Forum rules

Welcome to Garena Blackshot discussion forums. 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 Blackshot 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 Blackshot 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 Blackshot - Forums
- 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
- Real Money Trading
- Linking to Buy and Sell sites

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
- Be temporarily banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums
- Be permanently banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums

Selling/Buying

This category includes both advertising anything (stuff, merchandise, GS prepaid cards, etc..) for sale or trade, or advertising that you are looking for anything to purchase through:
- Forum posts
- Real Money Trading
- Linking to Buy and Sell sites

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
- Be temporarily banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums
- Be permanently banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums

Extreme Se-xuality/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 se-xual acts
- Refer to extremely violent real life actions
- Por-nography

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
- Be permanently banned from the Garena Blackshot ? Forums

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 Por-nographic in nature

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will
- Be given a temporary ban from the Garena Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity
- Be given a final warning, any further 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 Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity
- Be given a final warning, any further violations may result in a permanent ban from the forums

Harassing/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/Blackshot employees, Moderators or groups of people
- Result in ongoing harassment to other characters, players, Garena/ Blackshot employees, Operatives/Specialists 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 Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity
- Be given a final warning, any further 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 Blackshot ? Forums.

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 given a final warning, any further 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 / Blackshot employees

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
- Be temporarily banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums
- Be given a final warning, any further 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 Blackshot - Forums send it instead to support.blackshot@garena.com or Private Message (PM) the GMs here. DO NOT post it on the forums.

If a player is found to have participated in such actions, he/she will:
- Be temporarily banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums
- Be permanently banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums

Impersonating a GameMaster (GM), Operative / Specialist (OP/SP) or 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 Blackshot - Forums

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 Blackshot - Forums

While these repercussions may seem harsh, we feel very strongly that this behavior has no place on the Garena Blackshot forums due to its extremely offensive and inappropriate nature.

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 Blackshot - Forums, 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 permanently banned from the Garena Blackshot - Forums

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 Blackshot - Forums, 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 Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity

Advertising

This category includes advertise-ment of:
- Any non-beneficial, non-Garena/Blackshot 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 Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity

Discussing Disciplinary Actions on Forums

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 GameMaster (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 Blackshot - Forums, depending upon severity

Circ-umventing 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 Blackshot - Forums


IMPORTANT
- Repeatedly violating any area of the Forum Rules, 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 Operatives/ Specialists (OP/SP). Some OPs/SPs 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 Three (3) Day Ban
o Seven (7) Day Ban
o Thirty (30) Day Ban
o Permanent Ban: Your account will be permanently be banned from the forums.

Certain infractions can merit an automatic Permanent Ban depending on the severity of the violation.

We want Garena Blackshot Forums 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 Enjoy playing Blackshot!