User:Voxelplox/Adjustment of Tolerance Act

The Adjustment of Tolerence Policy

Summary

The Adjustment of Tolerence Policy aims to increase the rights of users, whilst making the wiki drama, spam, and vandalism free. The policy is aimed to reform the wiki's rules, in order to make the wiki stricter on drama, while still making sure that users do not lose any rights or power from the adjustment. The policy further clarifies that the Pirates Online Players Wiki has no tolerence for any actions that may lead to drama, or harm the well being of the community ( i.e: trolling, spamming, edit warring, user conflict ) and any action that may disrupt the community.

The policy is split into articles, with sections ( the below is purely technical - as it is a reform to the current rules ) reading on is not required, however to understand the technical aspects of what we deem as a no tolerence policy please read on.

Article 1: Section 1
Activities that may cause drama
 * Spamming, vandalism - this will warrant either 1 more chance, or an immediate ban ( the first choice for minor spamming, vandalism, the latter for severe spamming, vandalism, ban should be long as a deterrent ( i.e: 1-5 months, or infinite )
 * Creating blogs that openly attack a group of users, or an individual - warrants a long ban ( 5-8 months ) by attack, a blog would need to criticize a user or group of users, with no other reason then to insult, or offend others.
 * Bringing RP drama to the wiki -take it to the game or PM-
 * Writing complaint blogs ( user will not be banned, but it is highly frowned upon )

Article 1: Section 2
No discrimination
 * Do not discriminate against any user. Do not ban them for their ideas, or who they support.
 * Do not make rules directly against a certain user or group ( for example, a rule cannot be passed that discrimates against a user or group; "Do not mention (insert name)'s name"
 * Do not make pages, or blog that could directly or indirectly offend a group or individual user.

Article 1: Section 3
Spamming and Vandalism
 * An unregistered user who spams, or vandalizes should be blocked infinitely, the chances are they have no edits on the wiki and only want to vandalize, and will probably not register an account to actively edit on the wiki.
 * A user who excessively vandalizes or spams should be blocked for an indefinite amount of time. This will send a message that we do not take vandalism or spam lightly, and will act as a deterrence. Most editors that do this will most likely not want to, or have contributed a lot to the wiki.

Article 2: Section 1
Read the rules
 * Nobody can use the excuse "I didn't know the rules", everyone will be treated as if they know the rules off by heart, if they have trouble or questions they should contact an administrator for help.

Article 2: Section 2
Outside Drama
 * It should be openly discouraged to go onto other wikis and cause chaos ( such as going to potco-united-nations and causing drama, spamming, or trolling; this reflects badly on this wiki )
 * Do not go to community central and complain about a ban or unfair admin, if doing so your block may be increased. ( if you have a problem, contact a local administrator. Staff will not listen to you if you have a problem with an admin or think your unfairly blocked )

Article 2: Section 3
Administrators
 * Users should respect an administrators judgement, and not complain - as the administrators work for the good of the wiki.
 * Administrators should respect users, and their opinions.
 * All promotion requests/demotion requests require a majority ( if a vote is 9 oppose, 10 support, support wins as they have the higher votes ) any vote that reaches its goal amount automatically passes. Demotion/promotion requests must be voted on by rollbacks, administrators, and burs before being voted on by the public.

Article 3: Section 1
Seven Seas Court
 * All votes require 2 days of voting ( unless it is a major vote, then it is 5 )
 * All votes that pass, or do not need to be marked with the Passed or declined template and archived ( to keep the SSC easy to read, and not too long )
 * Users may give their input, but should not cause any problems on the SSC.
 * Requests such as banning or unbanning a user on the SSC should not be there, and should instead be passed onto an administrator. IF the administrator deems it is legit, he or she will create the request.
 * Users cannot ask for the promotion, or demotion of a user.

Article 3: Section 2
User management
 * Users should not complain, or cause drama.
 * The wiki should be strict with keeping peace. Anyone that threatens peace ( causes drama ) should be banned infinitely. (Votes would be held on the Seven seas court on a fixed ban length for that user, unless its obvious )
 * Users must give REAL reasons when voting on promotions, demotions ( not just "I like the guy")
 * Users may only vote on the SECOND PROMOTE OR DEMOTION REQUEST. Not the one on the Seven seas court, if the one on the SSC passes then users are allowed to vote on a blog.
 * If a user breaks a rule on chat or the wiki and an admin, or chat mod isn't around they should be encouraged to take screenshots and report the user.

Chat policy

 * The user should keep in mind that all conversation should be PG-13
 * No using offensive language.
 * Don't use words such as ( testicles, anus, vagina, eggsack, etc )
 * Touchy topics should be avoided ( politics, religion, race, or anything that may be offensive )
 * If a user is offended by a conversation, they should say they do not feel comfortable with the conversation and it should end immediately. If the users do not stop, the user who is offended should report this to a chat mod, or admin.
 * Arguing on chat is not tolerated.
 * Cussing in chat is a big fat NO. Any cussing will result in an immediate chat ban of up to a week, no strikes ( if you only get a strike then its not a big deterrent to not cuss)

Role-playing

 * A no tolerance will be put onto roleplay drama. There will be no blogs that will create drama
 * Roleplay should be kept mature.
 * All fighting should be taken somewhere else
 * Users that cause too much drama will be banned.

Insults

 * Do not call any user anything that could be insulting ( e.g: You fat bastards ))