Dog Sim Online Wiki: Rules

## General rules

1. You must be **13 years of age or older** in order to operate an account. We have the right to block you indefinitely or until you are of able age.
2. **Sharing personal information of someone without their permission will not be tolerated.** Any user who shares personal information without the other person's permission will ensure a permanent block.
3. Venting is not allowed. Keep it to your wall, or ask someone else on their wall if you can vent. Respect if they say no.
4. **NSFW or sexual content is NOT allowed!** Posting any form of inappropriate content is prohibited! If you get caught posting NSFW your images/comments will be deleted and you will be given a warning/ban depending on the severity of what you sent. Posting cropped pornography is also not allowed.
5. Saying that you are a staff member or any higher ranks is not allowed since it becomes misleading.
6. Begging for user rights such as administrator, bureaucrat, content-moderator, thread-moderator, rollback, is prohibited
7. Suicidal/death threats or encouraging others to do so is not allowed.
	* If you need help now, and you live in the United States call 988, or if you live in Canada call 1-800-273-8255.
8. **Don't lie.** Lying is a *great* way to lose the trust and assumption of good faith from the staff. If you are caught in a lie while trying to evade punishment, your words will no longer be held to good faith.
9. (depends if it's on accident, spam, or once) Anything that shows or promotes extremist countries or symbols (for example, Nazi Germany) will result in a permanent block from the wiki.
10. **Create an account with an appropriate username.** Referencing sexual messages, hate speech, another contributor, profanity, or otherwise hurtful or distracting usernames is prohibited.
11. Put your post in the right category: Self-explanatory. Helps staff not have to move it there for you, as it can get annoying for us.
12. Do not delete Staff warnings. Doing so will be considered an act of defiance and will result in another warning.

## Editing Rules

1. Adding false information onto pages or creating pages that cover false/fake information are not allowed.
2. **Don't vandalize.** Vandalism can be inserting nonsense, misinformation, or broken code, as well as removing adequate information, images, and categories. Vandalism greatly damages pages' developments, and we are more than welcome to revert any vandalism and take actions against anyone that vandalizes or encourages it.
	1. * If you are a new user who joins only to vandalize, it is an indefinite block.
3. **Upload files with appropriate names.** The rules against profanity apply to any images and videos uploaded to the wiki.
	1. 1. * **Replacing files** should be limited to **increasing its resolution** (making the image bigger without obvious artifacts or compression) or **bettering its quality** (removing unwanted artifacts, such as a video progress bar). **Destructively replacing files is vandalism**.
4. Edit-wars are not allowed. Edit-wars are things like racing for the most edits or continuously reverting someone else's edits.
5. Please do not add fake or false information and/or gibberish on articles.
6. Editing other user's pages are not allowed, unless you have permission from the user who owns that userpage.

## **Discussion Rules**

1. Staff-disrespect is prohibited.
2. Joking about any real life tragedies, such as 9/11, is prohibited.
3. Any form of slurs are not allowed.
4. (depends on what is said) Any homophobia or racism on this wiki will result in major consequences.
5. Queerphobia, racism, antisemitism, ableism, Trolling, harassment, and general toxicity is forbidden.
6. Spamming is prohibited.
7. Refrain from discussion of **serious, triggering,** especially regarding personal details. This includes topics such as **suicide and death**. These topics are best discussed in private with individuals you trust, not posted publicly for everyone to see.
8. **Don't harass and disrespect, especially if the user(s) in question explicitly told you to stop**, is considered harassment.
9. Fetish, grotesque, violent, or potentially disturbing content will result in a block/warning from the wiki for obvious reasons.
10. **No Art/Content Theft**. Do not post art, videos, or other forms of media that don't belong to you and claim they're yours. To clarify, you are allowed to post things that you didn't make as long as you don't claim or imply that you're the original creator.
11. Queerphobia, ableism, racism, antisemitism, and hate comments are never allowed. Trolling, harassment, instigation, and general toxicity is forbidden.
12. KYS/KILL YOURSELF memes are prohibited, it should be obvious that posting any type of death treats here even has a joke would results in a temporarily block.
13. buffer art that can be triggering to others. This includes violence/gore/blood and eyestrain, and general discomforting art.
14. Necroposting is not allowed. Replying to posts or comments 30+ days old is considered necroposting.
15. Put your post in the right category: Self-explanatory. Helps staff not have to move it there for you, as it can get annoying for us.