Anarchy Online Social Guidelines
Social Guidelines
The Anarchy Online bulletin board is a place for players to talk about the game, discuss and share knowledge, and engage in role-playing. The general topic for the bulletin board is Anarchy Online; the game and the community.
Funcom or Funcom policies (including these guidelines and their enforcement), exploits and account status are not topics for this bulletin board. To contact Funcom regarding these topics, please use the Contact Support form or, if it's regarding these guidelines, send an e-mail to community@anarchy-online.com.
In order to maintain the boards and be able to provide feedback we must reserve the right to enforce certain standards and rules. Please understand that this bulletin board is owned and operated by Funcom. It is a privately run message board, and all rules are enforced at our discretion.
Alias
Your alias should be short and unique, to easily identify you and set you apart from others. The rules for your alias are
Keep it to 15 characters or less.
Use only letters, numbers (0-9), space ( ), hyphen (-) and underscore (_) in the alias.
Avoid offensive aliases.
Signature
Your signature is a good place for including some info about yourself, a quote you like, or links to your characters on the People of Rubi-Ka lookup. The signature should not take the attention away from the posts though, and thus we have these rules for signatures:
Limit it to a maximum of 10 lines, including any empty lines.
Use normal text size, or smaller. I.e. no [size=x] tags with x > 2.
Don't overdo the colors and smileys.
Avoid the [quote] tag, as it takes up a lot of space.
Do
Following are some guidelines that you should keep in mind when posting. Remember that the general topic on the bulletin board is Anarchy Online.
Post in English, using proper mixed case and punctuation. A single exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?) is enough.
Use a relevant, specific and descriptive subject for a thread. "I was thinking of something" and "Here's an idea" are not good topics.
Stay on topic. When posting a new thread, make sure it fits into the topic of the forum. When replying to a post, make sure to stay on the topic of the thread you're posting in.
Be constructive, and back up your statements. If quoting, make sure to quote all relevant text, and if needed, provide a link to the source.
Pay the moderators and other volunteers proper respect. They spend their spare time to assist and improve the Anarchy Online community.
Be nice - especially to newcomers. Let people become acquainted with the environment and do beginners' mistakes without patronising them. Please respect that people may have a different political, religious, philosophical and cultural background than you.
Play fair. Be truthful and respect other people's privacy. Do not misrepresent or impersonate others.
Have fun! That's why we're all here. Just remember to have fun with others, not at the expense of others.
Don't
This is a list of things you should not do on our bulletin board. If you do any of this, you might find your access to the bulletin board closed, possibly permanently.
Flame. Flaming is verbally attacking people or groups of people - e.g. a profession, an organisation, a company. Name-calling and defamatory comments are typical examples of flaming.
Rant. Ranting is posting irate and normally unconstructive comments. It's normally used to let out frustration, but also as a form of trolling.
Troll. Trolling is posting to provoke others, luring them to flame or rant. Trolling is sometimes done involuntary, so please be considerate when posting.
Spam. Spamming is posting the same thing several times, or posting without any real content. "Bumping" (posting to move a thread up on the forum list) and cross-posting (posting the same thread in several forums) are examples of spam.
Fight. Taking a personal conflict to the bulletin board is not needed. Allow those not involved to avoid having to see it.
discuss exploits or behaviour that is against the terms of service of Anarchy Online. Such posts will be removed.
- Use Profanity. Please respect other users and do not use foul language and profanity in your posts. This includes trying to 'mask' such language by substituting letters of symbols.
- Necromancy. Please to not raise threads long-dead. Raising the dead should be left to the terminals and authorized medical professionals.
- Be a jerk. The Golden Rule of our forums and enforcement is, "Don't be a jerk."
- Post Non-Work Safe Images. Ask yourself if you'd be comfortable with your mother or boss seeing what you're looking at.
On a related note, do not make parody threads, especially centered on hot topics. They're probably not funny and a good way to inflame the situation further.
If someone is flaming you or otherwise acting like a jerk, the Report button is the best way to get our attention. We understand things can get heated at times, but nasty retorts and counter-flaming are a good way to get an entire thread closed and both sides suspended/banned.
We ask you not to discuss politics or religion on the forums. For the purposes of these rules, discussions on race and national origin (excepting, of course, in game race/national origin) will fall under the banner of “politics.”
We ask you not to discuss warez and other illegal activity.
Catchphrases, memes, image macros, Rickrolls, and other such Internet tomfoolery are funny until the moderators decide they aren't funny anymore. Along with their banhammer, they are also issued badges from the Humor Police.
Individual account issues (in-game banning, problems with your account, GM issues) go through customer support emails or in private messages. If there is a serious problem with customer support, please contact a community person.
Posting of any account details (especially “I've cancelled”, cancellation screens, etc.) is prohibited.
Moderation
Moderation is not ever a topic for open forum. If you have any questions or feedback on moderation it should be addressed to the community manager or the specific moderator via private message.
Do not post threads questioning moderation. Such threads will be removed
If a topic is closed or removed do not, under any circumstances, re-post the same topic or material. If you have any questions as to why a thread was closed or removed please contact the moderator via private message.
Feedback and Suggestions
Please our feedback FAQ in the Game Suggestions forum for details of how to send us feedback.
Customer Service
Individual customer support and service issue are not handled via the public forums, please see the feedback FAQ for details.
General Standards
For more knowledge on how to interact on the Internet, we encourage you to get acquainted with standards for netiquette such as RFC 1855.
