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Hello, I will go on record and state the original poster received a warning for this post. Alliance Affairs is a higher-moderation area where we will enforce a slightly higher standard regarding the spam rule. One word posts, single-image posts, or off-topic posts should not be here. Thank you.

That is my doing while doing a quick parse through the moderation logs. I restored the post but removed the gif. The word filter rules unfortunately still apply to images or gifs posted on the forum. If the auto-censor filters it, the forum mods have to filter it as well. Thanks for understanding.

Hey, I apologize for not responding to your PM as it seemed self-explanatory at the time. I Know It's Pink / Teen Sexual Harassment | Know Your Meme Here's a link to help inform the warning. Sexually harassing / making sexist comments about the genetalia of other players is in direct violation of our sexual harassment / sexism rule. I hope this clarified things, thanks!

Just popping in to remind the freefolk of Middle Orbis that even though this bloc had a name that sounds like an animal, posting pictures of dead animals in the disbandment thread still violates the forum rules. Thank you for your time, please continue.

You received a warning for posting "This is garbage, you're all idiots" in Prefontaine's thread regarding decorum in the Game Suggestions subforum. Alliance Affairs and Game Suggestions are more tightly moderated than other areas, but that was a warn-able post anywhere. For future reference, if you wish to appeal warnings I'd highly suggest doing so in the Appeals subforums not in Orbis Central. This isn't the place to discuss moderator activity or actions, but I do apologize for being a little less active lately. Here I am making up for it :)

Please remember this is a no-discussion forum

Get back on topic please. This is the only warning.

For the future: We do allow relevant parties to respond to a report with their own counter-evidence but please keep it to one or two posts. This is a non-discussion forum. Reports should never turn into debates.

Locked for descending into madness

I think it's worth noting that the mod team does not give additional points or warnings because someone is complaining about a warning. If you make a "frick the mods" thread then you might earn additional warnings. Annyways - No discussion forum please observe respectful silence.

Please bring this thread back on topic.

This is a no discussion forum. I see two pages of argument. Thank you for your original report, but the "no-discussion" rule takes effect for the reporter as well. A game report isn't your personal platform to argue and investigate. You report, Admins will follow up. I've been pretty strict and pretty clear for the last month or two about the No Discussion Forums being abused. I'm just going to hand out warnings from now on.

Bring this thread back on topic.

Please bring this thread back on topic, if it ever had one.

Please keep this thread on-topic.

Hi, If someone is going to run these this year, shoot me a DM and we'll work on pinning the new polls and having it organized properly. I already unpinned the results from last year to avoid confusion. If no one would like to volunteer I can just run it myself. I think yearly awards are a great IC community tradition that should be maintained. Regards, Mod team

Reminder this is a no-discussion area. Please keep posts to pertinent evidence.

Hello, I just feel the need to make a quick thread due to a large amount of reports and rule-breaking. I'll do it via bullet points. The report sections of the forums (Game, forum, bans, wiki, etc) are not open-air trials. The moderators would like to politely encourage everyone to carefully consider whether or not you should post your "sick burn" in these threads. Only people presenting evidence (ie - not your personal opinion) should be posting in these threads. Otherwise you will receive a warning point. The act of reporting someone does not guarantee a warning nor does it actually do anything other than flag it for moderator review. More often than not, the moderation team dismisses reports rather than warning the reported poster. So if someone tells you they've reported you, you have no reason to be worried unless you actually broke a rule. Typically, but not always, if one post gets reported in a thread the moderator(s) will review the entire thread for violators. The mod team would like to politely encourage everyone to report posts they feel break rules, but try to keep things reasonable. We don't need you to collect all your friends to report the same post - each report is manually reviewed regardless of volume of reports. Lastly, please try to keep threads on-topic. I'm getting really tired of posting "please bring this back on topic." Hopefully this wasn't too much text but it should clarify a few things for you all.

Bring this thread back on topic or face the wrath of Claus

Just to, yet again, remind the community: - Moderation as a weapon refers specifically to someone "tricking" or extorting another person into doing something or giving something in-game under threat of "reporting them and getting them banned." - Moderation as a weapon does not include using the report button on the forums. The report button flags posts for us, the moderation team, to review and determine if rules are being broken. I can promise you that no matter how many times anyone spams the report button, you will never receive a warning unless a consensus was reached between at least two moderators that you broke a forum rule.

Yes I misspoke on that one. Off-topic / derailing comments are still fair warn game though.

The administration and moderation teams are both looking into the discord situation that has been previously reported. Thank you for your continued patience in this matter but I think three threads is enough. I will personally update the community (if Alex doesn't) on the outcome of the investigation as it unfolds. It is also worth noting that several reports have been filed for people posting in no-discussion forums. These reports are also being reviewed and I would recommend further "discussion" be kept to a minimum.

Please remain on topic and be civil. Just because this is an OOC forum doesn't mean it's a free-for-all to flame people.

I know I'm 10 pages too late to say this, but please keep this thread on topic about GOON's announcement. Further derailment will be punished with proper moderator protocol BLOOD AND TERROR

I bolded a key part. The report button is a guaranteed way to have the moderation team review an issue. I, personally, do not give out warnings for trivialities but I do DM people asking them to fix their profile. Nation ID, ruler name matching etc. If there ever is a case when someone refuses to comply, I guess I'd have to discuss it with the other mods but that has never happened. ------------- On the idea of the rule in general, this is a forum for people playing Politics and War to come communicate with each other and often the staff. I'd actually argue for the forum profiles to be directly linked to your nation and have the usernames not be changeable but rather auto-update to your rulername or disallow you from posting if your nationID is invalid. The reasoning behind this is that accountability has to be present for both politics and moderation. example: Someone impersonates an alliance leader and posts a DoW.