Thursday, January 10, 2013

Announcement: Global Rules




Global Rules of Runescape Community

    The following are the rules which govern all areas of Runescape Community. Please review these Rules prior to posting as ignorance of our policies will not exempt you from the consequences of your actions. Please also review any and all stickied rules in each forum prior to posting as some forums have rules which differ from other areas of the site.

    Individuals who break these rules will receive either a warning, a Rating deduction, a suspension ranging from three days to three weeks AND a Rating deduction or an automatic ban. Bans are not temporary; bans are permanent unless appealed. Please note that if you disagree with any action taken against you at RSC, you do have the right to appeal it by sending a Private Message to any Admin (Senior Moderator or King) or through our Rants Forum. All decisions made by Admin are final.

RSC Accounts

    1. Do not create more than one account on RSC. Secondary accounts will be banned. Accounts created to circumvent a ban or suspension will be banned and the original account will be banned as well. If you and other members of your immediate family have separate accounts, please inform a Senior Moderator of this so we can note your account.

   2. Do not use your account for the purposes of advertising another site. Accounts created to strictly advertise will be banned. We do allow advertisements for Clan members attempting to recruit individuals into their Clan. However, a clear link back to Zybez or RSC is required.

   3. Do not use your account to post objectionable material on this site. Objectionable material includes, but is not limited to: pornography, violent or graphic images, racist posts or images or links to download sites (which could potentially contain viruses or keyloggers). Accounts which make these type of posts or topics will be banned. This includes avatars, signatures and also your profile page.

  4. Do not use your account to promote any type of illegal Runescape related activity. This includes, but is not limited to: account trading, account buying or selling, account sharing, claiming to be able to give free membership or Player or Jagex Moderator status, promoting or using any type of botting or autoing program or any type of Runescape password/Bank PIN scams and the advertising or encouragement of private servers. Accounts which make these type of posts or topics will be banned. While our Rules mirrors those of Runescape, our Rules will always take precedent over RuneScape's rules.

   5. Do not use your account to claim that you are someone that you are not (impersonation) or post information which was not written by you (plagiarism). If you are accused of impersonation or plagiarism, you will be required to prove that you are who you say you are. Failure to provide proof will result in either a suspension or a ban.

  6. Do not use your account to make threats against the security of this website or any of its users. Individuals who willingly threaten another user will be either suspended or banned, based on the severity of the threats. Individuals who willingly threaten the security of RSC or Zybez will be banned.

Common Courtesy

  1. Treat all other users and RSC Staff civilly. Individuals who flame other users through posts, topics, signatures, avatars, private messages or their profile page will have the offending comment deleted and action may be taken against their account. It is the Moderator's discretion on whether you will be suspended for your comment(s).

  2. Please respect decisions made by any Staff member. If your account is edited, such as the removal of your signature or avatar due to offending material, and that image is replaced; you will be suspended. Remember, you do have the right to appeal any action taken against your account here at RSC through our Rants Forum.

  3. Do not evade the language filter on our site. Individuals who circumvent the language filter will be suspended. The language of the forums is English. Non-English posts will be deleted.

  4. Please avoid spamming our site by either posting abbreviated comments (lol, nice, 10/10, inb4lock), double posting or posting bump to bump a topic to the top of the forum. Spammy comments will normally be deleted, persistent spamming will result in a suspension. Individuals who intentionally spam in order to reach the 50 posts required for certain forums will be suspended and their post count edited to zero posts.

  5. Please do not create topics directed towards one individual or a certain group of people. Instead, please use the Private Message system to direct your comments directly to the people who wish to speak with. Topics intended for certain people and not the Community will be deleted. People who make negative public comments regarding actions taken against them by Moderators who are enforcing our Rules will be suspended. Please appeal all actions in private through our Private Message system to a Senior Moderator or use our Rants Forum to inform Admin your grievances in private.

  6. Please do not post introductory topics. We are glad that you are here but people will notice you more if you post constructively and intelligently. Introductory topics will be locked.

  7. Please do not encourage others to violate our rules.

Ratings

Below your avatar is a Rating number which ranges begins at zero and can either increase or decrease to 5 or -5, respectively. Individuals who post well, display intelligence and/or take the initiative to improve RSC or Zybez will normally receive a positive Rating point. People with positive Ratings will be considered for promotions more than individuals who post averagely or poorly.

People who break the rules will receive a negative Rating point. If the deduction brings your Rating into the negative, you will be suspended for a set period of time. The length of suspension are as follows:

-1: Three day suspension
-2: One week suspension
-3: Two week suspension(*)
-4: Three week suspension
-5: Permanent ban

     - Senior Moderators and Kings may, at their discretion, immediately ban an individual who has reached -3 or -4 Rating if the user is pervasive in their Rule breaking.

      These time-frames for suspensions is our standard scale. However, judging on the severity of the infraction, the length of suspension may be increased or decreased. Any adjustment to the length of suspension will go through a Senior Moderator or King and you will receive a Private Message informing you of the variance.

Ban Appeals

     You are allowed, after a period of time, to make a formal request to be unbanned if you are currently banned. Please go to the Ban Appeals forum [visible only to banned users] to appeal. Be certain to include the circumstances behind your ban (if known) and any pertinent information which you wish to provide to support your request to be unbanned. Please note that you must wait three months after your ban date to be allowed to appeal. Individuals who are found evading a ban will not be allowed to appeal. Once an appeal is sent, please allow two to three days to allow all Admin to make their opinions known. Buy RS/Runescape Gold 


   If accepted, you will be unbanned but placed at a -4 Rating. Please note that if you attain a -5 Rating again or you violate any rules which would normally result in a ban, any and all future appeals will be ignored.

   If rejected, we will inform you of our decision. You may reappeal in another six months. Buy/Sell Runescape Gold   buy diablo III gold     cheap dofus gold 

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