Rules

Game Violations
Rules for ranked (red and gold heart) games of mafia! These rules do not apply to unranked games. Ranked games in custom lobbies are exempt from these rules at the discretion of the lobby owner. Lobby Bans last for 1 to 3  months depending on behavior.
•	Game Related Suicide
Suiciding or intentionally vegging for any game related reason.
Expires in 5 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour game suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Trolling
Antagonizing other players, disrupting gameplay through actions or communications, or otherwise playing to get negative reactions from other players. Hipfiring can also fall under GT/Trolling depending on intent/scenario and is moderated on a case to case basis with discretion.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Game Throwing
Intentionally playing against your win condition or not playing to win. Includes fake claims made for any other purpose than strategy as well as voting someone based on a grudge. Forcing a draw (meteor) when you are not faced with an autolose situation falls under this category as well, since lynching/killing would give you a chance to win. Hipfiring can also fall under GT/Trolling depending on intent/scenario and is moderated on a case to case basis with discretion.
Expires in 5 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Insufficient Participation
Not participating sufficiently over the course of a game and/or an undefined period of time when addressed by another player or by a threat of votes or pinging. Sufficient participation does not include: Using gimmicks to speak - talking about non-game related things - Pretending to be AFK - vote flashing/using votes to communicate (excludes silencer setups and co.) Violation may also be applied if a user causes a loss due to a lack of game-related effort. This rule is only lightly moderated in red heart games.
Expires in 2 months
1.	Warning
2.	Warning
3.	Chat with a moderator and warning in PM
4.	24 hour suspension
5.	Lobby Ban
•	Lobby Camping
Deliberately joining multiple games with people who are trying to avoid you in order to antagonize them.  Lobby Camping is given only if there is proof of actual antagonizing. Mass Avoiding certain player also falls under this rule if there is no reason to avoid said player.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	Warning
3.	24 Hour Suspension
4.	Lobby Ban
•	Repeated Suicides
Repeated suiciding in multiple games. A suicide rate exceeding 10% is grounds for this violation. If the player does not lower his suicide rate under 10% in 1 month, he will get Lobby Banned. 15% is for immediate ban.  Provide a reference game when reporting for this.
Expires in 6 months
1.	Warning if the rate is over 10%
2.	Lobby Ban if rate is over 10% after 1 month OR 15%
•	Spamming
Repeatedly sending the same message and/or chat flooding. Includes vote spamming and Graveyard . In extreme cases, if someone has received ample warning, and gameplay is disrupted across several games, a violation may be given in unranked Main Lobby
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Cheating
Using outside methods to communicate with another player in the same game, using multiple accounts in the same game or repeatedly playing with the intent for another person to win regardless of your own win condition. Cheating over multiple games in gold hearts incurs an instant 3 month Lobby Ban and ineligibility to trophy for 8 months. Cheating over multiple games in red hearts incurs a 1 month Lobby Ban.
Expires in 12 months
1.	1 month Lobby Ban if cheating in red heart games.
2.	3 month Lobby Ban if cheating in golden heart games.
•	Copied Mechanics
Using any tool to copy & paste an in-game system message or night action/meeting to attempt to prove alignment. Taking screenshots of your game and showing them to other players to prove your alignmentis also falls under Copied Mechanics.  Faking, typing out or asking another user for any of the aforementioned articles may also result in a violation. Whispers, including messages from specific roles and timestamps of whispers are not included in this rule.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Encouraging Rule Breakage
Encouraging other people to suicide, spam, cheat or otherwise break a rule. ERB expires when the rule encouraged to break would have expired.
1.	Warning
2.	24 hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Lobby Trolling
Any disruptive actions in the lobby or lobby chat can be seen as lobby trolling, including leaving and rejoining games repeatedly. This rule also applies to unranked games.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
•	Outside of Game Influence
Using tools or processes outside of a game in a game including, but not limited to: posting on profiles, lobbies, or the forums revealing game-related information, clearly stated meta posted on profile, whether followed or not, reporting a player in a game in progress, using third party functions or sites to make in-game decisions, bribes or threats (such as karma, kudos, and reporting), pregame pact and using codes to clear yourself. Pretending to cheat as a reaction test also falls under OGI.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	24 Hour Suspension
3.	Lobby Ban
Community violations
Rules regarding community conduct. Please keep in mind that these rules apply site wide! Site bans last for 3 months. The mod team reserves the right to issue longer bans for particularly malicious behavior.
•	Hateful Comments
Any form of severe or excessive hate speech or hateful language based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, mental capabilities, and other personal circumstances.
Expires in 4 months
1.	Warning
2.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
3.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
4.	Site Ban
•	Harassment
Making repeated/severe personal attacks toward or slandering another Epicmafia user when the user has shown the harasser that he is offended. If filing on behalf of another user, one must show the consent of the harassed person.
Expires in 6 months
1.	Warning
2.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
3.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
4.	Site Ban
•	Bypassing Suspensions
Using an alt or creating a new account to bypass a suspension of any kind. Helping someone bypass by posting for them on the forums can also lead to this violation in some cases.
Expires in 6 months
1.	+1 month ban
•	Exploit Abuse
Abusing code exploits including, but not limited to, using scripts or posting hidden links anywhere on the site. Site ban will be given immediately for serious offenses.
Expires in 5 months
1.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
2.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
3.	Site Ban
•	Impersonation
When a player pretends to be another player, excluding disguising. The player being impersonated must file against their impersonator. Users found to have been impersonating someone, will be requested to stop/change their name.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning Or Site Ban depending on severity
2.	Permanent Site Ban on the account
•	Inappropriate Avatar
Avatar has pornographic content or is highly offensive. We will clear these whenever seen.
Expires in 3 months
1.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
2.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
3.	Site Ban
•	Inappropriate Biography
Bio has pornographic content or is highly offensive. We will remove these whenever seen. Covers backgrounds. Using code to change other users status, love status or other personal settings will also be considered inappropriate.
Expires in 3 months
1.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
2.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
3.	Site Ban
•	Inappropriate Content
Posting content anywhere on the site that could be considered derogatory, vulgar, or slanderous, including, but not limited to, the forums and comments. This includes, but is not limited to: swearing, off-site links, and inappropriate images. Inappropriate content that is found on the site will be deleted with or without prior notice. Bypassing the forum censor is moderated for Inappropriate Content, albeit follows a different scheme than shown here. Inappropriate Content is moderated in games.
Expires in 4 months
1.	Warning
2.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
3.	Forum, Comment, and Chat ban
4.	Site Ban
•	Inappropriate Name
Name has pornographic content or is highly offensive. Users found to have inappropriate names will be banned and they will be requested to change their name. Once the name has been changed to something appropriate, they can message a moderator to be unbanned and have the violation reduced to Inappropriate Content. The Inappropriate Content violation will expire 3 months after the name is changed.
1.	Permanent Site Ban on the account
•	X-rated Material
Posting links, images, or descriptions that moderators consider to be x-rated, including links and descriptions on the forums.
Expires in 6 months
1.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
2.	Site Ban
•	Outing of Personal Information
Outing personal or privileged information without permission. Multiple pieces or depending on the severity of the of information revealed may lead to multiple violations.
Expires in 8 months
1.	72 Hour Forum and/or lobby Suspension
2.	Site Ban
•	Sharing Account with Banned Users
Self explanatory. This includes allowing use of your account to bypass suspensions. Also includes giving your password to a friend and them giving it to a banned user. Your account is your responsibility.
Expires in 6 months
1.	1 Month Lobby Ban
2.	Site Ban
•	Site Spam
Spamming on the lobby wall, a report wall, on a players wall, or through private messages.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	72  Hour Forum Suspension
3.	Site Ban
•	Forum Spam
Creating duplicate threads, posting multiple threads in the wrong forum, post flooding, off-topic posts, and excessively bumping old threads. Minor offences can combine and lead to a violation.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	72 Hour Forum Suspension
3.	Forum, Comment, and Chat Ban
Report Violations
Rules that pertain to the report system and more.
•	Mod Abuse
Use of moderator or admin privileges for personal gain including but not limited to being selectively harsh on certain disliked players, or selectively lenient on favored players. Moderators being rude to the player base will not be tolerated either. This rule applies to lobby mods for Sandbox, Survivor, and Games. Report admin infractions by email to [email protected] with 'epicmafia' in the subject header.
•	Report Spam
Wasting our time by spamming the report section, abusing the report function, linking photoshopped/altered images in a report in order to attempt to apply a violation onto a user, or continuously posting useless reports. Includes commenting in reports after being asked to stop by a moderator. Reports will be filed for report spam by the moderators. If a user reports someone for it, they may receive a report spam violation.
Expires in 3 months
1.	Warning
2.	Warning
3.	Lobby Ban/Site Ban depending on severity
•	Lobby Ban
Used to signify lobby bans from Main lobby. Thus, there are no infringements. Most likely issued upon reaching the limit of certain violations.
1.	Lobby Ban
•	Note
This isn't a violation per se. It's here so that we can draw attention to reports against users in future. This has no infractions and doesn't count towards the 8 violation limit.
Expires in 1 months
•	Eighth Violation Ban
Accumulating 8 active violations across all accounts results in a Site Ban. Once all violations expire, the ban is lifted.