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Updated Terms of Services
Published: 27 May 2020

In response to the global pandemic of COVID-19 and the number of schools closing across the state of Maine, and the recent Stay-At-Home Order issued by Governor Jannett Mills, we will be enacting new anti-hate speech policies to ensure the safety of those affected emotionally and mentally.  These policies are be effective starting today (16 April 2020), and will remain active until further notice . The policy will be enforced on Reddit, FANDOM, PlanetMinecraft, YouTube and all official (no decoys) products owned by DieselDorky16. Changes will be made with or without notice at any time, depending on the circumstance.

Also, ''' we will enforce a zero tolerance policy for all violations, regardless during the time this anti-hate speech policy is in effect. Please be sure to think before you post. '''

What Is Being Changed?

 * Hate Speech Policies

What's New In These Policies?
Although some of these policies enforced may be controversial and you may not agree with them, we will still enforce them to ensure everyone's safety as well as our own, given the after effects. Some of these hate speech changes will be addressed below:

Breakup Jokes

 * Anything relating to or referencing past break-up incidents or similar of that nature.
 * Any jokes or puns that references to anything like "Darth Vader's wife" or similar

COVID-19 Jokes

 * Use of speech with intent to discourage those emotionally affected by the ongoing pandemic.

Anti-Graduation Jokes or References

 * Anything that is a negative term of contempt towards the graduating class of 2020, or similar, in video, written, spoken or otherwise.
 * Showing disgrace or contempt against student athletes, regardless of NLI signing or college acceptance in real life.

Encouraging Harmful Behavior to Self or Others

 * Anything that drives a person to suicide, whether in written, verbal, spoken, or otherwise.
 * Promoting self-harm

Other Changes

 * Using disrespectful language on sensitive related pages.

Volation and Penalization Code Changes
We will be moving to a new penalizing system for new violations of these policies, which will be effective permenantly.

Standard Violations
See What Happens If I Violate The Terms?.

Enhanced Violations
Enhanced Violations are considered a serious offense on any of our products, and committing such acts will result in an immediate and permenant block. These can differ on a product-by-product basis, but on a global scale (across all products); making offensive remarks directly or indirectly (whether in writing, printing, photocopying or likewise) towards the graduating class of 2020 is strictly forbidden, and anyone caught doing so will be condemned for their actions and will be globally blocked on that platform the violation took place on. This is not the place to show disgrace to the Class of 2020, but rather to show support and sympathy for them.

Article Edits, YouTube Comments and FANDOM Discussion Page
1. Be nice and treat people with respect. Keep discussions civil and be open-minded about differing opinions.

2. Threads and posts that solicit (ask or farm) upvotes will be deleted.

3. Off-topic conversations will be deleted.

4. Impersonation of other users or famous people will not be tolerated. If you have been banned and return on a new account, your posts will be deleted and your new account(s) will be banned indefinitely without warning.

5. Spamming, trolling, or vandalizing of any kind will be deleted and will lead to your account being banned indefinitely as a second offense. First offenders will be given a one month ban.

6. Profanity, racist comments and/or slurs, sexual harassment, disability harassment, and any comment that deemed to be disrespectful and inappropriate will be deleted. Repeat offenders will be blocked indefinitely depending on the offense.

7. Spreading rumors on this chat is disrespectful to the community. Anyone doing so is subject to discipline. Repeat offenders will also be blocked indefinitely without notice.

8. Violating these rules will result in immediate community guidelines strike. Just like YouTube's policy, three strikes within six months is an immediate ban from the chat. If you get a first strike, you're suspended for 90 days. If you get a second strike, you're suspended for 120 days.

8a. Serious violations upon second strike are restricted of adding new accounts, and suspension of up to a year. During this period, you may not make VPNs or proxy servers to mask your IP address.

8b. Use of VPN to bypass bans will result in criminal prosecution.

9. No user shall make jokes referring to any tragic events in written form or visual.

10. Any article that is marked as fictional shall not be edited unless if specified for grammar edits.

** Gorham Rams (Maine) Students, this will be reported against you to staff members in addition to the consequences listed above.

*** Rules are subject to change without notice

Sexual Harassment
"'Defined as any harassment in a workplace, or other professional or social situation, involving the making of unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks.' - Google Dictionary"

We do not tolerate sexual harassment on this site. This includes dating conversations, which is not acceptable on this fourm. This will include sexual slurs, or sexual jokes. It is unacceptable and is illegal in some (if not, all) states.

Hate Speech Policy
Hate speech refers to content that promotes violence against or has the primary purpose of inciting hatred against individuals or groups based on certain attributes, such as: There is a fine line between what is and what is not considered to be hate speech. For instance, it is generally okay to criticize a nation-state, but if the primary purpose of the content is to incite hatred against a group of people solely based on their ethnicity, or if the content promotes violence based on any of these core attributes, like religion, it violates my wiki policy, along with YouTube if hate speech is used there.
 * race or ethnic origin
 * religion
 * disability
 * gender
 * age
 * veteran status
 * sexual orientation/gender identity
 * blood status

Legal Threats
Legal Threats, as of February 16, 2018, is strictly forbidden on this chat. This includes telling someone that they will file a lawsuit and sue them. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, it is a severe violation to our chat and whoever makes these comments will be banned indefinitely, face criminal penalties, and followed by a potential Community Guideline Strike on YouTube.

Racial Slurs
Racial Slurs is a group of curse words that offend a group of people based on their race. As stated in Hate Speech, It is not appropriate to use these words, since this site is protected by Civil Rights, to make sure everyone is equal.

Disability Harassment
Here, we do not accept slurs offending anyone with disabilities (includes Autism at any level). Use of the word "retard" or "date-traitor" on the chat will be subject to disciplinary action.

Homophobic Slurs
Here, everyone on the LGBT spectrum is accepted to the chat, unless specified because of your editing actions. We do not use slurs targeting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender. Anyone found doing so will be subject to disciplinary action.

What Happens If You Violate The Terms?
Violations will result in the strictest penalties spelled out by the services of DieselDorky16 if we feel like we need to. And these penalties can include (but not limited to): comment removed, suspension, community guidelines strike and even termination if the conditions warrant. First offenders will be blocked indefinitely, and restoration will be required after one month to repeal the block. However, second and subsequent offenders will be blocked indefinitely and will not be permitted to use the repeal process. ''' Any disciplinary action spelled out on this wiki will not be repealed after the expiration of the new policy, unless otherwise noted. '''