Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27150398-20190228085611

Hello everyone, I wanted to inform you all of a couple of new rules and a new guideline that have been added to the Rules and Guidelines page.

Rule 26. Please DO NOT create alternate accounts/sockpuppet accounts to dodge blocks and/or chat bans. If any users are found to have created sockpuppet accounts, their sockpuppet accounts will be given infinite blocks and/or infinite chat bans along with their original account. We understand that this might sound a bit strict, but if we were more tolerant of sockpuppets, there would likely be lots of blocked/banned users trying creating them, which would cause a lot more disorder and chaos on the wiki.
 * However, if you wish to have a detailed discussion with a member of the Admin team (preferably the Admin who blocked you or the Head Bureaucrat) about why your original account was blocked you are allowed to create an alternate account to SOLELY carry out this purpose. If you are found using said alternate account to do anything else other than inquire about your block (ex. editing pages) then this will count as proper sockpuppeting and both your alternate and original accounts will be given infinite blocks. Additionally, if you begin to get aggressive or even abusive towards the Admin you’re talking with, your alternate account will be blocked and you will not be able to discuss your block with the Admin team anymore.
 * If you wish to discuss a Chat Ban with the Chat Mod, Superintendent, Discussion Mod, Operator, Overall Moderator or Admin that gave the Chat Ban and you’re not already blocked, you don’t need to create an alternate account to have this discussion with them and can just talk with them using your original account.
 * These discussions should generally only be used by users to clarify why they have been blocked and it is unlikely that they will be unblocked after the conservation has taken place (unless they were blocked because of a genuine misunderstanding) so after a member of the Admin team has clarified the exact reason why the user was blocked,they should simply wait until the block on their original account has expired (or move on if their original account has been given an infinite block) otherwise both their alternate and original accounts will be given infinite blocks.

Rule 27. When making a What-If? DEATH BATTLE with Combatants from yet to be released games, it can only be done when the Game in question is close to release (I.E: A Battle with Noctis being made in September 2016 and the game being released in November 2016), Any battle made far from the Release Date of the Game will be deleted.

Guideline 12. In terms of naming your battle pages, we’d highly recommend including the word “VS”/“VS.”/“vs”/“vs.”/“Vs”/“Vs.” in the page title (ex. Silver the Hedgehog VS Trunks) rather than naming your battle in a manner that is overly-descriptive (ex. Epic Anime Duel: Goku vs. Naruto) as this makes it easier for the staff team to spot duplicate pages and delete them.

If you have any questions regarding these two new Rules and the new Guideline please post them down below.

Big out. 