MediaWiki:Forum-policies-and-faq

Those are the essential rules you need to know. They apply both to the Regular Forum & to the Franken Forum. For more info and explanations of the different sections see below.
 * 1) Post threads in the correct boards.
 * 2) Don’t intentionally cause drama or derail posts.
 * 3) Don’t spam or Necropost.
 * 4) Don’t harass or slander.


 * -|Correct Boards=

What is each Board for?

 * Violation Reporting: Reports of rule breaking such as vandalism or spam.
 * Résumés: Requests for User Rights, Internships, or to join Staff.
 * Petitions: Requesting new features, rule changes, etc. for the Wiki.
 * Questions & Answers: Asking non-open-ended questions about the Wiki or Diep.io in general.
 * Tournaments: Tournaments or Contest related threads only.
 * General Discussion: General Diep.io/Wiki Stuff.
 * Off-Topic: Literally anything that isn’t outright abuse.
 * -|Drama & Derailment=

What is Drama?

 * 1) Fear mongering over vandals; being frank about the thread they pose is one thing, spreading fear & hysteria is quite another.
 * 2) Engaging in pointless fights that devolve into personal attacks & aspersions.
 * 3) Anything else a Discussion Mod deems to fall into this category.

What is Derailment?

 * 1) Deliberately posting content that is completely irrelevant to the topic so as to either start a fight or take the thread off-topic. (“Illuminati” posts usually fall under this -_-)
 * 2) Willfully engaging in or responding to content that you know will take a post further off topic or into drama.
 * 3) Anything else a Discussion Mod deems to fall into this category.
 * -|Spam & Necroposting=

What is Spam?

 * 1) Posting in a language other than English.
 * 2) Triple-posting successively, or double-posting threads. (you can repost things if a day or so has passed without any replies in order to attract attention)
 * 3) Posting excessive walls of irrelevant text.
 * 4) Making humongous and meaningless quote pyramids (long nesting with quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes... you get the point)
 * 5) Posting obnoxious Zalgo.
 * 6) Excessively posting Party Links (unless requested by another user).
 * 7) Posting Malware or download links.
 * 8) Random content that is extremely obnoxious.
 * 9) Anything else a Discussion Mod deems to fall into this category.

What is Necroposting?

 * Posting on a thread that is about to auto-close without just cause.
 * Bringing up an inactive thread (around three or more weeks since a reply is generally the bar) to say something that brings up nothing seriously important.
 * e.g. Thread: List of Council Proposals, Reply: Lel Council is dead now
 * Discussion Mods decide the severity of necroposts on a case-by-case basis.
 * -|Harassment & Slander=

What is Harassment?

 * 1) Posting extreme swears or racial slurs with intent to insult.
 * 2) Continually acting in a disparaging or otherwise rude manner toward other users.
 * 3) Continually trying to attract the attention of & attempting to maliciously troll another person (jokes are fine, but there is a limit to what is acceptable).
 * 4) Anything else a Discussion Mod deems to fall into this category.

What is Slander?

 * 1) Bringing up random accusations.
 * 2) Intentionally attempting to impugn the reputation of another user instead of talking about it.
 * 3) Excessively making posts about a single user instead of using their message wall (can also be classed as harassment).
 * 4) Anything else a Discussion Mod deems to fall into this category.