Community Rules and Moderation Team

[ArmageddonMUD]

Introduction

When joining the ArmageddonMUD General Discussion Board, you agree to follow the registration agreement that appears when creating a new GDB account, posted at the bottom for reference.  Our Player Moderation team, with the assistance of Game Staff make the final decision on the judgment of posts.


General Rules


R1. Show respect and kindness above all in your discourse. Some examples of moderatable content:
 

• Being highly sarcastic and 'snarky' in your comments
• Personal attacks. We respect a healthy debate can occur, but debate the idea, not the person supplying it.
• Effectively airing a player complaint in public (eg the guild leader last year did 'X' and should have been banned)
• Bluntly crapping upon segments of the player base, eg 'all mages I've seen are lame powergamers'. Please use tact.
• Seeking to dismantle and demolish another player's opinion. Respect that other players may wish to lodge their view but not enter an intense debate. Remember you could always ask them if they're looking to be responded to.
• Engaging in a protracted an intense debate on Discord with one other party (even when they are willing). Respect that many others may not wish this to dominate the conversation and consider taking this to DMs or a GDB thread.
• Bashing former members of the community

R2. There will be zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment.  This includes: offensive actions and comments directed at someone's gender, sexual orientation, appearance, race, religion, language, etc., unwanted attention, deliberate 'outing' of identity, misgendering, threats, or publishing private conversation.

R3. Keep the conversation on topic and in the proper channels.

R4. Keep your personal information private, and do not request the personal information of others in public channels or DMs. Please do not harass, abuse, or send other unwelcome communications to other members (e.g., romantic advances, explicit content).

R5. No NSFW content allowed.

R6. Do not bash other MUDs, communities or other users.

R7. No advertising.

R9. Use modmail to interact with moderators or report rule violating content.  Do not PM individuals to disagree with their moderation decisions.

R10. You must be 18 or older to participate in the Arm community.




All members are assumed to agree to the registration agreement:

You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, adult material, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or you have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also forbidden on this forum.

Note that it is impossible for the staff or the owners of this forum to confirm the validity of posts. Please remember that we do not actively monitor the posted messages, and as such, are not responsible for the content contained within. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information presented. The posted messages express the views of the author, and not necessarily the views of this forum, its staff, its subsidiaries, or this forum's owner. Anyone who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to notify an administrator or moderator of this forum immediately. The staff and the owner of this forum reserve the right to remove objectionable content, within a reasonable time frame, if they determine that removal is necessary. This is a manual process, however, please realize that they may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This policy applies to member profile information as well.

You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the owners of this forum, any related websites to this forum, its staff, and its subsidiaries. The owners of this forum also reserve the right to reveal your identity (or any other related information collected on this service) in the event of a formal complaint or legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this forum.

You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another person except an administrator, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another person's account for any reason.  We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your account, to prevent account theft.

After you register and login to this forum, you will be able to fill out a detailed profile. It is your responsibility to present clean and accurate information. Any information the forum owner or staff determines to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, with or without prior notice. Appropriate sanctions may be applicable.

Please note that with each post, your IP address is recorded, in the event that you need to be banned from this forum or your ISP contacted. This will only happen in the event of a major violation of this agreement.

Also note that the software places a cookie, a text file containing bits of information (such as your username and password), in your browser's cache. This is ONLY used to keep you logged in/out. The software does not collect or send any other form of information to your computer.

[ArmageddonMUD]

Anti-Harassment Policy


Shorter version
The 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 version
The 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.

Consequences
Participants 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.

[ArmageddonMUD]

Community Moderator Guidelines

The vision for our community is to be a place that anyone can feel welcome, safe and comfortable to interact with other members of the community to support ArmageddonMUD and shared interests.

Moderators will seek to be examples to the community in creating this environment and be fair in enforcing the rules.

Players are expected to behave politely in the Discord or GDB. The standard of conduct is if you were in any other real-life public gaming space, and moderators will proactively use timeouts or bans if this does not appear to be the case.

Specific Moderation Guidelines:
When moderating, mods will:
* Use the moderation tools whenever possible
* Communicate what caused the moderation to the moderated (via reason field)
Discord:
* Make a record of the moderation action within #moderator-chat
* In the 'reason' field of the moderation command be clear about the wrong doing
* In general moderation action will be a 24-hour mute, 30 day ban, or permanent ban depending on severity or repeated rule breaking.

General Discussion Board:
*Make a record of the moderation action within #moderator-chat
.* Moderators may use the "WARNING" feature, reach out to the community member in question and:
* In the ban reason field, be clear about the wrong doing.
Removal from the Community:
* If the account in question is specifically made to cause harm to the community, the account will be banned.

General Feedback to the Moderator Team:
Please submit via modmail so there is a record of it, or reach out to the lead moderator.

Joining the Moderator Team:
Please use the request tool to indicate your willingness.
Complaints about the Moderator Team:
Moderator decisions are final. If you want to engage constructively or if there has been a genuine misunderstanding, use modmail. Arguing and begging will be ignored.
If you want to complain to staff about moderators, utilize the Request tool and use the Player Complaint option.