Post by Morgan Snow on Dec 25, 2008 12:37:01 GMT -5
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No Flaming: Do not seek to insult, deride or lambast other members; even a flame that you mean as a joke will not be accepted, unless it's obvious to all the other users reading your post that it's not intended to attack or offend. If you are flamed, then contact a staff member and they will deal with it - do not retaliate. There are three classifications of flaming: unintended (where you did not even mean to insult the other user), minor (where you insult the other user on the spur of the moment without thinking) and major (where it's clear you are calmly trying to cause maximum distress to someone else).
No Baiting: Do not treat people in a manner intended to anger or upset them. If you feel you are being baited, then first ask them to stop (NEVER react with a flame). If they continue, then contact a member of staff. A throwaway comment or a small amount of disrespect only turns into a bait when they continue after you ask them to stop. Sometimes a bait can also be a flame; if this is the case, then report it to the mod immediately rather than giving a warning not to do it. Very obvious baits also do not need warnings.
No Drama Whoring: You must keep harmful personal stuff OFF the boards. Do NOT seek to maliciously turn opinion within the community against another member, or seek to utterly discredit members you dislike, be it through truths or rumors.
No Harassment: If someone asks you to stop contacting them over private messenger, then you must abide by this request, or this is private harassment. Also, if someone asks you to leave a thread that they made, then you should do so. Sexual Harassment will also not be tolerated.
No Flooding: Defined as either posting more than five new threads in the same forum in a one hour period without staff permission, or bumping a load of dead topics which causes the previously active threads to drop off the first page.
No Spamming: Pretty self-explanatory, so don't go spamming the site out of boredom and what not.
No Multiple Accounts: If we find more than one account with the same IP Address, you had better be ready to give a good reason why.
No Advertisements: You can only advertise in the Affiliation board, otherwise the advertisement will be deleted.
No Mature Links: Another self-explanatory one, if I see a link leading to a mature site of any kind it will be deleted and you will be banned.
No Chat Speak: It will be allowed in the C-Box and in the game forums, as well as the character journals, but else where it will not be tolerated.
No Trolling or Neo-Trolling: Trolling means deliberately seeking to cause damage to the community. Neo-trolling is another variant of this whereby you try to cause damage without making it seem like actual trolling (ie: subtle and intelligent trolling). This can include:
1. Maliciously exploiting 'loop holes' in the rules.
2. Seeking to constantly or massively undermine staff.
3. Massively or constantly publicly attacking the forum or how it is run on sites both associated and unassociated with the forum.
4. Privately plotting to cause problems on the forum.
5. Maliciously breaking rules.
No Posting in Other Persons Profiles: Only the staff and the person who posted the profile can post in it.
No Bugging The Staff: The staff will get to your profile as soon as they get a chance too, so don't go bugging them about it. This goes for other issues as well, one PM to a staff member is enough.
No Going Inactive: If you are going to leave for more than a few days and you don't post in the going away board, then you risk having your characters stripped away from you. In some cases, with a good enough reason for your sudden absence, we may return your character, but this will only happen with a really great excuse.
Under the OTHER portion of the character application, put an @ symbol.
