RuneVillage Rules of Participation, Policies, and Other Information
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.
  • Rule 2. You must not scam or deceive other players. Lying to other players for your own personal gain is not in the spirit of the game.
  • Rule 3. Asking/trying to persuade another player to give you their password for any reason is against the rules and will not be tolerated.
  • Rule 5. You should not attempt to impersonate Jagex staff in any way, for any reason.
  • Rule 6. Each account should only be used by ONE person. Account sharing is NOT allowed. You may not sell, transfer or lend your account to anyone else, or permit anyone else to use your account, and you may not accept an account that anybody else offers you.
  • Rule 7. You must not attempt to use other programs (e.g. bots, macros or autominers) in conjunction with our games to give yourself an unfair advantage at the game. You also may not circumvent any of our mechanisms designed to log out inactive users automatically.
  • Rule 9. You must not encourage others to break any of the RuneScape rules
  • Rule 12. RuneScape items must only be exchanged for other items/services within the game. Exchanging RuneScape items for items or other benefits in other online games, real-life money or other real-life benefits is not allowed.
  • For more details please check the official Runescape rules, which can be found on http://www.runescape.com under the rules & security section.


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:
  1. Do not use offensive language or bypass the filter.
  2. Do not use double posting as spam, to increase your post count, or to bump a topic.
  3. Do not post the same topic more than once in multiple forums that the topic can fit into. Pick the best forum you would like to post your topic in. Topics that should appear in multiple forums are global announcements.
  4. Do not post anything that doesn't contribute to the topic (such as "lol", simply just quoting someone and nothing else, etc).
  5. Do not use any of the RV rank images as an avatar, especially admin or moderator ranks.
  6. Leave the moderating to the moderators. If you witness another user break a rule, please send a private message to a moderator containing a link to the offending post or topic. Do not reply to the offending post or topic and attempt to handle the situation yourself.
  7. No posting to find a girlfriend/boyfriend.
  8. No online trading (i.e. Selling my bike! topics).
II. The following rules each warrant an official warning if violated once, and 2 warnings for every additional violation:
  1. Do not make sexual comments directed at other people or just in general.
  2. Do not post links to sites where you get credit for getting people to click your links.
  3. Do not steal another user's art/personal creation.
III. The following rules each warrant 2 official warnings if violated once, and 3 warnings for every additional violation:
  1. Do not post flame bait or anything encouraging others to break the rules.
  2. Do not repeatedly break the profile rules.
  3. Do not revert a post or profile field's content back to what it was before an admin or moderator edited it.
  4. Do not refuse to change your profile when a moderator asks you to.
IV. The following rules each warrant 3 official warnings if violated once, and 5 warnings for every additional violation:
  1. Do not insult or degrade any individuals; this includes registered users and their family and friends.
  2. Do not post racial/prejudice/discriminative slurs or remarks.
  3. Do not imply or suggest that you are superior to any other culture, ethnicity, race, sexuality, gender, or other specific group of people.
V. The following rules each warrant a permanent ban if ever broken:
  1. Do not post the same topic or post several times on purpose, such as to advertise a site, or to spread inappropriate images or harmful files.
  2. Do not post obscene/pornographic/offensive images or links to web pages which contain such images.
  3. Do not register here to 'harvest' AIM/YIM/MSN/ICQ usernames for any reason.
  4. Do not attempt to hack or scam anyone in any way.
  5. Do not post sites harmful to user's computers.

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
  • 1 warning - Unable to have a name change.
  • 3 warnings - Ability to use an avatar disabled
  • 4 warnings - Ability to use a signature disabled
  • 6 warnings - Your posts must be approved by a moderator or administrator.
  • 8 warnings - Indefinite ban
  • Violation of a rule in section V. - Permanent ban
Temporary Bans
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.
  • Site Administrator (Hiker)
    • Asst. Site Administrators
      • Forum Administrators
        • Board Moderators, Forum Moderators, and Asst. Forum Moderators
          • Chat Moderators (on the ThePub)
          • Forum users (including Village Staff, Village Legends, Village Elders)
      • Chat Administrators
        • Chat Moderators
          • Board Moderators, Forum Moderators, and Asst. Forum Moderators (in the RV Chat)
          • Chat users (including Village Staff, Village Legends, Village Elders)
      • Staff Administrators
        • Staff Moderator
          • Village Staff
To clarify, Board Moderators, Forum Moderators, and Asst. Forum Moderators must answer to Chat moderators within the RV Chat, and Chat Moderators must answer to Board Moderators, Forum Moderators, and Asst. Forum Moderators on ThePub.

Revised July 09th, 2008