Some lobby guidelines
Posted: 13 Apr 2006, 04:26
It seems recently alot of people have decided that now is a good time to test the boundries of what is and isn't acceptable. I've spent endless hours chatting with people going over why they need to stop saying stupid things and harrassing other comunity members so I decided to just compile the jist of it and post it here.
Strictly speaking the agreement you signed into when you installed spring is this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sprin ... eement.txt
The agreement is a great example of what you can do to stay unbanned for ever, that being said I realise that if it was strictly upheld to the tee there would be alot of bans for relitively innocent things and alot of perminent bans for minor offences. We want people to be able to play spring so that isn't they system that we have decided to enforce here.
So what is being enforced in terms of rules?
A) Absolutly no harrassment or persecution of other comunity members for any reason.
B) No racism or biggotry towards any people group for any reason
C) Shock humor will not be tolerated in public channels. #main is PG13
D) Excessive spam or posting that either causes frustration to other comunity members or clogs up client server will not be tolerated
Things to understand:
Spring moderators are trying to moderate by intent: If we see you accidentally slip up and curse in #main we will probably not bother you about it, even though strictly speaking it is against the rules. We want to ban people who are breaking rules because they intend to make the comunity a worse place, not people who are trying to follow the rules and slip up every once in a while.
The proper avenue of retaliation against harrassment is reporting it to a moderator: If you flame someone back because they flame you and the fight escalates both parties will be banned, even if it can clearly be shown that one started it. Don't be provoked, report people who are harrassing you.
You don't have to swear or spout racist retoric to be banned for harrassment: If you follow another member around joining games to ally comm bomb them that is considered harrassment. If you consitantly provoke a negitive response out of another comunity member that constitiues harassment, even if they resort to personal attacks and foul language before you do. Harrassment is the act of intentionally frustrating or annoying another member via whatever means are used.
Intentionally ruining the play experiance for other players can get you banned: This does not refer to using tactics that are under debate as to thier fairness, what this constitutes is things like joining a game and just sitting AFK, or joining a game and comm bombing your allies. This also extends to shows of inpoliteness like haveing pause wars with the game host or unpausing a game another player has paused after clearly explaining the reason they paused the game. Play to win and do not use game or engine glitches to frustrate the experiance for the other players in the game.
As moderators we really don't want to ban you, that constitutes extra work for us and means we're denying people the ability to play spring, which is something we want to spread, not limit. Please just try to keep the comunity a friendly place so you don't end up butting heads with us.
Strictly speaking the agreement you signed into when you installed spring is this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sprin ... eement.txt
The agreement is a great example of what you can do to stay unbanned for ever, that being said I realise that if it was strictly upheld to the tee there would be alot of bans for relitively innocent things and alot of perminent bans for minor offences. We want people to be able to play spring so that isn't they system that we have decided to enforce here.
So what is being enforced in terms of rules?
A) Absolutly no harrassment or persecution of other comunity members for any reason.
B) No racism or biggotry towards any people group for any reason
C) Shock humor will not be tolerated in public channels. #main is PG13
D) Excessive spam or posting that either causes frustration to other comunity members or clogs up client server will not be tolerated
Things to understand:
Spring moderators are trying to moderate by intent: If we see you accidentally slip up and curse in #main we will probably not bother you about it, even though strictly speaking it is against the rules. We want to ban people who are breaking rules because they intend to make the comunity a worse place, not people who are trying to follow the rules and slip up every once in a while.
The proper avenue of retaliation against harrassment is reporting it to a moderator: If you flame someone back because they flame you and the fight escalates both parties will be banned, even if it can clearly be shown that one started it. Don't be provoked, report people who are harrassing you.
You don't have to swear or spout racist retoric to be banned for harrassment: If you follow another member around joining games to ally comm bomb them that is considered harrassment. If you consitantly provoke a negitive response out of another comunity member that constitiues harassment, even if they resort to personal attacks and foul language before you do. Harrassment is the act of intentionally frustrating or annoying another member via whatever means are used.
Intentionally ruining the play experiance for other players can get you banned: This does not refer to using tactics that are under debate as to thier fairness, what this constitutes is things like joining a game and just sitting AFK, or joining a game and comm bombing your allies. This also extends to shows of inpoliteness like haveing pause wars with the game host or unpausing a game another player has paused after clearly explaining the reason they paused the game. Play to win and do not use game or engine glitches to frustrate the experiance for the other players in the game.
As moderators we really don't want to ban you, that constitutes extra work for us and means we're denying people the ability to play spring, which is something we want to spread, not limit. Please just try to keep the comunity a friendly place so you don't end up butting heads with us.
