[Hide & Seek] Staff Command and Punishment Guidelines

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• Ghosting (Includes Ghost-Snitching and Specific Snitching)

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, 10 minutes (2 hours on repeated offences)

  • Blinding and/or Slaying/In-game Death (on repeated offences)

  • Ban, 2 days (on repeated offences)

• Spamming

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute, 6 hours.

  • Ban, 1 day or permanent. (on repeated offences)

• Teaming

  • Warning

  • Slaying/In-game Death

  • Kick

• Begging for currency, to be a staff member or for giveaways

  • Decline

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute, 30 minutes (longer on repeated offences)

  • Kick

• Racism and Discrimination (includes media and jokes, use of racial slurs)

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, 6 hours (1 day for use of hard-r, hard-k, etc.)

  • Kick

  • Ban, 1 week (2 weeks for excessive discrimination) (on repeated offences)
    Content that contains jokes and such about racist groups (I.e. the KKK, etc.) are also subject to punishment.

• Use or bypass of blocked words (includes media, use of non-racial slurs)

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, 1 hour (6 hours on repeated offences)

  • Kick

  • Ban, 1 day (longer on repeated offences)
    Exemption: the r-word, since Gentoi uses it sometimes and doesn't mind too much about others using it (this may can change in the future)

• Bullying, Constant Aggravation/Disrespect or Sexualizing Players

  • Warning (if low severity)

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, 30 minutes. (2 hours on repeated offences)

  • Kick

  • Ban, 1 day (on repeated offences)

• Bypassing Blocked Words or Usage of Blocked Words in Media

  • Warning (if low severity)

  • Deletion

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, 10 minutes. (1 hour on repeated offences)

  • Kick

  • Ban, 1 day (on repeated offences)

• Disrupting Gameplay (Server-wide, map-wide; includes prop blocking, hiders killing other hiders)

  • Warning

  • Removal of Props (if prop blocking)

  • Slaying/In-game Death

  • Kick

  • Ban, 3 days (on repeated offences)

• NSFW Content (Even as Memes, including NSFW Jokes)

  • Warning (if content is within a topic/discussion context in the chat)

  • Timeout/Mute, 24 hours

  • Kick

  • Ban, 1 week (on severe/repeated offences)
    Content which shows human genitals is an instant post removal and timeout. Content which shows illegal content (child 'ography, etc.) is subject to a permanent ban with no chance of appeal. Content that contains jokes about known paedophiles, as well as paedo "parties" (I.e. Diddy Party) can and well also be subject to punishment.

• Doxxing (Even as a joke)

  • Ban, permanent

• Impersonation

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, until impersonation ends

  • Kick (on abuse or repeated offences)

  • Ban, until impersonation ends (on abuse or repeated offences)

• Wrongful Command Usage

  • Warning

  • Demotion

  • Timeout/Mute, 6 hours

  • Loss of Points (TBD)

  • Loss of ELO (TBD)

  • Ban, 1 day (on high severity or repeated offences)

• Abusing Bugs/Glitches and going on no-texture/out-of-bound zones

  • Warning (low severity)

  • Slaying/In-game Death (on repeated offences)

  • Loss of ELO (-2000 ELO)

  • Ban, 1 week or 1 month (high severity or repeating offences)

• Using Seeker-Unreachable Spots

  • Warning

  • TP/Physgun Moving of offending player (if not listening or repeated offences)

  • Loss of ELO (if not listening or repeated offences)

  • Loss of Points (if not listening or repeated offences)

  • Ban, 1 week
    Note: spots that take a seeker over 2 minutes to climb without physical/teleportation assistance, starting from the ground level or a ground origin point, is considered unreachable by seekers

• Useless/Unworthy/Unrequired Pings and Messages to Admins, Owners & YouTubers

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute, 2 hours (on repeated offences)

  • Ban, 1 day (on repeated offences)

• Controversial/Political Topics

  • Warning

  • Timeout/Mute/Gag, depends on topic (more time on repeated offences)

  • Ban, depends on topic (on repeated offences)

• Cheats/Hacks

  • Warning

  • Blind or Slay/In-game Death

  • Ban, permanent

• Anything Not Listed

  • Up to staff's discretion

This post will be updated when needed

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Command Guideline:

• !pm {name} {message}

• !asay {message} (admin chat)

• !mute {steamid} {time (e.g. 1s, 1m, 1h, 1d)} {reason}

• !unmute {steamid}

• !gag {steamid} {time (e.g. 1s, 1m, 1h, 1d)} {reason}

• !ungag {steamid}

• !slap {steamid} {damage}

• !slay {steamid}

• !hp {name} {amount}

• !ungod

• !freeze {steamid} {time}

• !unfreeze {steamid}

• !cloak

• !uncloak

• !strip {name}

• !respawn {name}

• !bring {name}

• !goto {name}

• !return {name}

• !kick {steamid} {reason}

• !ban {steamid} {time (e.g. 1s, 1m, 1h, 1d)} {reason}

• !banid {steamid} {time (e.g. 1s, 1m, 1h, 1d)} {reason}

• !unban {steamid}

• !cleardecals

• !stopsound