Official Discord Rules

## Official Discord rules of Bit Heroes

* **BE RESPECTFUL** Any form of harassment, threatening behavior, or discrimination is considered 100% unacceptable, including mocking new members. Use of this server constitutes an agreement to abide by the rules and regulations found here and throughout. Breakage of any rules will result in punishment as decided by our Moderation Team.

* **KEEP IT PG-13+** All channels in this Discord are moderated at a PG-13+ rating level, allowing for profanity. This means that material is inappropriate for children under 13 and you should expect to run into an atmosphere that is adult in nature. We never allow hate speech, highly sexual content or terminology, slurs of any kind, gore/intense violence, drug references (marijuana is allowed), or anything else that is strictly for an adult audience. Excessive profanity is never allowed and is defined by our Moderation Team. Profanity should never be directed at another individual.

* **NO DRAMA** Any continuous drama will be met with a swift warning and if it continues, will result in removal from the server for all involved parties. Use your block button if you need to.

* **DON’T SPAM OR SHILL** No shilling, self-promotion, spam, creeping, or soliciting goods/services. No mass DM-ing of members and conversations shouldn’t be excessively repetitive. Self promotion is only allowed in our ⁠📣︱shameless-plugs channel.

* **STAY ON TOPIC** Make sure your messages are being posted in the right place (see channel descriptions)

* **CONTACT SUPPORT FOR ACCOUNT HELP** For assistance with your in-game account, please contact Support at: support@kongregate.com.

* **SERVER PINGS** Do not use @ everyone and @ here. You are welcome to ping others (including CMs/Mods) but staff response time may vary. Do not ping Devs.

* **VOICE CHANNELS** Any and all forms of mic spam are not permitted. All rules outlined here also apply to VC’s and must be followed.

* **ALT ACCOUNTS** Any alt accounts with the intention to evade ban, accounts acting as alts from previous bans, or alts made to incite drama are strictly prohibited and will be banned with possible report to Trust and Safety.

* **DO NOT DISCUSS EXPLOITS, ACCOUNT SHARING, OR ANYTHING ILLEGAL** Do not post about any potential hacks, cheats, and/or exploits. Do not post about selling, purchasing, and/or trading an account. Do not post about any type of activities that may be considered illegal. If you have evidence of anything of this nature to report, please provide the information to support (support@kongregate.com).

* **SENSITIVE TOPICS** This is a gaming/NFT server. We want you to be yourself and express yourself, but not all topics are appropriate here. Please refrain from discussing religion and politics. You are free to discuss your sexual identity, your gender identity, your race/ethnicity and lived experiences, familial status, and age. We encourage you to be safe with your personal information at all times.

* **DON’T IMPERSONATE OTHERS** Do not pretend to be a developer, moderator, or Kongregate representative. Do not impersonate other people, or intentionally misrepresent your identity.

* **MODERATION** Repeated or severe rule-breaking can result in a permanent ban from the Discord server, Kongregate.com, and/or Bitverse games.

* **UNRELEASED INFORMATION** No discussion of unreleased game information is permitted on Bitverse community outlets or in-game unless shared by an official source (Bitverse team members, official posts/announcements, etc).

* **3RD PARTY BOTS AND TOOLS** Discussing or referencing 3rd party tools, bots, software, etc. is not permitted on Bitverse community outlets. Players may venture where they please to learn more about the game, but may not reference 3rd party software, tools, or bots in spaces managed by Kongregate. This includes links to these tools and their associated communities/platforms/servers.

## **Bit Heroes Quest In-Game TOS Breach Policy** **PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES IN GAME:** **Disruption:**

You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with another player’s game experience. Excessive spamming, harassment (in chat or via DMs), and other behaviors deemed to be disruptive by Moderators and Kongregate staff will result in administrative action. *Note: Excessive spam is defined as behavior that is deemed intentionally disruptive to chat by Moderators.*

* **Offensive Language:** This game is for players 13 years and older. You may not use any language that can be found to be overly negative, offensive, or NSFW including profanity. You may not attempt to circumvent the in-game profanity filter. You agree not to do, write or say anything which is or may be considered to be harmful, bullying, harassing, stalking, threatening, abusive, spamming, littering, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, sexually explicit, deceptive, tortuous, hateful or offensive regarding someone’s race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or other identity factor, encourages conduct that would violate a law or is, in a reasonable person’s view, objectionable and/or deemed to be inappropriate to a user or any Kongregate staff member. This includes in-game names and guilds. Do not discuss unreleased information or 3rd party bots/tools/software.

* **Inappropriate Names:** Your in-game name must follow the standing Terms of Service and Guidelines. Your name is not permitted to be sexual, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, hateful, or in violation of stated rules. Sexual innuendo is not permitted and you may not use your in-game name to harass or mock others.

* **Ignoring Warnings:** Bitverse moderators will issue warnings as needed when inappropriate behavior is witnessed. Ignoring these warnings can result in administrative action as outlined below.

* **Additional Rules:** This list/post does not override or supersede the Kongregate Terms of Service or User Conduct guidelines that you agreed to when making an account, and should be treated as supplemental information. Breaches of rules not outlined in this post that are prohibited in our Terms of Service will result in administrative action.

**BREACHING THESE RULES WILL FIRST RESULT IN A TEMPORARY MUTE (5 MINUTES - 1 WEEK IN DURATION DEPENDING ON SEVERITY)**

***Note:** If you've been verbally warned by a Moderator numerous times over the course of a week for the same offense, you will be found in breach of TOS. Ignoring warnings from Moderators is unacceptable behavior and will result in administrative action.*

**UPON ACCRUAL OF THREE BREAKS OF THESE RULES (PER HERO), YOUR HERO WILL BE TEMPORARILY MUTED FOR A MINIMUM OF 1 MONTH TO 1 YEAR DEPENDING ON SEVERITY.**

**UPON ACCRUAL OF FIVE BREAKS OF THESE RULES (PER HERO), YOUR HERO WILL BE PERMANENTLY MUTED.**

**UPON ACCRUAL OF SIX OR MORE BREAKS OF THESE RULES (PER HERO), YOUR HERO WILL BE PERMANENTLY BANNED.**

**IF THE BREAKAGE IS DEEMED SEVERE ENOUGH, YOUR HERO MAY BE TERMINATED PERMANENTLY ON THE FIRST STRIKE.**

Examples of behavior which would warrant an immediate and permanent ban are: hate speech, usage of slurs, threats of violence, highly sexual content or terminology, overt harassment of other community members, impersonation of Kongregate staff or moderators, discussion of illegal activities, attempting to sell your in-game account, or references to hate groups (e.g. naming your account ‘Hitler’ or ‘KKK’) **These are implemented as of their posting today.** Please note that if you have prior standing mutes, they will not be counted against you concerning this policy update (the policy is not retroactive).

Please refer to the **Kongregate User Code of Conduct and Terms of Service** here: https://www.kongregate.com/pages/user-conduct https://www.kongregate.com/terms-of-service **APPEALS** If you feel you have been banned or permanently muted unfairly you are welcome to contact our Customer Support team for assistance. In rare instances, we may choose to remove a ban or mute at Kongregate’s discretion. Such decisions cannot be made by in-game moderators and must be reviewed by a Community Manager.