Blob World Full Guidebook/Rules

It is very important that you read this page. If you have not, you will be directed here by an admin or a helpful user. You must abide by all these rules to the best of your ability.

### User rules

1. You must not spam
	1. This means, refrain from multiposting when you can. Sometimes the wiki does that, understandable, but don't do it on purpouse.
	2. Don't comment or message unrelated stuff, this can be considered derailing, which is not looked upon well.
2. Don't threaten or harass people. It should go without saying this is against the rules. You will be considered a troll, and will get 1 warning before a block.
3. Refrain from necrobumping. That is, replying to old threads or comments because they are not needed anymore. There's no reason to do it, but nothing serious happens when you do it.
4. Lessen profanity. Don't curse or swear, if you have to, use the "mild" alternative (crap, dang, freak, jerk, etc.)
5. Don't be a sockpuppet. Altaccounts are okay as long as you say they're an altaccount, and backup accounts, too. A sockpuppet is when you were previously blocked, and you come back with a new account. Don't do this. Accept your block. If it's not an indefinite block, and your time is up, then you will come back. With a sock, that block may lengthen
6. Don't vandalize. If you have to edit an article, do it with the intent to improve it, and not to destroy it.
7. This wiki is not intended specifically for those 13 or older, but according to COPPA, you must be. I'll not promote the breaking of law, but if you are under 13, and really want to be a part of this community, don't say it.
8. Titles must have proper grammar and be in title case. So should pages. If you have a problem with this, there should be a template for it soon.
9. Make everything in the article related to the article, even if it is a joke article
10. Only put related things here. It's not an anything fandom.
11. Don't copy anything without permission from another user if it's theirs.
12. Password stealing or gaining is against the rules. No warnings. Attempts to do this will result in a 6-month block.
13. Categorize things correctly. Use the right categories
	1. No spam categories or category farming
14. Advertize when necessary. I made the mistake of advertizing this place...try seeing if it is allowed by an admin first, usually we will say yes, but just be aware.
15. Don't pretend to be an administrator. If you want to be one, talk it out with the current administrators
16. No sexual content or visible gore of any kind. Blood and death from a predator killing its prey is fine, but no links, videos, images, or sounds of any kind of sexual content
17. Be mature. Don't whine and complain, accept stuff. Don't argue.
18. No personal information will be revealed
19. Don't feed trolls. Don't give them what they want, just ignore them
20. Respect everyone, you're part of a community!
21. Admins aren't slaves.
22. No badgehunting
23. Do not fluff edit. That is, creating an article piece by piece when you could do it in one go to increase your edit count. This could be considered a form of badgehunting as well

### Chat and Discord Rules

Chat and discord both have rules (discord rules will be on the server), and they're fun places to RP, talk, and just have some fun. But, you gotta obey!

1. Don't spam anything
2. Pretty much all rules in the above section apply
3. Don't RP on non-RP channels. We want to keep this kind of thing confined
4. Post your suggestions on a suggestions channel, don't DM an admin and pester them.

### Admin Rules

1. Ask a bureacrat before making serious changes to the community, and also respect the community, amke sure *they're* happy with the changes as well
2. No abuse of power. You'll be demoted.
3. Don't immediately block someone for feeding a troll, give them a few warnings. Same for all the rules, follow the discipline guidelines.
4. Act maturely and respectfully. You are an admin, but don't treat everyone else like slaves because you are
5. Lock any pages needed, with a warning to the owner, but remember to unlock them afterwards
6. Delete pages that are candidates for deletion
	1. Don't delete just any page, and give the owner of the page heads-ups before deleting their pages.
7. Restore pages only if the creator will try to imporve them
8. Do not promote anybody before the voting is finished
9. Don't make weird changes to the CSS.
10. Edit only what you know is your job to edit.
11. Don't add rules without there being a serious problem in which they are needed

## Discipline

These are the "rewards" "awarded" for breaking a rule. Depending on how seriously the rule was broken, the user will get a consequence.

### User rules

Warning- Strike 1: An admin or staff member will tell you not to do the thing you were doing

Warning- Strike 2: Depending on how seriously the rule was broken or how serious that rule was, a second warning may be given. If it is more severe, the second warning will be skipped.

Kick- A 1-day ban. Don't do it again, or it'll be worse

Block- For any amount of time, you will receive a block if this continues

Ban- Terminated. You will no longer be allowed to contribute to this wiki

IP Ban- No socks are allowed, either. You had your chance. This is it

Global- No need to worry about this unless you've been doing serious rule-breaking on other wikis. If so, we'll have a Wiki Staff member consulted, and get you Globalled.

### Admin rules

Warning- Strike: Sometimes a warning can be given if the crime is mild

Suspension- A way to think on your actions. For a certain amount of time, you will not receive admin privileges. After another admin decides you are ok again, you will be repromoted

Expulsion- For lack of a better term, expulsion is when you are not an admin, and will no longer be an admin. After this, the admin will have to consult the user discipline rather than the admin discipline

### Chat and Discord rules

Warning- Strike 1: A warning

Warning- Strike 2: A secondary warning

Channel Block: You will not be able to message on the channel in which you were causing trouble

Kick: A 1-day block from the server

Channel Ban: No more messaging on that channel

Block: For multiple channels in which you were breaking rules, you will be temporarily unable to message the server

Ban: No more messaging the server