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RULES TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to our Dragon Adventures Wiki, a place where we aim to be respectful, work together, and enjoy friendly interactions. The User Conduct rules help us understand how to behave here. They ensure our conversations are friendly, informative, and safe for everyone. By following these rules, we can create a warm and welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and comfortable. Whether you're a long-time Dragon Adventures fan or new to the world of dragons, these guidelines help us all have a positive and enjoyable experience here.
Understanding the Rule Page:
On this rule page, you'll find explanations for each rule to help you understand them better. We've also added handy buttons on each section that, when clicked, will allow you to expand each one individually if you would like to read a more in-depth explanation of a particular rule. This way, you can quickly check the rules and, if you want to learn more about a specific one, expand its details. We want to make it easy for you to use these rules effectively while navigating the Dragon Adventures Wiki. Let's work together to make this place friendly, fun, and full of dragon magic!
Be Respectful and Constructive
Treat all people, on platform or off, with respect and give one another the courtesy of benefit of the doubt. Avoid posting opinions or feedback that insult or disrespect the creators or other users, instead we urge you to share your opinions in the form of constructive criticism.
Always strive to give others the benefit of the doubt to help maintain a respectful and inclusive environment. It's important to remember that most individuals aim to contribute positively, rather than purposefully insult or offend. Please extend this courtesy by keeping all interactions positive and treating others with the same respect you would expect for yourself or your friends. Hateful or discriminatory behavior, including harassment, will not be tolerated. Avoid engaging in or encouraging such behavior in any form, and instead, report it immediately.
Important Reminder: Fandom does not have a personal blocking system. If you find yourself struggling to interact with another user. Please avoid or respectfully communicate with the individual on the matter privately. If this escalates please issue a DNI (Do not interact) and/or contact staff immediately. (Valid causes for a DNI can be found here: Announcement)
Minor Infractions:
- Mild disrespect: (Accidental / Singular Isolated Incident)
- Minor tonal Issues
- Mild disrespect in feedback / opinions
- Rage baiting / Vent / Rant posts
Moderate Infractions:
- Continued mild disrespect (3+ incidents)
- Intended disrespect (Insulting, degrading, taunting, name-calling, etc) for any reason.
- Participated in a witch / mob hunt or guild war outside of megathreads by DAW staff
- Publicly Calling out users over any reason, even if it's seemingly justifiable.
- Petty DNI's / Discussion of a DNI
Major Infractions:
- Harassment (3+ targeted incidents)
- Intentionally spreading hate / rumors about anyone
- Starting a witch hunt
- Exclusionary behavior (Purposefully leaving individuals / groups out of activities)
- Creating or engaging in transphobic, homophobic, racist, ableist, and sexist remarks
- Violating a DNI
Extreme Infractions:
- Continued harassment (6+ targeted incidents)
- Threats of hacking
- Hate accounts
- Threats of harm or death
- Telling someone to pass away
Bypassing
Creating accounts or getting people to post on your behalf to evade a restriction on your main account, or attempting to bypass or find loopholes in this Wiki's rules, is not permitted.
If you have been blocked or otherwise restricted from doing something on this Wiki attempting to bypass the restriction purposefully will result in an additional point on top of the rule you're attempting to loophole. If you believe a restriction or block was a mistake, please contact go through our Wiki's support here: https://discord.gg/ptE5MaXPQq.
Minor Infractions:
- Assisting banned user via posting on their behalf
Moderate Infractions:
- Attempting to bypass rules (stacks)
- The main account of someone abusing alternate account(s) to evade blocks
- Asking someone to post on your behalf when blocked
- Using an alternate account to break rules (stacks)
Major Infractions:
- Abusing the point system (Stacks with each point over the limit)
Extreme Infractions:
- The alternate accounts of someone abusing alternate account(s) to evade blocks
Feedback Post Delay
Do not post opinions or feedback on events/updates you have not played or given a good chance to, and wait 24 hours before posting your feedback or thoughts on the update. Remember to be constructive!
Our goal on this Wiki is to host a safe environment for all people, and this does mean we don't want to be an echo-chamber of negativity. When giving feedback, good or bad, it's vital that you have given everything involved a fair chance to understand their impact on the game. By following this rule we can foster a community that provides informed feedback which leads to more constructive discussions and helpful insights.
Minor Infractions:
- Posting before 24 hours has passed since an update
Moderate Infractions:
- N/A
Major Infractions:
- N/A
Extreme Infractions:
- N/A
Impersonation
Impersonation of any individual, regardless of intent or whether they're a Roblox user, Wiki user, YouTuber of any popularity level, or anyone else at all, is strictly disallowed.
Using someone's avatar, username or any other identifying thing with the intent to claim to be someone else is considered incredibly disrespectful and is ground for immediate action against your account and for you to be reported to Fandom staff. This community's goal is to foster trust and integrity between one another, please respect everyone's individual identity and not pretend to be someone other than yourself.
Minor Infractions:
- N/A
Moderate Infractions:
- N/A
Major Infractions:
- N/A
Extreme Infractions:
- Impersonating someone
Mini-Modding
Mini-Modding on this wiki includes correcting people on the rules when one has been broken, attempting to enforce rules on others or attempting to create or interpret rules on behalf of staff that isn't in stated directly in our rules.
This Wiki's moderation team are the sole people responsible for enforcing and interpreting the rules on the Dragon Adventures Wiki and Mini-Modding can get in the way of their volunteer work, making things more difficult. When users attempt to act like moderators and correct other people's behaviour, it can lead to confusion and disrupt the community more than it helps. If you notice someone violating the rules of this wiki, please report their post via the three dots at the top right of their post and clicking "Report" and do not comment on the post or interact with it.
Minor Infractions:
- Pointing out something a user has done is against the rules
- Taking on a slight authoritative tone to remind others of rules
Moderate Infractions:
- Excessively mini-modding other user's actions
- Suggesting to others to edit the violation in their post to "hide" it from wiki staff
Major Infractions:
- Attempting to impose actions against other user's accounts (e.g. telling someone they cannot post for x amount of time because they've been "blocked")
Extreme Infractions:
- N/A
Necroposting
If a post has been inactive for 30 days, avoid commenting on it unless otherwise specified in the original post, is a megathread or is an announcement.
Necroposting is when a user responds to a post that has not received other comments in a period of 30+ days, and can cause clutter in a user's notifications. It can also lead to outdated conversation topics, correcting old information that was true at the time of the post which is unproductive and offering for trades that are no longer available. If you find it irritating to get notifications from a post, you can unfollow it by clicking the three dots at the top right of the first post in the thread.
Minor Infractions:
- Necroposting
Moderate Infractions:
- N/A
Major Infractions:
- N/A
Extreme Infractions:
- N/A
Personal Information
Do not share personal, identifying information about yourself or others. Please be safe online and keep a strict check on the information you tell others.
Protection of user's safety and privacy is a must on this Wiki so sharing your own private information and other people's private information is not allowed. What you can post about **yourself if you want** is; Your first name only, pronouns, very general location (e.g. country, continent), your discord handle, your timezone, emails with fake names. What you cannot post about yourself or others is; First (or more) and last name(s) together, home address(es), email address(es), IP address(es), identification numbers, photos of private people including selfies and similar images, photos of private homes, any other doxxing/doxxable information. Please note pet pictures are allowed if they are your own pet and there's no identifying information in the picture (e.g. background giving away locations, pet tags with personal info on them).
Minor Infractions:
- Posting own personal information not listed above
Moderate Infractions:
- N/A
Major Infractions:
- Posting other people's name(s) without permission
Extreme Infractions:
- Threatening, attempting or succeeding to dox someone
Public Discussion on Moderated Actions
When receiving a warning, block, or any other form of moderated actions whether on the Dragon Adventures Wiki or on other sites (such as Roblox), that is a private matter to be discussed with the related moderation team.
Public discussions of moderative actions can lead to unnecessary drama or misinterpretations due to only one side of the event being shared and a lot of the time when this occurs, the full story isn't being shared and the contents of the post is a biased version of events. If you have concerns, questions or an appeal please use the appropriate form of communication to bring the issue up with staff members. DA Wiki Help: (Link to Megathread coming soon) DA Wiki Suggestions: (Link to Megathread coming soon) DA Wiki Ban Appeal: (Link coming soon, for now go here https://discord.gg/ptE5MaXPQq) Sonar Studios Support: https://discord.gg/dragonadventures Roblox Support: https://www.roblox.com/support Fandom Support: https://support.fandom.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Minor Infractions:
- Discussions of actions taken by off-site staff (Roblox, Sonar, etc.)
- Minor discussion/complaints about DA Wiki staff action(s)
Moderate Infractions:
- Posting to complain/rant about any moderative actions taken by off-site staff
- Posting to complain/rant about moderative actions DA Wiki staff have taken
Major Infractions:
- N/A
Extreme Infractions:
- N/A
Trolling
Accounts getting flagged as trolls by DA Wiki staff may occur if you intentionally provoke/disrupt the community consistently, spam, vandalise, raid or discuss participating in a raid, or abuse this Wiki's point system.
"Trolling" identifies a variety of different actions which include; Newer accounts that have spent the majority of their comments breaking our rules, Users spamming discussions to disrupt, gain higher post counts or break their sentence(s) into multiple (3+) posts one after another unnecessarily though this does not count accidental duplication, Vandalising pages by editing the content maliciously or participating in 'edit wars' (where you continuously edit information into or out of a page while someone else undoes your edit), Raiding this wiki or discussing raiding another platform on this wiki or Abusing this points system by consistently waiting until your points have expired to break the Wiki's rules again.
Minor Infractions:
- Post farming
- Spamming discussions (Stacks)
- Minor vandalisation (Stacks)
Moderate Infractions:
- N/A
Major Infractions:
- Discussing raiding another wikis or platforms
Extreme Infractions:
- Participating in a raid on this Wiki