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Rules & Guidelines => Board Information => Topic started by: Death™ on July 05, 2015, 01:24:09 PM
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Rules / Guidelines
Communication:
- Only one person should be using the in-game mic at a time.
- Adjust your microphone so there's no feedback/echo, screaming, distortion, etc.
- Do not repeat chat in text or via microphone excessively - this includes mic-spam and repetitive trade advertisements.
- Do not use soundboards or any device to play sound clips or music without an administrator's permission.
- Be mature - racism, vulgarity, insults, inappropriate or disruptive behavior, stereotyping, homophobia, gender chauvinism, age discrimination, and religious or cultural slander are not acceptable.
- Do not continuously complain about the same thing - instead, use your gaming skills, !shop, or the /report to deal with the problem.
- Calm down if you're mad - if you express an uncontrollable rage, you may be punished.
- Do not trick other players into breaking the rules.
- Do not attempt to ruin another individual's reputation or image with falsified chat messages, voice, or stories.
- Respect staff members and do not harass or deny their requests.
- Do not advertise sites, other servers, clans, groups, hacks, or scams.
- We prefer English over other languages.
- Do not falsely advertise trades - if you're not going to do the trade, don't say that you will.
Identity:
- Do not impersonate an administrator.
- You may not have any "admin" tag or text in your display name.
- Changing your name to avoid punishment will only result in a more severe punishment.
- Do not put any possibly inappropriate or offensive terms or phrases in your display name.
- Sprays and Conscientious Objectors may not contain libel, slander, defamation, racial vilification, harassment, depictions of bestiality and child pornography, interfere with fair game-play, anything grossly indecent in nature, anything that's illegal, and anything that might be offensive.
- No phishing is allowed.
Trading:
- You must set your backpack to public when trading with another player.
- Do not beg for other players to give you items, currency, or credits.
- Raffles and gambles are recommended to have staff supervision, but is not required - a staff member, however, may stop a raffle or gamble at will.
- No scamming (If both parties agree to an exchange, it does not count as scamming).
- Do not trade items for credits - we have donation bots for this.
Gameplay:
- No hacking - this includes using exploits that function similarly to how a hacking software would.
- Do not use any in-game exploits or scripts that would harm, lag, or crash the servers.
- Using in-game exploits is perfectly allowed - the above rules still apply.
- Do not grief our servers' players intentionally.
- Spawncamping IS allowed but admins can stop it if they want or need to.
- Killing friendlies is perfectly fine.
- No shop griefing: using shop to purposefully annoy/harass players may get you punished at an admin's discretion.
Other Disruptive Behavior:
- Do not disrupt server events. These are events that our staff members host.
- Do not use the !shop to intentionally disrupt players over and over again. Note: There are also cool-downs in place for EACH item to lessen the spam and abuse of items.
Notes:
- Admins are allowed to create temporary rules depending on the situation. Please do not harass or argue with them.
- If you feel that an administrator acted wrongfully or mistreated you or another player, feel free to file a staff report.
- Do not egg admins on by testing your limits or trying to find loopholes around the rules. You will most likely be punished.
/report Usage:
How to use: In chat, type /report [Type Reason you are reporting a person] (press enter) and then select from the menu who you are reporting. A staff member might take several minutes to respond to your report.
Guidelines for /report usage:
- Please do report rule breakers and hackers.
- Do not report bugs.
- Do not send spam reports.
- Do not send shortly-worded and non-detailed reports.
- Do not send reports simply out of rage.
If any of these guidelines are broken, you will likely be either kicked, muted, gagged, or banned. You may appeal your case here (http://tf2swapshop.com/forum/index.php?board=10.0).