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Strike System
We use a 3 strike system. Strikes are given for breaking the Golden Rule, Excessive Trolling Rule, repeated failure to credit artwork, or for continued spam after a warning. Upon the third strike, the offending user is banned from accessing dormi.zone.
Extreme offenses, including but not limited to wishing death on another user or extreme bigotry will result in an instant permanent ban from dormi.zone.
Rules on dormi.zone
The following rules apply to users registered on dormi.zone, as well as users from instances federated with dormi.zone who interact with our users and communities.
Posts, Comments & Private Messages
These rules apply to posts and comments within dormi.zone communities, as well as private messages that include users registered on dormi.zone.
Golden Rule
Do not be rude, condescending, hateful, or discriminatory.
Excessive Trolling Rule
Do not intentionally mislead or antagonize others or act contrarian.
Prohibited Content
Do not post any of the following:
- pornographic content.
- sexual or suggestive content involving minors or individuals appearing as such.
- content that encourages or incites (real-life) violence.
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- content that impersonates another person in a misleading or deceptive manner
Violating this rule will result in an instant ban from dormi.zone.
Ban Evasion Rule
Do not create an account to evade punishment or avoid restrictions.
Posts & Comments
These rules apply to posts and comments within dormi.zone communities.
Accusation Rule
You may only accuse another person's or organization's integrity, business practices, etc. if you have sufficient evidence.
Begging Rule
Do not beg for in-game items.
Link Obfuscation Rule
Do not obfuscate links using link shorteners like bit.ly.
Naming Rule
You must obscure other person's names or usernames in your posts and comments.
Real World Controversy
Do not introduce politics or other real-world controvery in your posts and comments.
Spoiler Formatting
When the sidebar of a community states that "Spoiler Formatting" is being enforced, the following rules apply for posts that involve lore/story spoilers:
- You must begin the title of your spoiler post with "[Spoiler]" and not include the actual spoiler in the title.
- Comments containing spoilers outside of spoiler posts must be formatted as a spoiler block, see here.
Posts only
These rules apply only to posts within dormi.zone communities.
Context Rule
Posts with vague or no context or with little-to-no information are removed.
Expired Event Rule
Event posts are removed after the event (alert, invasion, etc.) is over.
Fluff Post Quality Rule
Meme posts must be 100% (or very close to it) Warframe content, even if it's modelled after an existing meme template.
Help Desk Rule
Posts that involve issues with your Warframe account are removed and referred to the official Warframe support desk.
Relevance Rule
Posts that are not directly related to the community they're posted in are removed. A clever title or text placed over an image are not enough.
Creative Content Rule
You must limit posts of your own creative content (Captura,art, videos, etc.) to twice a calendar week, starting on Sunday, with at least 24 hours in between.
Trading Rule
Posts that offer trades or exchanges of any kind are removed.
Recruitment Rule
Squad recruitment posts are removed and redirected to the pinned Squad Recruitment post.
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I'm just here to add my voice to the conversation and say that I agree with everything you're saying. The WF reddit being full of info built up over many, many years is no small thing. Many, many google searches will lead to dead ends if it remains private forever. If the entire team that ran it want to nuke it and never make it accessible again, I will be unhappy about losing it, but that's their choice as the owners of the subreddit
However, I am of the belief that owners of any kind of online database or platform that is/was accessed by thousands to millions of people have an ethical responsibility to preserve that data for posterity. This is an issue far bigger than just our little gaming sphere, but the morality of the issue still stands here as it does anywhere else on the internet
I don't agree with this belief, for multiple reasons:
In my opinion, if you find something you want to be preserved, you should not delegate that responsibility to someone else, but rather make a local copy yourself.
This is why it's a moral/ethical issue, as it relies on individuals taking personal responsibility. Nobody can be forced into anything. I support the blackout as I don't support what Reddit is doing with the APIs, but what you as moderators of the community have done is essentially wield your power to make a decision for others. They had no say in the matter. You indisputably have the power do that, but is it the right thing to do? Does your disagreement with a platform give you the right to restrict access to a previously public database? With power comes responsibility, yadda yadda. I can't make you take responsibility, and you can't make everyone agree with your actions. It could be argued that if you wanted to leave Reddit, you should have handed moderation over to people who were happy to stay and deal with the API changes. Then people would have been free to make their own choice on whether they also wanted to leave Reddit and come here, or stay on Reddit (and I think people who are against the strike will very quickly realise what a shitshow Reddit becomes without APIs to assist moderation). But what's happened now is that you exercised personal ownership over something that many other users will feel also belonged to them. Contentious issue
However, strikes have to be disruptive to make their point and force change, which is why I support the blackout. I'm aware that making the sub read-only still lets Reddit receive traffic, but it's the only compromise. If you make the sub read-only, I'm more than happy to contribute here by moving across any important info I think should be shared