Rules

2. Do not attempt to take justice into your own hands. If trouble rises, report it to a staff member
3. Condoning rape, thievery, murder, piracy, or any other illegal act will result in harsh punishment, at a moderator's discretion.
4. Do NOT be rude to anyone or make them uncomfortable. This applies to ALL users, including Owners and Moderators. Don't be a dick and respect others.
5. Do not edit a page without permission from the author.
6. Give constructive criticism. Give the author ideas on how to improve, don't just trash-talk them.
7. Do not upload, edit, or use artwork made by an artist without their permission.
8. Do not upload, write, or link any NSFW content.
9. Any and all Alternate Accounts (Alts) are to be reported to the staff and closely monitored. If an Alt doesn't present its original account to the mods, the alt will be blocked. Blocked users will have any and all alts blocked as well.

### Roleplay

Please note that it is mostly up to a particular thread's creator to moderate it, and they may choose to disregard some of these rules to a certain degree.

1. No godmodding.
2. Absolutely no ERPs/SRPs. Those may only happen in PMs in chat, or on external sites *if* all parties agree.
3. Do not start the roleplay on another user's thread. Let the creator start it when they're ready.
4. Before you join an active RP, ask first. You'll need to have an OC page here and be accepted by the leader(s) of the roleplay.
5. No torturing, or un-warned for headcanons.
6. Please use parenthesis(), brackets[], or some other way to designate Out Of Character speech as such.

(See Rule 1.)

### Warnings

Warnings will be administered on a person's message wall, or in a thread breaking the rules before it is closed or removed.

#### Discipline

Unless otherwise specified, or deemed otherwise by the mod(s) on duty, the track of discipline will look approximately like this:

1. Warning
2. **Two hour block** (After two warnings)
3. **One day block**
4. **One week block**
5. **One month block**
6. **Infinite block**

#### Notes

* To Mods and Admins: Abuse of your powers will not be tolerated in any way.
* Be reminded that just because this is the usual protocol that **not every mod** will follow the same discipline track.
* Also note that **severe infractions** will not be given the regular disciplinary track, and are subject to **immediate infinite blocks**.

## Page Guidelines

Note: There are no exceptions to any rules unless otherwise stated in a sub-point.

### All Pages

1. All pages must clearly define their author(s) with a link to their profile.
2. All pages must reach a minimum of three paragraphs in length. If there is not at least that much content, there’s no point in making the page.
3. Spelling, grammar, punctuation, et cetera must be neat and legible.
	* Pages marked as joke pages will be exempted from this rule.
4. Pages marked as Works In Progress (WIPs) have a seven day grace period in which they are exempt from many rules so that they may be worked on.
	* After seven days of being left untouched, however, they are subject to all of the rules listed.
	* WIPs are not exempted from General Rule 5.
5. Pages must contain **absolutely no** pornographic, insulting, or otherwise inappropriate content.
6. Pages **may not** use the work of other people as a basis without explicit permission. Especially not if this means the page implies that said work is canon.

### Original Character (OC) Pages

1. Each character should get its own page, unless they are a part of a duo/trio/other inseparable group.
2. OCs should not have direct relation (blood or otherwise) to any canon characters. They can be of the same species, but not the same family.
3. OCs absolutely may not be overpowered (OP). That means no excessively high stats, unreasonable abilities, et cetera.
	* Attack and Defense stats have a maximum of 99.
	* Health has a maximum of 20,000.
	* Teleportation, immortality, Gaster Blasters, time manipulation, unlimited summoning, and any other ability to make the OC (virtually) unbeatable are forbidden.
4. OCs from other settings/fandoms are only accepted if they are the author’s **own, original** character. Canon characters from other franchises are not accepted here.
5. OCs must be of a species that fits the Acumen universe.

### Species Pages

1. All species must fit the Acumen Universe.
2. Species as a whole may not be overpowered.

### General Deletion Policy

* Regular users should not mark pages for deletion. That is an administrator or a content moderator’s job.
* If an article fails to meet any or all of the above requirements, users are obliged to immediately report it to an administrator or content moderator via Chat, Message Wall, or some external form of contact.
* Users may leave comments on a page to provide constructive criticism to the author, but may not harass. If they choose to abuse this rule, they will be warned on their message wall, and must issue a public apology to the author.
* If an administrator or content moderator judges a page as breaking the rules, they should mark it for deletion in any way possible. The administrator or content moderator must outline exactly what is wrong with the page.
* After placing marking for deletion, administrators and content moderators must give the author at least one month to fix any and all outlined problems with the page
* If before the end of the period the author believes they have fixed all issues, they are to contact an administrator or content moderator via Chat, Message Wall, or some external form of contact and ask them to read over the page.
	+ The administrator or content moderator will remove the template if they deem the page has dealt with all of its problems.
	+ The user is **not** to remove the template themself, and doing so repeatedly will result in punishment.
* If the end of the period arrives, and the issues have not yet been dealt with, the page will be deleted.

## Chat rules

1. **If a staff member tells you to stop, you stop and don't complain.**
2. Please respect and be kind to others.
3. No NSFW images or videos are to be shared in main. Innuendos are fine, but are to be used sparingly.
4. No spamming.
5. No minimodding.
6. Do not advertise other wikis inside of main chat, *especially* not their chatrooms. Doing so will result in an immediate one-day ban or worse.

### Roleplays

1. No godmodding.
2. Absolutely no ERPs/SRPs are to be conducted in main. Those may only happen in PMs *if* all parties agree.
3. Don't start a main RP without asking the other users if they want to roleplay first.
4. Before you join an active RP in chat, ask first. You'll need to have an OC page here, and be accepted by the leader(s) of the roleplay.
5. During main chat RPs, no torturing, or un-warned for headcanons.
6. When a RP is occurring in main, please use parenthesis(), brackets[], or some other way to designate Out Of Character speech as such.

(See Rule 1.)

### Warnings

#### Cryptic Warnings

The following are some common warnings used by our mods here that could be a little cryptic, along with the rule they correspond with.

#### Discipline

Unless otherwise specified, or deemed otherwise by the mod(s) on duty, the track of discipline will look approximately like this:

1. Warning
2. Kick (After 2 Warnings)
3. Ban (After 2 Kick)
	* Consecutive offenses after your first ban will lead from bans of two hours to **infinite** in exponential increments.

#### Notes

* To Mods and Admins: Abuse of your powers will not be tolerated in any way.
* Be reminded that just because this is the usual protocol that **not every mod** will follow the same discipline track.
* Also note that **severe infractions** will not be given the regular disciplinary track, and are subject to **immediate infinite bans**.

Credit to the Undertale RP Wiki for the rule template.