Dyescape Rules

On this page, you will find all of the rules that apply to all services that Dyescape has to offer. Breaking any of the below rules on any of the services that we offer will result in you being punished appropriately. The information below will give you insights into which rules we have, and what kind of penalties you can expect when breaking them. Please note that we expect a level of common sense from everyone using our services, which means that you can and will be punished for anything unacceptable, even if it's not explicitly documented here.

Also note that the purpose of our communicative services is to provide a great, easy to use and friendly way of communicating with each other. If we feel that you as an individual are a negative impact on this purpose (by constantly being negative towards everything or everyone for example), we may choose to limit or completely disallow your continued access to any of our services.

Any attempt of avoiding punishment will be treated as a severe breach of guidelines and results in the discontinuation of your access to any of our services.

Version: 2 December 2019

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Chat and Thread rules:

• Do not spam, including but not limited to: 1 / 3 / 5
  • Excessive use of capital letters.
    • E.g: “HELLO HOW IS YOUR DAY” would be breaking the rule
      
    • E.g. the repetitive use of all capital sentences.
      
    • This excludes improper grammar such as “Hello, How Is Your Day?”
      
    • This excludes moments of joy and enthusiasm “I JUST FOUND A MYTHICAL WEAPON!”
      • If there is a reason to believe that this exclusion of the rule is being abused it will be treated as an offense.
  • Excessive posting of video content.
    
  • Excessive posting of links.
    
  • Excessive posting of images.
    
  • Excessive posting of messages.
    
  • Excessive posting of messages on a short interval which could be included in a single sentence.
    
  • Posting messages which are low in quality, redundant, unnecessary and/or meaningless.
• The posting of inappropriate links, including but not limited to:
  • The use of sexual terms in the link URL. 25
    
  • Posting links with intention to mislead. 25
    
  • A link directing people to pornographic, sexually explicit, drugs, graphic or any other NSFW content. 65
    
  • The posting of any shortened link shortened by link shortening services, including but not limited to: 5
    • Bit.ly links.
    • Excluding shortened links shortened by platforms themselves, including but not limited to: Youtube, Google or Facebook.
• Do not bother Staff about, including but not limited to: 1 / 3
  • All forms of applications.
    
  • Ban appeals.
    
  • Emails.
    
  • Warnings or punishments given out by Staff.
    
  • Upcoming Dyescape content
    • Please use suggestion threads if you disagree with upcoming changes.
      
    • Excluding compliments or positive feedback.
      
    • Excluding general discussion initialised by Staff.
  • In-game events, including but not limited to:
    • Items lost upon death.
      
    • Being unable to progress a quest.
      • Excluding being unable to progress a quest because of flaws in the system.
    • Excluding Items lost because of a bug occuring.
      
    • Excluding the spotting of a bug or exploit.
      
    • Excluding the reporting of players violating rules.
• Do not advertise, including but not limited to: 80
  • The advertisement of your own server.
    • Posting server IPs to use the Dyescape Community to gain traction to a certain server.
      
    • Posting the name of the server to use the Dyescape Community to generate traction to a certain server.
      
    • Private messaging users of the Dyescape Community to gain traction to a certain server.
  • The advertisement of other servers.
    • Posting server IPs to use the Dyescape Community to gain traction to a certain server.
      
    • Posting the name of the server to use the Dyescape Community to generate traction to a certain server.
      
    • Private messaging users of the Dyescape Community to gain traction to a certain server.
      
    • Excluding talking about other established servers. (e.g. Hypixel, Wynncraft, Mineplex, the HiveMC and others)
      
    • Excluding the posting of IPs of any known and established server, including but not limited to: Hypixel, Mineplex and the HiveMC.
  • The advertisement of a (personal freelancing) service, including but not limited to: 50
    • Posting a message containing a sale.
      
    • Posting a message to gather sales.
      
    • Posting a message to use the Dyescape Community to gather traction.
• Do not share personal information about another member or person, including but not limited to: 80
  • Sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
    • Personal address.
      
    • Personal name.
      • Excluding if permission has been granted by the user.
    • IP Addresses.
      
    • Personal pictures.
      
    • Phone numbers.
      
    • Information regarding family members
  • Usernames of other social media profiles.
• Do not share personal information about another member or person from the Dyescape Community on another service that’s not a part of Dyescape, including but not limited to: 20/40/60/80
  • Sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
    • Personal address.
      
    • Personal name.
      • Excluding if permission has been granted by the user.
    • IP Addresses.
      
    • Personal pictures.
      
    • Phone numbers.
      
    • Information regarding family members
  • Usernames of other social media profiles.
• Do not post NSFW (Not-Safe-For-Work) content, including but not limited to:
  • Pornographic, sexually explicit, drugs and/or graphical content not suitable to be viewed during working hours in an office, including but not limited to: 20/40/60/80
    • Images.
      
    • Videos.
      
    • Gifs.
      
    • Text messages.
      • Emojis.
    • Sound
      • Voice messages.
        
      • Music videos.
• Do not post flashy images which can cause epileptic seizures, including but not limited to: 10/30/50
  • Emojis.
    
  • Gifs.
    
  • Videos.
    
  • Youtube videos.
• Do not post videos with excessively loud volume. 20
  
• Do not post content in an attempt to mislead people. 25
  
• Do not Ghost ping. 1 / 3 / 5
  
• Do not mass ping. 1 / 3 / 5
  
• Do not converse in any other language than English. 1 / 2
• Do not post content of movies, Books or any other anticipated entertainment without spoiler tags. 5 / 10 / 15
  
• Do not wrongly use purpose driven channels. Keep your favourite pet pictures in the discord channel for pets (#pets) and your off-topic discussion in the off-topic forum page. 1 / 2 / 3
  
• Do not indulge in any improper use of emojis that could potentially break any of the rules specified. Depends on broken rule
  
• Do not attempt to raid any of the Dyescape Services. 95
• Do not wish death upon someone, including but not limited to: 30
  • Acronyms.
    
  • Suggesting towards it.
    
  • Promoting suicide.
    
  • Aiding in suicide.

Behaviour rules

• Do not encourage people to break our ToS or rules. 25
  
• Do not joke about breaking our ToS or rules. 15
  
• Do not slander another person. 10 / 20 / 30
  
• Do not indulge in derogatory content. 10 / 20 / 30
  • Do not spread hate.
• Do not disrespect or harass another person, including but not limited to: 5 / 10 / 15
  • Racism.
    
  • Sexism.
    
  • Discrimination.
    
  • Religious beliefs.
  • Politics.
• Do not discuss politics. 1 / 3 / 5
  
• Do not discuss religion. 1 / 3 /5
  
• Do not discuss or promote external communities/gangs. 30 / 40 / 50
  
• Do not scam. 100
  
• Do not disobey Staff. 1 / 2 / 3
  
• Do not indulge in trolling behaviour. 5

General rules

• Do not create an improper profile, including but not limited to: 25 / Depends on rules broken
  • Profile pictures.
    
  • Profile names, including but not limited to:
    • Extravagant names.
      
    • Invisible names.
  • Statuses.
• Do not necro posts. 1
  
• Do not attempt to avoid punishment. 95
  
• Do not create alternate accounts. 70
  
• Do not abuse any features, including but not limited to: 5 / 10 / 15
  • Bugs.
    
  • Exploits.
• You are responsible for your own account. We are not able to be held responsible for anything that happens regarding your MC account.

In-game rules

• Do not exploit bugs. 5 / 10 / 15
  
• Do not exploit the map in any kind of way. 5 / 10 / 15
  
• Do not target players / youtubers / streamers with malicious intend. 25
  
• Do not target Staff. 25
  
• Do not boost stats. 10 / 20 / 30
  
• Do not use an inappropriate skin. 45 / 65 / 85
  
• Do not use any kind of exploit to get an in-game advantage. 60 / 70 / 80 / 90
  • Hacks.
    
  • Unapproved mods.
• Do not scam. 100
  
• Adhere all chat, general and behaviour rules.

Point System
Every breach of our system will be graded and warning points will be given. The table below indicates which punishment will be given depending on the warning points a user has.

3 points = User receives a 3 hours mute.
5 points = User receives a 5 hours mute.
8 points = User receives a 8 hours mute.
10 points = User receives a 16 hours mute.
13 points = User receives a 24 hours mute.
17 points = User receives a 48 hours mute.
20 points = User receives a 96 hours mute.
24 points = User receives a one week mute.
30 points = User receives a 24 hour ban.
35 points = User receives a 48 hour ban.
40 points = User receives a 96 hour ban.
45 points = User receives a one week ban.
50 points = User receives a two week ban.
55 points = User receives a one month ban.
60 points = User receives a two month ban.
65 points = User receives a three month ban.
70 points = User receives a three month ban.
75 points = User receives a three month ban.
80 points = User receives a six month ban.
85 points = User receives a six month ban.
90 points = User receives a six month ban.
95 points = User receives a twelve month ban.
100 points = User receives a permanent IP ban.

For points >= 3 and not listed in the set above, user receives a 3 hour mute.
For points >= 10 and not listed in the set above, user receives a 8 hour mute.
For points >= 25 and not listed in the set above, user receives a 16 hour mute.
For points >= 30 and not listed in the set above, user receives a 24 hour mute.
For points >= 40 and not listed in the set above, user receives a 48 hour mute.
For points >= 50 and not listed in the set above. user receives a 72 hour mute.
For points >= 60 and not listed in the set above, user receives a one week mute.

Point distribution
All points are indicated by the numbers behind the rule in red. For example, take the broad rule: Do not spam, including but not limited to 1/3/7/10. Four categories of graveness respectively category 1, category 2, category 3, category 4. A minor breach would result in category 1, a major breach would result in category 4.

Please note that a sub-rule of a rule can have a different point indication as the parent rule. If there is no uniquely defined points behind the sub rule, the point indication of the parent rule will be used.

Moreover, punishments are not limited to these point indications. They merely function as a range of indication for the player and moderator. Point system can be overruled if a moderator deems it fit for the breach of rules acted out by the user.

Account responsibility
Everyone is responsible for their own account. If you lend your account to a friend or family and it ends up getting punished for breaking rules, then we hold your account responsible. Excuses about friends or family using your account will not be taken into account. Keep your account to yourself.

Punishment evading
Any attempt of avoiding punishment will be treated as a severe breach of our rules and guidelines and results in the discontinuation of your access to our platforms, such as our forums, our Minecraft servers and our Discord server.