good year getting this thing started. Things always seemed to go wrong at 2am and I'd have to call Justin to fix it. I'd always feel terrible, but he was always amazingly cool about it and understood it had to be done.