Hello! And welcome to our humble little forum!
The following is the Code of Conduct that we expect you to follow while you are a part of this community. Use of our forums constitutes acceptance and agreement to our Forum Code of Conduct. If you have any questions regarding our CoC, please contact any of our forum moderators/admin via private message or email.
It is extremely important for you to understand that this section of our Code of Conduct isn’t designed to cover everything. We may take action — issue a warning, ban your account(s) and/or IP addresses, lower your post count, delete/edit your post(s)/thread(s), etc. — if your conduct at ZedRP is counterproductive to the Code of Conduct’s principle guidelines.
Harassment/Forum Conduct
We have no tolerance for discrimination or harassment. You are in violation of this rule if the nature of your post discriminates, promotes hate, promotes violence or advocates hatred or discrimination against individuals, groups, races, cultures or organizations because of their ethnic/national origin, skin color, culture, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Ad Hominem comments/personal attacks towards anyone – staff, forum members, or a visitor who is likely to view it on the forums – is subject to the message being deleted and action taken against the user, regardless of how pertinent or thoughtful the rest of the message might be.
You may not bait/troll users. Bait / Trolling is defined as posting with a clear intent to provoke anger, incendiary posts, and behavior that results in other users violating the CoC.
You may not bait, insult, flame, or otherwise abuse a staff member. Staff members have to follow the same rules, and should you have a problem with a certain staff member, please contact a moderator or the Forum Management Team.
Usernames
Usernames must not be in violation of this Code of Conduct. We reserve the right to terminate accounts whose associated usernames are in violation of this Code of Conduct, or are otherwise deemed inappropriate and/or potentially offensive. Users may be invited to register under a new name at our discretion.
Spamming
Unless a thread or forum is designated as an area ok for spamming, you may not spam. Spam includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Excessive off-topic threads
- Posting nonsensical messages
- “Flooding” the forum with similar meaning messages
- Post-Count farming
- Inciting a forum war or riot
- Blatant advertising
- Messages without content
- Fraudulent activity (Pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.)
- Free giveaway links
Our forums aren’t the place to advertise your own site or forums or sites with similar content to ours outside of designated threads or links in your forum signature. Note that any user who seems to have created their account solely to promote another site will be permanently banned.
Pirated and Illegal Material
You may not encourage, post in support of, link to, or discuss activities, methods, and/or techniques involving piracy, cracks, multiplayer hacks, keys and key-generators. In addition, the following are grounds for moderator action on your post and/or account:
- Seeking help to create cracks, multiplayer hacks and key-generators
- Seeking missing files that are supplied with installation CD(s)
- Admitting to possess pirated materials, cracks, multiplayer hacks and key-generators
- Admitting to distribute pirated materials, cracks, multiplayer hacks, keys and key-generators
- Admitting to the use of cracks, multiplayer hacks and key-generators
- Uploading any such files to the ZedRP forum
Unauthorized access / Forum Security
Do not post personal and real life information of members without their express permission, whether that information is private or compiled from accessible sources. Do not access or attempt to access the accounts of others. Do not exploit or attempt to exploit bugs, vulnerabilities, or loopholes; whether they are disclosed or undisclosed. Do not penetrate or attempt to penetrate security measures of ZedRP's software. All intrusions will subject all your forum accounts to immediate termination, regardless of whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption, loss, or theft of data.
Users are responsible for the security of their ZedRP accounts. In addition, users are responsible for all activity made by them or anyone the user allows to use their account.
Forgery or Impersonation
Attempting to impersonate any person, including staff, using forged headers, instant messenger names, similar usernames (i.e. “Z4r4h”, “Z4rah”, “Zarahh”) in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited.
Porn/Sexually Explicit Materials
You may not post or link to pornography or sexually explicit materials. Note that some posts in-character may get suggestive, but let's keep the erotic role-play off the forums. If you are unsure whether what you wish to post may be in violation of this rule, please consult a moderator first before posting.
You may not post or link to shock sites, or any such excessively obscene material. If you are unsure whether what you wish to post may be in violation of this rule, please consult a moderator first before posting. Blatant violations of this rule will result in a permanent ban on your account.
Official Language
English is the official language of our forums because it is the common language between our moderators and users. Because we can not moderate conversations in a foreign language, you may not hold a continuous conversation in the forums in language other than English.
Moderation & Bans
- You may not evade a ban. Doing so will drastically lengthen your ban. If you believe your actions were not in violation of this Code of Conduct, you can appeal your ban by contacting the forum administration.
- You may not publicly complain about or demand a reason for another user’s ban, the deletion of a message, or the deletion/closure of a thread. Any discussion about warnings, bans, message deletion, thread deletion and thread closure should be done over private messages between the person concerned and the moderators.
- You may not post a message on behalf of a banned user.
- Do not post negative posts and discussions that are repeated over and over and over with no other purpose than to disrupt conversation. If you feel the need to say something, say it once and then move on. Do not disrupt multiple threads in order to get your view out.
- You may not post graphically-disturbing images as inline images (such that the images are displayed when users view your post). However, you can link to the images with a warning stating that the images are graphically disturbing. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE PORN.
- You may not post in a manner that is harmful to ZedRP. For example, “These forums suck. Go here!” or posting confidential documents relating to the website. If you do, the post will be deleted and you will be banned.
- You may not register multiple accounts with intent to violate any part of this CoC.
- You may not link to the forum logout page, disguised or not.