Our forum rules are as follows:
1) No advertising servers or competing services.
2) No spam posts.
3) No excessive swearing or overly offensive language.
4) No posting other users’ personal information.
5) No NSFW, adult or obscene content.
6) Treat everyone with respect, and follow staff instructions.
7) Harassment, mature/disturbing topics, advertisements or scams sent to members of the community in posts or direct messages will result in punishment.
8) No bumping posts (filler posts to move a topic to the top of Latest) or necro-posting (posting on inactive topics).
These are by no means all that one can be punished for. Anything found distasteful or detrimental to the server or community may result in disciplinary action.
Arguing
Arguing is not tolerated as the forums are for welcoming and open discussions. Being rude, disrespectful or argumentative towards another member of the community is not something that should be on the forums.
If your post is not respectful to everyone, including those with differing opinions and those who have been disrespectful to you first, then please either change the substance of the post or consider not posting at all.
If you come across someone who is being argumentative, please flag or report the post so one of the Forum Mods can look over and handle the situation without anyone else getting in trouble.
Profanity
Posting a comment or topic with any profanity is against the rules and so you should refrain from doing so under all circumstances, regardless of what server the post is relating to. This includes any images and videos posted.
Spamming
This is of course not allowed however please be aware that posting multiple consecutive comments on a topic counts as spam, even when the intention is not malicious. For example posting:
@Thunder thanks for the feedback!
And then in a new post straight after:
@kitcat I will try and improve in those areas!
Counts as spam, so please try and combine your posts into one instead of what’s called “double posting”.
Criticism
Providing criticism can be very useful and insightful when done correctly, however it is important to make sure that it is providing feedback over simply bashing either a member of the community or an aspect of the server you disagree with.
If you are receiving criticism on, say, an application or a server idea please remain civil and courteous in the reply even when you disagree with the feedback.
Community Values
Our community values respect, positivity, and collaboration. As such, any member who consistently engages in behavior that is disruptive, harmful, or otherwise detrimental to the server or its community members may be subject to disciplinary action. This includes but is not limited to actions such as bashing the server, encouraging others to misbehave, and spreading negativity. We encourage all members to treat each other with kindness and to help foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone.
Warnings
You may receive a warning when you have a post that has broken a rule or when you have repeatedly broken the rules across many posts. This may be as an official warning or as a caution, however Forum Mods and staff are not required to do so prior to punishing players; a warning is a courtesy to allow you to rectify your behaviour before you get punished.
Deleted/locked posts
Your post may be deleted at the discretion of a Forum Mod or staff when it breaks the rules. This includes any posts that contain any profanity, are spam or off-topic, or are not respectful to all members of the community.
Topics may also be locked when the topic has either run its course and has no meaningful discussion to be had left, when a severe argument occurs inside the topic or when it is necro-bumped.
Suspensions
Your account may be suspended when you have continuously broken any of the rules, or have broken the rules in a severe way (e.g. posting private information of someone, or toxic spam), the latter being punishable after one offense. Depending on the severity of the offense you may be suspended from anywhere between a day and a month, and further offenses may lead to even longer suspensions.
Repeat Infractions
If you have broken the rules repeatedly, you may find that you receive proportionally greater punishments for the same infractions due to continuous reluctance to follow our rules. This may also occur if you have broken the rules on our other platforms and thus should know better. If you do end up receiving a punishment, please do your best to learn from it as to avoid receiving more severe punishments in the future!