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RoC Update - 3.1.5 Venue Specific Behavior |
Demorian
Fleet Admiral
Galactic Navy
Joined: October 06, 2001
Posts: 3406
From: Charlotte, North Carolina
|  Posted: 2003-08-04 20:09
Section 3.1.5 of the Rules of Conduct, detailing Venue-Specific Behavior, has been given some long-awaited upgrades in the area of unwritten rules we have been abiding by for a while. Please take into account the following new rules.
The discussion of any controversial or otherwise inappropriate/illegal topic should be minimized.
Palestar Staff try to maintain a Lobby, Forum and Game environment in which such content is avoided. Such discussions, when allowed to proliferate beyond a certain line, can only lead to a riot-like atmosphere in which contempt can run high between apposing sides of the argument. Other forms of inappopriate conversation can be damaging to minors, especially younger, impressionable ones who may be listening. If players wish to take part in discussions such as these, they should go to private forums or private password protected rooms in the GameCQ Lobby.
Any exchange that alludes to or creates sexual innuendo or implies any form of sexually explicit behavior is forbidden.
It is possible to be explicit without using explicit language directly. Such conversations or suggestions are highly inappropriate and offensive in any public venue, and are likewise considered so in the DarkSpace public communication systems. The difference that they are written publicly on screen rather than spoken or whispered directly is irrelevant.
Debate or argument of political opinions or points of view is expressly forbidden.
It is a tried and true fact that any argument over politics will unavoidably become political. Political debates, while they can be controlled by their opposing sides to a respectable, allowable degree, are often little more than flame wars between the two different points of view. This is a degrading state of the Lobby and it will be prevented. When this transformation takes place, all sides should immediately cease their discussion to avoid further degradation.
Debate or argument of religious opinions or points of view is expressly forbidden.
Again, just like the above rule regarding politics, the result is similar when expressing ones beliefs regarding religion. As with all above taboo discussions, if you wish to participate, please take the discussion to a private password protected room where participants are on invite only access
Discussion or flaunting of any illegal or controlled drug or other such substances, and/or the non-medical affects of said substances are expressly forbidden.
Discussions, especially prolonged, detailed ones, regarding the use (past, present or future) use of any illegal substance is very damaging to younger players, the Palestar community, and its reputation. Whether a chemically altering substance is legal in your area or not, discussions involving the effects of the drug in the context of pleasure or other non-medical contexts are likewise frowned upon. Such reminiscing is extremely inappropriate under any circumstances, in anyones presence, in any venue other than a private password protected room.
Thank you to everyone who has had the presence of mind to follow these rules out of decency, before they were set into stone, and thanks to all of you for your continuing respect for the RoC that makes the DarkSpace community so great.
-Dem
[ This Message was edited by: Demorian on 2003-08-04 20:17 ]
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