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Site Rules
This site is intended for the civil use of our members. As such, certain behavior while posting is expected. Any breech of these rules will result in appropriate disciplinary action at the administration's sole discretion, up to and including the full revocation of your access to this site. Global rules
While public discussion of moderator decisions is frowned upon, it is not expressly prohibited. We ask that if someone has an issue with the way a situation was handled to try to resolve the issue over PMs, as this will generally receive a more positive response than if someone is trying to address the situation in public. In the instance of a moderator decision or policy is questioned within a public setting, we ask that it is done in a respectful and constructive manner, otherwise see the rule regarding harassment, flaming, trolling, etc. Official warnings by moderators and administrators will now be idenifiable as yellow text, preferrably bolded, ie: "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." Rules for Posting
By posting to this site, you agree to the following terms: * No hate speech. This includes but is not limited to: racism, sexism, and bigotry. * No harassment. This includes but is not limited to: "trolling", "flaming", and antagonizing others for your own amusement. * No promotion of illegal activities. This includes but is not limited to: + Pirated software, commonly referred to as "warez". + Child pornography. + Instructions for how to commit a crime. + Scams, pyramid schemes, or other means by which to cheat people out of money. * Controversial topics should be discussed in the Controversial Forum - topics may be moved or split here as required. + Within this forum, anything goes, unmoderated, BUT may not leak to other forums. + This forum is not published in the RSS feed, in the recent posts modlet on the front page, or in the recent posts page, by entering the forum you accept that you may see upsetting content. + Illegal content, and direct personal attacks are also not welcome within this forum. * No pornographic material of any kind. * No posting of libelous claims against another party. * No spam. Generally defined as any unsolicited bulk advertisement. * No automatically generated posts. Including, but not limited to, the use of bots or other programs to post or handle registration. * No signature, profile, or post links promoting the activities of known copyright violators, code thieves, etc. * No posting of other user's email addresses in public without their prior consent. * No forking active threads to other websites. Linking and referencing is not prohibited. Rules for Content Submission
By uploading content to this site, you agree to the following terms: * You grant the site a non-exclusive license to distribute the material being uploaded. * You acknowledge that you are authorized to upload the material, either as the original copyright holder, an authorized agent of the copyright holder, or with the explicit permission of the copyright holder. * Uploaded content must comply with all relevant licensing that governs it. * Content removal requests will require written notice to the site administrators from either the copyright holder or their authorized agent. * No uploading of pornographic material. * No illegal content is to be uploaded. This includes but is not limited to: + Pirated software, commonly referred to as "warez". + Child pornography. + Instructions for how to commit a crime. + Spyware, malware, viruses, trojans, or tools used to hack into computers. + Tools used for the purpose of spreading spam, generally defined as any unsolicited bulk advertisement. Disclaimer
The administration reserves the right to make judgments on any material posted, uploaded, or submitted that does not clearly fall within one of these rules but is deemed to be offensive or falls outside the confines of general decency. IMC Rules
The MudBytes IMC2 Network Administrators (henceforth referred to as "we") would like to document the following set of guidelines for use of the sanctioned channels of the network. 1) The point of this network being up is not free speech. 2) This network is up for the following purposes: * To provide technical help for muds. * To provide a friendly space for chat between muds. 3) The network is not up for testing security of an IMC network. Attempting to exploit the servers is not ok, and will likely land you in hot water. If you find a security weakness please email the admins so it can be handled discreetly. Credit for discovery will be given to you when an updated release of the server code is released. 4) The following are not tolerated on public channels: * hate speech * racial slurs * social engineering hacks * unwarranted hostility * spamming * commercial advertising All of these will be judged by our subjective opinion of what constitutes a violation. Types of violations can be added to this list without warning by administrators. Inappropriate content (x-rated material), as long as it is marked as NSFW (Not Safe for Work), will generally be tolerated, however, excessively crude or offensive content may still warrant being asked to stop. 5) Please do not advertise your mud on a channel viewable by mortals of other muds. This is looked upon as poor conduct and will likely be met with a poor reaction. Many in the community work hard to get the players they have, and they would prefer to not have to deal with people siphoning them off via the IMC2 network. 6) If what you're doing is within the stated rules, but it interferes with others enjoying the network or it interferes with the network's operation in any way, count on being told to stop. 7) If you don't like these rules, set up your own network. 8) We will not help or support you in any way in setting up a server outside of our network. If you lack the understanding to set up a server and make channels on said server, you probably shouldn't be attempting to set one up to begin with. 9) You can file complaints to us by email, MudBytes Personal Message, or by explaining the problem on the appropriate area on www.mudbytes.net. We prefer to deal with complaints from the admin of the mud in question, since the responsibility for maintaining that connection is theirs. Please note that we are not here to play arbiters of inter-mud disputes. If someone is being mean to you through tells or on a private channel, you need to find some way of dealing with it yourself. Also, if someone logs onto your mud and starts abusing channels you haven't secured, this is not something we're in a position to control. 10) We are only human and will sometimes err in judgment. If you think we have made an error, please email one of us. Perhaps we banned your mud out of a misunderstanding. Perhaps the problem on your mud has been fixed. We try to be open minded about this stuff, if you try to be reasonable. Channel Guidelines:
inews This channel is for the display of Real World news by the news bots and, discussion of said news as has been displayed. imudnews This channel is for the display of Mu* related news by the news bots, and discussion of said news as has been displayed. igame This channel is for playing the games available from the IMC MegaBot and should be kept as close to PG-13 as possible. imusic This channel is for broadcasting your musical lyrics to the world. And for the discussion of music in general. Please try to keep swearing to a minimum, and keep things clean and free of offensive language. icode This channel is for the discussion of programming topics. Discussions should be limited to programming/coding. ibuild This channel is for the discussion of building topics. Discussions should be limited to building. ichat This is the flagship channel of the network for Immortals. Although we do not strictly outlaw swearing or crude language, please be civil. Please refrain from using language that is commonly considered to be racist, sexist, or degrading. Use your own good judgment so that we don't have to. We want people to join the network and stay, not end up driven off because of crude or offensive language. pchat This is the flagship channel for non-immortals on the network. Please do not advertise for players on this channel. ifree This channel will be the only channel where Guideline #4 will only apply in a very restricted sense. Anything goes. The only thing that will be deterred from this channel will be that which is illegal (eg. threats against the president, etc). Clarifications and suggestions:
- A channel may have guidelines more restrictive than the rules here show. Use your common sense and try to follow the guidelines of a channel. Showing up and expecting a channel to accept your topic and discussion habits no matter what is not really a good idea. - An email address in your imcinfo is not explicitly demanded, as you can see. However, it's *strongly* urged that you put a valid email address in there. This is because if someone on your mud is getting out of hand, or your connection is causing technical problems, we need a way to talk to someone in charge of things on your mud. - When someone on a mud is violating rules, they usually get a number of warnings, and if they are not admins, their admins are also notified as possible. Whether warnings are issued is obviously dependent on the type of behavior. Sufficiently disruptive behavior (at our discretion) can subject a mud to immediate action without warning. But this is extremely rare. Warnings are provided when reasonable. If the behavior doesn't stop, then that mud may be excluded from the channel where it's causing problems. If the mud then causes problems on other channels, it may be banned from the server entirely. This is a drastic and very unusual situation. - Sometimes a mud causes technical problems and we can't get a hold of an admin, something will have to be done to prevent the mud from connecting until an administrator of the mud can be reached. If your mud just won't connect to the server no matter what, something like this may have happened. Email us and we'll straighten it out. Administrator emails available upon request. |
