Thread: Forum rules

Welcome to the Halopedia Forums! The rules are as follows:

General Rules

Rules

1. Personal attacks/Harassment will not be tolerated.
   1. This means racism, homophobia, sexism, sexual harassment, and etc.
2. Profanity is allowed, so long as it is not excessive nor directed at any user.
3. Sexual content, such as pornography, innuendos, and etc. are not permitted at all.
4. Violation of personal privacy is not permitted. This includes revealing personal information about users (e.g. real name, location, age, gender, etc) and violating confidentiality on particular issues (such as issues asked to be kept confidential by other users or administrators).
5. Linking to external sources, such as websites, which violate the aforementioned rules, is also not permitted. Notably, publicly linking to websites such as Facebook or MySpace that violate personal privacy, is not permitted without prior consent from the user whose privacy will be violated.
6. Spoilers relating to recently released media are not permitted outside the Spoilers forum, media in general will have a one month limit from its release.
   1. Halo spoilers: Due to the purpose of a wiki is to be up to date fast, Halo Spoilers may be said in the "Support requests" and "Community proposals" forums. However these will be treated case by case, and spoiling for the case of spoiling a individual may be given a warning.
7. Trolling or general irritation or disruption of other users is not permitted. This often includes, but is not limited to; excessive usage of capital letters, punctuation marks, and deliberate or in-deliberate distortions of the English language (such as "133t speak").
8. Spamming is considered the posting of unneeded, repetitive, or meaningless links, images, comments, or anything else. Spam may take up one or more lines; it is at the discretion of the Moderator or Administrator to deem what is spam.
9. Language - Individuals are expected to use English while talking on the channel. Any other language being used is not permitted.
10. Controversial topics, like politics, religion, illegal activities, and etc., should not be discussed
11. Forums = wiki: An individuals' actions on the forums may affect the individuals' rights/status on the wiki, and vice versa.

Moderators have a wide discretion relating to the issuing of warnings and bans which infringe on this rule. The content of messages will greatly impact on the severity of the punishment. In certain particular cases, there may be exceptions.

Consequences

Typically, the following hierarchy will apply to infringements on the above regulations (with the exception of specifically implied consequences).

• First offense: Warning
• Second offense: 2 hour ban
• Third offense: One day ban

Further offenses will result in an extended ban, at the discretion of the mod administering the ban. Pending on the severity of the offense steps in the hierarchy may be skipped, or a lifetime ban might be placed.

Appeals

Users may appeal admin/mod decisions at any time. Generally appeals should follow the below steps:

1. First off, through private message or wiki means, appeal the ban to the mod/admin in question.
2. If you disagree with the mod/admin's decision, appeal the decision to another admin listed here.

If you appeal in a manner that's considered confrontational, antagonistic, uncivil, or malicious, the appeal will be ignored and additional punishment may be given.