A) Misbehavior
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A1. Flaming -
Insults, personal attacks, name calling, threats, or abuse, including retaliation.
Derogatory remarks or slurs against a person's race, religion, sex, age, nationality, etc.
If you are flamed, don't respond. Report it!
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A) Misbehavior
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A2. Filth -
Unreasonably profane, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, or adult themed content.
Using creative spelling which prevents the automatic detection and replacement of ‘filthy’ words with symbols.
[i]These forums are meant to be 'safe for work,' even if the game itself is not.[/i]
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A) Misbehavior
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A3. Trolling -
Intentionally posting to disrupt, evoke negative reactions, or spread misinformation. Provoking others into arguments for the sake of starting a flame war [i](including as a response to someone else breaking the rules)[/i].
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A) Misbehavior
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A4. Gatekeeping -
Trying to bully, harass, or intimidate other user(s) into limiting their participation on the forum.
[i]We want users to feel welcome to express their (sometimes unpopular) opinions. You can voice your disagreement with someone, but telling them to shut up or go away is antithetical to the purpose of having a forum for discussion.[/i]
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A) Misbehavior
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A5. Impersonating -
Acting as a developer, moderator, administrator, or other user.
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A) Misbehavior
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A6. Bypassing -
Using other threads or alternate accounts to circumvent a closed thread, banned account, or other moderator action.
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A) Misbehavior
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A7. Begging -
Asking for the game, game merchandise, participation by other users on or off the forum, or anything else.
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B1. Duplicate Threads -
Making a new thread about a topic when there’s already an active thread on that topic to use instead.
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B2. Bumping -
Short posts made so that a thread appears more active, without adding anything of substance.
[i]Any exceptions will be specified in a pinned thread in that section.[/i]
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B3. Necroposting -
Replying to old threads with outdated information.
[i]As a rule of thumb, any thread started before V1.0 is too old. Start a new thread instead (this won’t count as bypassing).[/i]
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B4. Annoying Text -
Posting in textspeak, all caps, invisible fonts, or other hard-to-read writing styles.
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B5. Flooding -
Essentially redundant content posted more than once.
Unintelligible or nonsense content.
Multiple short posts in a row.
[i]If you think of something more to add, edit your existing post.[/i]
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C) Bad Netiquette
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B6. Spam -
Regular users may only advertise (e.g. post external links) if the content directly addresses another user’s request or issue. Exceptions are made for links in:
[list][*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/10]Survivor Stories[/url] to content such as one-off videos, screenshots, and video channels (recorded and live-streaming) that focus on the game.
[*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/2]Servers[/url] to 7 Days to Die servers and server providers.
[*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/251570/discussions/5]Modding[/url] to your mods and other content related to modding 7 Days to Die.[/list]
[i]Anything else is considered spam.[/i]
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B) Bad Netiquette
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B7. Off Topic/Derailment -
Digressing from a thread or forum section’s established topic, such as by questioning a user’s choices or views outside the game.
Discussion in another user’s thread about the media itself (for instance, asking people to ‘like’ a video).
Content from new accounts, especially, may be promptly rejected if it's unrelated to 7 Days to Die.
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C1. Piracy -
Discussion of software piracy, including links to illegal downloads of games and methods to circumvent copy protection.
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C2. Cheats & Exploits -
Detailing how or where to gain an unfair advantage against other players.
[i]Wide dissemination of cheats & exploits negatively impacts the community, so only include the details when filing a bug report or messaging a moderator.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C3. Politics & Religion -
References to figures, groups, places, or ideas with current, real world political or religious significance.
[i]Raising these topics with strangers on an internet game forum always leads to never-ending arguments.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C4. Goodbye Threads -
Making a thread to announce that you are leaving the community or the game out of dissatisfaction.
[i]People come and go on the forums and start and stop playing the game for a variety of reasons. Users can determine your presence or absence simply based on your activity.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C6. Doom & Gloom -
Calling the game a scam or fraud.
Predicting the future failure of The Fun Pimps or their games.
Accusing any developer of lying to the community or planning to abandon the game.
[i]Such commentary is unwelcome. It is demoralizing to the community, potentially libelous, and not a constructive form of feedback.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C7. Meta-Forum Commentary -
Bringing up that you or any user is blocking a user, reporting a post, leaving or unsubscribing from a thread, or otherwise posting about how anyone uses, did use, or will use the forum.
Using the forum features as provocation, leverage, or talking points.
[i]It's not relevant in a discussion, and it's not the concern of other users.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C8. Naming & Shaming -
Content that advances damage to a person or server’s reputation in the community, for instance by alleging griefing, cheating, admin abuse, server bans, or other offenses.
[i]Allegations like these aren’t fair unless proven true, but the staff are unable to investigate what did or didn’t happen outside the forum.[/i]
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C) This Isn’t a Place For...
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C9. Backseat Copyediting -
Unsolicited objections or corrections to a user’s writing (language, spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs, etc.).
[i]Players of all languages and backgrounds can use the forum. If you can’t understand a non-English post, you may use translation software. Users posting in poor English or non-English may be ignored, but not harangued.[/i]
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