A new addition from the Community Moderator Team:
Anti-Harassment PolicyShorter versionThe Moderator Team of ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all ArmageddonMUD's community spaces, including the General Discussion Board (
https://gdb.armageddon.org/) and the Discord Server, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Moderator Team.
Some ArmageddonMUD's community spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Longer versionThe Moderator Team of ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form.
This code of conduct applies to all ArmageddonMUD's community spaces, including the General Discussion Board (
https://gdb.armageddon.org/) and the Discord Server, both online and off. Anyone who violates this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from these spaces at the discretion of the Moderator Team.
Some ArmageddonMUD's community spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules.
Note: Interactions are defined by comments, emojis and other media ways to interact with each other.
Harassment includes:
* Offensive interactions related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neuro(a)typicality, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion.
* Unwelcome interactions regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment.
* Deliberate misgendering or use of ‘dead’ or rejected names.
* Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they’re not appropriate.
* Physical contact and simulated physical contact (eg, textual descriptions like “*hug*” or “*backrub*”) without consent or after a request to stop.
* Threats of violence.
* Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm.
* Deliberate intimidation.
* Stalking or following.
* Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.
* Sustained disruption of discussion.
* Unwelcome sexual attention.
* Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others
* Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.
* Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
* Publication of non-harassing private communication.
The Moderator Team of ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. The Moderator Team reserves the right not to act on complaints regarding:
* ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
* Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you.”
* Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
* Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions
Reporting If you are being harassed by a member of ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact the Moderator Team by using the 'Report to Moderation / Report to Admin' button, either on the forums or in private messages. If this is happening in the Discord server, send a Direct Message to @modmail and it will create a ticket for us to track. If you are unable to use either, create a ticket using the Request Tool under 'General Discussion Board - Complaint or Appeal'.
If the person who is harassing you is on the team, they will recuse themselves from handling your incident. We will respond as promptly as we can.
This code of conduct applies to ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server, but if you are being harassed by a member of ArmageddonMUD outside our spaces, we still want to know about it. We will take all good-faith reports of harassment by ArmageddonMUD members, especially the Moderator Team and Staff Members, seriously. The Moderator team reserves the right to exclude people from ArmageddonMUD's Community Forums and Discord Server based on their past behavior, including behavior outside ArmageddonMUD's Community spaces and behavior towards people who are not in ArmageddonMUD.
In order to protect volunteers from abuse and burnout, we reserve the right to reject any report we believe to have been made in bad faith. Reports intended to silence legitimate criticism may be deleted without response.
We will respect confidentiality requests for the purpose of protecting victims of abuse.
ConsequencesParticipants asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
If a participant engages in harassing behavior, the Moderator Team may take any action they deem appropriate, up to and including expulsion from all ArmageddonMUD's community spaces and recommending expulsion from the game by staff.