Welcome to BrainKing! Our site offers a unique game playing experience that we know you will enjoy. In order to make this experience enjoyable for everyone, we have a few guidelines for all to acknowledge. By signing on to this site you agree to the following guidelines:
General Guidelines: (rules to be applied throughout the site - in games & discussion boards)
This is a family site, thus foul language, sexual language and threats ARE NOT ALLOWED on BrainKing. Discussion Board Guidelines:
This is a game site, not a chat site. The discussion boards are here to enhance the game playing on BrainKing.
No Flame Wars! No Foul Language! Be Nice or do not post.
Moderators are assigned to each board to help watch over the board. They have the right to edit and remove any post which does not agree with these guidelines. They also have the right to hide and ban any user who continues to ignore the guidelines of the site. Taking up personal issues with a Moderator on their board will only get you banned. If you have serious issues with a Moderator, then please contact the moderator first of all. You will find them reasonable if you message them in a calm manner with your complaint. If this does not resolve your problem, either do not visit the boards they moderate, or take it up with Global Moderators.
Baiting is not allowed. That is you should not make post which is intended to provoke other users into posting a negative reply.
Moderators Guidelines:
The job of a Moderator is to watch over the board to make sure other users stay within the guidelines of this site.
If a post does not fall into the site guidelines, the moderator should:
Edit post for content if rest of the post belongs in the board.
Remove the post if none of the post belongs in the board.
Warn user IN PRIVATE about edited/removed post, and point them to guidelines if needed.
If multiple users are engaged in a flame war, a public post saying "stop" can be used.
If posting continues after a warning, the poster should be hidden for at least a few hours, possibly longer (24 hours or more).
If after being unhidden a poster continues, then a ban of the user can be used.
Moderators are free to take more strict or less strict actions as needed, but should try to follow the above guideline when possible.
If the board is getting out of hand, which can happen from time to time with certain topics �" the moderator should change the posting right to "Approve all" until things settle back down. The moderator can also change the posting right to "Approve pawns" if it is needed.
REMEMBER: This is suppose to be a fun game site, so some off-topic post and fun can be a good thing, so be careful not to over-moderate, and try not to nit-pick every post to find something wrong with it.
Consequence:
The BrainKing staff handle incidents on a case by case basis. Some possible actions that will be taken if necessary are:
Posting privileges removed (temporarily or permanently)
Chatting in-game privilege removed
Ban from BrainKing temporarily
Permanent ban from BrainKing
BrainKing staff is small, so if you have a complaint against other users �" please be patient with us while we try to look at all the facts. You have to remember that this is a game site, and we try to spend the majority of our time in improving the game site itself.
What to do if you have problems with other users:
Put that user on your Enemy list
Hide and ignore the other users post. Instead of starting a "flame war" with the user, just ignore them. It takes a bigger person to ignore than try to sink to their level.
If it is on a discussion board, privately see if the Moderator will do anything about a post which bothers you.
If all the above fails, please contact a Global Moderator privately. AGAIN, this should be a LAST RESORT. The more time that is spent on spats between users, the less time that is spent on trying to improve this game site.