Post by Jay on Aug 19, 2020 12:00:16 GMT
To help govern conduct on Freedom and any associated platforms (e.g. the forums and Discord), the following policy will be put into place immediately. This policy may be amended upon further notice. The policy is divided into 4 sections. Section 1 is a list of offenses that could result in a permanent ban, section 2 is a list of offenses that could result in a day ban, section 3 is a list of offenses that could result in a temporary administrative control action such as a 5-minute temporary ban muting, caging, etc., and section 4 is a list of allowed actions that might not be allowed on other servers but is allowed on Freedom. The lists are not all-inclusive; if a potentially unlisted offense is committed, an administrator can take any needed action to protect the safety and security of the server. If such a case occurs, the administrators should suggest a change to this policy to add any new offenses. Admins that violate these conduct rules (on the server or in official / unofficial Freedom channels) are subject to possible suspension or sanctions.
Section 1: Permbannable offenses
a. Obvious attempts to crash the server; ex. a massive world edit that has no clear purpose other than to lag/crash the server
b. Spam bot attacks
c. Threatening to DDOS or DOX another player or staff member
d. Attempting to place malware on another user's computer or device
e. Threatening to commit any act that is a permbannable offense under 1(c) or 1(d)
f. Serial griefing or trolling
g. Logging in as the owner, a staff member, 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
h. Doing anything that causes individual players/clients to crash with the intent of doing so
i. Admins engaging in rogue activity as well as an ex-admin failing to abide by admin conduct rules
j. Extreme cases of griefing, esp. taking part in an organized grief team on the server or griefing a large amount of builds on the server
k. Posting links to URL's that contain viruses, malware, child porn, phishing, any link that could be used to secretly and purposefully collect personal information that could be used to DDOS or DOX, or any other illegal material under US & Canadian law
l. 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), and major criminal acts.
m. Forum ban. Forum members that get banned under the forum rules can also be subject to IP perm ban on the server and discord server, they will not be allowed on the server / discord server until the forum ban is removed. Those who are perm banned on both the server and forum can file an appeal via email.
It should be noted that any bannable offense under section 2 that inadvertently results in an innocent player getting rangebanned will automatically result in a permban.
Section 2: Offenses that will usually result in a 1-day 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), tempbanning might be more appropriate, but a day ban is still allowed (esp. if a griefer report is filed)
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 //replacenear 9000 air dirt or /stop) or falsely accusing other players of banning offense while on the server (falsely accusing other players of perm ban offense will result in perm ban). Also, encouraging others to grief.
e. Repeated offenses under Section 3, esp when a player fails to heed admin warnings.
f. Self-harm or suicide threats and suggestions. In most cases, such threats aren't serious (e.g. give me admin or I'll kill myself, KYS) and it should be considered a Section 3 offense (smite, mute, etc.). If you believe the threat is serious, urge them to contact a hotline or go to a hospital, day ban, and report on the forum in the admin section. If the person making the threat has a forum account, please note it when you report the situation. If you know the person IRL and can contact authorities, feel free to do so. When such a situation occurs, the most senior admin on the server should handle it but do handle such incidents as fast as possible and don't engage in any discussion with the person making the threat except to tell them to get urgent assistance in real life. Trolling suicide threats or serious suggesting others commit suicide will not be tolerated; a perm ban sanction can be imposed and admins who do it will be removed from from status as well. If one is seriously depressed and is having self-harm thoughts, the server is the wrong place to be - go to a hospital or urgent care and stay off the server until your health crisis is addressed.
g. Building pornographic builds
h. Violating the three-strike rule with any Section 3 violation
Section 3: Offenses that will normally result in administrative action
a. Ethnic, racist, religious, sexual, sexual orientation type slurs, insults, and harassment.
b. 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.
c. Creating or pasting builds that are designed to troll (e.g. hate symbols, racism, etc.) but could also be an offense under section 2.
d. Nicks, tags, skins, custom logins, and text chat must be clearly readable and must otherwise comply with all other conduct rules. Using techniques to obscure text or troll is not allowed; this can include use of spinning text, text over text, strikethroughs, and troll names (e.g. adminsucks) among other ways. Not every possible example can be listed or thought of, and admins have different tolerances as to what might be clearly readable or is trolling. In such cases, an admin can make a subjective decision if no other admin is on. If multiple admins are on, just two admins need to agree there’s a problem or the senior ranking admin decides if two can’t agree. For example, if two admins agree that a certain kind of grey text is too hard to read, it’s too hard to read at that time and a temporary restriction can be imposed. As such, admins should avoid applying sanctions and simply change the person’s nick or text type to comply. Sanctions would only apply if the person continues to violate the restriction or if the person is violating other conduct rules in the process. Lastly, keep in mind that the subjective restriction decisions are only for that time and are not permanent. For admin custom login problems, a senior admin or higher can direct a change if they believe the custom login is not in compliance with server conduct rules.
e. Attempting to interfere with an admin in the performance of their duties.
f. Teleporting other players without their permission.
g. Player uses a forbidden block (the server will alert it) or failed attempts to use staff 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.
h. Chat spamming (inc. spamming commands or mail spam) or trolling to the point of being a nuisance to other players. Numerous examples (definitely not all-inclusive) including begging for admin (or recommendations for mod), begging for money, sex chat/RP, telling players to do Alt + F4 for free admin or similar buffoonery, repetitiously asking to be staff on another server or repetitiously asking for other server recommendations, players that advertise outside the rule limits per section 4, etc.
i. Clearing or spamming other players inventory. Admins may clear player inventories for security purposes.
j. Using entities like potions, snowballs, arrows, eggs, etc to nuisance other players such as spamming them (use of potions could also be a Section 1 or 2 offense depending what's used)
k. 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, moderator, 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 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 "Fredom 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 Freedom staff member.
l. Using a particular command when instructed by an admin or owner not to do so; the admins should only make such an instruction when the command is causing server lag or instability or disrupts other players. An example could be a /speed command that has too high a value. If the player ignores the instruction and the server requires a restart, a day ban will be enforced per section 2.
Section 4: Things that players are *generally* allowed to do on Freedom
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 any available 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 and disguises although admins may sometimes remove both in mass (inc. /invis smite) for security purposes. Note: You should avoid building (or removing/damaging/editing builds, inc. your own) while invisible as you could be subject to a no-notice roll-back if there's a complaint of invis griefing.
f. Players can pose as famous players such as Notch provided such famous players don’t actually use the server.
g. Although English is the most commonly used language of Freedom, use of other languages besides English is allowed provided it's not do so just to troll, spam, or insult another player or admin.
h. Advertising another server (or other legitimate services) or requesting another server to join provided it’s done once in any given 1 hour period. Players that use the server purely for advertising are also subject to sanctions or if they use a script to advertise. If one advertises outside these rules, a sanction such as a warning, mute, or temp ban will be issued per rule 3h. Players that repeatedly violate the advertising rule after a sanction or players that repetitiously spam adverts using a script or other means are subject to a day ban or perm ban as necessary.
i. Players are rightfully allowed to criticize the server and its staff, and will not be punished, so long as racism is not present.
Section 1: Permbannable offenses
a. Obvious attempts to crash the server; ex. a massive world edit that has no clear purpose other than to lag/crash the server
b. Spam bot attacks
c. Threatening to DDOS or DOX another player or staff member
d. Attempting to place malware on another user's computer or device
e. Threatening to commit any act that is a permbannable offense under 1(c) or 1(d)
f. Serial griefing or trolling
g. Logging in as the owner, a staff member, 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
h. Doing anything that causes individual players/clients to crash with the intent of doing so
i. Admins engaging in rogue activity as well as an ex-admin failing to abide by admin conduct rules
j. Extreme cases of griefing, esp. taking part in an organized grief team on the server or griefing a large amount of builds on the server
k. Posting links to URL's that contain viruses, malware, child porn, phishing, any link that could be used to secretly and purposefully collect personal information that could be used to DDOS or DOX, or any other illegal material under US & Canadian law
l. 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), and major criminal acts.
m. Forum ban. Forum members that get banned under the forum rules can also be subject to IP perm ban on the server and discord server, they will not be allowed on the server / discord server until the forum ban is removed. Those who are perm banned on both the server and forum can file an appeal via email.
It should be noted that any bannable offense under section 2 that inadvertently results in an innocent player getting rangebanned will automatically result in a permban.
Section 2: Offenses that will usually result in a 1-day 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), tempbanning might be more appropriate, but a day ban is still allowed (esp. if a griefer report is filed)
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 //replacenear 9000 air dirt or /stop) or falsely accusing other players of banning offense while on the server (falsely accusing other players of perm ban offense will result in perm ban). Also, encouraging others to grief.
e. Repeated offenses under Section 3, esp when a player fails to heed admin warnings.
f. Self-harm or suicide threats and suggestions. In most cases, such threats aren't serious (e.g. give me admin or I'll kill myself, KYS) and it should be considered a Section 3 offense (smite, mute, etc.). If you believe the threat is serious, urge them to contact a hotline or go to a hospital, day ban, and report on the forum in the admin section. If the person making the threat has a forum account, please note it when you report the situation. If you know the person IRL and can contact authorities, feel free to do so. When such a situation occurs, the most senior admin on the server should handle it but do handle such incidents as fast as possible and don't engage in any discussion with the person making the threat except to tell them to get urgent assistance in real life. Trolling suicide threats or serious suggesting others commit suicide will not be tolerated; a perm ban sanction can be imposed and admins who do it will be removed from from status as well. If one is seriously depressed and is having self-harm thoughts, the server is the wrong place to be - go to a hospital or urgent care and stay off the server until your health crisis is addressed.
g. Building pornographic builds
h. Violating the three-strike rule with any Section 3 violation
Section 3: Offenses that will normally result in administrative action
a. Ethnic, racist, religious, sexual, sexual orientation type slurs, insults, and harassment.
b. 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.
c. Creating or pasting builds that are designed to troll (e.g. hate symbols, racism, etc.) but could also be an offense under section 2.
d. Nicks, tags, skins, custom logins, and text chat must be clearly readable and must otherwise comply with all other conduct rules. Using techniques to obscure text or troll is not allowed; this can include use of spinning text, text over text, strikethroughs, and troll names (e.g. adminsucks) among other ways. Not every possible example can be listed or thought of, and admins have different tolerances as to what might be clearly readable or is trolling. In such cases, an admin can make a subjective decision if no other admin is on. If multiple admins are on, just two admins need to agree there’s a problem or the senior ranking admin decides if two can’t agree. For example, if two admins agree that a certain kind of grey text is too hard to read, it’s too hard to read at that time and a temporary restriction can be imposed. As such, admins should avoid applying sanctions and simply change the person’s nick or text type to comply. Sanctions would only apply if the person continues to violate the restriction or if the person is violating other conduct rules in the process. Lastly, keep in mind that the subjective restriction decisions are only for that time and are not permanent. For admin custom login problems, a senior admin or higher can direct a change if they believe the custom login is not in compliance with server conduct rules.
e. Attempting to interfere with an admin in the performance of their duties.
f. Teleporting other players without their permission.
g. Player uses a forbidden block (the server will alert it) or failed attempts to use staff 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.
h. Chat spamming (inc. spamming commands or mail spam) or trolling to the point of being a nuisance to other players. Numerous examples (definitely not all-inclusive) including begging for admin (or recommendations for mod), begging for money, sex chat/RP, telling players to do Alt + F4 for free admin or similar buffoonery, repetitiously asking to be staff on another server or repetitiously asking for other server recommendations, players that advertise outside the rule limits per section 4, etc.
i. Clearing or spamming other players inventory. Admins may clear player inventories for security purposes.
j. Using entities like potions, snowballs, arrows, eggs, etc to nuisance other players such as spamming them (use of potions could also be a Section 1 or 2 offense depending what's used)
k. 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, moderator, 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 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 "Fredom 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 Freedom staff member.
l. Using a particular command when instructed by an admin or owner not to do so; the admins should only make such an instruction when the command is causing server lag or instability or disrupts other players. An example could be a /speed command that has too high a value. If the player ignores the instruction and the server requires a restart, a day ban will be enforced per section 2.
Section 4: Things that players are *generally* allowed to do on Freedom
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 any available 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 and disguises although admins may sometimes remove both in mass (inc. /invis smite) for security purposes. Note: You should avoid building (or removing/damaging/editing builds, inc. your own) while invisible as you could be subject to a no-notice roll-back if there's a complaint of invis griefing.
f. Players can pose as famous players such as Notch provided such famous players don’t actually use the server.
g. Although English is the most commonly used language of Freedom, use of other languages besides English is allowed provided it's not do so just to troll, spam, or insult another player or admin.
h. Advertising another server (or other legitimate services) or requesting another server to join provided it’s done once in any given 1 hour period. Players that use the server purely for advertising are also subject to sanctions or if they use a script to advertise. If one advertises outside these rules, a sanction such as a warning, mute, or temp ban will be issued per rule 3h. Players that repeatedly violate the advertising rule after a sanction or players that repetitiously spam adverts using a script or other means are subject to a day ban or perm ban as necessary.
i. Players are rightfully allowed to criticize the server and its staff, and will not be punished, so long as racism is not present.