Rules

Up to two warnings will be issued out by sysops and bureaucrats depending on the severity of the broken rule. After the two warnings, continuing to break a rule will result in a block. All responsibility for the block is held by the blocking party unless stated otherwise. Feel free to question administration if you are unsure of anything.

## Community

**#1 Do not sockpuppet!**

*Initial Ban Length: Infinite*

Sockpuppetting is the act of creating more than one account, usually to get a fresh start. If you wish to make a new account, you must ask an administrator first or face an immediate ban.

**#2 Do not spam!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week (Infinite when stacked w/ vandalism or trolling)*

Spamming is the act of creating mass amounts of pointless content in the form of comments, pages, images, or etc. Comments purely made for the sake of bringing up the amount of comments to a certain number *will* be counted as spam too. When you comment on old blogs, do NOT make a comment for the sake of bumping it to the top of Wiki Activity; for example, try to have a meaningful contribution when you necropost and don't just point out a blog's age!

**#3 Do not flame or bully other users!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Flaming is the act of bullying another user by sending mean or abusive messages to them. Bullying is not okay, so don't do it. This could include attacking other users with insults or harassing other users or the community itself.

**#4 Do not start/bait drama or troll maliciously!**

*Initial Ban Length: 2 Weeks (Infinite when stacked w/ spam)*

Unnecessary drama is not allowed here. Do not start drama or fights for the sake of it, and don't troll other users with the intent of creating drama.

**#5 Do not feed the trolls!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Occasionally, users may troll in order to create unnecessary drama or prompt negative responses from other users. Please ignore them, as administrators will take care of the situation themselves. *In addition, do not continue drama on their wikis!*

**#6 Limit swearing outside of chat!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Many regular visitors to the wiki are young or may be sensitive to swearing. Swearing is fine, but please put limits on it.

**#7 Do not discriminate!**

*Initial Ban Length: Infinite*

Do not intentionally display prejudice against any demographic. Avoid usage of derogatory terms.

**#8 Do not bring drama to or from other communities!**

*Initial Ban Length: 2 Weeks*

If the drama does not concern the *Smuggler's Run* Wiki, then keep it off the site.

**#9 Do not remove content from your talk page!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Unless you are moving it to an archive, do not remove anything from your talk page. This is so that administrators can easily check to see the status of a situation or your warning count.

**#10 Use talk pages appropriately!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Talk pages serve a primary role in communication between users, do not use a talk page for unintended functions (i.e. as an article, sandbox, gallery, blog, infobox, etc.).

## Content

**#1 Do not vandalize!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Month (Infinite when stacked w/ spam)*

Vandalizing is adding or removing content to a page that you do not own without being given explicit permission.

**#2 Do not steal content!**

*Initial Ban Length: 2 Weeks*

Stolen content of any type will be deleted. This includes content from other users on the wiki, as well as content from other sources such as another website. If a user does not give you explicit permission to use their idea or character, you may not use it.

**#3 Do not post links to file downloads!**

*Initial Ban Length: Infinite*

There is no way of knowing if a download which you link is malware. Do not link to any download links unless specifically in a private message with permission from the other user.

**#4 Do not recreate deleted content unless you fix the reason for deletion!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

If your content (articles, images, videos, comments, etc.) was deleted, it was for a reason. That reason is included in the deletion summary (located at the log). If the reason for deletion is not amended when the content is recreated then do not recreate it.

**#5 Keep certain content in Discussions!**

*Initial Ban Length: N/A*

Do not advertise wikis outside of the Wiki Advertisement Plaza, or create anything which already has a specific Discussions board. Post those in Discussions.

**#6 Do not upload sexually explicit images or text!**

*Initial Ban Length: 2 Weeks (ban varies with explicitness)*

This is obvious, so try to use common sense with what you upload. This includes, but isn't limited to, uploading images with visible genitalia or other private parts as well as publishing explicit sexual scenes. Posting content that may expose minors to pornographic media through explicit reference is also explicitly forbidden.

**#7 Do not add approval templates!**

*Initial Ban Length: N/A*

Only administrators are allowed to add {{S}} or related templates.

**#8 Do not spam for badges!**

*Initial Ban Length: 1 Week*

Making unnecessary edits for badges is not allowed unless they're acceptable edits like adding legitimate categories, correcting mistakes, adding templates like the deletion/rewrite template, etc.

**#9 Do not create and abandon stub articles!**

*Initial Ban Length: N/A*

If your page has 50 words or less it will automatically be deleted for lacking an adequate amount of content to substantiate it, even if you intend to add more content later please only create a page if you intend to put enough content on it to suffice the initial creation.

**#10 Unused images are liable for deletion!**

*Initial Ban Length: N/A*

Images which are not listed as appearing on any article on the site are liable to be deleted by the staff. This is only a liability for the images themselves however, Users will not be warned or banned for unused images.