1.1 No malicious spamming. Malicious spamming is defined as the actions creating a lot inefficient, unproper(1), or aggressive comments. These actions may result in a warning.
1.2 Be kind to one another. Do not attack, smear, insult other members. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered (2).
1.3 Don't be toxic. Overly sarcastic messages, unkind behaviours, biased, discriminatory, corrupt comments will classify as being toxic. Warnings will be delivered when the first, or second, third violation of the rule. Then, depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.4 Don't do something against the club, or Terms of Service. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.5 No griefing testing/working process(3). Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.6 Follow Terms of Service. These are the common behaviours that may get your accounts disabled:
Creating unauthorized alternative accounts.
Cheat with Stockfish, or any engines.
Create a lot alternative accounts and self-farming.
Sandbagging by losing a lot elo on purpose.
2. Fairly voting
2.1 You may not vote on your own variant in the testing process. The self-voting will get deleted.
2.2 The completely pointless, trolling, biased, alliance votes will not be counted.
2.3 Vote requires at least one game after submission if it isn't Pre-VU variant.
2.4 Completely reason-less or pure yap votes (according to discussion) will get deleted as well. Once there's a retest request with reasonable reasons, testers should retest the variant.
3. No admin power abuse.
3.1 Do not delete others' comments randomly. All of the comments deletion must have a proper reason, and you must mention them in forum.
3.2 Do not ban/mute/demote others if no rules are violated.
3.3 Do not change forums description randomly, nor variants descriptions.
(1) unproper, stands for the comments that may be considered offensive, or may start a conflct. (2) All types of punishment: timely demotion (from 1 week to 1 month); mute (1 week to 2 months); abilities restriction (voting, forums creating, etc); ban (from 1 month to forever). (3) Behaviours that highly harmed the community's progress.
For keeping the Community friendly and thoughtful, according to the theme of Reforms, Formulating these rules:
Note that while on the below clubs/server, these rules should still be adhered to.
Variants.Universe
Games Playing
Discord Server
In a nutshell:
1. No Griefing Actions.
1.1 No malicious spamming. Malicious spamming is defined as the actions creating a lot inefficient, unproper (1), or aggressive comments. These actions may result in a warning.
1.2 Be kind to one another. Do not attack, smear, insult other members. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered (2).
1.3 Don't be toxic.
Overly sarcastic messages, unkind behaviours, biased, discriminatory, corrupt comments will classify as being toxic.
Warnings will be delivered when the first, or second, third violation of the rule. Then, depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.4 Don't do something against the club, or Terms of Service. Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.5 No griefing testing/working process (3). Depending on the multiple violations of the rule, different types of punishment would be delivered.
1.6 Follow Terms of Service. These are the common behaviours that may get your accounts disabled:
2. Fairly voting
2.1 You may not vote on your own variant in the testing process.
The self-voting will get deleted.
2.2 The completely pointless, trolling, biased, alliance votes will not be counted.
2.3 Vote requires at least one game after submission if it isn't Pre-VU variant.
2.4 Completely reason-less or pure yap votes (according to discussion) will get deleted as well. Once there's a retest request with reasonable reasons, testers should retest the variant.
3. No admin power abuse.
3.1 Do not delete others' comments randomly. All of the comments deletion must have a proper reason, and you must mention them in forum.
3.2 Do not ban/mute/demote others if no rules are violated.
3.3 Do not change forums description randomly, nor variants descriptions.
(1) unproper, stands for the comments that may be considered offensive, or may start a conflct.
(2) All types of punishment: timely demotion (from 1 week to 1 month); mute (1 week to 2 months); abilities restriction (voting, forums creating, etc); ban (from 1 month to forever).
(3) Behaviours that highly harmed the community's progress.