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I’ve heard that lately people have been complaining about the chat rules. I’ve decided the best thing to do is to explain why each chat rule exists and allow all of you to suggest new rules or improvements to the current rules to try to make chat better to be on. The Rule is in Bold, the explanations are in red. With Oagal and even Fort, there were no visibly stated chat rule because people knew better and would listen to the mods. The mods also understood that their spot could easily be taken away and they could be replaced. That has changed however.
Mods are more abusive with their power because their punishment isn’t threatening enough. If certain rules were lifted, the new freedom would be abused by both mods and members therefore forcing us to re-instate that rule. This is why we must have some sort of rules for chat. At night, especially after 12:00 EST when most kids are asleep (At least they have been whenever I’m on at 12:00 EST) so the rules are lifted a little and people are given more freedom.
1. No Cursing
This rule is a little obvious due to the age of the audience that ACP is geared towards. ACP, and CP in general. usually first attracts the group of kids who are somewhere between 4th grade and 8th grade. While accounting for the language level that those kids are used to experiencing in their daily lives we must also account for the kids younger than them. That is why we limit the cursing on chat. “Major” cursing, the F word, MF word, both B words are especially not acceptable. For the minor curses, it is up the the moderator’s digression. W ask that especially during the day the cursing be kept to the bare minimum.
In the past parents have complained to the ACP leader about the language level on chat and kids have been pulled out of ACP due to it so this rule helps to prevent that.
2. Moving Smilies
This rule was created by Saint due to lag (she had dial-up connection). During battles, when chat fills up, chat lags. To help prevent some of the lag we ask that you comply with this rule and try to keep only 3 moving smileys in your name at all times. This rule is mainly focused on the colorful flashy smileys that are creating using multiple powers, not the “public” pre-made smileys from Xat itself.
3. No Advertising
Sometime chat gets spammed with links. We understand that ACP chat is a good place to advertise your army to try to get recruits or advertise your new CP news site. It is also our chat and we ask that other armies do not come on and advertise their site to our troops. We try not to do it on your chat, please don’t do it on ours.
4. Causing Fights
This rule basically means, don’t be a jerk, don’t troll, don’t get into an argument just for the sake of arguing (I love to argue, but even I realize the need for this rule). During a fight some people take a side and the rest have to wait around till its over because they aren’t able to talk on main chat without being talked over or interupted by the two sides fighting and yelling at each other. Please try to avoid starting a fight on main chat.
5. Innapropriate Doodles
As I said about the language/cursing, due to the average age group in ACP, try to keep doodles clean of inappropriate or dirty drawings.
6. Personal Info
This one is for your own safety. Never give out your name, address, phone number, etc….. to someone else. You don’t know them, you don’t know how old they are or what they are going to do with it. In the long run its always best to keep your personal information unknown. State/country is OKAY but I advise against it.
7.Cyber Bullying
This one doesn’t have to be explained. Cyber bullying is a federal crime in the USA. If myself or any of the leaders hear that someone is being repeatedly cyber bullied, we will simply ban you forever and add your name to the ban list below with no chance to be forgiven. There is NO tolerance for bullying.
8.Modding
Leave the Modding to the 1ics or 2ics. Mod only the handpicked mods or the selected non-ACP mods. This varies depending on what the current leader prefers.
9. Asking to be mod or owner
You won’t get it no matter how many times you ask. Remember for every time you ask, 20 other people have asked that same owner for modship or ownership. It gets annoying and no one ever gets modded or ownered and stays modded and ownered by asking, you have to earn it through rank.
10. The Ban List
This list contains the people banned from ACP chat. They may be banned due to a bill from Senate or for continuously breaking rules or cyber bullying. These people are not to be unbanned. If a mod or owner consistently unbans them they will lose their position on chat.
If you have any suggestions for improvements or additions to the rules, either comment below or email me shaboomboom@armyofcp.com and I will come out with an updated set of rules soon.
~Shaboomboom
