This is meant to be a general guide for staff members and is not required to be followed to a T. These guidelines also apply to the GMod PPHNS Server, like with rules. Punishment length varies by rulebreaking severity.
- Warning
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, 10 minutes (2 hours on repeated offences)
- Blind/Slay (on repeated offences)
- Ban, 2 days (on repeated offences)
- Timeout/Mute, 6 hours.
- Ban, 1 day or permanent. (on repeated offences)
- Warning
- Kick
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, 1 hour.
- 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)
- Warning (if low severity)
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, 30 minutes. (2 hours on repeated offences)
- Kick
- Ban, 1 day (on repeated offences)
- Warning (if low severity)
- Deletion
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, 10 minutes. (1 hour on repeated offences)
- Kick
- Ban, 1 day (on repeated offences)
- 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
- Ban, permanent
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, until impersonation ends
- Kick (on abuse or repeated offences)
- Ban, until impersonation ends (on abuse or repeated offences)
- Warning
- Demotion
- Timeout/Mute, 6 hours
- Loss of Points (TBD)
- Loss of ELO (TBD)
- Ban, 1 day (on high severity or repeated offences)
- Warning
- Timeout, 10 minutes Note: make sure to redirect the user to the appropriate channel
- Warning (low severity)
- Slaying (on repeated offences)
- Loss of ELO (-2000 ELO)
- Ban, 1 week or 1 month (high severity or repeating offences)
- 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
- Warning
- Timeout/Mute, 2 hours (on repeated offences)
- Ban, 3 days (on repeated offences)
- Warning
- Timeout/Mute/Gag, depends on topic (more time on repeated offences)
- Ban, depends on topic (on repeated offences)
- Warning
- Blind/Slay
- Ban, permanent
- Up to Staff's Discretion
This post will be updated when needed