Project:Forum Policies

Talk Page

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.

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.

Note: Section 2, 4, and the spam portion of Section 3 also apply to Article Talk Pages and Comments, although they may be treated more lightly.

• Correct Boards
• What is Drama & Derailment?
• What is Spam & Necroposting?
• What is Harassment & Slander?

• 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Message Walls

All of the above rules are suspended on Message Walls, & are enforced by Staff only if the Message Wall owner is gone, totally inactive, or if consent from the owner is acquired. The owner of each Message Wall may make the rules for their own Wall, if they should desire any, & Staff not only respect but enforce those rules if the owner should complain that they have been broken; such violations are treated as harassment & penalties are decided on a case-by-case basis. Template:Rules