Code of Honor
-Table of Contents
Section I: Player Rights
Section II: Staff Rights
Section III: Official Rules
Section IV: Punishment {For Players}
Section V: Punishment {For Staff}
Section I : Player Rights
Being a player on this server, you have the following rights:
(Note: Player’s are anyone ranked a Default, trusted, or Supporters.)
*Having Fun.
*Building their own creations, or assisting others in building theirs.
*Having their opinions. (Note: Opinions are statements, not arguments. You may speak of opinions but may not argue about them, which means no putting down others opinions)
*Joking around with other player’s, or staff.
*Being kind, considerate, cooperative and caring to everyone.
*Destroying only their own blocks, or in the case that it’s a group building, destroying blocks when approved/When it’s appropriate.
*To have their voice heard.
*To be respected.
*To be treated equally as all other staff or players.
*To play in peace.
* Asking to get your creations protected and/or having them fixed by rollback/rebuild
Section II: Staff Rights
As a staff, which includes rank Admin and Mod, have rights which include every “Player” rights, and also these rights:
*To do their job.
*To make the server more stable and safe, by banning rule-breaks (For Example: Griefers.)
*To reinforce the rules. See Below (As in distributing punishment as seen in the rules, NO personal reasons will be acceptable for punishment, such as, not liking the player. if they have not broken a written rule you may NOT punish.)
*To give out warnings, to players, or other staff.
*To be role models of this community.
*To be respected.
Section III : Official Rules
These rules are not to be broken by any player, and/or any staff member. These rules apply for EVERYONE, no matter who you are, or what rank you currently hold. These rules are listed below.
Things that are against the rules are as follows:
*Using vulgar language (Cursing, any insults, including but not limited to that directed to ones sexual orientation, gender, age, personal appearance, culture, or race.)
*Abusing any powers (Staff member powers, or abusing any player-given authority like "Supporters")
*Arguing in Public Chat. (If you have the need to argue, Please do it in PM’s, Or other means of communication. A staff will warn you to stop arguing in public chat, and if necessary, muted, or temp ban.)
*No hacking or cheating
of any sort.
*Do not break into homes or mine in others' mines.
*Do not ask for a promotion from our staff.
*Respect all players,
buildings, and members of the staff. Being disrespectful to other players, or
staff members, which includes using any words to harm another, insults, or mean
sarcasm. If this is done, action will be taken. This server is for anyone from
the age of 7 and above, using such words or insults will be taken into serious
matter.
*Griefing is strictly prohibited! (The use of the word "Grief" only refers to players or staff
breaking others blocks in large amounts on purpose to harm the well being of
the server or person, "Griefing" will not be used for world
corruption errors causing your items or creations to be missing, or an accident
where a player may have broken a few blocks.)
*No spamming of any sort is allowed, that includes all caps.
*No advertising other servers.
*Do not steal from any other player or staff member or use an x-ray mod or
texture pack.
*When asked by an Admin to stop doing something, stop. If not stopped action
may be taken on the player. Admins or Mods are the server police and have the
right to keep you off the server until they are proven wrong by a higher
authority, The only high authority is Joel Samson, and no other.
Supporter and Staff Rules
*Abusing any powers (Staff member powers, or abusing any player-given authority.)
*Banning someone for an invalid or personal reason.
*Spawn only the items that you need, and do not give them away
*Do not abuse the market or trade! No selling, dropping, or
in any way giving out spawned items.
*Vanishing may be use to look upon suspicious happenings but may not be used
abusively such as breaking items near others to make them believe a glitch is
occurring.
Note: Remember, the fact that you have a high
rank doesn’t mean you are above the law. Breaking any rules will result in a
punishment such as rank removal. Please also note that the only person with the
final word is Joel Samson. No other staff has the right of final word other
then Joel Samson. If any staff takes away your right of final word from Joel
Samson. That staff member can be punished.
Section IV: Punishment {For Players}
These punishments will be given to any players breaking rules. Any rules not listed, will be completely up to what staff member is currently available to hand the punishment out.
Action l Punishment
Griefing from the definition above in the rules |
Permanent Ban. Complete Rollback of the players creations, items, and actions. (Appeal available.) |
Disrespect To players From Player |
Warning; followed by mute; If necessary, Temp-Ban. (Appeal Not available.) |
Disrespect To Staff From Player |
Warning; Followed by mute; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Using Vulgar Language |
Warning; Followed by mute; Temp-Ban. (Appeal available) |
Abusing any powers (Supporters) |
Warning; followed by Temp-Ban; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Hacking or cheating of any sort |
Warning; followed by Permanent Ban. (Appeal NOT available) |
Arguing in any form on Firetop |
Warning; followed by mute; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Arguing in any form with Staff |
Warning; followed by mute; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Asking for a promotion from our staff |
Warning; followed by mute; kick; then Temp-Ban. (Appeal available) |
spamming of any sort, that includes all caps |
Warning; followed by kick; Permanent Ban. (Appeal NOT available) |
Advertising other servers |
Warning; followed by mute; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Stealing from another player or staff or use of x-ray |
Warning; followed by Permanent Ban. (Appeal NOT available) |
Abusing the market or trade |
Warning; followed by Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Not Stopping something when asked several times from staff member |
Warning; followed by kick; Temp-Ban; Permanent Ban. (Appeal available) |
Section V: Punishment (For Staff)
These punishments are 100% for staff members that break any of the listed rules above. (Exceptions are not allowed, if you break a rule, you suffer the consequence, NO APPEAL.)
Action l Punishment
Arguing on Public Chat |
Mute; If continued, De-rank for three days (Or the agreed upon amount of time) If still continued, Temporarily ban for 3-5 days. After that, Permanent De-rank. |
Using Vulgar Language (as stated above) |
Kick from server (As warning.); If continued, Mute for 1-2 hours, If still continued, De-rank immediately, and not allowed to have any rank higher than “Trusted” or "Supporter". |
Banning someone for an invalid or personal reason. (Banning someone because you don’t like them, or what they’re doing/saying, who they are.) |
De-rank (To a lower rank, AdminàTemp, TempàMod, Mod àDefault) If continued after TWO De-ranks (Depending on their current rank.) Temporarily banned for 5-7 days. |
Using public chat for unethical reasons. (Being rude to someone, arguing with someone, or exposing someone.) |
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Disrespect To Staff |
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Disrespect To Players |
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Arguing on Firetop with Staff |
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These rules are subject to addition, or change. Please check these rules for any updates. We; as staff, are not responsible for reminding players, or other staff of the rules. It is your own responsibility to read them, and to respect them. If you are a part of Firetop in anyway, you must follow by these rules and automatically must abide by them. This document was added and made valid on the 5/27/2012 10:00AM EST time.
Sincerely,
Firetop Staff Members