Board Thread:Campaigns and Tournaments/@comment-5294711-20150502164952

Greetings everybody! So, I promised to remake the policies as part of my presidential campaign, and here it is, my beta-policies. Since I failed at organizing an early livestream because of technical reasons, I'll go with the original plan first, by posting a beta-policies and ask what you guys think about it, then sees what unfolds.

Please note that this beta-policies is not a complete Policies page and only contains the  core ideas of my new policies concept!

1. Community Policies (Truth be told, I'm having difficulties recompiling "universal" rules... ._.)
- You can't intentionally offend or harass another user.

- You can't spam another user's message wall

- You can't intentionally damage an user's conception or "career" (like deliberately trapping an Enforcer so he/she gets his/her rights stripped, for example)

- You can't use uncensored profanity in the site, and even if it's censored, you shouldn't use it excessively. You can't use any language other than English without an English translation aside from chat and message walls, and even then you must be sure that the one you're talking with understand said language.

- You can't use a sockpuppet

- You can't pretend to be a staff member (for example, a Critic) to unknowing new users when you actually aren't

2. Page Policies
- You may not spam or vandalize another user's page (including blog posts, conception posts, forum posts) for any reason

- You may not edit another user's conception page without permissions, unless:

+ The page is a Public page. You can freely edit Public Edit pages, and you can freely add your own section, but not editing other users' sections, in Public Compilation pages

+ The author of the page has been inactive for a week. In which case you can request the Page Manager to adopt the page and re-sign the page's signature, but you must keep the core idea of the conception. The real author of the page can reclaim possession of the page anytime if he/she returns.

- You must conform to the License of the conception page that you're going to use, or the Default License. The Licenses are:

+ Restricted: You may not edit the conception or use the conception's contents (including referring) in another conception without permissions

+ Semi-Restricted: You may not edit the conception without permissions, but you can freely mention the conception in another conception, without changing its attributes

+ Default: You may not edit the conception without permissions, but you can freely use the conception's contents in another conception page, including changing its attributes and making up new contents for the referred conception, without doing it directly on the conception's page.

+ Public Compilation: Anyone can freely add a new section to the page. Each section should be signed separately and is considered the property of its respective author, and is set with the Default License by default. The author of a section can freely edit, spam, change the license, etc. of his/her section, as if it was a conception.

+ Public Edit: Anyone can freely edit the contents of the page.

- You may not add irrelevant or completely made-up categories to pages, including your own (this includes not only conceptions but also forum posts, blog posts, etc.)

- You must not use a page (including conceptions, forum posts, blog posts, etc.) to offend or harass someone, or simply to vandalize the wiki

- A conception can be deleted on sight by the Page Manager if it doesn't conform to the Basic Guideline (coming soon).

- If a page gets 3 delete requests from users, it'll be deleted in 24 hours by the Page Manager, unless someone defends the page. However, the number of defenders must not be less than the number of delete requesters substracted by 3. Every delete or defense request must have acceptable reasons confirmed by a staff member (any staff is fine).

- You must not revert a legitimate edit from another user's conception.

- You can freely fix the grammar, punctuation, spellings, categories, etc. of a conception, whether you have permissions from the author or not. Page Cleaners specialize in this.

- You must not create a Project page without the Event Manager's or the Head/Vice Manager's agreement.

3. Chatroom Policies
- All of the Community Policies apply in the Chatroom, but profanity rules are taken more lightly. However, that doesn't mean you can freely swear in chat.

- Both the Skype chatroom and the Wikia chatroom are treated equally

- You can freely ask any staff member (favorably a Supporter) to be invited into the Skype chatroom. However, if you are being blocked from the Wikia chat, you'll also be crossed out of the Skype chatroom members list.

- You can talk about everything in chat, not just things related to Bloons, and you should not force another user to talk about Bloons on chat.

- Non-conception and non-project pages are meant to go into blog posts or forum posts, not mainspace pages

4. Blog and Forum Policies
- All of the Community Policies and Page Policies relevant to blogs and forums apply

- Events and campaigns should only be hosted in blogs and forums.

- An event or campaign cannot be initiated without the Event Manager's or Head/Vice Manager's agreement. However, if you are a Manager (whether a CM, the Forum Manager or the Mainpage Manager), you can freely host an event related to your field. Besides, all users are allowed to host a self-nomination campaign for a staff position.

5. Userpage Policies
- You should not put an "users I dislike" or similar list in your userpage, nor should you put hateful, malicious info and opinions about another user in your userpage in general.

- You should not put another user's page in your userpage and claims it as your own.

- You should not put false information about yourself in your userpage. You can put  completely made-up  info if you don't want to reveal those aspects of your life (or you just want to be creative), but if you do put realistic info, please don't deliberately put  false  info.

Uhm... that's all I can think of for now. If you have any suggestions, please comment below! This beta-policies is subject to change at anytime! Thank you very much for joining this campaign! ^^ I really look forward to putting together a new official Policies with all of you guys and implement it soon! 