Site Rules

We expect you to behave in a reasonably civil, mature, and non-disruptive way on the Rule wiki and in major Rule Wiki community spaces.

This page lists all major Rule wiki rules, and how warnings and bans work. Follow the spirit of the rules, not just the exact letter.

Welcome to Site Rules Page!

The following behaviors will not result in your ban:

• Write an article that no one likes.
• Rate any entry based on your personal opinion.
• Raise objections to the staff's voting in a polite manner.

The following behaviors may lead to your permanent ban:

• vandalism.
• Blatant and obvious Chuubou.
• create alternate accounts.
• Lend the account to others.
• Doxxing Site Member.
• Other serious misconduct.

How to engage

• Rule Zero:Don't be a Stupid guy.This is the foremost rule from which most other rules follow.

• Argue:You should question the behavior and opinions of other users (including staff) in a calm, mature, and civilized manner.

• Comments: You can comment almost anywhere on the site1, as long as you are respectful to other users. All comments must follow the Criticism Policy. Do not troll or make personal attacks.
• Voting: You may vote on any article on the site for any reason you like, as long as your reasoning is based solely on the content of the article.
  • Voting on your own article: You cannot upvote your article as you like.
  • Brigading: Calling for group downvoting (or group upvoting) of an article is prohibited. Being part of a vote brigade may lead to a ban.
    • Note: Not every call to check out an article by someone who dislikes it is brigading. Context and intent will determine whether or not an incident is considered brigading. Rule of thumb: Don't try to push a group of people to vote the same as you.

• Forum Activity: Don't make contentless or excessively short posts (spam), don't bump threads for attention, and don't post on threads more than a few months old if you're not contributing substantially to the conversation.
  • Although The Rule Archive Wiki is an inclusive environment. but Hate speech and slurs will not be tolerated.
  • Avoid double posting. Edit your previous posts using the "edit" function under the "options" tab to the lower right of every comment.
  • Every image posted to forum or discussion threads must be collapsed.

• Posting Articles: Do not post a large number of low-quality articles. When staff tell you to slow down or stop posting, listen.
  • Plagiarism: You may not copy any portion of someone else's writing to use as your own work without proper attribution. You may not attempt to pass off another user's article as your own work. Doing so will result in summary deletion of the work.
  • Note: Borrowing narrative or character content from other works is generally fine, so long as there is not a blatant or malicious attempt to deceive the reader into believing that the work is your own. For example, consider the numerous adaptations of Sherlock Holmes: Elementary, Sherlock, The Great Mouse Detective, etc. Your works should be original in style and technique. Contact staff if you're not certain if something is plagiarism.
  • Using images: Images included in your article must follow the rules of our Image Use Policy. You must include the source of your images on the discussion page, and this source must comply with our site policy and license. If you have any questions, contact the Licensing Team.

• Editing:
  • Responding to edits of your articles:You can always revert the edits made to your articles. However, please refrain from editing or removing the changes made by Staff.such as an added rating module or a corrected page name.
  • Editing others' articles:You may correct unintentional grammar, spelling, or formatting errors on other peoples' articles. Please put a summary of changes in the 'Short description of changes' box.Any further editing requires the consent of the original author or staff.
  • Collaborative logs:You have the freedom to add content to open co-written records. These pages will be labeled as "“collaboration". Poor content will be deleted by the page author or staff. Do not handle any unauthorized or improper modifications to any page without permission.

• Updating tags:Don't add or change tags unless you know what you're doing. If you have any questions about implementing new tags, please contact a member of the Technical Team. If you have any questions about the tagging process in general, please contact a member of MAST. Do not remove Staff Process tags from any article (in-rewrite, deletion-range, deletable, _cc, or _image).

Interacting With Staff

• Staff Posts: If you see a "Staff Post", "Mod Post", or "Admin Post", do not reply except in the following circumstances:
  • Call for Rewrite: Only reply if you want to volunteer to rewrite the page, or to discuss the rewriting of the page.
  • Open: Anyone may respond to this post.
• Staff Requests: If a staff member asks you to change your behavior, whether by Private Message, Staff post, or other means, you are expected to do so.
• Ended Discussions: If a staff says the post is locked, it's locked. Don't add a conclusion, just stop.
• Staff Decisions/Appealing: If you disagree with a Staff decision, you may appeal to a different staff member. The decision of the other staff member is the final decision on the issue.

If you believe that a user has violated any of the rules on this page, please contact the staff for handling.

For the detailed list of staff, please refer to meet-the-staff

Other things that may cause you trouble

• Behavior that cannot be distinguished from Chuubou: When it resembles Chuubou, the staff will take Duck test.
• Raiding another site: Do not use the wiki or related platforms to organize disruption of the normal operation of another site. If someone else is doing this, don't take part in it.
• Stirring up shit: This means "a pattern of constantly toeing the line of unacceptable behavior". Negative patterns of behavior that are established and determined to be a detriment to the site or community are never tolerated for long.

Disciplinary Process

The normal steps of punishment escalation are as follows:

• Warning
• Membership Revocation
• Short Ban (usually week-long to month-long)
• Long Ban (month-long to year-long)
• Permanent Ban

If a staff member warns you about your behavior, and you do not follow the instructions they give you, you will be revoked or banned.

Additional violations equal longer bans. Especially severe violations may result in skipping to more severe punishments, including being permanently banned immediately.

If you wish to lodge a complaint, please contact a staff member.

After your ban has been served, you will have to reapply for site membership. If you want to rejoin the community, you must follow the same process as all new members.

All the above rights, obligations, and penalties may be modified, deleted, or added by the staff after review.