GUIDELINES FOR COMMUNITY ORIENTED BEHAVIOR
These Guidelines are provided to help make usage of the VZones a positive experience for all members. The virtual communities are created by Stratagem Corporation staff, and are tended by the Inworld Staff who include: Acolytes, Oracles, Guides, Caretakers, Remote Staff and Stratagem Corporation employees.

Introduction to Behavour in the Community
Participation in our virtual zones is not a game. It is real life, lived through your avatars in a virtual online community. The avatars you will meet in these worlds ("inworld") are real people, not programmed game opponents. Members are part of a living and growing community. We are much more than a collection of people or a virtual chat room. We have our own history, culture, stories, and taboos. Stratagem Corporation's zones and our web forum areas provide an opportunity to explore and experiment with our social skills while enjoying the community found here. This exploration, however, should not come at the expense of other community members' enjoyment.

Harassment of another member.
The term "harassment" means to repeatedly annoy another person, and as in the real world, constant annoyance often ends in a complaint to a controlling entity. And as in the real world, harassment is difficult to prove, and seldom one sided. Therefore, our determination that harassment has occured is based on this rule:

-Any member found to have repeatedly used insults and/or bad or abusive language in one interchange (conversation with one other person) can be considered guilty of harassment, PROVIDED the transcript clearly indicates the member whom initiated the harassment, and that a staff member was paged and/or witnessed the interaction.

When we receive harassment complaints from a member, we do the following:

1. We ask the member to record any text that proves harassment. They must provide at least three text transcripts, one for each of three separate harassment instances, in order for us to take action. Less will not constitute "harassment".

2. We then talk to the offending member and warn them that this behavior will not be tolerated, and that another instance will result in a 24 hour muting of their avatar or avatars. Two proven complaints will result in cancellation of the member's account and three proven complaints instances will result in a 12 month ban from Second Kingdom.

3. We advise the member claiming harassment to use the "ignore this avatar" function, to avoid further interchange. If the member claiming harassment instigates any conversation in Second Kingdom with the offending member, we are unable to help further, as we then view the harassment as being reciprocal.

4. If the harassment has happened repeatedly in one specific locale, we ask the member claiming harassment to avoid that particular locale. Although this request may seem to limit the rights of the member being harassed, it forces the harasser to either give up or attempt to find the member they have been harassing. This second option provides us with substantial evidence to bring the situation to a close.

5. If a member is proven to have harassed three members or more and has had three separate complaints filed against him or her, he or she will be permanently banned from all VZones worlds.


Basic Guidelines
Actions that are subject to being excluded from our worlds include:
• Abusing other members or staff verbally, via ESP, screen text, gestures, or any other means of communication. This includes ESP-bombing and interruptions during events.
• Impersonating another member or staff member.
• Knowingly disrupting an event.
• Stealing the inworld possessions of other members.
• Slander of other members.