AOTT Discord Rules

These rules ensure that you are following the Discord Guidelines. Read more about this here: https://discord.com/guidelines 

External Clients/Client Modifications 

Do not use any third-party programs or modified clients that alter Discord's functionality or provide an unfair advantage. This includes chat loggers.

Leaking Personal Information 

Sharing anyone's private details without their explicit consent is strictly prohibited. This includes real-life IDs, phone numbers, photos, and passwords.

Promotion of Self-Harm 

Do not post or promote content related to self-harm or suicide.

Promotion of Illegal Activities 

Do not discuss, encourage, or promote any illegal acts.

Threats of Violence 

Any threats, direct or indirect, against individuals or groups are not tolerated.

Misleading Information 

Do not intentionally spread false or deceptive information.

Extremist Content 

Content that promotes, enhances or glorifies extremist ideologies, hate speech, or discrimination is forbidden.

Underage User 

Users who do not meet Discord's minimum age requirements are not permitted in the server.

Raiding 

Do not organize or participate in coordinated spamming or disruptive behavior aimed at disrupting the server.

Malicious Intent 

Engaging in any behavior with the sole purpose of causing harm, disruption, or distress to others is prohibited.

Remember to review the full Terms of Use for comprehensive details. If you have any questions about these rules, please reach out to a moderator.

Channel misuse refers to any behavior that disrupts the intended purpose, flow, or accessibility of a Discord channel. This rule ensures that channels remain organized, on-topic, and functional for all users, fostering a positive and efficient environment.

Channel misuse includes, but is not limited to:

• Off-topic conversations: Examples such as using manga_talk to leave suggestions for the game. Speaking english in the Spanish channel, etc.

• Forums: Using bug reports, suggestions or the questions forum for anything outside their intended purpose.

• Bot commands: Using bot commands in any other channel than #bot-commands. Exceptions are for moderators to resolve issues quickly when needed.

Advertising in the Discord server is prohibited. “Advertising” is, but not limited to, directing players to join another server.

This rule also includes advertising any 'fanmade' AOTT servers, events, etc. The only things that may be advertised are official AOTT or Bulk Games products, and servers.

• Advertising NSFW servers (or in rare cases, NSFW games) is not allowed and is met with harsh punishments

• Advertising in a users DMs without their direct approval

When a user uses text in a manner to bypass our filter and imply certain words or phrases without typing them fully. Example:

• "Ni####" 

• "Yuri Tarded" 

These messages cut off parts of the text or spell them differently to bypass our system and imply the full words or phrases. Other chat when spoken out loud  fall make you say a certain thing (slurs, sexual meaning) under this rule too.

This includes Spoiler Baiting as well.  Example: N||ice ca||r, in Discord it wouldn't show the "ice ca" part and would appear like a censored N-word until clicked on revealing the "ice ca" part of the message.

Disruptive behaviors intends to prevent and handle users who Intentional or repeatedly bring up controversial, political, sensitive or otherwise upsetting topics that delve chat into chaos. 

This rule does not include talking about certain topics in a respectful manner, should certain topics be discussed it should be in a respectful manner, this is the only time it'll be acceptable. It becomes an issue when people intentionally poke fun at specific topics that are often sensitive to people, a group, or anything similar.

Some examples may include, but are not limited to:

• User A brings up a subject which is very controversial with the public opinion being that the person involved in the controversy is an absolute awful person. User A starts the conversation with " Well XYZ person and their controversy is stupid, it's all bullshit and fake proof and any of you who believe it are idiots "

• A user brings up a tragedy that happened in a country, They sit and make a joke about said tragedy saying " Lol this country was founded in 1265, just like the amount of bodies from the 1942 incident "

Ignoring any valid requests from a Discord Moderator is disallowed and can be met with punishments. Examples of valid requests can be but not limited to:

• Requesting users to stop continuing an argument

• Requesting users to move to a different channel

 Note: If you believe a moderator is requesting unjustifiable requests, consult the opinion of a second moderator or ask a member of Management.

• Short Term Accumulation of  Infractions

If users receive approximately 3+ warns for various reasons in under a time span of 6 Hours, it provides grounds to mute them, as they clearly understand their wrongdoings. They're simply just causing problems (and probably think they know the system), so therefore try and abuse it by still being obnoxiously annoying, however evading any sort of mute.

• Accumulation of Infractions (10):

If a user manages to accumulate 10 infractions on their record, they should be banned from the server. Users are allowed to appeal this by appealing two of the infractions leading up to it. After this, the amount of infractions required for another Accumulation of Infractions ban should be raised to 15.

• Accumulation of Infractions (15):

If a user manages to accumulate 15 infractions on their record, they should be permanently banned from the server without appeal. Users who reach this point are fully aware of their actions and are not permitted to appeal. 

• Suspicious Accounts: 

If an account which has evidently been created for use within the server with malicious intent (e.g. joins the server with a brand new account and shows odd behaviors), then they are deemed as being a "Suspicious account". If the account attempts to rejoin after being kicked twice, you must ban them. This prevents the danger of raids and alt evasion. Which violates discord ToS.

Please note that accounts that are new or suspicious for other reasons but show they are engaging with the community are allowed to stay as long as they do not seem to have malicious intentions. Users who immediately verify are also exempt from this rule. (e.g an account joins and is brand new but chats with users).

Punishment:

The ticket system has been added for AOTT players and moderators to use. This is to report players who are breaking the rules in the Discord server. However some users tend to think it's funny to abuse this feature.

• Opening 2+ tickets is disallowed due to tickets pinging moderators each time a ticket is made which results in spam pinging the entirety of both moderation teams

• Verbal abuse and disrespect inside of tickets towards a moderator is disallowed

• Due to Discord issues, opening a ticket will allow the user to speak in the ticket, this also includes muted users. Bypassing a mute in a ticket is not allowed and results in punishment. You may however still open a ticket while muted if the ticket is valid.

• Opening troll tickets is disallowed as this will waste the time of the moderation staff and ping them unnecessarily

Discrimination is when someone harasses or opposes a sexual orientation, religion or race to someone in a text channel or DMs.

This includes, but not limited to:

• Sending images, videos, gifs, texts with discriminatory content

• Sending discriminatory messages to users in DMs or in public chats about sex, religion, or ethnic origins

• Sending discriminatory gifs to users in DMs or in public chats about sex, religion, or ethnic origins

• Sending discriminatory images to users in DMs or in public chats about sex, religion, or ethnic origins

Harassment is repeated or very severe toxicity towards another person, whether in DMs or in the server. Harassment in DMs may only be moderated if the incident is related to actions in the AOTT server, if it is extremely severe, or if it is done towards a Discord moderator. 

Common terms used to be toxic or harass a user (not limited to):

• Intelligence - Mainly referring to calling people stupid, or in severe cases, certain mental health issues surrounding the subject

• Existence - Mainly death threats, however may tie in with Identity

• Identity - Sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, gender, etc

NSFW Content

This rule refers to content which should not be seen by people below the age of 18.

• Pornography: Media containing sexual actions

• Nudity: The display of genitals or nakedness from a person

• Gore: The display of blood/other bodily fluids, flesh, organs/other bodily parts, corpses, or any other extremist violent act (stabbing, gunshots, etc)

NSFW Profile pictures, banners, usernames, or about me's

The purpose of this rule is to ensure that users' profiles are appropriate. Despite wanting to give users the freedom to choose their profile pictures, you must ensure that these pictures abide by the community standards. Violations within profiles pictures can include but are not limited to:

• Ahegao faces

• Pure NSFW/pornography

• Inappropriate items

NSFW Audios and Streams

Users have the ability to talk in real-time, stream and or turn on their cameras in the voice channels of the Discord Server, however users may do malicious things with these permissions, these include but are not limited to:

• Playing NSFW audios

• Streaming Pornography

• Streaming Nudity

• Streaming Gore

It should be noted, if a user refers to one of the above main categories in media form such as posting a picture of someone bending over or anything similar; Media that is deemed "filter safe" by use of cropping images or covering parts out also falls under this rule and will be dealt with all the same.

Punishment: Pban

Using an alternative account to bypass or evade an active ban is prohibited. If you are banned, do not create another account to join the server.

While users may discuss things that are private to them or are not widely known, it is critical that no discussion is related to any Sensitive topics for both that individual or Bulk Games. Regardless whether it is past, present, or pending, it is not allowed.

This rule is considered to be of high importance due to the potential negative and toxic effects that could result if details and information that people should not have/know, someone's personal life, or cases are disclosed to the public. It is common for people to have friends in the server, and if any details are discussed, things can deteriorate quickly as a result.

Sensitive topics may include but not limited to:

• Information about someone's person life, relation, etc

• Real life events (Terrorism, Violent Extremism Content)

• QA information such as unreleased content

Playing annoying audio would mean playing sounds/audio or anything that could be annoying and or disrupting to users in a Voice Channel. The following are:

• Using an external software to input random annoying/disturbing sounds through the your mic (soundboards)

• Using a software to alter or completely change the way you sound through your mic is not allowed (voice changer)

• Playing music over the microphone. Unless everyone in said VC agrees to let you play self-made (playing your own guitar, piano, etc) music such as playing the guitar, showing off their instruments and using them, etc.

• Having loud background noise

• Playing overly high/loud audio (earrape)

In specific exceptional circumstances, users may be punished before a violation has taken place in the AOTT server. 

For example, should users post gore/nsfw or break critical rules in sister servers (such as Area 47, Area 27, ATDS), they may be punished in the AOTT server following this rule.

Online dating is the act of behaving in a romantic or otherwise indicative manner pertaining to dating.

Users cannot be punished for their personal interactions (in DMs), however any public “displays of affection” cannot be expressed within our discord server. This is due to our server being classed as a server with a younger audience than 18, and is therefore strictly prohibited. 

"Gaming the System" (more commonly referred to as "Loopholing") refers to using "flaws" or making drastic assumptions about the rules in order to bypass them. Attempting to bypass anything that is obviously against the rules is punishable.

In summary, users have a set expectation of common sense when it comes to the rules and often try to cause issues with moderation staff or other players.

Users that are Studio Blacklisted/ Studio Banned are disallowed to use any Bulk Games product or asset. This includes all Bulk Games owned Discord Servers, Games, and all other official assets.

In some cases, even without a Studio Blacklist, infractions from another game or server owned by Bulk Games can be transfered over to AOTT.

For any severe infractions from a server outside of Bulk Games, we may also choose to mute or ban you to protect our server. THis includes but is not limited to pure gore, content or behavior that violates the law, or raiding.

AOTT Management, Developers, and Official Partners have the discretion to infract players for things outside of these explicitly stated rules. 

This is to protect not only our server but also all our other users.
This can be done to prevent loopholing, abusing unforeseen things, or engaging in behavior that, while not explicitly forbidden, clearly goes against the spirit of a positive community environment. This allows us to address emerging issues and maintain a safe and enjoyable experience for everyone.

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