This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion
Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.
These are not hard and fast rules, merely guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a clean and well-lighted place for civilized public discourse.
Improve the Discussion
Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your post adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.
The topics discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the topics and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.
One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the topics here before replying or starting your own, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests.
Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree
You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:
- Name-calling
- Ad hominem attacks
- Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
- Knee-jerk contradiction
Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.
Your Participation Counts
The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.
We provide tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.
Let’s leave our community better than we found it.
If You See a Problem, Flag It
Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.
When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.
In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.
Always Be Civil
Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:
- Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
- Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
- Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
- Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.
These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of the New York Times.
This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.
Keep It Tidy
Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:
- Don’t start a topic in the wrong category.
- Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
- Don’t post no-content replies.
- Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
- Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.
Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.
What to include in your contributions to the forums
- Your posts should focus on topics specific to the forum and the thread.
- Post to these forums only in a manner that respects the time and energy others.
- Ask questions and test the knowledge of your fellow heroes.
- Tell us your great ideas for new features.
- Give us honest feedback about the things at which we are succeeding, and constructive criticism about those which can be improved.
- You’re welcome to ‘have fun’ and even memes are fine.
What to avoid
- Profanity, obscenities, or spiteful remarks.
- Insults of other groups or individuals.
- Harassment of any form. Stalking, shaming, name-calling, bullying etc.
- Flame-baiting (feel free to disagree with someone, but acknowledge that views are often personal and what you like or dislike may differ from others)
- Trolling. Sure, this is a broad term, and there’s wiggle room, but if the action you’re about to take on the board is neither adding to a discussion, supporting or constructively criticising or otherwise going ‘against’ the grain without good cause you could consider holding back from submitting.
- Posting personal information including phone numbers, e-mail addressed, or physical addresses.
- Commercial content such as advertising, promotions, or solicitations.
- Content offering or disseminating fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions (e.g., make-money-fast schemes, chain letters, pyramid schemes).
- Content that impersonates any other person or entity.
- Posts or threads on the subject of sexual orientation, race, religion or politics.
Do not create or use secondary accounts
Do not create nor use secondary accounts. Do not use secondary accounts to bypass account suspension or termination. Do not use secondary accounts to post supporting views to your own (or contrasting opinions in order to generate a flame war).
It’s super easy for the Admin team to identify users who are trying to game the system by creating new accounts. Do not do that thing. It will result in all associated accounts being purged and/or temporarily/permanently removed from the forums.
Don’t post in all capital letters, use a misleading title, excessive punctuation, non-standard symbols, etc.
While everyone wants their posts read, we ask you to refrain from using these types of tactics in order to bring more people to your thread. Let your post stand on its own merit. Threads violating this guideline are subject to deletion.
Naming and shaming constitutes harassment
Accusing named or otherwise identified individuals, etc. of dishonourable behaviour, will lead to post/thread deletion and a suspension. While such warnings may sometimes be warranted, allowing targeting of others in such a fashion is open to abuse and thus not allowed. You may present your point of view while preserving the anonymity of those involved, and let the reader decide whether to contact you for details.
Do not post leaks, real or speculated, confirmed or not
From time to time, the developers will open up closed testing for future content releases. Such tests typically fall under an NDA. Posting content pertaining to products under test, or what you believe to be leaked upcoming undisclosed content from an unverified third party source is forbidden, and can result in the thread being deleted and your posting privileges potentially removed.
Post Only Your Own Stuff
You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.
Do Not Bump / Necro Posts
The act of posting simply to bump a thread is considered spamming. This also includes bumping very old threads for no reason (called ‘necro bumping’ or ‘necroing’). If you have an issue that’s new to you and no current thread exists on the subject, feel free to create a new thread.
Do Not Post About Locked or Deleted Threads
Posts that are moderated have a reason behind the moderation. It’s up to you to read the forum code of conduct and these guidelines to determine what you did wrong, learn from your mistake, and attempt to post again without breaking any rules. Should you wish to challenge moderation, we invite you to contact the community team via e-mail - community@fatshark.se
Do Not Post About Cheats, Exploits, Trainers
It is expected and will be enforced that users do not discuss/post about cheats, exploits or methods of bypassing Anti-Cheat systems. Exploits can be raised to our support team over on fatsharkgames.com/support.
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Contacting the Community Team
Should you wish to reach out directly to the community team at Fatshark we welcome you to do so via email - community@fatshark.se