COMMUNITY RULES AND GUIDELINES
Welcome to the
Garena Philippines Forum. These forums are here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can discuss ideas, give game play advice, role-play, and converse about any other aspects of Garena with other players. Community forums are at their best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy. Therefore, we ask that you conduct yourself in a civilized manner when participating in these forums.
The guidelines and rules listed below explain what behavior is expected of you and what behavior you can expect from other community members. Note that the following guidelines are not exhaustive, and may not address all manner of offensive behavior. As such, the forum moderators shall have full discretion to address any behavior that they feel is inappropriate. Also, suspension or banishment from the game will always result in the same in regard to forum access. Your access to these forums is a privilege, and not a right. Garena reserves the right to suspend your access to these forums at any time for reasons that include, but are not necessarily limited to, your failure to abide by these guidelines.
We reserve the right to evaluate each incident on a case by case basis. The action we take may be more lenient or more severe than those listed below.
Racial/Ethnic
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Promote racial/ethnic hatred
Are recognized as a racial/ethnic slur
Allude to a symbol of racial/ethnic hatred
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be temporarily banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in permanent ban from the forums
Account Selling
This category includes both advertising your account or characters for sale or trade, or advertising that you are looking for an account or characters to purchase through:
Forum posts
Philippine Peso (PHP) Trading
Linking to Buy and Sell sites
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be permanently banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Extreme Sexuality/Violence
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Refer to extreme and/or violent sexual acts
Refer to extremely violent real life actions
Pornography
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be permanently banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Real-Life Threats
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Refer to violence in any capacity that is not directly related to the game
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be temporarily banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Distribution of Real-Life Personal Information
This category includes:
Releasing any real-life information about other players or Garena employees
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be temporarily banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Posting Cheats, Hacks, Trojan Horses, or Malicious Programs
This category includes:
Posting links to cheats, hacks, or malicious viruses / programs
If you would like to report information regarding cheats or hacks on Garena Philippines Forum forums send it instead to ph.community@garena.com or Private Message (PM) the GMs / Admins here. DO NOT post it on the forums.
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be permanently banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
Impersonating a Garena Employee
This category includes:
Passing yourself off as a Garena employee to post false information
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be permanently banned from the Garena Garena Philippines Forum
Posting Hacking Data Files
This category includes language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Show the results of hacking or any tampering of the game files
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be permanently banned from the Garena Philippines Forum
While these repercussions may seem harsh, we feel very strongly that this behavior has no place on the Garena forums due to its extremely offensive and inappropriate nature.
Obscene/Vulgar
This category includes both clear and masked language in posts, signatures, and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Are inappropriate reference to human anatomy or bodily functions
Are pornographic in nature
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Inappropriate Language
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Are a mildly inappropriate reference to human anatomy or bodily functions
Are otherwise considered objectionable
Bypass the Language filter
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Harassing or Defamatory
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Insultingly refer to other characters, players, Garena employees, Moderators or groups of people
Result in ongoing harassment to other characters, players, Garena employees, Moderators or groups of people
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Be given a final warning, any further Code of Conduct violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums
Harassment takes many forms, and is not necessarily limited to the type of language used, but the intent. Repeatedly targeting a specific player with harassment can lead to more severe action. The idea behind this is to prevent any one player from consistently being uncomfortable in the Garena Philippines Forum.
Major Religions or Religious Figures
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Negatively portray major religions or religious figures
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Illegal Drugs or Activities
This category includes both clear and masked language and/or links to websites containing such language or images which:
Reference to abusing illegal drugs
Reference to performing illegal activities
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forums, depending upon severity
Spamming and Trolling
This category includes:
Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure non- sense
Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other forumers
Making non-constructive posts
Abusing the Reported Post feature by sending false alarms or nonsensical messages
Numbering a thread or any other fad statements
If a player is found to have been spamming or trolling, he/she will:
Be given a temporary or permanent ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Creating Duplicate Threads
This category includes:
Creating threads about existing topics
Creating a separate thread about an existing topic for further discussion in more than one forum
If a player is found to have been creating duplicate threads, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Advertising
This category includes advertisement of:
Any non-beneficial, non-Garena related businesses, organizations, or websites excluding our official partner sites and/or communities
If a player is found to have been advertising, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban or permanent ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Discussing Disciplinary Actions
This category includes:
Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and a Garena Game Master (GM) or Admin
Creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a character or account on the forums
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Philippines Forum, depending upon severity
Circumventing a Suspension/Ban
This category includes:
Posting on another account
Having someone post on your behalf
If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
Be temporary ban from posting on the Garena Philippines Forum
IMPORTANT
Repeatedly violating any area of the Forum Code of Conduct, including the areas detailed above, will often result in permanent banishment from the forums.
To insure that the community forums and its residents are well taken care of, we have provided privileges to selected responsible and credible individuals collectively known as
moderators. These moderators do not have direct rights to ban users from our community forums however, they may give infractions or penalty points.
Users may be banned automatically by the forum should they reach a certain number of infractions. The infraction levels are as follows:
o Two (2) infraction points: You've been warned.
o Three (3) infraction points: Forum suspension for one week, You will be able to read the forums but not post.
o Four (4) infraction points: Forum suspension for two weeks, You will be able to read the forums but not post.
o Five (5) or more infraction points: You won't be able to read or post for 1 month.
o Six (6) infraction points: Your account will be permanently be banned.
Certain infractions can merit an automatic Permanent Ban depending on the severity of the violation.
The bottom line is that we want Garena to be a fun and safe environment for all players. In playing the games and posting on its forums, you will encounter thousands of other players who share different experiences and come from vastly different backgrounds. While certain language and images may not be offensive to you, consider the fact that that same language and images may have a completely different effect on someone else.
Thank you and Happy Gaming!
