All site members and guests are responsible for knowing the information contained in the following Code of Conduct.

Prohibited chat room, board, and e-mail list, behaviors include (but are not limited to):

• profanity, vulgarity, or explicit content For example:

  • "masking" by using alternative characters/spellings and spaces to get around profanity filters, leet-speak, and combinations of words that produce an offensive result (e.g. ura hugeazz, Tow El Head)
  • "filter testing"
  • discussion of or in-character enactments of "cybering" or sexually explicit material
  • discussion of or in-character enactments of graphic violence or bloodletting

• hate speech (e.g. racial, ethnic, sexist, homophobic and religious slurs)

• promotion of or engaging in certain illegal activities, For example: drugs, drug paraphernalia, rape or solicitation of a minor, computer hacking, and copyright violation

• harassment of another specific person (e.g. persistent flaming or continued personal attacks on the boards without prior permission.)

• trolling or baiting by putting to the screen inflammatory statements designed to elicit a negative response from the community

• spamming through repeated posts, or off-topic content by word or intent to boards or lists (e.g. scrolling, flooding, polling, or by "bumping" a boards post more than once in 48 hours)

• advertising or promoting a business or commercial site

• impersonation of another person, site staff or Exec member by either screen name or self-representation (e.g. faking a screen name by using similar-looking characters, "spoofing" speech in a chat room, or claiming to hold an official title or position relating to the site)

• reregistering a banned screen name, a variation of a banned name, or declarations under a new screen name that you are "really" the banned name or attempts to resubscribe to a e-mail list under another address after being put on REVIEW by the list moderator. (for further explanation, see below)

In other words, behave yourself. Treat other people you encounter in the rooms just as you would treat them in person--politely.

Disciplinary Procedures

If a member of the site has demonstrated he or she cannot behave, the member WILL LOSE ALL of his or her usernames registered at that time. This prevents a user with multiple screen names from misbehaving with one “throw away” screen name while preserving another “good” screen name.

At the point of screen name loss, the patron may register a new name(s) with the stipulation that it not be a look-alike, variation of, or reference to the lost name. Doing so—or further violations of the CoC—will only result in all screen names being lost again and the patron being barred from website community access altogether. For example, if a user with the name BadDwarf loses his name for CoC infractions, registering BadDwarf2, B@dDwarf, or FormerBadDwarf would not be allowed. The user must create a new name altogether.

Violations of a specific discussion list's additional rules (keyword use, overquoting, etc.) generally are not treated in the same manner as violations of the Code of Conduct. See the list's Welcome Letter or FAQ if you have questions on how those types of violations are handled.

These procedures are only meant to be rough guidelines, as each chat, boards and list situation is different and may require other measures to ensure the family orientation of the site.

Thanks to Wizards.com for giving me the general layout needed for a good CoC...