Rllmuk Forum Rules

General Rules:

• No posts or topics made in CAPS LOCK.

• No pictures in signatures.
• No alts.
• No Hax0rz.
• No drugs talk.
• No links to roms, warez or torrent sites.
• No embedded links, images or videos of pornographic material.
• Spam accounts will be permanently banned and their threads deleted.
• Racist, sexist and homophobic remarks will result in a 3-day ban. The committee may
decide to extend the ban depending on the nature of the remark.
• NSFW topics and links must be marked as such. Embedded images that are NSFW
are forbidden unless the topic is labelled as NSFW. If a topic is not labelled NSFW all
NSFW images must be linked offsite.
• Posts and topics made in A+F that are not announcements or concise feedback will
be deleted or moved to the relevant folder (ie Off Topic).
• Posts in Ask the Forum should be useful and courteous. No jokes, arguments or
larking around.
• Posts and forum accounts will not be deleted on request, or ever.
• If you wish to promote a business, signature links are fine. If you wish to request
money from the forum, or create a topic about your business, permission must be
obtained from the RSC Committee.
• Legal threats, however veiled, made to the forum, its officers or its members, will
result in a permanent ban.

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Warns

A warn will be given when a moderator believes you have broken the forum rules. One warn
increases your warn rating by 20%. Reaching the 100% limit will result in an automatic 3 day
ban. Warns are removed once a year has passed since the offence.

Warnable offences:

Abuse - This mainly refers to verbal abuse, but can extend to emotional abuse as well.
Swearing at someone in an insulting manner will get you a warn. Whilst we realise that
everyone likes to insult their friends in a jokey manner, the moderators do not know who
your friends are. If a comment appears to be abuse to a moderator, then it is likely you will
receive a warn.
Trolling - On rllmuk, trolling is defined as the process of entering a discussion with the intent
to either derail the topic, provoke an inflammatory reaction or ruin the thread for the
people posting in it. Obviously, these terms are open to interpretation, and it is the
interpretation of the moderators which counts on this issue. If you are warned for trolling,
the burden of proof will be on you to show why you were not trolling.

Bans

All bans are recorded in the Bans thread(link)

Types of ban

Cooling off ban (12-24 hours) - If you are drunk and spamming the forum, or in a particularly
irate and abusive mood, the moderators may feel the need to ban you until you have
calmed down.

Warn ban (3 days) - If you reach a 100% warn level you will be banned for three days
without recourse to appeal, regardless of the correct or incorrect nature of your last warn.

Mod ban (1 hour to 1 month) To avoid having an exhaustively long set of rules, there may be
times in which a moderator feels the need to ban a member for an offence that is not listed
in the rules themselves. If this happens, then the moderator will be obliged to inform the
other moderators of their decision, so that a consensus can be drawn over the issue. If the
ban is longer than two weeks, it will require majority consensus from the mods. If the issue
requires an alteration to the forum rules, then the committee will be included in the
discussion.

Committee ban (1 month+) - Bans longer than a month are at the discretion of the
committee. They will be decided on a majority vote. Subsequent committees are free to
readmit banned members as they see fit. If a member of the forum is considered to be
persistently or seriously disruptive, then the moderators have the option of referring them
to the committee for a decision to be made on whether or not they are banned for longer
than a month.

Appealing a warn or a ban:

Warns can only be appealed by the user who received the warn.

If you wish to appeal a warn or a ban that you have received there is a two stage procedure
you can follow:
Stage 1

PM a moderator. Highlight why you believe that you should not have been given a warn,
and if you are able to, give proof.

Ie. User 1 is warned for swearing at User 2. User 1 and User 2 are friends, so both of them
PM the moderator in question to inform them that the warn was unwarranted.

Should the moderator not agree that the warn or ban is unwarranted, then you must move
on to stage two.

Stage Two

PM another moderator. Again, highlight the reasons why you believe the warn should be
rescinded. State why you disagree with the decision of the first moderator. A thread will
then be created in the mod folder and the moderators will discuss your points. Their
decision will be posted in the thread, and the thread will be locked and moved to A+F, so
that people can view the final decision.

In the case of a committee ban. The procedure is the same, but PMs should be sent to a
committee member, rather than a moderator.

Once both of these stages have been completed the matter will be considered at an end.