Forum Rules and Guidelines

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Rule post edited to include the rule change posted here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=31535

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Rule post edited to include a line about excessive abuse in games.

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Rule post edited to specify that adult content should not be posted in Site Chat.

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Rule post edited to add clarification rule on hiding identity from staff members. See here

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Spoiler: April Fools Rule Edit

Added some minor edits to the basic conduct rules.

Do not make any post or start any thread with the intent to insult or offend any other user on this site.
Do not make any post or start any thread that abuses or harasses another user.

Have been modified to now read:

Do not make any post or start any thread with the intent to insult or offend a user on this site.
Do not make any post or start any thread that abuses or harasses a user.

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Rules updated per this post.

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updated rules to include a line about posting on behalf of banned users. To be clear: this is not allowed

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Added rule about threats to replace out/demanding other players replace out (i.e. don't do it, PM your moderator). See here for more information.

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Many rules have been edited as per this post about changes in policy.

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The following is added to the rules:

Discussing or advocating the sexual depiction of minors in any context, including fictional, is prohibited

This is intended to stop the discussion or any advocacy of child pornography or similar depictions, real or fictional.

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Hi everyone. We recently took this off of global announcements in large part to try to "clean up" the number of announcements we're using. We did that because you can easily access the rules in the upper right hand corner. Yes, that leads here, and yes that's the way it's been for many years (you're probably thinking of the time you clicked on "FAQ" and got sent to a page that was unhelpful).

I'm going to re-global announce these rules for now, but wanted to use this opportunity to show people where you can access the rules from anywhere on the site!

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The following is added to the rules:

Discussing or advocating the sexual depiction of minors in any context, including fictional, is prohibited

This is intended to stop the discussion or any advocacy of child pornography or similar depictions, real or fictional.

This rule has been altered:

Discussing or advocating the sexual depiction of minors in any context, including fictional, is prohibited. This restriction does not apply to discussion about victims of assault. We encourage content warnings and spoilers for such discussions.