Smashladder’s Chatroom Rules of Life:

Moderators are here to keep the peace and impeding their ability to do so through harassment or otherwise will result in punishment.

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Deleted messages are considered warnings for your actions. Persistent deleted messages will result in a mute as it is constant infringement of the chat rules. The following, but not limited to, things warrant a deleted message:

• Risky Clicks; Inappropriate Links.
• Demoralizing Trash Talk/Shitposting.
• Spamming (including copypastas, continuous caps, blocks of texts, random nonsensical characters, etc.).
• Very Toxic/Crude Language.
• Excessive Swearing.
• Harassment (such as bullying, threats and targeted trolling).
• Callouts of any kind.
• Discussion of previous Moderation in Public Chats (privately contact a moderator if there is an issue).
• Excessive Salt.
• Racial/Prejudice slurs.
• Baiting or Participating in a Heated Argument. (Repeated behavior of posting "interesting" topics but not engaging in the aftermath)
• Witch Hunting (banding together against a user/mod; usually over a misunderstanding or with malicious intent).
• Threats, Wishing harm upon others.
• Click Baits, Constant Advertisement, Constant Begging, Spam, Phishing, Downloads (of any kind), Scams, etc. Continual disruption of this rule will result in suspension from posting links.
• Match requests/host codes/arenas in main chat.

Mutes/Kicks

The Following things warrant a mute (usually with a warning/depends on severity):

• Heated Arguments (If you must discuss it, take the discussion elsewhere).
• Hate Speech (especially race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity)
• Harassment of users, mods. Ban evaders, etc. (Harassment is up to mod/user discretion).
• Constant Disrespect of the Game/Community.
• Spam/Toxic Behavior.
• Chat Raids of any kind. (This includes plotting, joking or not).
• Outrageous Salt.
• Repeated occurrences of actions that warrant a message delete.
• Requesting toxic badges or somehow celebrating degenerate behavior.

Prohibited/Discouraged Chatroom Topics

Prohibited:

• Graphic sexuality, sexual imagery or gore.
• Rape.
• Piracy (Yes this includes hinting).

Highly Discouraged Topics: 

(Moderators have ability to end the conversation at any time)

• Sexuality.
• Drugs and substance abuse.
• Religion.
• Politics.
• Money Match Requests.
• Excessive salt or crude language
• Degradation of another User's character/being.

Special Cases

• Spamming is never allowed regardless of chat activity. If the flow of the chat is continually being disrupted, enforcement will ensue.
• Sexual Content/Malicious Links/Screamers (this will result in a 24 hour mute and link ban).
• Piracy (Direct or Indirect Linking of ISOs, ROMs, etc.) (this will result in a 24 hour mute and will escalate if repeated).
• Talking about any activity that may endanger your life or lead to your physical harm is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: suicide threats, intentional physical trauma, use of illegal drugs, or drinking excessively.
• The following are considered zero-tolerance harassment violations, and all accounts associated with such activity will receive an immediate mute at the minimum, depending of the severity: Attempting or threatening to harm or kill another person, posting someone else's personal information, such as a real name or location.

Enforcement

We have a variety of ways of enforcing the rules of the chat, including, but not limited to:

• Politely asking to cut it out
• A more stern warning
• Temporary Mute or Kick from chat
• Permanent Ban from a chat room
• Removal of any privilege on the site/restrictions on accounts
• Removal of Content
• Temporary or Permanent Suspension of an Account

*Moderators have the ability to make judgement calls when it comes to interpreting and enforcing chat and site rules*