Forum Rules
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General Forum Rules and Guidelines
What follows are the general forum rules and guidelines, pertaining to IG and OOG posting and policy. Following these rules are necessary for your ability to be a member of this site.
Unacceptable Behavior
On this site there is unacceptable behavior rules, meaning if you do these things you will be punished for it since you are in violation. They are as follows:
- Flaming: When you insult someone or attack with ad hominem reasoning, or no reasons at all. Person A states argument X. Person B personally attacks Person A.
- Trolling: The act or actions to get someone to start flaming, basically putting out flame bait and attempting to start fights between players.
- Baiting: The actual act of baiting, from putting out small snide comments to major offenses and direct insults to call someone out, or even making something up to get one person to attack another.
- Disrespecting Staff: Being disrespectful or insulting staff members.
- Disrespecting Players: Insulting members and/or making stuff up about them.
- Abusing the Game: Basically cheating or abusing a flaw in the game somehow. We're always watching.
- Cheating: The actual act of cheating, making more than one account or sending money without IG reasoning, any number of things that are wrong.
Language Policy and Use
It is important that the language rules be maintained so that the staff can properly grade and judge material. If we cannot understand it, and who knows you might be insulting us in some other language, we will deny it.
- Use English, unless it is IG, and speech.
- Do not use netspeak or leet speak, since here it is n00b speak.
Warnings
Warnings are a visible punishment for rule breaking's, disrespect, cheating, or otherwise bad behavior. They are issued one at a time, unless it is a major offense, and are assigned a time period. You get two warnings, the third one is always a ban.
- You will get a warning for what is listed in 1.1
- Getting a warning removed means you have had it for over the period assigned (90 days on average).
Bans and Banning
You will be banned for major offenses and an accumulation of minor offenses. A ban is where you are basically blocked out of the site on your character, most bans are timed bans, but permanent ones are also possible.
- Bans are issued for an accumulation of items in 1.1 or for major offenses or hacking attempts.
- Being un-banned means you will wait until the time limit expires, else if you have a permanent ban tough luck.
- Timed bans have an average length of 90 days.
- Permanent bans are never lifted.
Staff Contact Policy
To contact a staff member you need to first ask yourself if it is that important and if it is please use the PM system. It is rude to IM a staff member about the site constantly and will drain them from wanting to staff on the site. If you harass a staff member you will most likely be blocked, and if you continue on the board you will be banned.
Do: PM a staff member your problem.
Don't: IM a staff member and tell them or demand them to address your problem.
Do: Use the complaint forum.
Don't: IM the staff member who is on all of your problems that could go there.
Do: When you IM a staff member be cordial and if you think it is that important be respectful since you are using their time.
Don't: Be a jerk and demand this, that, and the other gets done.
Do: Use the report forum.
Don't: IM the admin to 'proof read' and then ask them to grade.
Do: Be a good player on the site OOG and keep it civil.
Don't: Don't: Be a flaming retarded idiot douche.
The OOG Account Policy
You as a player are given One (1) Out Of Game account that you can use in any of the Out of Game forums, and through this you can keep your playable accounts seperate from what you do outside of it. This helps keep player accounts less cluttered with OOG postings in their post lists. This makes it easier for staff and administration to effectively search your posts and verify things you do and or buy. You may post in the OOG with just your player account if you wish, however it is allowed of you for your convenience. If you get your OOG account banned, this means you are banned from posting in the OOG forums as well.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you create and use the OOG account in the OOG forums now.
