| RuneVillage Rules of Participation, Policies, and Other Information |
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These rules apply to all people who use RuneVillage (villagers). Absolutely no one (including staff members, users who have donated money, items, or other help to RuneVillage) is immune to these rules. The administration reserves the right to alter this list without prior warning or announcement.
RuneScape Rules RuneVillage Posting Rules Profile Use Special Punishments Temporary Bans Indefinite Bans Warning Removal Name Changes Special Ranks RuneVillage Staff Hierarchy RuneScape Rules RuneVillage actively supports Jagex in punishing any player who breaks the rules of play in RuneScape. As a result of this, users found to be breaking the following Jagex rules may be immediately banned from RuneVillage, and their details sent to Jagex. Other Jagex rules not listed here are still enforced, however, and will result in warnings if violated.
RuneVillage Posting Rules These rules apply to: any information or discussion posted on this forum; private messages sent between users; information displayed in your profile (signature, avatar, location, etc); and the phpbb e-mail function. If a moderator judges so, you may receive a verbal warning instead of an official warning for violating a rule in category in I., II., sometimes III. Verbal warnings are only given to new users or users who have not had warnings before that are just having an off day. I. The following rules each warrant 1 un-official warning (documented, but not issued) if violated once, and 1 official warning for every addition violation:
Profile Use These rules apply exclusively to your signature and avatar in your Profile field. If your profile is over the limits a moderator will ask you to remove it or help you edit the file to make it in the limits. If you refuse to change it an administrator will be notified and will change it. If you change it back, your signature and/or avatar will be disabled. Signature size limits: 400 pixels wide and 150 pixels high. Avatar size limits: 80 pixels wide and 80 pixels high. File size limit: All images found in Avatar and Signature field combined - 55kB. (56,320 bytes) Additionally, you may have a maximum of 8 lines of text in your signature. If you have an image in your signature, you may have 8 lines of text if you are using a font size of 70 or less. Otherwise you may only have 4 lines of text with an image. Special Punishments
In certain cases, such as breaking the same rule two or three times in a row, you will be temporarily banned. Depending on the offense, an administrator may: disabled your ability to post; disable your ability to send private message; or deactivate your account. This is like "protective custody" becasue we do not want to see you get to 8 warnings because you are having an off day. Indefinite Bans If you were to ever recieve an indefinite or permanent ban, you would not be allowed to register a new account, as that would render the ban redundant. If you are discovered to have multiple accounts, and you do not have an indefinite or permanent ban, you would be forced to surrender one of your choice, and any warnings on all of the accounts would be added up and transferred to the account you'd wish to keep. If you were to persist in creating new accounts to avoid warnings or bans, your IP would be banned and your ISP (internet service provider) would be notified. Indefinite bans must be served a minimum of 2 months. After that period of time, you may appeal your ban to an administrator. 2/3rds of administrators who participate in the vote must vote to unban you if your appeal is to be successful. (Chat Admins and Forum Admins vote on all users, regardless of who originally issued the ban.) More information about appeals can be found on this post. *Please note that most bans are on a case-by-case basis. Warning Removal Warnings expire automatically 60 days after they were added. Name Changes If you wish to have your name changed, you may request so from an admin via a private message. In your private message, you must give your desired name and the reason you wish to have your name changed. (If it is later discovered that you were untruthful about your reason(s), your name will be reverted and you will be issued 3 warnings.) You may not request to have your name changed to anything that is: similar to another RuneVillager's name; similar to a well-known RuneScaper's name; more than 16 characters long. Do not request to have your name changed with intent to have it changed back at a later date. Name changes are limited to one per every 3 months, excluding reverts. The administration reserves the right to refuse to change anyone's name for any reason not present here. Special Ranks The ranks "Village Legend", "Village Staff", and "Village Elder" are all privileges to have. Users who have any warnings are not eligible for these ranks, and users who already have one of the ranks will have it revoked if they gain 4 or more warnings. Users may earn back the rank or eligibility for the rank one month after they have earned off their warnings. The ultimate decision of whether or not a certain user deserves a special rank is made by the administration. RuneVillage Staff Hierarchy At the top of the hierarchy is Hiker, who is the founder and owner of RuneVillage. Below him, in order of authority indicated by cascading bullet points, are various staff positions and user statuses. Each staff position has authority over the staff position and user statuses on the lines below and to the right of it. Forum Administrators, for example, have authority over all moderators and users, but they must answer to Asst. Site Administrators and Hiker.
Revised July 09th, 2008 |