Forum Policies | Robin Grimmgall

We wish for everyone to recieve the finest from this community, so we request that you please read and follow these guidelines:

This forums is for users who are over the age of 16 globally. Those who are caught being underage will be banned until they are of age.
Spam will not be tolerated.
Vandalism is not tolerated. This includes adding gibberish, nonsense, full song lyrics, and blank posts.
Vandals' posts will be swiftly deleted and the vandal will be blocked.
If you require assistance with anything or if someone's vandalizing the wiki, please report it to Robin.
Swearing, in general, is permitted. However, swears directed at others, such as "Go f*** yourself, you b******!", is clearly meant to insult, and therefore are not allowed in such manners. Saying the same swear multiple times in one sitting can also be a form of spamming, which is also not allowed. Read the spamming policy to fully understand what spamming is.

This all applies to the chat as well.
Playful insults are allowed, as long as the user it is directed at knows it's a joke.
Please do not use slurs such as: n*****, f*****, t*****, ect. in any context.

All users are expected to be respectful of one another. This indicates that in chat, on articles, in edit summaries, in forums and in comments, you, the user, are expected to treat every user with respect, regardless of your personal feeling towards them. Hate speech (one that attacks a person and/or group based on their race, religious beliefs, sex, a disability they may have or one's sexual orientation) is also not tolerated, and if one persists such behavior after warnings, will result in a block from the wiki and/or ban from the chatroom.
Comments and forum posts are expected to be appropriate. No inflammatory, irrelevant, or insulting posts are allowed.
Insulting or harassing other users is never permitted. This includes general statements about groups of people. Insulting or harassing others will lead to swift and severe blocks. This includes the chat.

If you have been banned or blocked here, you may appeal it using the chat feature on this website or by contacting an admin's social networking account off-site.

If you attempt to insult, or otherwise argue with a sysop, you will be banned from the website, or if you are already banned, your ban will be extended. Please attempt to handle things in a civil, and mature manner, regardless if the argument is with a sysop, or a user in order to get positive results in what you're trying to accomplish.

If an argument occurs, and an admin is required to become involved, the assigned admin(s) will not display favoritism, or otherwise "choose sides", without hearing both complete sides of the story. If it results in one user being more in the right than the other(s), the other user(s) will suffer consequences as severe as the offense was, no more or no less. If both, or all of the users participating in the argument are equally in the wrong, both/all of the users will be punished, most likely with a ban or deletion of account.

Chat Policies

Do not force users to do anything, such as clicking on a certain link if they refuse to. It is considered harrassment/peer pressure, and it will not be tolerated.
Do not insult a user personally, or try to blackmail them into (doing) something.

Spamming is not permitted in chat. "Spamming" is a subjective term and what constitutes spam will be decided on a case-by-case basis at moderator discretion. Spam includes substances such as posting song lyrics line by line, ASCII art, abusing emoticons, and repeating the same string repeatedly.
Claiming your actions are not "spam" is not a defense against spamming, and will likely get you banned, or your ban extended.

Do not use the chat to solicit edits or visits to other sites. This includes another Wikia you may be involved with, or an outside chat or site. This does not indicate you may never link to these types of websites, only that it is inappropriate to repeatedly advertise other sites, or to repeatedly request that people come to "your" wiki, chat, or website. This policy also applies to forum and blog posts.
If you join our chat just for this purpose, you will be kicked and/or blocked.

If you "troll" (someone who creates statements for attention/negative reactions), you will be warned. If persisting after being warned, you will be banned from the chat for a week. If continued, it will lead to a permanent ban.
Mini-modding
Please do not mini-mod, defined as acting as an administrator/moderator when you are not one. Examples of mini-modding would be: "Please don't spam, Don't talk about another project besides Robin Grimmgall's, etc.." Please, retain it to the administrators/moderators. It is their occupation to protect the chat, after all. However, if all the administrators and moderators are away or if they appear to not be watching chat, it is perfectly fine to alert them when a delinquent is on. If done, however, for the first time, you will receive a 3 day ban. If continued enough, you will be banned forever.

Being "kicked" from chat indicates that you are removed from chat, and may come back immediately.
The chatroom uses kicks as a form of warning.
If you are kicked from the chatroom, you may return, and a mod will explain why you were kicked.
It is NOT appropriate to argue about being kicked. This will almost always result in an actual ban from chat.
Kicks may be given after warnings, or may be given in place of a verbal warning, at moderator discretion.

Being "banned" from chat indicates that you are removed from chat and may not return for a specified period of time.
Bans range in length from three days to infinite.
Bans will usually come after a kick has been provided and ignored. However, bans may be provided after an ignored warning, or without a verbal warning, at moderator discretion.

Violations of these policies will results in warnings, and, when necessary, blocks. The length of a block will vary, and depends on the severity of the offense, any previous bad behavior, and the blocking mod's discretion.
Severe offenses may not receive warnings, but skip straight to blocks. This is to be decided at admin discretion.