Chat Guidelines

[==Viper==]

Chat Guidelines

The chat has been developed as an entertainment-platform, to make communication easier.

Please treat others with respect.

Drakensang does not have an age-limitation and we therefore have players under the age of 13. We ask you to keep this in mind and follow the guidelines below.


Please use the Forum for discussions, explanations, and support questions.


1. The Chat-Language is English
English chat @ the English DO version, German @ the German DSO version, etc.


2. Messages that disrupt the chat for other users,
intentional or not, are prohibited.

This includes, but is not limited, to:

-Blank Messages
-Sending multiple identical or near-identical messages
-Messages consisting of all or mostly capital.
-Intentionally hard-to-read messages (i.e. using all, mostly, or alternating capital letters;
using no spaces, capital letters, or punctuation; using large amounts of "1337 speak", etc)


3. No Guild-Presentation or Guild-Member recruiting allowed!

Please use the Guild-search Channel or Forum and its corresponding threads for such purposes.

If you are looking (“hiring”) for members or help – please follow these simply guidelines:

Wanted - Guidelines
-State what you're Guild is about.
-Provide clear information about how you're Guild works.
-State who you are looking for and what sort of talents they should bring along.
-If you are offering your expertise or help – please follow these guidelines.

Offering - Guidelines
-Introduce yourself
-State you're talent(s).
-Provide information on your playing-habit.
-Provide information about what sort of work / guild you were thinking about providing / joining.


4. Spamming

Messages that clearly advertise or disturb the chat flow are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Personal web site advertisements / Guild advertisement
-For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices – content in the Forum.
-Chain letters, and pyramid schemes
-Users are allowed to include a web site address in a signature, or providing a relevant link to another site at one point.
-Writing the same thing over and over again.
-Posting of Experience and Honor-
-Posting the stats of a kill-shot or your personal stats in the ranking will be considered as spam.
-Posting any web site address on the chat.

5. Offensive chatting

Messages of an offensive nature are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language or abbreviations of such
-Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
-Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
-Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
-Providing or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites
-Providing links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
-Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs
-Using two to five letter acronyms that represent bad language will attract a ban just as if you had said the words.
-Using *,#,@ or any other combination of numbers or symbols in a word to disguise it or push it past the filter will represent bad language and will attract a ban just as if you had said the words.


6. Flaming / Trolling / Illegal Matters

Messages clearly insulting other guild members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Name-calling
-Direct insults
-Offensive orders
-Insinuations
-Messages intended to annoy and/or offend other Guilds or Guild-Members by disturbing the nature of the chat are strictly prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to:

-Provoking other users to respond with “flames”
-Provoking fans of a particular guild or guild-member
-Providing false information as fact.
-Messages that violate or provoke others to violate the law are not allowed.
This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:

-References to drugs and other illegal substances or acts
-Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)
-Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, CD Keys, mod chips)
-Illegal copies of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, or any other type of media
-Methods of cheating in online games


7. Violating any of the above rules with a username or any part of the user profile (signature, quote, e-mail, IM) is considered a severe violation.


8.
The publication of personal information is strictly prohibited over the chat.

This includes, but is not limited to:

-Telephone Numbers
-E-mail-Addresses
-ICQ-Numbers

Please use the private messaging system on the forum for such purposes.



9. Respect the moderators.

- Do not argue or flame moderators for enforcing the rules.
- The Moderators have a right to privacy. Attempting to find out their game names and/or saying their game names on the chat is not permitted.
- If you have a complaint about a ban or a moderator, then please email the support team via the Contact Form.
- Publicly disrespecting a moderator, admin or supporter in chat will not be tolerated.


When these rules are broken, you may be banned.
You may or may not receive a warning depending on the seriousness of the breach.

Repeated bans will result in permanent loss of chat.

Please be aware that our Chat S-Moderators regularly review the bans of players. Repeat offenders will receive updated bans that are longer, and more adequately reflect their constant abuse of the above chat rules.


- Your Drakensang Team