Please note that these are almost exactly the same as the Discord rules & regulations
- No doxxing or harassment (especially threats on someone’s life/property) or encouraging self harm
- No spamming, phishing, or attempting to steal another user’s account (broadly speaking, one could consider this “no spamming or scamming”)
- No child porn, revenge porn or gore/animal cruelty anywhere in the server, while other NSFW content should be limited to properly marked channels
- No sharing pirated content
- You must be 13 years or older to use our channels
- Discriminatory jokes and language related to one’s race, age, gender, disability, etc. are prohibited
- Content that is explicitly pornographic, depicting sexual acts, or depicting nudity is prohibited
- Trolling - Trolling refers to the act of disrupting the chat, making a nuisance out of yourself, deliberately making others uncomfortable, or otherwise attempting to start trouble.
- This is a good catch-all rule to have because it enables you to take action on those that are “acting out” without doing anything really specific to call them out on.
- Discussing Offensive/Controversial Material - This includes topics such as politics, religion, acts of violence, rape, suicide/self harm, school shootings, and other serious topics; as well as hate speech including racial slurs or derivatives thereof, sexist or homophobic statements, and other similar types of behavior.
- The details of how you define this rule can vary depending on the extent to which you feel it is necessary to enforce (for example, if you are following the partner code of conduct you may want to also include “ableist slurs” as being prohibited.
- Elitism - Members should refrain from insulting or belittling others based on their own successes, or others lack thereof.
- Disrespecting Server Staff - Insulting the server moderators or becoming belligerent after being warned.
- While measured discussion regarding the reasons for being warned should be encouraged for the education of the user and general public, at some point it may be necessary to shut down the discussion or take it to DMs.
- Incitement - Encouraging the breaking of rules, inciting others to be blatantly rude and offensive, or otherwise promoting and/or encouraging conflicts between other members.
- Punishment Evasion - Users should not attempt to evade the consequences of their actions such as using an alternate account to bypass restrictions.
- It is recommended that this be punishable with an instant ban, as this is the type of punishment that is most difficult to evade compared to the other options available.
- A user that is evading a ban is generally considered by us to be harassment, and can be reported to them for further action.
- Inappropriate User Profiles - For ease of communication and the comfort of those in chat, the profile picture, custom status, and display names (i.e., the name that shows up while reading the chat) of users should be in line with the rules of the server. Furthermore, the display name should also be easily readable, mentionable, and not attempt to imitate other users or game development staff or hoist you to the top of the server online list
- In effect, this also means that the user profile should be safe for work, not contain any offensive or illegal content, and not be used to harass others or spam/scam.
- “Hoisting” refers to using characters like exclamation points to make it so that you appear at the top of the online members list. Some people will put multiple characters like this in an attempt to be at the top of the online list. While it is not always feasible to enforce against users that don’t often chat, it is good to have a policy to enforce this if you see someone chatting with a hoisted display name. But, if this doesn’t bother you, you can remove this provision.
- Advertisement - Similar but not quite the same as spam, this refers to users attempting to promote their own social media/ servers/ other content creation channels.
- Usually, it is good to invite users to talk to a moderator privately if they want to advertise something.
- Speaking languages not understood by the server - Essentially, users should be prohibited from communicating in a language outside of the server’s official language.
- This makes it easier for moderators to moderate the server by ensuring that they understand the conversations that are happening and prevents users from trying to fly under the radar by speaking in languages moderators don’t understand.