Post by Ambushment on Mar 15, 2016 20:37:31 GMT
One may find that there are more rules and consequences applied to ShadowFreedom in comparison to others. This is to ensure safe game-play, and to remain one of the largest, yet safest communities on Minecraft. We ask that you respect our rules, and in turn we grant you permission to access the servers that we pay for. If you choose to break these rules, you may well in turn find yourself searching for another welcoming community which will accept such behavior.
Credit: Ambushment
○ COMMON SENSE STRUCTURE ○
Put in place March 13th, 2016.. this rule allows all staff to issue consequences under a common sense structure. Any inappropriate remark that is clearly demonstrating unacceptable behavior deserves consequence. Under any circumstances, if you believe your action did not deserve consequence.. you are free to post evidence on the forum in the appeal section. TL;DR If you're hesitating, don't do it!
For more clarification.. players will not be receiving warnings under the common sense structure. If a rule is blatantly broken by an active player that under certain circumstances should have already known the rules, consequences will be handed out immediately. If the rule being broken is genuinely DEBATABLE, it's in staff's best interest to provide a warning.
Disclaimer: If a player is clearly not here to play ShadowFreedom properly, and they have shown that they are here for the wrong reasons, they will be banned without warning. For example, if a player joins the game simply to spam an IP in the chat, we will skip the punishment system, and they will be given an automatic ban.
General Offense: CHAT WARNING | General Offense: 4 HOUR MUTE | Recurring Offenses: 1-2 DAY MUTE
○ (RESPECT) Sexual Harassment, Threats, Offensive Language, and Discrimination ○
There will be no tolerance for unwelcome sexual advances, racism, sexism, homophobia, trans-phobia, nor language that may cause discomfort. This includes threats of any kind, jokes about sexual abuse, death threats, religious matters, etc.
○ (RIOTS) Attempting to fuel or start a riot, spam, protest or anarchy among players ○
Spamming, encouraging large groups to mass-spam, or causing trouble in general. All issues can be resolved by bringing it up in a civilized manner to staff members.
○ (LANGUAGE) Incorrect usage of crude language or insults ○
Regardless of whether the victim is willing or if the attacker is joking, crude language will be punished so long as he/she is using the crude language incorrectly. Swearing is permitted to an extent, and will result in a mute if used incorrectly.
○ (LINKS) Inappropriate / Horror Links or Images ○
In consideration of younger players, no inappropriate or horror links or images may be shared in the chat. Other links may also be determined as unacceptable and punishable by the online staff. We allow certain ranks to post links in chat, respect it!
○ (STAFF RESPECT) Making a scene about decisions made by Staff / Disrespect ○
Any attempts to disrupt or discourage a staff member from performing their duty will not be tolerated. Issues with staff members should be brought up on the forums with valid evidence. Disrespecting staff or undermining decisions will result in consequence.
○ (POSITIVE HARASSMENT) Harassment to players attempting to provide support ○
Some examples of this include "Stop sucking up to staff" when a player attempts to help defuse an argument alongside a staff member. It is in our best interest to support these players in their efforts to better the community.
○ (IRL TRADES) Advertising in game items/money for out of game items/money ○
Due to the nature of these trades, they are considered high-risk activities and as such will not be permitted to be advertised in chat.
○ (DDOS) Denial of Service remarks, threats, or anything related ○
Chat messages related to inappropriate DDoS usage are subject to consequence, whether the opposing party is joking or not.
○ (Freedom) Chunk Buffer Limit ○
ShadowFreedom operates on a 20-chunk claim limit for all factions. Under no circumstances should there be over 40 consecutive chunks claimed by a single faction, their alts, or other factions friendly to them.
General Offense: WARNING
Recurring Offense: BANS / UNCLAIMS / DISBANDS
○ (SCAMMING) TP-Trapping in which Victims Cannot Escape ○
Where the victim CANNOT DIE, TPA, BREAK BLOCKS or WARP away. Essentially, if the victim will, if unassisted, end up trapped there for all eternity, it is illegal.
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (CHEATING) Any unfair modifications to Minecraft ○
Such mods include , see-through texture packs, auto-clickers, etc. Inquire with a staff member about mods you have doubts about. Approved Mods: Optifine, Minimap (WITHOUT player icons/ mob icons), Armor HUD, Damage Indicators, BetterPvP
General Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (CHEATING) Taking advantage of other in-game glitches/bugs ○
Using any glitches in the system without reporting - for instance, duplication of items. It is important to report any issues as 99% of the time items are not kept / rolled back, and result in the users banned. All systems globally are monitored and logged 24/7, follow the rules!
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (PERSONAL ABUSE) Sharing personal information about others ○
Nothing should be revealed about a player (social media usernames, address, last names, etc) that they do not want publicly known.
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (PERSONAL ABUSE) Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) ○
Any users involved in attacks towards players or the server will be subject to immediate consequence. DDoS Clarification: mass distribution of packets to "turn your internet off"
General Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (ADVERTISING) Advertising other servers ○
Advertising full server addresses in the public chat or caught spamming to players via pm. Brief mentions in conversations (such as “come to mineplex”) will not be punishable unless excessive.
General Offense: 1 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
○ (JOKING) Imitations of Rule-Breaking ○
This means no imitating hacked clients, illegal mods, fake "DDoS / other threats" against your friends in public chat, or pretending to break a rule for attention or otherwise. Staff members have enough on their hands without having to differentiate whether your rule breaking is a joke - you will receive the consequences you would as if you were not joking.
General Offense: TO BE UNDETERMINED
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
o (NAMES) Having inappropriate or unacceptable usernames o
There are certain words we don't want in our chat, whether it's behind the player name, or just in the player name. Any player with a name containing word(s) in our chat filter will be permanently banned until the name is changed. These players may chat on alternate accounts, as it's the name that breaks the rule, not the player.
General Offense: PERMANENT BAN UNTIL CHANGE
WARNING: Any abuse of the following rules will lead to a warning being added to your account. Once you reach a certain amount of warnings, automatic punishments will follow.
3 Warnings: 5 Days Forum Ban |4-5th Warning: Additional 1 Week Forum Ban | 6th Warning: Permanent removal from the Forums.
○ Generality of the Chat Rules ○
Any rules applied to the chat in-game also apply to the forums on ShadowFreedom. Please refer back to the above section as a refresher.
○ Microposting (posting 2 words or under and/or without meaningful contribution) ○
This is considered unnecessary spam, often to increase message count, and will be handled accordingly.
○ Troll Applications Posts or Accounts or Troll Pots/Death pots ○
Accounts, posts or applications made solely to cause trouble will be removed, as will the account owner's main.
Will be 5 day banned if you have any Troll Pots/Death pots and you intend to use them.
○ Ban evading on the forums ○
Only applying to forums, if sufficient evidence shows that a player is logged in while owning a banned forums account, the ban will be extended and applied to the player's other accounts as well.
○ Recreating and Reposting Locked/Deleted Threads and Griefing ○
If player or alt account or another player is seen re-posting deleted threads or locked threads.
Griefing is a Violation to our terms and conditions and wont be acceptable it could be a 1 - 7 day ban depending on how bad you griefed.
○ Impersonating members of the staff team ○
Needless to say, one should not attempt to pretend to be an existing staff member, in order to get them into trouble.
○ Harassment to players attempting to provide support ○
Some examples of this include "Stop sucking up to staff" when a player attempts to help defuse an argument alongside a staff member.
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SHADOWFREEDOM RULE'S SAME AS TOTALFREEDOM RULE'S ○
Section 1 - Offenses that will normally result in a permanent ban. Note that a permanent ban is not a forever ban; it's essentially an indefinite ban and one can file a perm ban release request message if they wish to get off perm ban.
a. Obvious attempts to crash the server, esp. if the server has crashed, is locked, or unusable. While there could be countless examples, the most common would be a massive world edit that typically has no purpose other than to lag and crash the server.
b. Spam bot attacks that effectively deny use of the server or prevent proper administration of the server. For example, using a script that repeatedly logs in random names (server or telnet).
c. Threats to DDOS (distributed denial-of-service attack) the Total Freedom server, forum, TF admins, OPs/members or actual evidence of DDOS. Also, threats or evidence of DOX (publishing personal information of others without their permission) an OP, Admin, or Owner of Total Freedom. Actual cases of DDOS or DOX can also be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities. Joking about DDOSing or DOXing somebody else or the server is still a violation per Section 3j but unless admins are absolutely certain it's a joke, it will be treated as a perm ban offense.
d. Serial griefer or troll. Generally somebody who commits repeated offenses under Sections 2 & 3, and fails to heed warnings and day bans (bypassing bans).
e. Logging in as the owner, admin, or known player (OP) more than once (see exception) or logging in as multiple admins and/or the owner. Exception: Logging in as the owner, admin, or known player (OP) just once is a perm ban offense if the poser asks for admin status, gains admin status via any means, uses or attempts to use any admin command (whether or not they gained admin status), commits any other offense (Section 1, 2, or 3) while posing, the poser has previously been temp/day banned for committing other offenses in the past, or there's evidence that the poser has attempted to pose on associated servers that use the TF plugin.
f. Using a chat, inventory, or mail spamming script more than once however if the server crashes or needs a restart because of the incident, even a one-time offense is perm ban worthy
g. Using an exploit that crashes individual clients or otherwise prevents somebody from logging into the server or using the server.
h. Filing a false griefer report on the forum in order to get innocent players banned or intentionally and falsely accusing other players of banning offense while on the server.
i. Repeated serious violations of the forum posting guidelines, threats or attacks made against the forum, or perm ban worthy threats made from the Total Freedom forum. Depending on the circumstances, an offender could be perm banned from the forum, server or both.
j. Admins that engage in rogue activity, rage quit, and mis-use administrative commands. Also, an ex-admin that repeatedly fails to abide by admin conduct rules.
k. Using difficult to trace commands or methods to grief (e.g brush sphere, lag machines) (admins must visually verify).
l. Scammers that request donations for the Total Freedom server. Total Freedom is a non-donation / non-pay server; if somebody ask for money to support the server, it's a scam. Admins who commit this offense will be treated as a rogue.
m. Posting links that contains viruses or malware.
n. Other extremely serious offenses not covered above. One example could be somebody threatening real life harm, terrorist threats, bullying, self-harm (also see Section 2), etc.
Section 2 - Offenses that will normally result in a 1-day ban. If offenses are committed when there are no admins online, it can result in a perm ban
a. World edits greater than 100000 blocks without obtaining notice / permission or spamming small world edits that clearly have no building purpose or are purely for trolling. If the server crashes as a result, the offense would normally fall under Section 1 (permanent ban).
b. Destroying other players builds. Causing accidental minor damage to other players builds and failing to repair. Note: For an accusation alone (admin unable to confirm), using RB with TBAN might be more appropriate but a day ban is still allowed (esp. if a griefer report is filed). Admins should also be on the lookout for false accuser might be false accusing (see para 1h).
c. Attempting to damage the spawn and failing to repair, prevent other players from spawning, and/or repeated spawn killing.
d. Attempting to trick other players into committing an offense (e.g. telling other players to /stop)
e. Using invisibility to commit griefing offenses.
f. Repeated offenses under Section 3, esp when a player fails to heed admin warnings.
g. Using a hack, mod, or other means to intentionally lag or crash other players (perm-ban offense if repeated)
h. Self-harm or suicide threats. For admins, if you don't believe the threat is serious and that's normally the case, (e.g. OP says give me admin or I'll kill myself), immediately day ban them and done. If you really believe the threat is serious (esp. if you know the person or based on what’s said), ban after urging the player once to contact mental health hotline (e.g. tell them to contact the suicide hotline for their country - see goo.gl/T7mFaJ ) and then you should contact the law enforcement authorities in your area and give them the IP of the person (you should have it from the ban), and they will contact the authorities where the person lives. If you can chat with them off-server, continue to urge them to contact their crisis hotline. Keep in mind if somebody is serious and you don't know what you're doing, trying to talk them out of it might push them to do it; let professionals handle it where possible. When I review the situation, I may contact the appropriate authorities if you haven't done so already. If the situation happens on the forum, PM me ASAP. If the player is an admin (not a senior), get a senior admin to remove the admin ASAP, ban them and contact me. If the player is a senior admin, contact me ASAP. The bottom-line is you must stop a player from continuing to talk about self-harm on the server as TF is not a hospital or mental health clinic; refer them as mentioned and end the conversation quickly by banning. In most cases, such talk about self-harm is designed to troll and it won't be tolerated (possible perm ban) but for those that might be serious, referring them to somebody that is qualified to help them is pretty much the only solution we have.
Section 3 - Offenses that will normally result in an administrative control action (e.g verbal warning, temporary 5 minute ban, muting, caging, smiting etc.) but not including a day ban. Repeated violations or failing to heed an admin warning can result in a day ban per 2g above. If offenses are committed when there are no admins online, it can result in a perm ban.
a. Personal juvenile insults of other players or admins and failure to apologize.
b. Racist or sexist attacks or harassment.
c. Invading privacy of other players when asked not to. For example, teleporting to other players even though they asked to be left alone however the other players need to well away from the spawn; no privacy should be expected at or near the spawn.
d. Posting links to scam, porn, or other sites that are designed to troll, solicit money, or obtain income from any TF website. A day ban can be imposed if the link disrupts use of a computer, threatens personal harm, or is otherwise illegal.
e. Creating or pasting builds that are designed to troll (e.g. hate symbols, porn, racism, etc.) but could also be an offense under 2a.
f. Changing other players nicks, obscuring nicks (hard to read) or using nicks that are clearly designed to cause offense and/or troll (e.g. using AdminsSuck as a nick)
g. Attempting to interfere with an admin in the performance of their duties.
h. Teleporting (e.g /tphere) other players without their permission.
i. Player uses a forbidden block (the server will alert it) or failed attempts to use admin commands in a malicious way (e.g. trying to deop and ban other players). If an OP successfully uses an admin command using some form of exploit (or gained unauthorized admin access), they are subject to perm ban per section 1.
j. Chat spamming (inc. spamming commands) or trolling to the point of being a nuisance to other players. Numerous examples (not all-inclusive) including begging for admin (or recommendations for admin), begging for money, sex RP, repetitiously asking to be staff on another server or repetitiously asking for other server recommendations, etc. Players who come on to just to spam advertise may be day banned immediately - see Sec 4h below for advertising allowance.
k. Clearing or spamming other players inventory. Admins may clear player inventories for security purposes.
l. Using potions to nuisance other players (use of potions could also be a Section 2 offense depending what's used)
m. Changing the world edit limit without asking permission.
n. Asking for donations (scamming for donations to Total Freedom is covered under 1L above). Legit donation requests can be posted in the forum. Admins especially must not request donations on the server or sanctions will result.
o. Using nicks or tags that imply you have an official position on the server. This includes any nick or tag with the words admin, executive, senior, owner, telnet, master-builder, architect, coder, dev, programmer, creative designer, mod, security, using a crew tag unless authorized by the crew admin, or any other nick or tag that the owner or an admin believes might suggest you have an official position with Total Freedom. Likewise, admins performing any kind of admin duties must use a tag that identifies themselves as admins; it can be personalized such as "cool admin" or "TF staff". Admins that are undercover or using alt accounts (not flagged as admin or impostors) should not use an admin tag or any tag that would identify themselves as a TF staff member.
WARNING: No matter how small the infraction, you are subject to a perm ban for any offense in section 2 or 3 if you get banned AND it causes any neighbors of yours who use the same ISP to be offline banned. If this occurs, you will have to file a perm ban appeal and agree to follow all conduct rules to avoid getting your neighbors unfairly banned.
Section 4 - Conduct that is allowed provided it doesn’t otherwise cause any offense under the above sections. This list is certainly not all-inclusive and generally only includes conduct that is allowed on Total Freedom but not usually on other public servers.
a. Players can OP other players.
b. Players can use client mods, hacks, or cheats provide they don't cause an offense listed in Sections 1, 2, or 3 above.
c. Players can login with a non-premium account provided they’re not posing as other regular players, admins, or owner. The only exception is when the server is temporarily placed into premium mode for security or crowd control purposes.
d. Players can use /socialspy or other similar chat monitoring tools, and it will not be considered a violation of privacy. Players who expect chat privacy MUST use off-server chat programs.
e. Players can use invisibility although admins may sometimes remove it in mass (inc. /invis smite) for security purposes.
f. Players can pose as famous players such as Notch provided such famous players don’t actually use the server.
g. Players or admins can speak in languages besides English as long as it’s in private (/msg) or in public for a short term duration. Under normal circumstances, English is the commonly used language of Total Freedom and players should use it, esp when other players need assistance. Using languages other than English to troll or secretly insult another player or admin is not allowed.
h. Advertising another server (or other legitimate services) or requesting another server to join provided it’s done once in any given 10 minute period. Advertising a server or service more than once in 10 min period (even if done by different players) or repeatedly requesting for other servers to join is a spamming offense.
As i said our forum rule's are the same as the TotalFreedom one so make sure to follow it!
Credit: Ambushment
○ COMMON SENSE STRUCTURE ○
Put in place March 13th, 2016.. this rule allows all staff to issue consequences under a common sense structure. Any inappropriate remark that is clearly demonstrating unacceptable behavior deserves consequence. Under any circumstances, if you believe your action did not deserve consequence.. you are free to post evidence on the forum in the appeal section. TL;DR If you're hesitating, don't do it!
For more clarification.. players will not be receiving warnings under the common sense structure. If a rule is blatantly broken by an active player that under certain circumstances should have already known the rules, consequences will be handed out immediately. If the rule being broken is genuinely DEBATABLE, it's in staff's best interest to provide a warning.
Disclaimer: If a player is clearly not here to play ShadowFreedom properly, and they have shown that they are here for the wrong reasons, they will be banned without warning. For example, if a player joins the game simply to spam an IP in the chat, we will skip the punishment system, and they will be given an automatic ban.
General Offense: CHAT WARNING | General Offense: 4 HOUR MUTE | Recurring Offenses: 1-2 DAY MUTE
○ (RESPECT) Sexual Harassment, Threats, Offensive Language, and Discrimination ○
There will be no tolerance for unwelcome sexual advances, racism, sexism, homophobia, trans-phobia, nor language that may cause discomfort. This includes threats of any kind, jokes about sexual abuse, death threats, religious matters, etc.
○ (RIOTS) Attempting to fuel or start a riot, spam, protest or anarchy among players ○
Spamming, encouraging large groups to mass-spam, or causing trouble in general. All issues can be resolved by bringing it up in a civilized manner to staff members.
○ (LANGUAGE) Incorrect usage of crude language or insults ○
Regardless of whether the victim is willing or if the attacker is joking, crude language will be punished so long as he/she is using the crude language incorrectly. Swearing is permitted to an extent, and will result in a mute if used incorrectly.
○ (LINKS) Inappropriate / Horror Links or Images ○
In consideration of younger players, no inappropriate or horror links or images may be shared in the chat. Other links may also be determined as unacceptable and punishable by the online staff. We allow certain ranks to post links in chat, respect it!
○ (STAFF RESPECT) Making a scene about decisions made by Staff / Disrespect ○
Any attempts to disrupt or discourage a staff member from performing their duty will not be tolerated. Issues with staff members should be brought up on the forums with valid evidence. Disrespecting staff or undermining decisions will result in consequence.
○ (POSITIVE HARASSMENT) Harassment to players attempting to provide support ○
Some examples of this include "Stop sucking up to staff" when a player attempts to help defuse an argument alongside a staff member. It is in our best interest to support these players in their efforts to better the community.
○ (IRL TRADES) Advertising in game items/money for out of game items/money ○
Due to the nature of these trades, they are considered high-risk activities and as such will not be permitted to be advertised in chat.
○ (DDOS) Denial of Service remarks, threats, or anything related ○
Chat messages related to inappropriate DDoS usage are subject to consequence, whether the opposing party is joking or not.
○ (Freedom) Chunk Buffer Limit ○
ShadowFreedom operates on a 20-chunk claim limit for all factions. Under no circumstances should there be over 40 consecutive chunks claimed by a single faction, their alts, or other factions friendly to them.
General Offense: WARNING
Recurring Offense: BANS / UNCLAIMS / DISBANDS
○ (SCAMMING) TP-Trapping in which Victims Cannot Escape ○
Where the victim CANNOT DIE, TPA, BREAK BLOCKS or WARP away. Essentially, if the victim will, if unassisted, end up trapped there for all eternity, it is illegal.
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (CHEATING) Any unfair modifications to Minecraft ○
Such mods include , see-through texture packs, auto-clickers, etc. Inquire with a staff member about mods you have doubts about. Approved Mods: Optifine, Minimap (WITHOUT player icons/ mob icons), Armor HUD, Damage Indicators, BetterPvP
General Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (CHEATING) Taking advantage of other in-game glitches/bugs ○
Using any glitches in the system without reporting - for instance, duplication of items. It is important to report any issues as 99% of the time items are not kept / rolled back, and result in the users banned. All systems globally are monitored and logged 24/7, follow the rules!
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (PERSONAL ABUSE) Sharing personal information about others ○
Nothing should be revealed about a player (social media usernames, address, last names, etc) that they do not want publicly known.
General Offense: 7 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (PERSONAL ABUSE) Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) ○
Any users involved in attacks towards players or the server will be subject to immediate consequence. DDoS Clarification: mass distribution of packets to "turn your internet off"
General Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
○ (ADVERTISING) Advertising other servers ○
Advertising full server addresses in the public chat or caught spamming to players via pm. Brief mentions in conversations (such as “come to mineplex”) will not be punishable unless excessive.
General Offense: 1 DAY TEMP-BAN
Recurring Offense: 1 MONTH TEMP-BAN
○ (JOKING) Imitations of Rule-Breaking ○
This means no imitating hacked clients, illegal mods, fake "DDoS / other threats" against your friends in public chat, or pretending to break a rule for attention or otherwise. Staff members have enough on their hands without having to differentiate whether your rule breaking is a joke - you will receive the consequences you would as if you were not joking.
General Offense: TO BE UNDETERMINED
Recurring Offense: PERMANENT BAN
o (NAMES) Having inappropriate or unacceptable usernames o
There are certain words we don't want in our chat, whether it's behind the player name, or just in the player name. Any player with a name containing word(s) in our chat filter will be permanently banned until the name is changed. These players may chat on alternate accounts, as it's the name that breaks the rule, not the player.
General Offense: PERMANENT BAN UNTIL CHANGE
WARNING: Any abuse of the following rules will lead to a warning being added to your account. Once you reach a certain amount of warnings, automatic punishments will follow.
3 Warnings: 5 Days Forum Ban |4-5th Warning: Additional 1 Week Forum Ban | 6th Warning: Permanent removal from the Forums.
○ Generality of the Chat Rules ○
Any rules applied to the chat in-game also apply to the forums on ShadowFreedom. Please refer back to the above section as a refresher.
○ Microposting (posting 2 words or under and/or without meaningful contribution) ○
This is considered unnecessary spam, often to increase message count, and will be handled accordingly.
○ Troll Applications Posts or Accounts or Troll Pots/Death pots ○
Accounts, posts or applications made solely to cause trouble will be removed, as will the account owner's main.
Will be 5 day banned if you have any Troll Pots/Death pots and you intend to use them.
○ Ban evading on the forums ○
Only applying to forums, if sufficient evidence shows that a player is logged in while owning a banned forums account, the ban will be extended and applied to the player's other accounts as well.
○ Recreating and Reposting Locked/Deleted Threads and Griefing ○
If player or alt account or another player is seen re-posting deleted threads or locked threads.
Griefing is a Violation to our terms and conditions and wont be acceptable it could be a 1 - 7 day ban depending on how bad you griefed.
○ Impersonating members of the staff team ○
Needless to say, one should not attempt to pretend to be an existing staff member, in order to get them into trouble.
○ Harassment to players attempting to provide support ○
Some examples of this include "Stop sucking up to staff" when a player attempts to help defuse an argument alongside a staff member.
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SHADOWFREEDOM RULE'S SAME AS TOTALFREEDOM RULE'S ○
Section 1 - Offenses that will normally result in a permanent ban. Note that a permanent ban is not a forever ban; it's essentially an indefinite ban and one can file a perm ban release request message if they wish to get off perm ban.
a. Obvious attempts to crash the server, esp. if the server has crashed, is locked, or unusable. While there could be countless examples, the most common would be a massive world edit that typically has no purpose other than to lag and crash the server.
b. Spam bot attacks that effectively deny use of the server or prevent proper administration of the server. For example, using a script that repeatedly logs in random names (server or telnet).
c. Threats to DDOS (distributed denial-of-service attack) the Total Freedom server, forum, TF admins, OPs/members or actual evidence of DDOS. Also, threats or evidence of DOX (publishing personal information of others without their permission) an OP, Admin, or Owner of Total Freedom. Actual cases of DDOS or DOX can also be referred to appropriate law enforcement authorities. Joking about DDOSing or DOXing somebody else or the server is still a violation per Section 3j but unless admins are absolutely certain it's a joke, it will be treated as a perm ban offense.
d. Serial griefer or troll. Generally somebody who commits repeated offenses under Sections 2 & 3, and fails to heed warnings and day bans (bypassing bans).
e. Logging in as the owner, admin, or known player (OP) more than once (see exception) or logging in as multiple admins and/or the owner. Exception: Logging in as the owner, admin, or known player (OP) just once is a perm ban offense if the poser asks for admin status, gains admin status via any means, uses or attempts to use any admin command (whether or not they gained admin status), commits any other offense (Section 1, 2, or 3) while posing, the poser has previously been temp/day banned for committing other offenses in the past, or there's evidence that the poser has attempted to pose on associated servers that use the TF plugin.
f. Using a chat, inventory, or mail spamming script more than once however if the server crashes or needs a restart because of the incident, even a one-time offense is perm ban worthy
g. Using an exploit that crashes individual clients or otherwise prevents somebody from logging into the server or using the server.
h. Filing a false griefer report on the forum in order to get innocent players banned or intentionally and falsely accusing other players of banning offense while on the server.
i. Repeated serious violations of the forum posting guidelines, threats or attacks made against the forum, or perm ban worthy threats made from the Total Freedom forum. Depending on the circumstances, an offender could be perm banned from the forum, server or both.
j. Admins that engage in rogue activity, rage quit, and mis-use administrative commands. Also, an ex-admin that repeatedly fails to abide by admin conduct rules.
k. Using difficult to trace commands or methods to grief (e.g brush sphere, lag machines) (admins must visually verify).
l. Scammers that request donations for the Total Freedom server. Total Freedom is a non-donation / non-pay server; if somebody ask for money to support the server, it's a scam. Admins who commit this offense will be treated as a rogue.
m. Posting links that contains viruses or malware.
n. Other extremely serious offenses not covered above. One example could be somebody threatening real life harm, terrorist threats, bullying, self-harm (also see Section 2), etc.
Section 2 - Offenses that will normally result in a 1-day ban. If offenses are committed when there are no admins online, it can result in a perm ban
a. World edits greater than 100000 blocks without obtaining notice / permission or spamming small world edits that clearly have no building purpose or are purely for trolling. If the server crashes as a result, the offense would normally fall under Section 1 (permanent ban).
b. Destroying other players builds. Causing accidental minor damage to other players builds and failing to repair. Note: For an accusation alone (admin unable to confirm), using RB with TBAN might be more appropriate but a day ban is still allowed (esp. if a griefer report is filed). Admins should also be on the lookout for false accuser might be false accusing (see para 1h).
c. Attempting to damage the spawn and failing to repair, prevent other players from spawning, and/or repeated spawn killing.
d. Attempting to trick other players into committing an offense (e.g. telling other players to /stop)
e. Using invisibility to commit griefing offenses.
f. Repeated offenses under Section 3, esp when a player fails to heed admin warnings.
g. Using a hack, mod, or other means to intentionally lag or crash other players (perm-ban offense if repeated)
h. Self-harm or suicide threats. For admins, if you don't believe the threat is serious and that's normally the case, (e.g. OP says give me admin or I'll kill myself), immediately day ban them and done. If you really believe the threat is serious (esp. if you know the person or based on what’s said), ban after urging the player once to contact mental health hotline (e.g. tell them to contact the suicide hotline for their country - see goo.gl/T7mFaJ ) and then you should contact the law enforcement authorities in your area and give them the IP of the person (you should have it from the ban), and they will contact the authorities where the person lives. If you can chat with them off-server, continue to urge them to contact their crisis hotline. Keep in mind if somebody is serious and you don't know what you're doing, trying to talk them out of it might push them to do it; let professionals handle it where possible. When I review the situation, I may contact the appropriate authorities if you haven't done so already. If the situation happens on the forum, PM me ASAP. If the player is an admin (not a senior), get a senior admin to remove the admin ASAP, ban them and contact me. If the player is a senior admin, contact me ASAP. The bottom-line is you must stop a player from continuing to talk about self-harm on the server as TF is not a hospital or mental health clinic; refer them as mentioned and end the conversation quickly by banning. In most cases, such talk about self-harm is designed to troll and it won't be tolerated (possible perm ban) but for those that might be serious, referring them to somebody that is qualified to help them is pretty much the only solution we have.
Section 3 - Offenses that will normally result in an administrative control action (e.g verbal warning, temporary 5 minute ban, muting, caging, smiting etc.) but not including a day ban. Repeated violations or failing to heed an admin warning can result in a day ban per 2g above. If offenses are committed when there are no admins online, it can result in a perm ban.
a. Personal juvenile insults of other players or admins and failure to apologize.
b. Racist or sexist attacks or harassment.
c. Invading privacy of other players when asked not to. For example, teleporting to other players even though they asked to be left alone however the other players need to well away from the spawn; no privacy should be expected at or near the spawn.
d. Posting links to scam, porn, or other sites that are designed to troll, solicit money, or obtain income from any TF website. A day ban can be imposed if the link disrupts use of a computer, threatens personal harm, or is otherwise illegal.
e. Creating or pasting builds that are designed to troll (e.g. hate symbols, porn, racism, etc.) but could also be an offense under 2a.
f. Changing other players nicks, obscuring nicks (hard to read) or using nicks that are clearly designed to cause offense and/or troll (e.g. using AdminsSuck as a nick)
g. Attempting to interfere with an admin in the performance of their duties.
h. Teleporting (e.g /tphere) other players without their permission.
i. Player uses a forbidden block (the server will alert it) or failed attempts to use admin commands in a malicious way (e.g. trying to deop and ban other players). If an OP successfully uses an admin command using some form of exploit (or gained unauthorized admin access), they are subject to perm ban per section 1.
j. Chat spamming (inc. spamming commands) or trolling to the point of being a nuisance to other players. Numerous examples (not all-inclusive) including begging for admin (or recommendations for admin), begging for money, sex RP, repetitiously asking to be staff on another server or repetitiously asking for other server recommendations, etc. Players who come on to just to spam advertise may be day banned immediately - see Sec 4h below for advertising allowance.
k. Clearing or spamming other players inventory. Admins may clear player inventories for security purposes.
l. Using potions to nuisance other players (use of potions could also be a Section 2 offense depending what's used)
m. Changing the world edit limit without asking permission.
n. Asking for donations (scamming for donations to Total Freedom is covered under 1L above). Legit donation requests can be posted in the forum. Admins especially must not request donations on the server or sanctions will result.
o. Using nicks or tags that imply you have an official position on the server. This includes any nick or tag with the words admin, executive, senior, owner, telnet, master-builder, architect, coder, dev, programmer, creative designer, mod, security, using a crew tag unless authorized by the crew admin, or any other nick or tag that the owner or an admin believes might suggest you have an official position with Total Freedom. Likewise, admins performing any kind of admin duties must use a tag that identifies themselves as admins; it can be personalized such as "cool admin" or "TF staff". Admins that are undercover or using alt accounts (not flagged as admin or impostors) should not use an admin tag or any tag that would identify themselves as a TF staff member.
WARNING: No matter how small the infraction, you are subject to a perm ban for any offense in section 2 or 3 if you get banned AND it causes any neighbors of yours who use the same ISP to be offline banned. If this occurs, you will have to file a perm ban appeal and agree to follow all conduct rules to avoid getting your neighbors unfairly banned.
Section 4 - Conduct that is allowed provided it doesn’t otherwise cause any offense under the above sections. This list is certainly not all-inclusive and generally only includes conduct that is allowed on Total Freedom but not usually on other public servers.
a. Players can OP other players.
b. Players can use client mods, hacks, or cheats provide they don't cause an offense listed in Sections 1, 2, or 3 above.
c. Players can login with a non-premium account provided they’re not posing as other regular players, admins, or owner. The only exception is when the server is temporarily placed into premium mode for security or crowd control purposes.
d. Players can use /socialspy or other similar chat monitoring tools, and it will not be considered a violation of privacy. Players who expect chat privacy MUST use off-server chat programs.
e. Players can use invisibility although admins may sometimes remove it in mass (inc. /invis smite) for security purposes.
f. Players can pose as famous players such as Notch provided such famous players don’t actually use the server.
g. Players or admins can speak in languages besides English as long as it’s in private (/msg) or in public for a short term duration. Under normal circumstances, English is the commonly used language of Total Freedom and players should use it, esp when other players need assistance. Using languages other than English to troll or secretly insult another player or admin is not allowed.
h. Advertising another server (or other legitimate services) or requesting another server to join provided it’s done once in any given 10 minute period. Advertising a server or service more than once in 10 min period (even if done by different players) or repeatedly requesting for other servers to join is a spamming offense.
As i said our forum rule's are the same as the TotalFreedom one so make sure to follow it!
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