Gamer Dorks Universal Ruleset (GDUR)

Last updated 21 July, 2026.

We at Gamer Dorks strive to create a safe environment for our community and to create games that are fair for everyone.  In order to uphold these standards, the following ruleset will be enforced on all of our platforms.  This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Our website and server store.
  • Our Discord server and other online communities.
  • Our Twitch and other social media sites.
  • Our multiplayer games or game servers.

The following is an in-depth and detailed description of our rules.  Regardless of whether you read them, you will be expected to follow them.  Failure to follow our rules could result in suspension or a ban from wherever the infraction took place.  You will likely receive, but are not entitled to at least one warning before the suspension or ban.

Thank you for choosing us as your preferred video games, game servers, or online communities.

1. Support

Gamer Dorks offers support from our community team to assist in keeping the community safe and gameplay fair.  Do not refrain from contacting us if there’s anything wrong.

  • 1a. Avoid sharing too much information.
    • Gamer Dorks will never ask for ANY passwords or multifactor authentication keys.
    • Gamer Dorks will never ask for your IP address.
    • If you ever feel like you’re talking to someone sketchy, send us a new email to make sure that you’re really talking to us.
  • 1b. Contacting us via our Website.
    • We accept user reports, bug reports, application forms, punishment appeals, general inquiry, and management contact requests on our Website.
    • Open a ticket by visiting https://gamerdorks.net/open-a-ticket
    • Fill in all the fields with all relevant information, be as detailed as necessary.
  • 1c. Sending us an Email.
    • If our website is unavailable, contact us via email instead.
    • Email us at contact@gamerdorks.net.
    • Describe the issue in your email and include any information the support team may need to help you.
  • 1d. How NOT to contact us.
    • ONLY use one of the methods listed above.
    • Complaints and reports are strictly prohibited in the public conversation channels of our communities, games, or game servers.
    • Direct-messages on any of our platforms are not a reporting solution.
    • Pinging our staff members on any of our platforms are not a reporting solution.

2. Respect

All Gamer Dorks members are required to be kind and respectful to everyone, regardless of who they are.  There will be no exceptions.  Harassment, discrimination, and threatening behavior are not allowed here.

  • 2a. No harassment or bullying.
    • Harming the reputation of others is not allowed.
    • Lying or withholding information to hurt others is not allowed.
    • Singling out others for abuse is not allowed.
    • Witch-hunting is not tolerated.
    • Manipulation or Gaslighting are not allowed.
  • 2b. No discrimination or hate speech.
    • Hate toward people based on their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality, religion, disabilities, nationality, or any other characteristic that may make them different; is not allowed.
    • Slurs, or other hateful words used to demean or threaten people of a specific group, are not allowed.
    • Respecting a person’s pronouns and honorifics is required.  If you don’t know, ask; or use they/them pronouns.
    • Discriminatory “jokes” are still discrimination.
    • “Disagreeing” with the basis of someone’s identity is not allowed.  Keep it to yourself.
  • 2c. Respect boundaries.
    • Do not share personally identifying information about yourself or others.
    • Do not encourage people to share private information.
    • Avoid any sort of subjects that could reasonably be triggering to people.
    • “Jokes” about subjects which are prohibited by the rules are still not allowed.
    • If someone asks you to stop interacting with them in a certain way, stop.
    • If someone makes it known that they don’t want to interact with you, do not use Gamer Dorks services to attempt to interact with them.
  • 2d. No instigation or retaliation.
    • Encouraging others to break the rules is not allowed.
    • Interacting with others in a way that will likely make them break the rules in retaliation is not allowed.
    • If someone is instigating, call a moderator.
    • “Snitching” is acceptable behavior and encouraged.  Moderators can handle the situation, retaliation can’t.
  • 2e. No threats.
    • Threatening real-world violence is not allowed.
    • Threatening to reveal private information about a person or group of people is not allowed.
    • Threatening digital attacks is not allowed.

3. Content

Gamer Dorks requires all content to be appropriate for a 13+ audience unless otherwise specified.  We’re avoiding any age-inappropriate, controversial, sensitive, or suggestive content.

  • 3a. Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content is not allowed.
    • Sexual content or behavior are not allowed.
    • Gore or excessive violence are not allowed.
    • Shock content is not allowed.
    • Topics regarding the use or abuse of substances (such as tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, prescription or illegal drugs) are not allowed.
    • Using our services to promote gambling is not allowed.
  • 3b. Controversial content is not allowed.
    • No political or religious discussions.
    • No inflammatory content relating to real-world law or borders.
    • No desecration or burning of knowledge or symbols.
    • Support or glorification of fascism, fascist ideals, or fascist figures will result in an immediate, un-appealable ban.
  • 3c. Avoid sensitive topics.
    • No topics regarding self-harm
    • No topics regarding abuse of other people or of animals
    • No jokes about or depictions of real-world tragedies or human rights violations.
  • 3d. Suggestive content is not allowed.
    • Nudity (including the depiction of such in classical art) is not allowed.
    • Innuendo or sexual jokes are not allowed.  This includes simply saying a suggestive word as the punchline of a joke.
    • “E-dating” or pursuing romantic relationships on our online platforms is not allowed.
    • Recreation of suggestive acts in roleplay or by the use of user-generated content in our games or game servers is not allowed.
  • 3e. Follow the law.
    • Using our platforms to break the law is not allowed.
    • Cyberbullying is a crime.
    • Doxxing or sharing a person’s personally identifiable information is a crime.
    • DDoS attacks or similar online attacks are criminal and could prompt an investigation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
    • Do not share pirated (illegally-obtained) software or promote piracy.
  • 3f. Do not bypass the chat filter.
    • Bypassing the chat filter it not allowed, even if there’s nothing wrong with the word you’re trying to say.
    • Repeatedly saying different variations of the same word or phrase in order to bypass the chat filter is not allowed.
    • If there is a false positive in one of our chat filters, report it.

4. Proper Conduct

Gamer Dorks expects its community to conduct itself properly and follow common sense.  Here are some guidelines for online etiquette.

  • 4a. English only, unless otherwise specified.
    • Unless otherwise specified, you may only speak in the English language in public chat channels.
    • Requesting support in other languages may result in the support team garbling your message.
    • When otherwise specified (i.e. in a chat channel called “español”), speak only in that language.  Such channels will only exist if we have two or more moderators who can fluently read and write in that language.  We may delete or lock a channel if we at any point no longer have two or more moderators who are fluent in that language.
  • 4b. No spamming.
    • Repeatedly sending the same message, similar messages, or incoherent text is not allowed.
    • Text walls, chat flood, or ascii art are not allowed.
    • Deliberately offensive or provocative content (trolling) is not allowed.
    • Advertisements or self-promotion are not allowed.
    • Advertisement may be allowed if you are an Affiliate.
  • 4c. Keep things on-topic.
    • Keep excessive memes, gifs, or stickers out of the Discord general chat.
    • If a chat channel has a particular set of rules, keep to those rules.  Those may make them more or less lenient.
  • 4d. Follow proper voice chat etiquette.
    • Do not talk over others.
    • Do not play music in voice chat.
    • Do not make loud or repetitive noises.
    • Turn on push-to-talk if you have a lot of background noise, such as children or pets or a TV.
    • Temporarily mute yourself when talking to people in real life, outside of the voice chat.
  • 4e. No impersonation.
    • Do not pretend to be a representative of our staff team, or that of one of our affiliate communities or brands, or of Discord, Mojang, GamerSafer, Minehut, Microsoft, or Valve.
    • Falsely impersonating a representative of any other community or brand is not allowed.

5. Platform Guidelines

Gamer Dorks makes game servers, gaming events, and communities in accordance to the guidelines of the platform.  We expect members of our community to also follow these guidelines.

6. Staff Interaction

Staff members are people too.  They are subject to the same rules and the same protections as any other user.  Show them respect, and they’ll show you respect.

  • 6a. Staff members are held accountable to rules.
    • If you see a staff member breaking the rules, contact us via email or “Contact Management” ticket immediately (see GDUR rule 1b).
    • Do not publicly call them out on any infractions.
  • 6b. Respect staff.
    • Ignoring staff or continuing to break rules after a warning will result in increased punishment.
    • Insulting staff for punishing yourself or other rulebreakers will result in increased punishment.
    • Follow the other rules when interacting with staff, just as you should when interacting with anyone else.
    • Do not worship staff.  Treating staff members with excessive reverence should be avoided.
  • 6c. Respect the rules.
    • Do not attempt to find loopholes in rules to abuse them.  If there is a significant loophole, alert us and we will patch it.  Abusing it may result in increased punishment.
    • “Minimodding” or acting as if you have the authority of moderation staff without actually having that permission is not allowed.  Making reports is not minimodding.
    • Make an effort to make a report infractions whenever you can.
  • 6d. Complaints should be constructive, not abusive.
    • Mindless, hurtful complaints are not allowed.
    • Constructive criticism in the proper channels is encouraged.
    • When you want to say what you think about one of our projects, consider how it would feel if you were told something similar. Avoid anything that is harmful.
    • There is a feedback channel in the Discord server where you can post anything you think can be improved about one of our projects.

7. Child Safety

It is ultimately the responsibility of the parents or legal guardians of any children (users under 18) using our services to make sure their children are safe, however we will do what we can to make sure that children remain safe on our platforms and that nobody accesses our platforms below the minimum age requirement.

  • 7a. Age requirements.
    • Underage participation in any of our services will be met with an immediate ban, which you can appeal when you are of age, accompanied by a trusted adult.
    • Unless otherwise specified, the minimum age for ALL of our communities, games, and game servers is 13 years of age.  Even if the minimum age requirement of one of our services is lower than 13 years of age, you must be accompanied by a trusted adult to participate.
  • 7b. Child endangerment.
    • Any predatory behavior will result in an immediate ban and will be reported to the local and national authorities where applicable.
    • Sharing, requesting, or discussing inappropriate images of minors is not allowed.
    • Making sexual comments or posts directed at minors is not allowed.
    • Any posts made by you that may make you appear predatory will be investigated.  Avoid expressing inappropriate interest in children.
  • 7c. Stay safe.
    • No matter your age or the age of the person you’re contacting, NEVER share inappropriate images of yourself online.  Use of our services to send these images will result in a ban.
    • If you ever feel unsafe or see anything suspicious happening on our platforms, report it immediately.
    • Children should not reveal their age or any other personally identifying information online.

8. Exceptions

We will make exceptions to the rules when necessary.  These will mostly be to deal with people who are harming our community without expressly breaking the rules, or to deal with people who have a significant chance of harming the community.

  • 8a. Loopholes.
    • Administrators and Senior Moderators may intervene in situations not expressly covered by the rules.  They will do so in situations where there is harm being done to the community and the people within it.
  • 8b. Off-platform behavior.
    • We reserve the right to ban users for matters of extreme off-platform behaviors, such as violent extremism, child endangerment, or otherwise criminal activity.