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Rules for DA

ALL USERS SHOULD:

-Treat everyone in the room with respect -Be polite and courteous to guests and new members -Keep conversations meaningful— talk about anthro/art -Refrain from foul language or suggestive content– this room is PG rated.

THINGS THAT WILL GET YOU INTO TROUBLE:

-Flaming, bashing, or disparaging others -Excessive drama -Challenging the moderators and/or administrators -Spamming/posting images that may be disturbing to some visitors -Excessive Icon/bot spam/emoticon posting -Not following DAmn and #IamAnthro rules (as detailed below in chat policy)

INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE and HARASSMENT

Inappropriate language includes any language that in any way looks like, sounds like, or abbreviates any of the following: Profanity, sexual content, explicit language, inappropriate references to sexual preferences, or offensive remarks (such as racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual). Actions that either incite or encourage others to violate these and other policies will not be tolerated.

Moderators will remove anyone who advocates or encourages expressions of violence, bigotry, racist, or hatred. No appeals for bans and kicks related to inappropriate language or harassment will be tolerated. We encourage our members to treat each other with respect. Do not threaten, harass, stalk or abuse others.

EXCESSIVE DRAMA

We expect the mood of rooms to remain civil at all times. For this reason, we ask that you keep negative, personal issues in private and that you do not use #ZestCafe as a place to fight and argue. If such an event should happen, then a chat moderator will step in and take whatever action is deemed necessary.

SPAMMING

Avoid excessive shouting (use of all-caps), gibberish (random letters with no attempt at conversation), excessive word streeeeeeeetching or flooding (continuous posting of repetitive text) in #ZestCafe. We ask you not to do this as it disrupts the flow of chat for other users. The posting of unsolicited advertisements for external Web pages or large, random, copy/paste of texts is also considered spamming. Neither will bot spamming/harassing be tolerated. Bots are in the chat to share thumbnails and to be a resource -- not something to mess around with when you get bored.

IDLING

If you must idle- it’s nice to let members of the chat know what’s going on. Use the /away command- or use a bot’s command away message. If it’s a sudden unexpected thing- let us know afterwards. Communication is nice and it keeps confusion to a minimum.

BANS and KICKS

Bans and kicks are set at the discretion of the moderators. The creation or use of existing accounts for the purpose of ban evasion is not tolerated and will result in the extension of the ban period, as well as a possible ban on all alternate accounts from the Chat Network and deviantART itself.

PROBLEMS with MODERATORS/PROMOTION

If any chatter in #ZestCafe feels there is a problem with a moderator (anything that goes against the aforementioned rules, favoritism, abuse of power, setting a bad example, etc.), immediately copy/paste the conversation into a note to lineWriter.