Discussions Guidelines

### **[UNDER EDITING]**

Welcome to the Chaos World Wiki! Written below are a few rules you need to keep in mind before posting. If you wish to add/remove anything, feel free to do so. I (6Illu6sion6) have only created this page and added the things I feel are important.

1. **Follow Fandom's Terms of Use** (found here). These are the standard rules to Fandom and apply everywhere, not only to this wiki.
	1. **If you are under 13, you can't join the wiki.**
2. **Treat all users respectfully.**
	1. **We have zero tolerance for bigotry.** Homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, and any other forms of discrimination are not permitted whatsoever.
		1. **Don't use any slurs**, whether you are targeting a particular person/group of people or not. **Reclaimed slurs are not permitted**, either.
	2. **Do not attempt to resolve large conflicts yourself**, and **do not mob users** who have broken rules or caused problems. Mobbing (multiple people repeating each other or reprimanding the user) is unhelpful; contact a moderator and stop engaging.
	3. **Do not guilt trip other users** when you are told off for your actions or asked to stop doing something. Guilt tripping is any statement made to put yourself in the position of the victim and make other users feel bad for confronting you.
		1. Sympathy-baiting posts put users in a position where they're forced to show sympathy for you/comfort you/reassure you because they feel guilty, such as "Am I annoying" posts. **Sympathy-baiting is also not permitted.** This does NOT include vents/venting.
	4. **Do not make "callout posts"**, or any posts that attempt to garner animosity towards users or communities. This includes users on other platforms, as well as current discourse topics elsewhere on the internet; **these threads are considered dramabaiting,** and may also be considered raiding or harassment.
		1. Users who engage in raiding or trolling of wikis, websites, or other communities may be subject to a block based on severity. Users who post plans to raid or troll on our wiki will be subject to a warning or block, as we do not tolerate harassment of any sort.
3. **Do not start or engage in political discussion** or debate on our wiki. This include discussions about current political events such as riots or elections and political campaigning.
	1. An example of acceptable political/current event talk is discussing climate change and the natural disasters, such as wildfires, that follow.
	2. The phrases **"blue lives matter"** and **"ACAB/1312" will not be permitted**, as they are politically incendiary.
	3. **Discussing modern civil rights movements is permitted** (eg. Black Lives Matter, No More Stolen Sisters, etc.) Discussion of large-scale political reform should be kept off of our site.
4. Keep the wiki PG and clean. Swearing, NSFW, mature topics, and gore are not permitted on our wiki.
	1. Swearing is permitted, but **only** with censors. This also applies to words in images.
		1. Words we do not consider swears are crap, hell, pissed, and damn.' You may use these words without any censoring.
	2. **Mature topics are prohibited** on any part of our wiki. **This includes discussion of real-life drug and alcohol consumption**, especially consumption by users who are under 18.
	3. **Violent or gory content is prohibited.** Images have a very low tolerance for violence, while roleplayed or written violence should be kept to a minimum.
		1. This includes descriptions or depictions of violence against animals.
	4. **Suggestive or sexual content is not allowed** anywhere on the wiki, in any form.
		1. While not inherently sexual in nature, we do not allow nipples, censored or uncensored, to be posted to the wiki in art or images.
	5. **18+/Mature Media that violates these guidelines may not be discussed or posted to the wiki.** This includes memes, screenshots, and profile pictures featuring imagery from 18+ media, even if the imagery itself is not explicit or inappropriate.
5. **Don't steal art**. Please don't post or use art without permission and credit to the artist/s.
	1. Reposting art with credit is only permitted if the artist allows it — you must be able to prove that you have permission to use the art, or that the artist's Terms of Use allow reposting/use as icons/etc.
6. **Don't pretend to be someone else** using alternate accounts. It's okay to have alternate accounts, but using them to violate rules or cause trouble is not.
	1. **List all your alts** on your profile or message wall greeting, preferably with links.
		1. This includes inactive alts.
	2. If an alternate account is used to get around a ban, both accounts will be blocked.
7. Don't spam, flood, or advertise on Discussions.
	1. Creating **multiple discussions posts or polls (3+) in a short period** will result in all of your posts being removed and a warning being issued. Please wait a few minutes between posts to avoid this.
		1. Do not make multiple short replies to a thread in rapid succession, as this is also considered spam.
	2. **Do not create threads solely to advertise.** This includes roleplays, Wikis, contests, etc..
		1. Polling to gauge interest does not count — as a general rule of thumb, if the subject of your post has already been made, your post is an ad.
		2. **Do not make polls for pings, advertisement, etc..**
	3. Do not make posts consisting of meaningless or repeated phrases. Gibberish and/or key smashing to emote is fine in moderation; it should not fill more than a line on the post, and should be relevant to the thread in context.
	4. Copypasta is a form of spam; anything that encourages you to "tag", "repost", or "send to # friends" falls into this category.
	5. Leaving pointless replies on threads that do not concern you is considered spam.
8. **Do not vandalize articles**. This includes, but is not limited to, removing all the content of an article, adding false or inappropriate information, removing correct information, or otherwise editing with the intent to reduce the quality of the article.
	1. This also includes another user's profile page or message wall greeting. Do not edit another user's profile page or message wall greeting without their permission.
9. **Do not create ships that are pedophilic or incestuous.**
In general, if you try to do the right thing, you should do fine. You're doing well already by reading these rules! If you've got any questions, feel to ask a poweruser.