Announcement: New Rules

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Hello users of the Polandball Wiki, me, Bain and IMC have discussed and created some new rules to make the wikia better and fixing some problems, mostly our Chat.

The reason? We just want a better chat. Ours now looks worse than a house of ill repute. Even when higher staff enters, people keep insulting each other and their justification is almost always "it was a joke bro, don't take it srsly".

The new rules are:

  1. Restrictions on the use of character-styling such as bolditalicisedslashedsized, typewritered, differently written and coloured text. It will still be used, but there will be a vague limit to how much you may use them (perhaps it shall only be used to emphasize points or annoucements). Other scripts like CУЯILLIC or Greek-like are subject to this rule too.
    1. Speaking in other languages (in this case, not in English) should be done only in private message. Greetings and other short words like "kurwa" are exempted from the rule.
  2. Hate speech is banned (mostly using caps and big text) and related topics, those convicted of them will serve two to six hour sentences depending on the severity. Repeated offenses will result maxinum 2 months banned from chat. This includes:
    • Anti-LGBT speech
    • Religious hate (islamophobia, christianophobia, included anti-Atheism...)
    • Ethnic hate (against Slavs, against Kurds, against Arabs, anti-semites, ...)
    • Political ideas hate (against communism, against capitalism, against libertarianism, ...)
    • Ultra-nationalism ("my country is stronk and must remove all other inferior countries or something")
    • Racism
    • Ultra-Liberalism/Ultra-Conservatism etc.
    • Insulting another user. This includes calling him/her in a way that is ensured it's offensive for the insulted user (like: calls Antonio "Antonia" or something, say "IMC is Blocked IP", ...)
    • ...any other personal teasing
    • Calls everything that you hate "a cancer" or "a mental disease".
  3. Impose and solidify preexisting rules (i.e. no spam) and penalize those who oppose the new reforms.
    1. Unbanning even if the ban had a reason will be power abusing by the unbanner. --> If A gets banned by B for a valid reason and subsequently unbanned by C, C power-abused and deserves a ban. A, naturally, gets banned again. If B gets banned during this with no other reason, B gets unbanned and C gets a longer ban.
  4. A test to keep the rank. Failing test is demotion. Rollback rank doesn't have to take test.
  5. Fictional pages must have a Facebook or a Wikipedia page of their own.

You can write your opinion about the rules, or just comment {{Support}}, {{Oppose}}, {{Neutral}} or {{Confused}}; please say why you posted this template. (Notes: This is not a poll for approving these new Rules. The rules are already current)

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