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COH2.ORG TERMS OF USE
Moderators reserve the right to remove posts that toe the line and are viewed as disruptive or unwelcome to the forum. Moderators use their best insight when making decisions regarding rules and users.
If you see a post that you believe is problematic, click the "report" button on the bottom of the post and select a reason. Moderators can see unresolved reports significantly easier than browsing the entire forum.
Chapter 1 - Creating content (posting to the forums, shoutbox, replays, and trending)
Users breaching a section of this chapter for the first time or in a minor way will be warned.
For excessive breaching or repeatedly breaching a section of this chapter, the user may be banned, with increasing durations if subsequent offences occur with a poor history.
1.1 Spamming
- Creating multiple posts/threads/trending/replays/shouts with the same content is not allowed.
- This also includes creating false reports. (reporting posts without a proper reason)
- Any duplicate content may be removed and in excessive cases the user may be banned.
- All spambots will be permanently banned.
1.2 Flaming
- Flaming is a hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users, often involving the use of profanity. This is not allowed.
- Any content directly or indirectly related to flaming may be removed and in excessive cases the user may be banned.
1.3 Defamation of other users
- Calling names or insulting other users by referring to them with a degrading/humiliating name is not allowed.
- This also includes being disrespectful to developers.
- Any content directly or indirectly related to defamation of other users may be removed and in excessive cases the user may be banned.
1.4 Excessive trolling
- Excessively seeking attention or attempting to provoke other users is not allowed.
- Any content directly or indirectly related to excessive trolling may be removed and the user may be banned.
1.5 Offensive content
- Any content that is considered as offensive may be removed and the user may be banned.
- As an example, posting pictures of violent criminals without a proper reason is not allowed, since it might cause offence.
1.6 Racism
- For a detailed definition, please refer to the Wikipedia article about racism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism
- Any content directly or indirectly related to racism may be removed and the user may be banned.
1.7 Sexism
- For a detailed definition, please refer to the Wikipedia article about sexism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexism
- Any content directly or indirectly related to sexism may be removed and the user may be banned.
1.8 Homophobia
- For a detailed definition, please refer to the Wikipedia article about homophobia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia
- Any content directly or indirectly related to homophobia will be removed and the user may be banned.
1.9 Pornography
- Any content that is directly or indirectly interpretable as pornographic material is not allowed.
- Any content directly or indirectly related to pornography will be removed and the user may be banned.
2.0 Illegal content
- Posting illegal content, discussing illegal content, or linking to illegal content is not allowed.
- This includes content that involves unconstitutional symbols and material. For example the swastika is an illegal symbol in Germany.
- Any content that is directly or indirectly linked to illegal content will be removed and the user may be banned.
2.1 Harmful content
- Any content that is intended to cause harm to the service or to other users, for example posting content that breaks the site formatting or causes extremely long page load times.
- Any content intended to cause harm to the service or to the other users may be removed and the user may be banned.
2.2 Cheating
- Cheating is absolutely not allowed and anyone found to be cheating, or posting links to third party cheats, may be banned. The same applies to those who publicly accuse others of cheating.
Please report cheating directly to enforcement@relic.com via email. Full guidelines for a report submission can be found here on the offical Company of Heroes website.
- If you are unsure about whether or not you should post a controversial item about bad behaviour on COH2.ORG, it is always best to PM a COH2.ORG Moderator or Admin, to ask first.
- Note: COH2.ORG will take any action considered necessary, when dealing with bugs/exploits which impact upon game balance by favouring players using them, which enforcement includes, but is not limited to making threads, posts, replays and stream links invisible, and/or locking them, including reporting users to Relic Entertainment.
- Our main goal is to favour fair competition and to increase the popularity of the game to a point where it to reach eSports levels: disallowing bugs/exploits use is simply the natural consequence of our goal.
2.2.1 Code of Heroes
- Regarding Relic and Sega's ruleset called the Code of Heroes, CoH2.org does not enforce Relic and Sega's ruleset ingame. We enforce our ruleset on CoH2.org only and potentially will relay information to Relic. If you feel someone has violated the Code of Heroes ingame and you wish to do something about it, submit a report to Relic at enforcement@relic.com via email. Full guidelines for a report submission can be found here on the offical Company of Heroes website.
2.3 Non-disclosure Agreements (NDAs)
- Using COH2.ORG to breach an NDA by spreading classified information or graphics is not allowed.
- Any content that is directly or indirectly related to breaching an NDA or content that is purposely phrased to look like an NDA breach may be removed and the user may be banned.
Users breaching an NDA will be reported to Relic Entertainment.
2.4 Politics
- Political discussions must remain on topic of the thread, and must relate to World War 2 or tie into the era.
- Cold War era poltiics can be discussed as long as they relate to the World War era.
- All politics past 1991 are forbidden.
- Any content directly or indirectly related to politics may be removed and the user may be banned.
Chapter 2 - User Accounts
1.1 User Names
- User names may not break any rules listed in Chapter 1.
- If a user name violates the rules listed in Chapter 1, the user will be warned and the user must request a new name.
- If the user does not follow the warning, the user will permanently banned.
- If the user later contacts and agrees to change their user name, the user's ban will be lifted.
1.2 User Avatars
- User avatars may not break any rules listed in Chapter 1.
- If a user avatar violates the rules listed in Chapter 1, the user will be warned and the user must set a new avatar.
- If the user does not follow the warning, the avatar in question will be removed by an Admin.
- In excessive cases the avatar in question may be removed immediately.
- Note: This section also includes Steam avatars used in playercards. COH2.ORG may prevent the display of any Steam avatar that is breaking the rules listed in Section 1.
1.3 User Signatures
- User signatures may not break any rules listed in Chapter 1.
- If a user signature violates the rules listed in Chapter 1, the user will be warned and the user must edit their signature.
- If the user does not follow the warning, the signature in question will be edited by an Admin.
In excessive cases the signature in question may be immediately edited by an Admin.
1.4 User Livestreams
- Livestreams and their content, titles, and aliases may not break any rules listed in Chapter 1.
- If a livesteam violates the rules listed in Chapter 1, the user will be warned and the user must either remove the livestream or edit the livestream settings so that it no longer violates the rules.
- If the user does not follow the warning, the livestream in question will be removed by an Admin.
In excessive cases the livestream in question may be immediately removed by an Admin.
1.5 Multiple Accounts
- Creating multiple accounts is not allowed and all multiple accounts will be permanently banned.
- Creating a new account while being banned will increase the duration of the original ban.
- If the duration of the original ban is permanent, an Admin will perform an IP Address based ban if necessary.
- Creating a new account while NOT being banned will result in a warning or a ban.
COH2.ORG's philosophy is to allow open discussion amongst our members. Disrupting that open discussion by spamming, flaming, excessively trolling, creating more than one account, posting offensive content, being disrespectful to developers or other users and behaviors similar to these are not tolerated and will be dealt with by moderators with suspensions, or in egregious situations, bans. Banned users will not be allowed to take part in the events that we host such as tournaments and Sunday Night Fights. We have a zero-tolerance policy for racism, sexism, homophobia, pornography, and defamation of other users. Use common sense when you post.
If you are not sure about whether or not you should post something on COH2.ORG, it's always best to PM a COH2.ORG Admin to ask first.
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True. You failed as moderator to moderate Rosbone behavior here for a long time, he had since long nothing relevant to say on this game but still daily spam and spam this forum with non-sense comments. Moderation isn't only about moderating inappropriate content posted by people but also making sure things posted, even if not breaking any rule are relevant.
Companies will never tell you why (and if they do they are the exception) because it doesn't matter anymore once the action is taken. The psychological journey of the person impacted make it will never be rational enough to accept the true and will still and again contest it and find anything in the potential explanation to be a sign of persecution. This thread and your own reply is the perfect example of it.
It's the same process when you fire someone, you tell him the bare minimum of why. It's the same process when you break your sentimental relationship by saying "It's me" etc... Even more when the person, such as Rosbone, went toxic in the "relationship".
All of this has been studied and documented, here an example: DABDA
This is the five stages of grief. I find it odd that they just put the term layoff on the page and call it something else lol.
Anyways though, even if people go through grief of being fired in a similar way, that doesn't excuse the management from being a dick about it. You make your stance clear, you give a reason and that's the end of it. If management turns out to be an asshole so be it, at least they made their point clear. Excusing them simply because "everyone will react that way anyway" is a good way to see respect as a whole dwindle. |
My name is ROSBONE. I am now triggered. You are banned!
See how easy it is? It is a slippery slope. Did I give relic a bunch of shit when they could not even spell my name correctly on the maps in the game? Was I triggered? No, I am an adult.
Van Voort, Thank you for reaching out. I will wait to see how things play out. Initially I was fine with being off Org. But, this policy stuff is something I have been passionate about for a long time so I should stick around. If Org wants to ban me that is fine. But I withdraw my request for now.
From our PM
1.3 Defamation of other users
Calling names or insulting other users by referring to them with a degrading/humiliating name is not allowed.
This also includes being disrespectful to developers.
Shouldn't really be unloading on relic in any other way other than ACTUAL criticsm. Talking about someones sexual orientation or identity has nothing to do with CoH and has no place here regardless of how you may feel about those things irl. This is the best I can offer honestly, as I wasn't the one who took the action and don't really need to know the specifics for the posts here.
So let me get this straight, you're upset that relic came in and contacted someone on staff about your posts regarding personal attacks on someone employed at relic, and the contacted member reviewed the posts, made them invisible, and demoted you. You're upset about the "boilerplate garbage" response you were given. Fine fair enough.
Next you threaten in the shoutbox, so I message you and attempt to explain everything from my point of view, including at least 3 times in our PMs on why I would say you were demoted, gave you a very blatant safe path to choose to not cause further issues from you, and now you're claiming we still haven't told you what you did wrong.
I don't know how to explain it better than this honestly. You're staff, you should be held to a higher standard than the average person. The fact that being disresepctful to devs is blatantly in the rules, as well as something I personally have let slide for much too long is my fault. However, I've let it slide under the guise that it was normal for you, and that you kept it "on the line" more or less. That line was crossed immediately when you start bringing up completely irrelevent topics such as "is this person a man or woman" or "Could be worse, could be a man disguised as a woman." Sorry but joke or not, that was in no way professional. Even in the case that relic brought the comment to our attention, the action taken for that statement was the correct call regarding demotion. Ingame bans are another topic and I don't think that out of game media should result in ingame bans but that's my opinion not relics.
I'm really just wondering why you're blasting us about this. I've explained it to you in PM and I've explained it above. You wanna blast relic over it fine, cause honestly I don't agree with their policy of not telling people about why they're banned either, but I've done my best to explain and understand. |
all BS games
Damn can't argue with that |
Iron Harvest was cool but didnt lend itself well to PvP
Eugen makes "Wargame", European escalation, airland battle, red dragon, both steel divisions, and their new one coming up is WARNO. I've enjoyed red dragon for what it is, and I definitely wouldn't call it SC2 paced. There can be fast micro in particular with aircraft, but other than that it's just turning weapons on/off and it's around cohs level of micro. |
What do you mean message?
There is an option in the profile settings to request a name change, that's what I used.
A black needs to approve it, so basically crapshoot on whether or not it'll happen. fingers crossed I guess? |
United States
I came to the forum post.
I said this post needs explained.
So I explained the confusion.
I felt my argument was solid and left.
Weeks later I get banned.
I ask who banned me? No answer.
My pal Shadowlink says You crossed a line.
I say "I did?" but...but...BANNED!
Do I know who banned me or why?
I read my post from others point of view.
I figure I messed up. Went to far with the joke.
I accept my punishment.
I move on.
Now I watch Stream and wait for Coh3 to git gud.
Any day now...
Reality sets in and I have the feels...
Dec 5th patch comes out and hopes comes back...
But Relic is playing the long con and Coh3 never gits gud...
I do LSD and figure out their plans! I'm on to you!
I give up all hope and play guitar badly instead.
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