Rules and Guidelines

## **Rules**

1: No **flaming,** **trolling,** **cybermobbing** or **digital bullying.** Based on the severity of the violation, a warning or immediate week-long block can be issued.

* 1.1: Derogatory terms like **fanboy** and **wanker** are generally frowned upon here--*avoid using them.* It is understandable if an accident happened, so no major punishment will be dealt out right away. Continuous violations will result in a warning, then a ban of ranging magnitude.
* 1.2: **Racial slurs and discrimination will not be tolerated.** Your first offence will result in an immediate month-long block. Second offence will be five months. Third, a full year. Fourth, well, ***it's four strikes and you're out, right?***
	+ **Examples of intolerable behavior:** Use of racial slurs (Examples are disallowed by FANDOM's Policies). Also, sexism ("she's stupid because she's a woman!"), racism ("he's black, so he doesn't deserve common courtesy"), other discrimination ("oh look, he's from Turkey, he doesn't deserve rights" or "Hinduism, the biggest bullshit on Earth"), etc. These examples are fairly dumbed down -- a lot of these problems are harder to spot than this.

3: **Sexual harassment and sexual themes are not allowed here.** Pornography will be deleted upon discovery, and a warning will be issued. After that, no warnings, and a two week-long block will be issued. Further violations will result in a permanent ban.
4: Do *NOT* **blackmail.** You know what you're doing--*no warning will be issued. You will immediately be blocked for four days.* The severity will climb as necessary.
5: Do *NOT* shit-post on forum threads. Don't shit-post on other people's pages either. A small "**Cease & Desist**" will be delivered on your doorstep upon violation. Another warning will be issued before action will be taken--three day-long block.
6: **Sockpuppets**. If used for fun--you will experience no punishment, and it is perfectly acceptable.

* If used to avoid a ban, you'll receive a permanent block on your sockpuppet, and your original account will suffer as well. If your main account was permanently blocked, **your IP address will be blocked altogether.**
* If you were banned for a finite amount of time, *we'll double your block time.* For example, if you used the sockpuppet to come back and repeat doing what you did, and your main account was banned for a month, then your sockpuppet will be permanently blocked and your main account's block will be raised to two months.
* If you came back to do something truly awful, such as discrimination, then we'll use exponentiation to determine your new block time.

7: ***Cursing/Cussing** IS **allowed.*** However, utilize it with some control. Don't go full-caps rage mode with two cuss words every sentence.

* **Example:** YOU BITCH, YOU MOTHER-FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! YOU CAN GO DRINK SOME FUCKING BLEACH, YOU BASTARD!
* *That* will get an immediate warning ensuing the violation. Continuation of such behavior will result in punishment.

8: **Threats towards someone's life like "Drink Bleach" or "Hang yourself" *aren't funny.*** *No warning.* You don't know what people have gone through--that can legitimately kill someone without you knowing; it's not some joke. *Don't do it.*

* If you do, you will immediately be blocked for two weeks. Second violation will be two months. Third, you're outta here for six months. Fourth, and you're outta here, **period.**

9: **No Religious profiles.** Religious profiles create enough controversy and hostility between people.

10: **Always give credit to VS Battles if you copy their powers and abilities/maintenance pages.** ***"How do I give credit to VS Battles"***you might ask? Copy this: {{VS Battles}}. Then paste it onto the Abilities/Information pages on top of the pages in **Source Mode** then click publish.

11 A rule towards trolls. We can't be lenient towards everyone; within the first week of being here, you're considered a "new user." New users will be at a higher risk than older users; if you seem to be nothing but a troll, you will be given ***one*** warning, and that's all, before you are **permanently** blocked. Behave yourselves for the first week, prove you're not a troll, and you'll abide by the previous warning system established above.

12: Game mechanics are considered non-canon, and using them in an argument is considered fallacious.

13: Please don't make any fake or fanmade translations/feats here. You will be banned if those are debunked.

14: Please do not make profiles of OC's you want to be taken seriously. You can do so **here**.

15: Please do not make profiles of characters whose only purpose is to be overpowered. You can do so **here**.