Prohibited Content
The following types of content are prohibited across the forums. This includes posts, images, user names, avatars, profile information, and edit comments. Using external links to circumvent these restrictions is also prohibited.
Prohibited content is subject to moderator action (see above).
If you see a rule violation in another user’s post, please report it (see above).
A) Misbehavior
A1. Flaming
Insults, personal attacks, name calling, threats, or abuse, including retaliation.
Derogatory remarks or slurs against a person's race, religion, sex, age, nationality, etc.
If you are flamed, don't respond. Report it!
A2. Filth
Unreasonably profane, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, or adult themed content.
Using creative spelling which prevents the automatic detection and replacement of ‘filthy’ words with symbols.
These forums are meant to be 'safe for work,' even if the game itself is not.
A3. Trolling
Intentionally posting to disrupt, evoke negative reactions, or spread misinformation. Provoking others into arguments for the sake of starting a flame war (including as a response to someone else breaking the rules).
A4. Gatekeeping
Trying to bully, harass, or intimidate other user(s) into limiting their participation on the forum.
We want users to feel welcome to express their (sometimes unpopular) opinions. You can voice your disagreement with someone, but telling them to shut up or go away is antithetical to the purpose of having a forum for discussion.
A5. Impersonating
Acting as a developer, moderator, administrator, or other user.
A6. Bypassing
Using other threads or alternate accounts to circumvent a closed thread, banned account, or other moderator action.
A7. Begging
Asking for the game, game merchandise, participation by other users on or off the forum, or anything else.
B) Bad Netiquette
B1. Duplicate Threads
Making a new thread about a topic when there’s already an active thread on that topic to use instead.
B2. Bumping
Short posts made so that a thread appears more active, without adding anything of substance.
Any exceptions will be specified in a pinned thread in that section.
B3. Necroposting
Replying to old threads with outdated information.
As a rule of thumb, any thread started before V1.0 is too old. Start a new thread instead (this won’t count as bypassing).
B4. Annoying Text
Posting in textspeak, all caps, invisible fonts, or other hard-to-read writing styles.
B5. Flooding
Essentially redundant content posted more than once.
Unintelligible or nonsense content.
Multiple short posts in a row.
If you think of something more to add, edit your existing post.
B6. Spam
Regular users may only advertise (e.g. post external links) if the content
directly addresses another user’s request or issue. Exceptions are made for links in:
Anything else is considered spam.
B7. Off Topic/Derailment
Digressing from a thread or forum section’s established topic, such as by questioning a user’s choices or views outside the game.
Discussion in another user’s thread about the media itself (for instance, asking people to ‘like’ a video).
New accounts, especially, may be promptly banned as spammers if they start with content unrelated to 7 Days to Die.
C) This Isn’t a Place For...
C1. Piracy
Discussion of software piracy, including links to illegal downloads of games and methods to circumvent copy protection.
C2. Cheats & Exploits
Detailing how or where to gain an unfair advantage against other players.
Wide dissemination of cheats & exploits negatively impacts the community, so only include the details when filing a bug report or messaging a moderator.
C3. Politics & Religion
References to figures, groups, places, or ideas with current, real world political or religious significance.
Raising these topics with strangers on an internet game forum always leads to never-ending arguments.
C4. Goodbye Threads
Making a thread to announce that you are leaving the community or the game out of dissatisfaction.
People come and go on the forums and start and stop playing the game for a variety of reasons. Users can determine your presence or absence simply based on your activity.
C5. Discussion of Moderation Actions
Publicly visible responses to or discussion of forum moderation.
Instead, send a private message directly to the moderator(s). On Steam, you may use the comment section that’s provided with every warning and ban.
C6. Doom & Gloom
Calling the game a scam or fraud.
Predicting the future failure of The Fun Pimps or their games.
Accusing any developer of lying to the community or planning to abandon the game.
Such commentary is unwelcome. It is demoralizing to the community, potentially libelous, and not a constructive form of feedback.
C7. Meta-Forum Commentary
Bringing up that you or any user is blocking a user, reporting a post, leaving or unsubscribing from a thread, or otherwise posting about how anyone uses, did use, or will use the forum.
Using the forum features as provocation, leverage, or talking points.
It's not relevant in a discussion, and it's not the concern of other users.
C8. Naming & Shaming
Content that advances damage to a person or server’s reputation in the community, for instance by alleging griefing, cheating, admin abuse, server bans, or other offenses.
Allegations like these aren’t fair unless proven true, but the staff are unable to investigate what did or didn’t happen outside the forum.
C9. Backseat Copyediting
Unsolicited objections or corrections to a user’s writing (language, spelling, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs, etc.).
Players of all languages and backgrounds can use the forum. If you can’t understand a non-English post, you may use translation software. Users posting in poor English or non-English may be ignored, but not harangued.
