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KDice Moderation
KDICEMOD wrote
at 7:34 AM, Friday April 24, 2009 EDT
Good morning K-community. I?d like to take a moment to introduce myself and let everyone know that Ryan has appointed me as a moderator.

The following are the rules Ryan has set forth to govern KDice:

General Rules

1. Do not use pornography avatars
2. Do not harass people
3. Do not use hate language or avatars

Game Rules

1. Game-to-game favors or alliances are not allowed
2. Play only one account at a time

I will expound on these rules a bit and let everyone know my expectations for the community.

***Do not use pornography avatars ? This includes all full frontal nudity, both male and female.

Offense # 1: Verbal warning
Offense # 2: Avatar privileges revoked for 1 week
Offense # 3: Avatar privileges revoked for 1 month
Offense # 4: IP ban of the account

***Do not harass people ? This includes stalking players from table to table, cursing and name calling. Harassment can occur in the chat box and on the forum.

Offense # 1: Verbal warning
Offense # 2: Chat and posting privileges revoked for 1 week
Offense # 3: Chat and posting privileges revoked for 1 month
Offense # 4: IP ban of the account

NOTE: Chat box harassment and forum harassment offenses will accumulate as though they are one in the same. If you are verbally warned on the tables and later commit another offense in the forum, this will be considered offense # 2.

***Do not use hate language or avatars ? This is a bit of a gray area, but common sense will govern this rule. Any words, phrases, or pictures used to belittle a specific group.

Offense # 1: Verbal warning
Offense # 2: Chat and posting privileges revoked for 1 week
Offense # 3: Chat and posting privileges revoked for 1 month & ability to play revoked for 1 week
Offense # 4: IP ban of the account

***Game-to-game favors or alliances are not allowed ? A game-to-game favor is defined as two or more players helping each other in one game with the expectation of this help being reciprocated by the same player or players in another game. Pre Game Alliance (PGA) is defined as two or more players sitting together at a table that have determined to help each other in a game before it has begun. Funneling points is defined as a player or group of players that sit together with the intent of raising a specific players final position in a game in order to maximize that players points. (this is usually done to affect the outcome of the monthly competition) PGE (Pre Game Enemy) targeting is defined as a player or group of players that target a specific player to kill in order to affect the outcome of the monthly competition.

There is A LOT of gray area in all of the definitions above regarding game-to-game favors and alliances, and detection of these offenses can be very difficult.

Offense # 1: Verbal warning
Offense # 2: Ability to play revoked for 1 week
Offense # 3: Ability to play revoked for 1 month
Offense # 4: IP ban of the account

NOTE: In extreme cases Ryan will reserve the right to change a player(s) point total to a level achieved prior to points earned in a manner deemed to be cheating.

The main objective of moderating the community is to make sure everyone has the opportunity to play, chat, and post in a fair and mannerly way. I will NOT moderate any account based on what I am told by others through the chat box or what someone posts in the forum. Posting chat logs on the forum will NOT be sufficient evidence for moderation of an account either, but it may bring attention to the need of further investigation of a matter. Screen shots, for the most part, will also NOT be sufficient evidence for moderation of an account as they lack context.

I will not be able to completely rid the community of cheating, but I will do my best to discourage it and make it difficult to achieve. Ryan has made it very clear that he wants cheaters and abusers to be dealt with swiftly and with harsh consequences.

If you have any personal concerns you wish to discuss outside of a KDice chat box or forum post, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected].

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tedward wrote
at 1:52 AM, Monday July 27, 2009 EDT
so why wus tetriscube banned?
integraI wrote
at 2:32 AM, Monday July 27, 2009 EDT
monte's 2nd post in this thread was amazing
Louis Cypher wrote
at 5:10 AM, Monday July 27, 2009 EDT
1) It is good that more or less short outbreaks of anger on a given occasion are not causing bans (I'd be off in an instance I'm afraid).

2) I agree that a little flamewar with a person of the same spirit is most amusing

3) The game-to-game-favor gray area gets even wider when you include OTF (old trusted friends), i. e. players you know will get your move and you thus instinctively tend to trust prior to others.

4) Is pornography limited to full frontal nudity? I see a big grayish area there too I'm afraid. As a matter of fact I would state somewhere on this site that the person running it is not responsible for avatars and reviews (or does it say that some place already?). Personally I think if you have a minor accessing the internet you should know that the chance of running into images of naked persons, humping animals, abused vegetables or pies exists. So, why worry about it.

5) IP-Banning is useless as it only affects those playing from a fixed IP (and not having access to another). Anybody dialing to some ISP will have changing IPs. Deleting accounts and banning e-mail-addresses is more efficient IMHO. I know you can build a new mail-address very quickly - but you'd also have to memorize them. After being banned a couple of times this might become cumbersome. And most people tend to tell who they were before...

Just my 0.02 Euro
NoSpuhforyou wrote
at 3:33 AM, Tuesday July 28, 2009 EDT
"1) It is good that more or less short outbreaks of anger on a given occasion are not causing bans (I'd be off in an instance I'm afraid)."

It WOULD be good if it were true; it is not true, (at least not in JulesDogg's case) so it's not good.
Gurgi wrote
at 7:45 AM, Sunday March 27, 2011 EDT
bump
Thraxle wrote
at 6:12 PM, Tuesday June 30, 2020 EDT
Iâ??d like to thank DLK for his asshattery pushing me to email this idea to Ryan. Iâ??d had a ton of fucking fun moderating this place....especially when I was anonymous.

Good times.
toxic_avenger23 wrote
at 6:37 PM, Tuesday June 30, 2020 EDT
Thrax, I'll use classic rematch


Who cares..?
Veta wrote
at 7:56 AM, Tuesday November 17, 2020 EST
@Thraxle

I had a ton of fun cheating
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