I. Introduction
Welcome to Southperry.net, the leading source in Maplestory news and information!
By registering for an account, you have agreed to follow these rules and regulations. These regulations will help to keep Southperry a friendly environment where all may post and enjoy the community and what it has to offer.
It is generally understood these rules apply to the entire site - meaning any URL which falls in the domain of "Southperry.net" - unless otherwise specified in the rules listed below. These rules do not apply to the IRC.
II. Administration Policy
All administrators must follow the moderation policy below. Any infraction of the below policies will result in the same consequences as those moderators would receive.
--> A. Site Administrator - Position currently held by Eosian
The purpose of the Administrator is to moderate all other administrative staff and moderators, ensure the site continues to run, collect donations, and pay for the server. The Admin is also responsible for making sitewide administration policies (such as these rules here) and moderation policies.
III. Moderation Policy
--> A. Power
All moderators and administrators of this forum have the power to:
- Keep the peace within these forums
- Distribute infractions to those who break these rules and regulations
- Move, close, or edit threads upon infraction with these rules.
--> B. Moderator's Discretion
All moderators will have the power of Moderator’s Discretion in which he or she may elect to use any of his powers placed in him as moderator for the sole purpose of making the forums a better place. An improper use of Moderator’s Discretion will cause the moderator to be removed from his status as determined by the administrators of this website.
--> C. Compensation
All moderators will receive the thanks of Ultra Donor status for electing to help with the forum. Failure to follow this Moderation Policy below will be cause for removal of his status and, depending on the cause of removal, may have his account banned from the forums.
--> D. Misuse of Power
A moderator finding favorites within this community who receive special privileges or benefits such as improper removal of infraction points, taking advantage of the donor privileges and not doing his job that he was hired to do, etc. shall be subsequently removed from his position without restitution. This misuse of power shall be determined by the administrators of this website.
--> E. Relinquish Power
Each moderator may decide at any time to step down from his position with or without warning to the other moderators. If the moderator steps down and remains in full compliance with these rules and regulations, he shall retain his Ultra Donor privileges at an administrator's discretion. If a moderator relinquishes power and is not in compliance, he shall be subject to the consequences laid out in this document as well as be at the whims of the administrators concerning his fate.
VI. Method of Moderation
--> A. Rules
Failure to follow any of these rules will result in the number of infraction points added to your own point total as deemed by the type of infraction listed in the Rules below. Infraction points expire after 75 days. Users can be removed from posting in any board for any reason as determined by administration.
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2014-09-15
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--> B. Ban Policy
Those that accumulate 8 or more infraction points will be tempbanned for 10 days. This ban applies to the person, not the account. The user may not create a new account and return right after being tempbanned. A user found signing onto a different account while an account of his is currently tempbanned will have that account permabanned. This is to ensure the user serves all 10 days of the tempban. Infraction points remain after a ban has been served. This means until those points expire sufficiently to drop below 8 every additional infraction will cause another 10 day ban.
If a user reaches 16 or more infraction points, that account will be permanently banned. Permanent bans affect users and not accounts. All accounts registered or posted from that IP address, and all IP addresses the user has history with, will also be banned regardless of who the account belongs. Any new accounts made by this person will be banned on sight. Users that continually make new accounts will be IP banned from the server.
Users have the possibility of jumping straight to permanent ban if he or she commits a permanent ban offense or if enough offenses accumulate the 16 points necessary.
Bans may be appealed by following the template outlined in the Ban Appeal Forum. This forum is only accessible to those who are currently banned and allows a private means of communicating directly with the administration.
[urlname="MultPolicy"][/urlname]
--> C. Mult Policy
Users are allowed to own multiple accounts ("mults"). However, in the event that a person's mult is infracted, the mult will be banned and the infraction is instead applied to the person's main account. The "main account" is defined as the account with the highest post count owned by that person.
Mults are also restricted from Shenanigans.
[urlname="Appeals"][/urlname]
--> D. Appealing
Any moderator action which gives infraction points or in some way restricts access to the forums can be appealed. No infraction points or restrictions means no appeal can be made. If any user feels that an infraction they received is unjustified, he or she has the ability to appeal it. The infraction can be appealed by posting an Appeal in the Appeals forum, per the guidelines specified in the template there.
Appeals are reviewed by the entire moderation staff and voted on anonymously. No discussion is possible within the appeal thread, so the appeal itself should as complete and thorough as possible to defend it's own merits. If you fail to convince you will not get a second chance.
Attempting to appeal, or even bringing up your infraction, within a public thread, new or old, is grounds for both the appeal to be rejected and for the infraction to be increased as there is no point at which your infraction is relevant to the topic of a legitimate thread. Infractions are your indicator to stop negative behavior, not an invitation to make a thread about yourself.
Welcome to Southperry.net, the leading source in Maplestory news and information!
By registering for an account, you have agreed to follow these rules and regulations. These regulations will help to keep Southperry a friendly environment where all may post and enjoy the community and what it has to offer.
It is generally understood these rules apply to the entire site - meaning any URL which falls in the domain of "Southperry.net" - unless otherwise specified in the rules listed below. These rules do not apply to the IRC.
II. Administration Policy
All administrators must follow the moderation policy below. Any infraction of the below policies will result in the same consequences as those moderators would receive.
--> A. Site Administrator - Position currently held by Eosian
The purpose of the Administrator is to moderate all other administrative staff and moderators, ensure the site continues to run, collect donations, and pay for the server. The Admin is also responsible for making sitewide administration policies (such as these rules here) and moderation policies.
III. Moderation Policy
--> A. Power
All moderators and administrators of this forum have the power to:
- Keep the peace within these forums
- Distribute infractions to those who break these rules and regulations
- Move, close, or edit threads upon infraction with these rules.
--> B. Moderator's Discretion
All moderators will have the power of Moderator’s Discretion in which he or she may elect to use any of his powers placed in him as moderator for the sole purpose of making the forums a better place. An improper use of Moderator’s Discretion will cause the moderator to be removed from his status as determined by the administrators of this website.
--> C. Compensation
All moderators will receive the thanks of Ultra Donor status for electing to help with the forum. Failure to follow this Moderation Policy below will be cause for removal of his status and, depending on the cause of removal, may have his account banned from the forums.
--> D. Misuse of Power
A moderator finding favorites within this community who receive special privileges or benefits such as improper removal of infraction points, taking advantage of the donor privileges and not doing his job that he was hired to do, etc. shall be subsequently removed from his position without restitution. This misuse of power shall be determined by the administrators of this website.
--> E. Relinquish Power
Each moderator may decide at any time to step down from his position with or without warning to the other moderators. If the moderator steps down and remains in full compliance with these rules and regulations, he shall retain his Ultra Donor privileges at an administrator's discretion. If a moderator relinquishes power and is not in compliance, he shall be subject to the consequences laid out in this document as well as be at the whims of the administrators concerning his fate.
VI. Method of Moderation
--> A. Rules
Failure to follow any of these rules will result in the number of infraction points added to your own point total as deemed by the type of infraction listed in the Rules below. Infraction points expire after 75 days. Users can be removed from posting in any board for any reason as determined by administration.
[urlname="Discretion"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Accusations"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Ads"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_ads[/faq]
[urlname="Adbot"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Auctions"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Baiting"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Drama"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_drama[/faq]
[urlname="Flaming"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_flaming[/faq]
[urlname="Flooding"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_flooding[/faq]
[urlname="Bashing"][/urlname]
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[urlname="Hacking"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_hacking[/faq]
[urlname="Impersonation"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_impersonation[/faq]
[urlname="Behavior"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_behavior[/faq]
[urlname="Obscenity"][/urlname]
2014-09-15[faq]rr_obscenity[/faq]
[urlname="Profanity"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_profanity[/faq]
[urlname="Proxies"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_proxies[/faq]
[urlname="Revolving"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_revolving_door[/faq]
[urlname="Rickrolls"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_rickrolls[/faq]
[urlname="Spam"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_spam[/faq]
[urlname="TOS"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_tos[/faq]
[urlname="Transactions"][/urlname][urlname="NX"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_transactions[/faq]
[urlname="Trolling"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_trolling[/faq]
[urlname="Warez"][/urlname]
[faq]rr_warez[/faq]
[urlname="BanPolicy"][/urlname]
--> B. Ban Policy
Those that accumulate 8 or more infraction points will be tempbanned for 10 days. This ban applies to the person, not the account. The user may not create a new account and return right after being tempbanned. A user found signing onto a different account while an account of his is currently tempbanned will have that account permabanned. This is to ensure the user serves all 10 days of the tempban. Infraction points remain after a ban has been served. This means until those points expire sufficiently to drop below 8 every additional infraction will cause another 10 day ban.
If a user reaches 16 or more infraction points, that account will be permanently banned. Permanent bans affect users and not accounts. All accounts registered or posted from that IP address, and all IP addresses the user has history with, will also be banned regardless of who the account belongs. Any new accounts made by this person will be banned on sight. Users that continually make new accounts will be IP banned from the server.
Users have the possibility of jumping straight to permanent ban if he or she commits a permanent ban offense or if enough offenses accumulate the 16 points necessary.
Bans may be appealed by following the template outlined in the Ban Appeal Forum. This forum is only accessible to those who are currently banned and allows a private means of communicating directly with the administration.
[urlname="MultPolicy"][/urlname]
--> C. Mult Policy
Users are allowed to own multiple accounts ("mults"). However, in the event that a person's mult is infracted, the mult will be banned and the infraction is instead applied to the person's main account. The "main account" is defined as the account with the highest post count owned by that person.
Mults are also restricted from Shenanigans.
[urlname="Appeals"][/urlname]
--> D. Appealing
Any moderator action which gives infraction points or in some way restricts access to the forums can be appealed. No infraction points or restrictions means no appeal can be made. If any user feels that an infraction they received is unjustified, he or she has the ability to appeal it. The infraction can be appealed by posting an Appeal in the Appeals forum, per the guidelines specified in the template there.
Appeals are reviewed by the entire moderation staff and voted on anonymously. No discussion is possible within the appeal thread, so the appeal itself should as complete and thorough as possible to defend it's own merits. If you fail to convince you will not get a second chance.
Attempting to appeal, or even bringing up your infraction, within a public thread, new or old, is grounds for both the appeal to be rejected and for the infraction to be increased as there is no point at which your infraction is relevant to the topic of a legitimate thread. Infractions are your indicator to stop negative behavior, not an invitation to make a thread about yourself.
