Welcome to our Phobies community!
We are thrilled to give you a warm welcome to this space. Our mission is to provide you with all the support and fun you would expect from a community like ours! These Community Guidelines should not only help you understand how to act within the community but also help you understand what to expect from others in our community. With this said, please keep the following guidelines in mind when engaging with other players esp. when contributing to our forums.
First and Foremost - be helpful and keep your discussions relevant to the topic.
Community Guidelines / Rules
1. No inappropriate posts (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
This includes also making hints towards inappropriate stuff. (Anything NSFW or borderline, keep it PG-13.)
2. No useless content or spamming (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
Useless content is: not putting any thought into a post or a post that has no purpose or does not add anything to the section or thread. Spamming is any low-quality post submitted repeatedly on the forums.
4. No airing dirty laundry (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
If you don’t like someone or think they’re doing something wrong, don’t spread it everywhere, take it to a private message or contact a Moderator about the issue.
5. Do not post referral, scam, or malicious links (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
Referral links are websites that advertise things such as free steam money, often in exchange for reposting the link. These are almost always scams and can be dangerous.
6. Do not spur on Flame Wars (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
If you see a flame war (people arguing and the argument getting out of hand), hit the report button. Do not add more fuel to the fire. Flame wars are posts that do nothing but create controversy and mass-arguing with no resolutions.
7. Do not harass, insult, or be passive aggressive to other people (In-Game, Forums, reddit, and Discord)
Harassment includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism or sexual harassment, belittling people, ignoring requests to stop annoying them, making fun of mental illness and other psychological issues that one may have. Examples of being passive aggressive are posting “who cares”, or excessively making fun of someone.
8. Toxicity (In-Game, Forums, reddit, and Discord)
Avoid angry or aggressive tones in your posts. Do not post in “all caps”. We respect your opinion and encourage healthy discussions, but we also do not tolerate discussions that could potentially escalate to toxic debates. If a discussion thread becomes toxic or personal, we will close or delete the thread, depending on the severity of the discussion. Warnings will also be sent to the people that started the toxic discussion. Community members who violate this rule repeatedly will be given a sanction.
9. Advertising (Forums, reddit, and Discord)
Streams, and videos are fine anywhere. Discord invites are only allowed in PMs if requested by the receiving party. IPs of servers and referral links are not. If you are unsure, ask a Moderator before posting.
10. Suspicious Activities & Exploits (In-Game)
The following will highlight what we consider suspicious activities, the consequences of these actions, and how to contact our team if you believe we’ve made a mistake or suspect a user of participating in any suspicious activity.
This includes but is not limited to:
• Intentionally manipulating the game system
o Arranging ranked matches with other players to clear objectives
o Inflating/decreasing your Matchmaking Rating
o Intentionally manipulating game mechanics to artificially gain resources
o Altering the state of your network connection, ie. connecting/disconnecting from Wi-Fi or a mobile network to try and manipulate a match or turn outcome, or an in-game purchase
• Using any software and third-party tools that could cause an interruption in gameplay.
• Abusing in-game exploits, including abusing bugs.
• Coordinating with other players who are utilizing cheats and exploits.
Consider that manipulating the game on purpose will create a negative experience for the players you play against. Our team wants to ensure that the Phobies play experience is fair and fun for the whole community.
Discord:
Also, we will no longer permit open requests and coordination that could lead to engaging in aforementioned suspicious activities and exploits (ie. asking for other players to assist them in ranked games, etc.) in our official Discord server. Doing so will get you sanctioned and potentially banned from the official Phobies Discord server.
But the most important rule of them all is to have fun in Phobies! Enjoy the game!