Community Guidelines

## **About Our Guidelines**

The Community Guidelines are the rules that you are required to follow if you so wish to use this wiki. Keep in mind FANDOM's Community Guidelines play a role in our ToS as well and we may revise it if needed. By using our Wiki, you agree to all of the following Terms and Conditions. Administrators and FANDOM has every right to take action if needed. These actions include:

* Deleting or Locking Any Post That Violates our Discussion Post Policy
* Removing/Disabling Page Edit Access
* In severe cases, blocking a user if they constantly break our Discussions policy, our general Community Guidelines, our Page Guidelines and any other policy that is affiliated with this Wiki. Block times can vary, but the general punishments range from 2 weeks and if really severe, Indefinite.

## **Our Three Strike Policy**

Our Three Strike Policy is a policy that states that mods and admins must give a user who breaks the general guidelines 3 Warnings. First Strike, General Warning such as "Please do not do \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. It is a violation on our guidelines. Strike 2 is more serious as the user ignored a admin or mod's warning which is its own violation by itself on our Administration Guidelines. Strike 3 is a outright ban and the punishment time may vary based on how severe the action was. However, any violations made in our severe actions policy will not receive warnings and will be blocked within a 24 Hour Period.

## **General Dos and Dont's (Unlawful Action)**

* **Do Not Ask for roles/staff**. Begging for Roles for the purpose of trolling or otherwise will result in The Three Strike Warning. You may not just ask for roles as it is inconsiderate on actual admins and Mods. To apply to be a administrator or moderator PROPERLY, Go To Our Staff Application Requirements page.
* **Use Of Profanity.** Uncensored Profanity is Strictly Prohibited as this is a wiki used for all ages. Swearing will result in a Three Strike Ban and any continuation on profanity will be a Three Day Block.
* **Page Spam.** Page Spam refers to making pages and leaving them empty with 2 words, or making page blogs that resolve around One user. (You may Make your own Profile Blog Posts)
* **Editing another user’s profile.** The editing of another user's profile without the user's consent. Their profile information is theirs to keep unless they give explicit consent to edit their profile. This includes blocked users as well.
* **Self Promotion.** Self Promotion is not allowed at any time. Self Promotion is allowed in the Self Promotion Category in Discussions. Any self promotion outside of that will be a violation of our Dos and Don't Policy and will result in The Three Strike Warning and a 3 Day Block if continued on.
* **False Reports.** Reports are meant to inform staff members about post that violates guidelines. Do Not report stuff that doesn't violate our guidelines for the purpose of getting that person banned.

## **Severe Actions**

* **Bullying and Harassment.**

Bullying or any harassment of any kind will not be tolerated. if its small things then you will receive a 1 week block. However if it gets more serious such as death threats or REALLY toxic behavior, the user responsible shall be banned indefinably. FANDOM Staff will also intervene if necessary. The Ratismyspecies Wiki is a safe environment for everyone.

* **Sexual Content and Interaction.**

Discussing sexual words or sexual subjects. Any Sexual Posts, Pictures, etc. will not be tolerated at anytime. There Are different actions based on different scenarios witch is lined up below:

* **If a user retains a vulgar or inappropriate username or profile they will be banned until they change their username and/or profile**

* **If a user is posting inappropriate or sexual things**
* **Linking to inappropriate/NSFW websites** **(Violations will be 4 Months to an indefinite block)**

* **Threats.**

Hack threats, hostile real life threats, etc. will NOT be allowed or tolerated at any time and we will take immediate action and ban the user who made the threat permanently.

* **Scamming**.

Attempting to trick users into giving up sensitive information, giving away money, etc., with the false promise of a reward, such as "free robux" will not be tolerated and this will get only a 2 strike warning. Anything further will be a indefinite ban.

## **Administration policy**

Please respect all staff members. Disobedience towards any Admin or Mod will result in a 3 warning strike from the owner and further failure to obey will result in a indefinite ban. If a user is bullying a admin or mod, the user will have a permanent ban. Administration must also follow all these guidelines as well as their own policy's.

* All Admins and Mods must oblige by The Three Strike Rule (Unless for Extreme circumstances)
* Admins and Mods must remain impartial and not favor a particular user.
* If you have a problem, please tell the mods, preferably on their message wall.
* If you have been banned by accident or feel like you shouldn't have been banned, please contact on one of our staff members so we can sort out your issue.

## **Other Guidelines**

* **Troll Accounts.**

Accounts made specifically to troll The Ratismyspecies Wiki will be blocked..

* **Vandalism**

Vandalizing a page or article is not acceptable and will result in a one month block. Any further vandalism will result in a indefinite ban. If it was unintentional such as trying to help out by editing a page but accidentally deleted something with backspace, please talk it over with a admin or mod in advanced so we can figure out a solution. You wont be given a warning if it was unintentional, regardless of how many accidents happen.

* **Ban Evading.**

Making a new account after you have a blocked is prohibited. The offending account will be blocked promptly.

* **Necroposting**

Necroposting is generally referred to as a reply to an old, abandoned thread that has been considered “dead” for a while. A warn will given if preformed.