Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27097330-20170224221935/@comment-27097330-20170317201544

General Punishment (GP) 1) The general main rule for chat is “don’t be rude, “Rude” is defined as;

a. Someone who is posting a repetitive or unnecessary string of characters with, or without malicious intent (spam).

i) If this is to be judged to be in jest, then merely a warning will be given. If a repeat offense is noticed, then the disciplinary action proceeds as normal, this being classed as a minor offence.

ii) If this is judged to be malicious, then no warning will be given.

b) Someone posting profanity in an attempt to injure or defame another, be it rightly or wrongly.

i) This is to be classed as a minor offense at first, but on the third count it becomes major.

c) A user disrespecting another user and causing harm by it.

i) “Disrespect” is defined as a lack of thought for the emotional response, or general well-being, of the other user in question, other than simple malice towards said response.

ii) An infringement of these is to be taken as a major offence after the first is taken to be minor as a warning.

d) A user posting anything with clear malicious intent, warranted or not.

i) "Malicious" is judged by the clear aggressiveness of the content of it. This is up to the discretion of staff, but may simply be overruled by a 60% majority of agreement in the Staff.

ii) This is taken to be a minor offense on the first occasion, and then a major offense.

Necessary Punishment For a minor offense, or repeated minor offenses within a week of each other;

The first offense is to be taken as a warning. The second then becomes either a kick from chat, or a ban of a period of 5-30 minutes from the Wiki itself, depending on severity. The third instance then becomes either a temporary ban from chat of two hours, or a 15-45 minute ban from the Wiki, and the fourth becomes a major offense. A fifth carries on from the fourth as a major offense, and so on.

For a major offense, or repeated major offenses;

The first offense is to be taken as an extension onto the aforementioned. If no minor offenses have been committed afore-hand, the first major offense counts as skipping to such a stage. The punishment is to be a temporary ban from chat of a day, or a two hour ban from the Wiki, for the first major offense. The second then doubles the ban from the wiki, and makes the ban from chat be one higher in the increments. , and so on. Once you get to the tenth major offense, the times should be a permanent ban from chat, and a 10 days ban from the Wiki. This continues doubling with each offense.

2) Any staff found to not be following this system, or following only parts of it, will be warned personally, on the second strike temporarily demoted for a period of three days, then permanently demoted on the third strike. At the beginning of each month, all strikes except for the first are taken away.

a. Not following is defined as either not carrying out the correct punishments as outlined, or acting so as they would require a punishment themselves.

Forum Offenses A general rule, like in the chat, would be “don’t be a dick”. However, something more specific is needed here. While the chat rules still apply, there are some other, more specific, things.

3) Do not godmod.

a. “Godmodding” is defined as the use of anything entirely out of the context, or setting, of the role-play situation. If the Game Master makes clear that the setting is mediaeval times, and you say that you’ve got the most technologically advanced civilisation there, with tanks etc., then you’ve just godmodded. Another example would be having an army far larger than the norm and not accepted by the Game Master. This is therefore out of context, and a great way to annoy people.

i)Things such as travelling within an unreasonable amount of time, etc., are all in theory excusable by the Game Master. But if they aren’t cleared beforehand, no matter if they are afterward, they still incur a minor offense.

b. Do not Metagame.

i) Metagaming is defined as using OOC (out of character) information in IC (in-character) situations. This is a form of godmodding, and will not be tolerated.

c. This is a Minor Offence on the first offence as a warning, and a Major Offence for a repeat offence.

4) No defacing or vandalising a page, image, video, etc., that has valuable information on it.

a. “Valuable” is defined as useful to the community, as judged by the community. A consensus of three members saying it is useful, without a larger majority against, will incur the punishment.

b. “Defacing” is defined as removing, or replacing, information on a page that is judged to be wrongly done by a consensus of two or more staff, without a majority to say otherwise.

c. This is a major offence.

5) Specific limitations are to be placed upon what is to be highlighted;

a. Only important announcements and roleplays are to be highlighted.

i) "Important" is defined as information pertaining to something to do with yourself as a person, new rules, or urgent problems.

b. This is not an offence, but the effects of this will be reversed immediately.

Message Walls 5) Upon one's own Message Wall, you have certain privileges. These are;

a) The ability to remove, or close, threads, posts, and messages.

i) This requires a "decent reason".

i-a) "Decent reason" is defined as a breakage of the rules in any part by the specific message that is being removed in question. Any attempt to restore the message will be taken as a repeat of the first offence.

b) The ability to ban a certain person or people from posting upon your message wall indefinitely or temporarily.

i) Anyone breaking a curfew upon someone else's Message Wall will be given a punishment as this is a minor offence, after being warned.

ii) This requires a "good reason".

ii-a) "Good reason" is defined as something deemed valid by a breach of a major offence in the rules here committed upon the Message Wall in question.

c) No user may delete or manipulate things on another user's message wall, even if they created the thread in question. The only privileges that are effective are those given to the person whose Wall it is upon.

i) There is one exception to this; if all parties agree to the removal, it may be done by anyone.

Anyone found to be abusing this system, and banning people without reason, or removing or closing threads without reason, will be classed in the same way as the punishment of Staff - the taking away of this privilege temporarily and then permanently after a warning on the first offence. After this is permanently taken away, and all three strikes gone, any further abuse will change instead into a major offence, and the punishment will happen accordingly.

Rating System All RPs are to be rated with a strict system encapsulating what is allowed to happen inside of them. They are as follows.

G: Suitable for ANYONE has little to no violence, no cruelty, torture, intimacy or explicit language. Posting material considered to be inappropriate will result in three Major Offenses rolled into one. PG: Suitable for most users, has violence in the form of combat, nothing any worse. It has no cruelty, torture or intimacy. Explicit language can be implied but never used (e.g using grawlixes). Posting material considered to be inappropriate will result in two Major Offenses rolled into one. PG-13: Suitable for mature users, has frequent violence and can have some cruelty, minimal intimacy but no torture. Some minor swear words are allowed but again censoring is the better option. Posting material considered to be inappropriate will result in a warning, before a repeat offense will result in a Major Offense. R: The harshest rating, almost anything goes and in these roleplays you may have frequent torture, cruelty, intimacy, violence, explicit language and in-character rudeness. ==== If the rating of an RP is not specified it will be presumed to be PG-13. ====

Battle System You must first tell your initial numbers of troops, numbers of reinforcements, time said reinforcements will take to arrive, and what your actions and tactics are at the beginning of a battle. Numbers includes small details like the type of troop and how well equipped and trained they are. Take turns. One side posts, then the other. Don't overwhelm the opponent with five replies before they can even answer one. The Game Master will then proceed to narrate the outcome of each of these actions taken in a “turn”, and the time to post again comes. If the Game Master is not there, and no-one has been appointed in their stead, the fight may not continue.