Rules for YGO Academy
There are 3 Classes of Offenses - Please Note: If an admin sees fit for anything not mentioned and has reason to believe it is worthy of one and/or more of these classes it is in their right to administer a suitable punishment for a members actions:
Class 1 - Minor Offenses (Written Warning)
1. Spamming: The posting of either a short post or irrelevant post. Spamming the chat box with no reason to.
2. Necro-posting is not allowed. This means posting in a topic that has long since been dead or is no longer accurate.
3. Advertising is not allowed unless you are given permission by an admin of YGOA. It is not allowed in a post or on the chat box.
4. Do not double post, bumping after a day or so may not get you in trouble but do not do it lightly or repeatedly
5. Posting with the intent of singling out an individual or group for offensive or demeaning remarks.
6. Undermining the Staff, people are appointed staff members for a reason, if they ask you to stop something or say no to something please respect their decision and leave the matter at that, if you wish to question them further send them a PM about the issue.
Class 2 - Moderate offences (Time Ban)
1. Using offensive language or swearing to insult, demean or abuse someone (known as Flamming).
2. Sexual, racial or general Harassment.
3. Do not post articles that are from other sites, these are other peoples articles, not your own, this is called plagiarism. Only post articles that you have written yourself.
4. Repeating a Class 1 offence
5. A full warnings bar
Class 3 - Major offences (Permanent Ban)
1. Attempting to defame or hack YGOA.
2. Hacking any YGOA member's account.
3. Introducing or attempting to introduce spam/phishing and/or malware websites or links into the academy.
4. Attempting to commit or committing credit card fraud.
5. Acting in a deceitful manner in the Trading Section
6. Copyright infringement on any article on or from YGOA.
7. Posting Sexual and or pornographic content
8. Creating a second account
9. Repeating a Class 2 offence
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