Blogs and Chat

Please read more rules here.

## General Rule

* Rudeness and the insulting of other users will not be tolerated. Remember that other users may have opinions that may contradict your own. Be respectful.

## Article Comments

Article comments are ways to communicate with other users about the article at hand. While comments are more lightly regulated, there are some rules.

## Blogs

Blogs are ways to communicate with other users in a more casual and open manner than in forums. While blogs are more lightly regulated, there are some restrictions to prevent pointless blogs.

* Any blog's title may not be *identical* to an article's title.
* Blogs must be related to Jamie & Aaron's Cosmic Collection or to the wiki.
* Blogs with comment sections that get out of hand (ex: turn into flame wars) may be subjected to having the comments get locked.
* Blogs are not allowed to have any categories added to them aside from Category:Blog posts.

## Chat Room

The chat room is a place to communicate with other users quickly and efficiently. In order to use the chat room, you must have an account. Remember that the chat room is a privilege, and can be taken away at administrator discretion. Chat moderators and administrators hold the power to kick and ban users from the chat.

### Chat Ban Policy

#### Ban-Worthy Actions

* Insulting, threatening, or being rude to other users.
* Spamming the chat. This can include, but is not limited to; repeatedly posting the same links, writing the same thing over and over again, continuously talking in a language other than English, or posting inappropriate images in the chat.
* Linking of pornographic material in the main chat.
* Do not join the chat solely for advertising anything: other wikia, other stuffs, etc.
* Only users of ages 13 and above may enter chat. Although we do not have any function to determine a user's age, any user determined to be under 13 will be banned until they reach 13 years of age.
* Disruption to the chat, such as excessive racism, religious debates, flaming wars, bashing and gore links/discussions are also not acceptable.
* Creating a new account to circumvent an existing ban will result in the banned account(s) being banned for an increased period and the new account being permanently banned.
* Inciting people in chat to "invade" another wiki's chat for the purpose of spam, insulting users, or any other form of antisocial behavior. This may result in bans on multiple wikis, not just this one.

#### Steps of a Ban

* A ban-worthy chat offense is first served with a warning, either verbal or in the form of a kick, from a chat moderator or administrator.
* The second warning is followed by a ban from chat. In order to debate the length of your ban, you can contact the moderator who performed the action.

## Punishment and Rule Disputes

If any user feels the rules, guidelines, and ideas are unfair, please discuss them to an administrator, either by leaving a message on his/her message wall, on a policy talk page, or on a forum. We all recommend signing up, and comments from random IP addresses are of less priority. Furthermore, comments from better received and more active users will be taken more seriously than comments from less active users.