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This one is really self-explanatory. You might have the best of intentions, but spreading personally identifying information is a great way to enable people to harass DWRPers IRL. If you have some extreme edge case where you think identifying someone IRL is appropriate because they're going to commit some kind of crime, PM a mod, contact DW staff, or find some avenue of doing so that isn't doxxing them publicly on an anoncomm.

Nice and simple. This is against ToS, don't do it.

I'd like to think this one is also pretty self-explanatory.

You CAN encourage people to:
- post crit to HMDs
- tell people "if you've had problems with this player, please contact the game mods"
- tell people "have you tried to resolve this situation with the player yet? you should tell them how you feel"

You CAN'T encourage people to:
- anonymously insult or harass players on HMDs or memes
- PM players about situations the PMing party isn't actually involved in
- "dogpile" off-comm discussions on memes, game OOC posts, or plurks

Obviously we can't control what people do off-comm in response to wank, but if threads start to take a tone encouraging or congratulating harassment, they're gonna get modded.

We've had cases before of threads like "wow look at this shitty player" "someone should tag them doing this and this" "i did it" "omg good for you" and that is not allowed.

This seems to be the one people are most wound up about.

Some specific examples of threads this rule aims to prevent:

- "This person breathed in the vicinity of a shitty player/meme, who are they and have they done anything wanky"
- "This person has borders on their icons/underscores in their name/uses asterisks instead of brackets, who are they and have they done anything wanky"
- "This game just opened, who is modding it/who is apping to it and are they wankers"

The problem with these kinds of threads is that they encourage people to find wrongdoing where before there obviously was nothing worth noticing. Wank should start when someone sees something fucky happening, not when someone is bored and paranoid and wants other people to create wank for their entertainment.

- "Here are all accounts belonging to a wanky player" -> "Wait I don't think that one is" -> "SURE IT'S NOT YOU WHITEKNIGHT"

In the interest of avoiding this kind of bullshit, because it has happened before, there's a general blanket policy now against going to lengths to track down someone's accounts. This is kind of a subjective thing, because if someone asks "who does this person play" in a less malicious context, you can still reply to that, and if you have a reasonable suspicion that one account is a known wanky player because you saw that account do something wanky, you can still post about that; the point here is to avoid unprompted, baseless tarring-and-feathering of random accounts.

Please also note all the qualifiers underneath. OOCly noxious or dangerous players like Stormy will always be special cases and we understand that. You don't need to have ten pages of sources cited to start wank, an anecdote about something you experienced is fine, just be prepared for the possibility of skeptical responses. You can still wank on people for being mediocre RPers, just don't try to paint a point of mild annoyance as an unforgivable wank crime and don't cry whiteknight when people tell you it's weak wank.

One thing this rule DOESN'T touch that isn't very well expressed because it's kind of a grandfathered-in case is the tradition of putting up headers for well-established games under Game Hate. That's something that's been happening for years and years and we don't think it contributes to the more recent problems, so you are free to keep doing it. We know that the distinction between this and empty headers for newer games is pretty weak policy-wise and for that I apologize, but fishing for wank on new games has been a demonstrable issue that we want to stifle so mods will be exercising judgment there.

This rule is pretty subjective, since lots of non-DWRP things (we have a whole thread just for talking about canons) can have an effect on DWRP community and culture, which is why it's "at risk for deletion" instead of "will be deleted".

OOC conduct on Plurk that impacts how a player treats other players is generally considered related to DWRP (ex. being untrustworthy as a roommate, being emotionally abusive/manipulative, people being weirdly obsessed with terrorists and having OCs based on them), while completely off-topic things like medical history or home situation that have no direct association with anything negative about their RP presence are deleteable.

Pretty simple. We're not going to be up your ass about pillow triggers and shit, just the most obvious and widespread ones, and mostly just graphic details if that ever is a problem that crops up.

The reason behind this rule is mostly that if someone posts about social justice shit it will eight times out of ten spawn huge aggravating arguments that nobody enjoys. It's not some kind of free speech issue, there are plenty of ways to insult someone without calling them an autist, exercise some creativity and you'll be fine.

Obligatory spam rule, for the most part. We're not going to be obsessively deleting your random chatter in the main post, but if spam starts happening in an obnoxious way we reserve the right to nuke it off the face of the earth.

More importantly, comments along the lines of "lol hi [subject of wank]" and "the whiteknights are out today i see" have caused problems in the past by shutting down disagreement with or rebuttal of minor wank topics, or even constructive amounts of skepticism and requests for proof. If you honestly suspect that someone is interfering with a thread, don't couch it in smugness and be prepared to actually argue your position, because shit like "you disagreeing with me proves i'm right!!! whiteknight!" is now deleteable. Anons have the right to express a range of opinions, and this kind of spamming deters honest posting and misrepresents the details of wank topics.