Site Rules

## Introduction

The Feats Cosmo and Outsmarting Scaling Wiki is a community whose users are dedicated to discussing and indexing statistics of characters from a variety of fictional franchises.

However, maintaining proper conduct and behavior among the user base of this community requires a significant amount of effort. To maintain a productive and well-organized community, it is important to establish clear and effective guidelines for behavior and conduct. These guidelines will play a crucial role in upholding these standards and must be followed in conjunction with any other applicable regulations and guidelines.

## The Rules

### **Be Kind**

This is supposed to be a nice community where all of our members try to be considerate and respectful to each other, to collaborate, have fun together, and be free to pay positive attention to themselves in a safe environment. Do not be toxic, mean, or abusive to other members.

### **Be Respectful**

Refrain from spamming, trolling, threatening, using derogatory comments of any form (ethnic, homophobic, belittling the physically disabled or mentally ill, et cetera), and rude, vulgar, sexist, etcetera offensive language. We do not tolerate any form of bigotry in any direction whatsoever. Furthermore, do not instigate drama or toxicity, and follow the instructions in official staff warnings.

* Avoid talking badly about other wikis and communities, as we do not want any conflicts or bad blood. In addition, do not write anything that can be interpreted as harassment of real people. That said, we must also have the right to defend ourselves within our own borders. As such, everybody who visits this wiki strictly to attack us, or try to dismantle our tiering system, will be permanently banned from our community.
* Derogatory comments on religious or political matters (both highly sensitive issues) will not be tolerated, as it almost always leads to massive hate-commenting and negativity. Doing so will result in a deletion of the post, and possibly a ban, depending on the severity.
* Discussions regarding hypothetical tier placements of figures from current religions are also not allowed, as the community wishes to avoid heated arguments. Avoid VS debating with deities featured in modern religions unless it is a comics, games, tv, etc version of that deity. It is both controversial and impractical to bring up the contents of religious scriptures.
* Do not be disruptive to or subversive against this community. Depending on the severity, this can lead to long blocks.
* Statements implying substance abuse, even indirect ones, will result in a block. This rule will apply regardless of the circumstances, no matter how inflammatory the other member is being.
* Death threats of any form, even obscure ones, will absolutely not be tolerated.

### **Be Appropriate**

We are trying to keep this wiki accessible to all ages, so please think twice before inserting offensive, disturbing, or disgusting texts, descriptions, or images into the profiles, and feel free to help out by changing such content.

* The Feats Cosmo and Outsmarting Scaling Wiki is an English-language platform, and all users are required to communicate in English.
	+ This policy applies to all members of this wiki and our forum, including within discussion threads, as well as any other areas of this platform where communication occurs.
	+ Exceptions are made for scans or other visual materials for which translations must be provided in English.
* The Fandom staff are very strict with that you are not allowed to upload images with bigoted, vulgar, or illegal content to any wiki, including joke memes. If you do so they will usually notice it via monitoring scripts, and impose a global block across all of Fandom.
* Accounts with offensive, misleading, or otherwise very inappropriate usernames may be blocked indefinitely.
* Being sexually flirtatious will not be tolerated. Playing mature games, flirting, or using sexual connotations is discouraged, and in extreme cases, will result in a severe penalty.
* Do not post links to pornographic images or videos. This will lead to an automatic ban without warning.
* Do not link to or promote anything illegal within the Wiki. Linking to scams of any sorts is obviously strongly forbidden and will lead to an immediate ban.
* **Suicide:** You are NOT allowed to ask how you can kill yourself, and you are especially not allowed to post suggestions or to encourage other people to do it. The latter will result in an immediate ban without any warning.
	+ If you feel extremely depressed or suicidal, please visit the International Suicide Prevention Wiki for a directive of help numbers in different countries.
	+ If you are suffering from some type of mental illness, you might be able to find help via one of these resource pages.
	+ Here is a chart that explains how to be happy from a more clinical/analytical viewpoint.

### **Be Reasonable**

Please don't show severe irrational bias.

* We are well aware that not all profiles are reliable, as it is an impossible task for so many characters from wildly different franchises. However, we consider everything a work in progress, and have worked extremely hard to manage, and gradually improve, the wiki as well as we are able under the circumstances. The quality would have been enormously worse if the staff and our other productive members had not devoted so much of their time and energy.

### **Stay on Topic**

* Failure to respect the purpose of discussions and excessively bombarding or derailing them despite multiple warnings may result in a block.

### **Security and Privacy Rules**

Please do not make any excessive attempts to actively find/stalk any of the members here on the Wiki through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. or harass them in order for them to share their personal info. This will be considered an invasion of privacy on your part, and it will be met with the appropriate consequences.

* Using sock-puppet handles is strongly forbidden, especially to circumvent blocks. Doing so will result in the block duration being greatly increased for all of the relevant accounts.
	+ Staff members who knowingly assist or overlook sockpuppeting by banned members will face disciplinary action as determined by the Human Resources group.
	+ Non-staff users who participate in sockpuppeting from banned accounts will also be disciplined, although their punishment may be less severe than the primary offender.
	+ If a regular user is aware of sockpuppeting but does not actively participate, they will typically not be disciplined. However, they are strongly encouraged to report the issue to a staff member as soon as possible.
* Impersonating other members is not allowed.
* Posting your personal information like SN numbers, addresses, etc. is definitely not advised. Doing so for other members against their consent will result in a ban.
* You are not allowed to discuss or mention any kind of method or tools that can be used in any way to circumvent the security of the wiki, spam the wiki or otherwise exploit the wiki. If you discover any such means or tools tell an Admin in a PM. Do NOT ever post it publicly.
* Also, an extremely important safeguard regarding the Fandom network: Kindly do not use the same username and password combinations as you use for other communities, such as message boards. While the Fandom network has comparatively good security, alternative message boards generally do not. In the worst case scenario, this can lead to your account in such communities being hacked, and your username/password combination used for vandalism on the Fandom network as well. This might lead to being permanently globally blocked by Fandom's Staff for violating its terms of use.
* Sharing accounts is **strongly discouraged** because it makes it difficult for our staff to verify that different accounts are used by different people. Otherwise, our staff will have to ban all involved accounts except one. Even if the affected members manage to prove that they are different people, it will waste considerable amounts of staff time and also create confusion, due to that we cannot be expected to remember all instances when this occurred among many thousands of other tasks, while our system keeps giving us sockpuppet warnings. Therefore, never share your accounts with other current or potential future members for the reasons mentioned above. Also, it is obviously not allowed to let banned members borrow or take over your account.

### **Offsite Rules**

Do not pester or harass the authors of various works on social media about versus debating or character statistics. They are often bombarded by numerous questions from fans, and thus are rarely interested in giving a serious response. In addition, the statements they give to appease users are often contradictory to the feats in the stories of the works they have written. Thus, it is frowned upon to bother them over these topics.

* Kindly post full-length links, not shortened ones (aka, ad-driven links). Posting shortened links will be interpreted as utilization of wiki traffic for personal gain, and result in a block.
* Off-site behavior is usually irrelevant except in cases of:
	+ Actions that lead to the destabilization of the site (such as videos, forum posts, Discord chats, etc. that create drama), whether or not it was systematic. To determine what counts as destabilization of the site one should mostly look at the consequences of said act rather than the individual act itself.
	+ Threatening someone off-site, be it a threat of violence, hacking, doxxing, sexual harassment, etc.
	+ Harassment of users in their immediate surroundings (ex. Someone constantly messaging you with insulting comments via DMs or PMs)
	+ Engaging in online criminal activity (Not including piracy).
	+ Impersonating someone for malicious purposes.

### **Staff Rules**

We expect a certain standard of behavior from our staff, both within and outside of the site itself, and involving oneself in the harassment of our userbase, extreme hate speech, or advocating genuine bigotry is unacceptable conduct and may lead to demotion. We can take such action against our staff members if they clearly link their behavior outside of the site to the wiki by using the same account or linking to one platform from the other. Take note that less severe off-site cases, such as simply making jokes in poor taste, citing statistics, or using slurs offhand aren't an issue in itself and won't be covered under this rule. Bureaucrats and Human Resources group members can use their discretion when dealing with borderline or uncertain cases.

* Admins and other staff members are NOT allowed to lend access to their accounts to other people. This only leads to confusion and suspicion. It doesn’t matter if the staff member says that he trusts the other person, the other person has not been appointed.
* If staff members have a problem with each other, it is **strongly** advised that they take up the issue directly via polite private messages, instead of chastising each other publicly.

Finally, take note that we do not enforce some of these regulations because we are censorship-happy and do not believe in the freedom of speech. The wiki is simply hard enough to manage as it is for the staff, and the rules are necessary to ensure that the task is not impossible.

## Notes

If you think you were banned for unjust reasons, or think your behaviour has improved sufficiently, a ban appeal can be submitted by messaging a staff member of our wiki, on their message walls on Community Central. Please include all relevant details, including the account name if different from the one used to make the message.

In the event of your primary account being banned, you are permitted to create an alternate account solely for the purpose of submitting a ban appeal on a staff member's message wall. It is important to emphasize that this alternate account must not be utilized for any other activities within the wiki.