Many scenarios will be rated by their severity and given an example first-time punishment. If you did not give a user any other punishment when they broke a rule, warn them. Delete any messages that break the rules. Delete entire conversations if you have to. Review the rules here: https://gamerdorks.net/rules

GDUR Rule 1: Support

• If someone is sharing their own passwords, multifactor authentication keys, or personally identifiable information, delete the message.
• If someone submits a blank report, warn them and mark it as resolved.
• If someone submits a false report to harm the reputation of another user, give the false reporter the same punishment that you would have given the other user, had the report been true.
• If someone makes a complaint or report in chat, handle it and warn them for contacting us incorrectly.
• Ignore direct message reports.

GDUR Rule 2: Respect

• General harassment or bullying should result in a 1-hour mute.
• Persistent, high effort, or extreme harassment should result in a permanent mute.
• Intentional discrimination should result in a permanent ban. This includes use of slurs, saying anything overtly hateful, or intentional misgendering / deadnaming.
• Non-intentional discrimination should result in the rulebreaker being warned and shown the Inclusivity Statement page on our website. This includes unintentional misgendering, saying common phrases that result from a background of unintentional discrimination such as “men don’t cry”, “being gay is a sin”, or “I don’t believe in pronouns”.
• If someone shares personally identifiable information about someone else, or encourages them to share their own personal information, give them a 1-week mute. Second offense should be a permanent ban.
• If someone excuses breaking the rules by saying “it’s just a joke”, warn them.
• If someone pushes the boundaries of others by interacting with them in a way they don’t want to be interacted with, mute the perpetrator.
• If someone encourages others to break the rules, not knowing it’s not allowed, warn them and everyone who broke the rules.
  • If they do know it’s not allowed, permanently ban the instigator and warn everyone else involved.
• Threats of any sort, such as threatening to revealing someone’s personal information, threatening real-world harm, or threatening digital attacks, should result in a permanent ban.

GDUR Rule 3: Content

• NSFW (sexual / gore) images should result in a permanent ban. Includes shock content.
• Topics regarding the use or abuse of substances should result in a 5-minute mute.
• Political or religious discussions should result in a warning. If it becomes an argument, give 1-hour mutes to everyone involved. This also includes content regarding laws and borders.
• Burning or desecration of knowledge or symbols should result in a permanent ban.
• Glorifying fascism should result in a permanent ban. This includes glorifying figures such as Hitler, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin.
• Self-harm topics should result in a 1-hour mute. We are not required to deal with such topics, and in some countries it may even be illegal.
• Abuse topics should result in a 1-hour mute.
• Jokes about tragedies (i.e. 9/11) should result in a warning. If it seems particularly inflammatory, also give them a 1-hour mute.
• Jokes about human rights violations (i.e. the holocaust) should result in a permanent ban.
• Non-sexual nudity images should result in a warning and post deletion. Second-time offenses should result in a permanent ban.
• NSFW text posts should result in a 1-hour mute, this includes innuendo and jokes.
• Overt, gross attempts at E-dating should be met with a permanent ban. Less overt attempts such as “who here is single” should result in a warning.
• NSFW roleplay or user-generated content should result in a permanent ban.
• Illegal activity should result in a permanent ban. When determining if something is illegal, reference United States federal law. Work with the team to take necessary steps to report it to law enforcement.
• Bypassing the chat filter should result in a warning on its own. If it was bypassed in order to say a slur, or to harass another player, increase whatever punishment they would have received for those offenses.

GDUR Rule 4: Proper Conduct

• Speaking the incorrect language in a public channel (including made-up languages like Pig Latin) should result in a warning.
• Repeated messages should result in a 5-minute mute.
• Repeated chat flood should result in a permanent mute.
• Single instances of ascii art in Discord (such as the “this is bob” skeleton art) should result in a warning.
• Trolling should result in a permanent mute.
• Advertisements immediately upon joining one of our services should result in a permanent ban. If it’s an Affiliate, request an Administrator instead.
• Advertisements as a long-time member of our services should result in a warning. If it’s an Affiliate, request an Administrator instead.
• Excessive misuse of Discord channels should result in a warning.
• Excessively talking over others in voicechat should result in a warning. 
• Playing music or loud repetitive noises in voicechat should result in a voicechat mute, if possible. Otherwise, a normal 1-hour mute should suffice.
• If someone has a lot of background noise, ask them to turn on push-to-talk. If they refuse, treat it as loud repetitive noises.
• Impersonation should result in a warning. If they are using it to manipulate others, give them a permanent ban.

GDUR Rule 5: Platform Guidelines

• Encouraging others to cheat or pirate should result in a 1-hour mute.
• Sharing cheat or pirated software should result in a permanent ban. 
• Encouraging others to or bragging about breaking the rules of other services or communities should result in a 1-hour mute.
• Failing to follow Discord terms of service in the Discord server should result in a permanent ban. This includes being under the minimum age limit.
• Failing to follow Minecraft EULA in the Minecraft server should result in a permanent ban.

GDUR Rule 6: Staff Interaction

• If a staff member breaks the rules, immediately report it with a Contact Management ticket through our support ticket system. If the website is unavailable, email contact@gamerdorks.net.
• Calling out a staff member publicly for any type of abuse should result in a warning.
• Ignoring or insulting staff should result in increased punishment. Whatever punishment they would have received, make it more severe.
• People who worship staff members should be given a warning. This includes things like begging to be friends with staff because they are staff, or giving staff unnecessary praise because they are staff. If it makes you uncomfortable, this rule likely applies.
• Use of loopholes should result in increased punishment.
• Minimodding should result in a 5-minute mute.
• Failure to report major issues should result in a warning.
• Hurtful/destructive complaints should result in a 5-minute mute.
• Complaints outside of the proper channels should result in a warning. Direct them to the correct channels.

GDUR Rule 7: Child Safety

• Underage participants of our services should be banned. If you know their age, ban them for until they are old enough.
  • Discord’s age requirement is 13 years old.
  • Users under 13 on Minecraft should be muted, not banned.
• If someone is acting generally creepy toward children, permanently ban them.
• If someone is proven to be predatory toward children and there is solid evidence, permanently ban them and report them to the local or national authorities if possible.
• If a child shares inappropriate content of themself, permanently ban them.

GDUR Rule 8: Exceptions

• See “Staff Interaction” for how loopholes will be handled.
• If someone does “extreme behavior” on another platform, and you can prove a link between their user on that platform and on the Gamer Dorks platform, permanently ban them. The following activities are considered extreme behavior:
  • Intentional Bigotry
  • Violent Extremism
  • Threats
  • Illegal Activity
  • Harassment
• Treat behavior on our Affiliate Communities or Affiliate Creators the same way you would on one of our services.

MRP Rule 1: Parental Guidance

• Users under 13 in Minecraft should be muted until they are old enough to use chat.
• Users under 13 who have no parental guidance should be banned until they are 13.

MRP Rule 2: User-Generated Content

• Building hate symbols or detailed NSFW structures should result in a permanent ban.
• Building non-detailed NSFW structures (such as the “upside-down T”) should result in a 3-day ban.
• Inappropriate skins of any type should result in a permanent ban.
• Treat any rules broken on signs, books, and holograms as if they broke those rules in chat.
• Treat any mild language on signs as if it is bypassing a chat filter.

MRP Rule 3: Clients and Mods

• Spectate anyone who fails Vulcan checks. If they appear to be cheating, give them a 3-day ban.
• Spectate anyone who seems to be getting too rich too fast. If they appear to be x-raying, give them a 3-day ban.
• Warn anyone who uses prohibited mods in PVP modes.
• If someone is failing anticheat checks but is not breaking any rules, request that they switch to vanilla or the official modpack.
  • If someone is still failing anticheat checks after switching to one of these, report it as a bug.

MRP Rule 4: Exploits

• Intentional duplication should result in a 3-day ban.
• If someone abuses a bug repeatedly and does NOT report it, give them a 3-day ban.
• If someone abuses a bug repeatedly and reports it, give them a 1-day ban.
• If someone finds a bug, does not continue using it, and reports it, thank them.

MRP Rule 5: Automation

• If someone uses macro or autoclickers to gain a combat advantage, give them a warning.
• Building intentional lag machines should result in a permanent ban.
• Building unintentional lag machines (such as laggy mob farms) should result in the machine being deactivated. If they are reactivated without being fixed, delete them entirely.
• Using creative exploits to lag or crash users should result in a permanent ban.

MRP Rule 6: Your Accounts

• Account sharing should result in a warning. Second offense should be a permanent ban. This also applies to account borrowing software or account trading.
• Using more than 5 alt accounts at a time should result each account being kicked.
• Punishment evasion should result in a permanent ban.

MRP Rule 7: Real Money Transactions

• Player-to-player real-money transactions should result in a permanent ban.
• Calling our server pay-to-win should result in a 5-minute mute and ask them to address their complaint in a ticket or email. If they ignore it, permanently mute them.

MRP Rule 8: Survival-Specific Rules

• People who beg for items should be treated as spammers. See GDUR Rule 4a.
• Shops that give end-game items to new players for prices that are too easily accessible should result in a warning.
• Misleading new players should result in a warning.
• Griefing in survival should result in a 3-day ban.
  • Griefing in survival within claims also be rolled back using CoreProtect. This is not necessary outside of claims.
• Theft in survival should result in a 3-day ban.
• Bypassing PvP toggle should result in a 3-day ban, if the victim complains or reports it.
• Teleport traps should result in a 3-day ban.

MRP Rule 9: Rules for Unboxed

• [All the Unboxed rules are permissive, not restrictive.]

MRP Rule 10: Creative-Specific Rules

• Griefing in creative should result in a permanent ban. This includes any action to lag or crash players or the server.
• Players who use alts to get more plots in Creative Pro should receive a warning and should be directed to purchase a rank from the store. If the warning is ignored, ban the alts, but not the main account.
• Any plots that lag the server or contain inappropriate/offensive content can be dealt with quickly by using /plotban. 

MRP Rule 11: UHC-Specific Rules

• Using disallowed client mods should result in a warning.