Rules

All Players, no matter of rank, status, gender, race, age, and nationality, are to be held accountable by these rules fairly.

1. Interpretation
   1. Interpretation and execution of these rules is entirely up to members of staff, staff has final say on all matters relating to these rules.
2. Punishments
   1. It is up to the punishing staff member on how they punish players, but it is encouraged they punish reasonably. If a player finds a punishment unfair they may appeal it via an official punishment appeal method given by staff.
   2. Types of punishments:
      1. Verbal Warning
      2. Warning
      3. Mute
      4. Kick
      5. Temporary Ban
      6. Permanent Ban
3. Respect
   1. Toxicity. All official and associated chats are to be kept respectful, unnecessary aggression is discouraged.
   2. Harassment. Repeatedly exhibiting unwanted hostile behaviour to another specific player or group of players without reason.
   3. Misgendering and deadnaming. Players must use the correct name and pronouns and avoid using incorrectly gendered terms. While mistakes happen, repeated misgendering (especially once corrected) will be considered malicious and punishment worthy.
   4. Low Effort Troll. Posting inappropriate content such as slurs and NSFW content within recently joining the server and or discord.
   5. Bigotry. Expressing (a) strong, unreasonable belief(s) and disliking other players who have different beliefs or a different way of life.
4. Chat
   1. Language. All language is to be kept within moderation, usage of slurs, excessive swearing, and inappropriate language is not allowed.
   2. NSFW. No NSFW content is allowed in any chat anywhere related to the server.
   3. Incorrect use of channels. Using chat channels for a purpose that they were not designated for (such as advertising in non dedicated channels, posting non-articles in news or using /question for other purposes than questions).
   4. Spam. Avoid sending several messages or images to spam or flood the chat.
   5. Discussion of other servers. We ask that players keep discussion of other minecraft servers to a minimum, references are fine to a reasonable amount but advertising servers or blatantly disrespecting other servers is not allowed.
5. Lag
   1. Excessive entities. Do not cram dozens of entities in one area.
   2. Do not create redstone contraptions or machines that significantly contribute to server lag.
6. Fair Play
   1. You must not use any unauthorised client modifications, more detail on authorised client modifications is here (link will be added once page is made).
   2. You must not use any form of unauthorised macros such as:
      1. Autoclickers.
      2. Afk avoiders.
   3. You must not abuse any form of glitch, bug, or exploit on the server.
   4. Duplicating items via abuse of exploits is not allowed.
   5. Abuse of permissions by using them for not their intended reason.
   6. You must only ever use one Minecraft account on DistrictRP, any usage of more than one account must be allowed by staff else punishment will be issued.
   7. Any attempts to evade punishments (VPNs, alt accounts, etc) are prohibited, attempts at this may result in heavier punishment.
7. Real world topics
   1. Discussion of real world politics is not allowed within public channels on discord or the minecraft server.
      1. The only exception to this is the “irl-politics” channel in the supporter’s section of the discord.
   2. Depictions of real world religion are not allowed on the server.
      1. Players may create religions for roleplay reasons but they must not mirror real life religions in name or belief systems.
      2. Buildings that resemble religious buildings in real life are permitted.
   3. Hate groups/symbols.
      1. Players found to build or draw hate symbols on the server will be punished.
      2. Groups formed must not reference hate groups from the real world.