Here you will find the site and forum rules below.
It is your responsibility to read and familiarise yourself with the forum rules. Not knowing the forum rules is not a legitimate excuse for displaying rule-breaking behaviour. Breaking site and forum rules will result in warnings and infraction points (see below). The following rules apply to all methods of communication between users, including but not limited to the Forum, profile comments, debates, live chat features and DMs.
━ Forum and Site Rules ━
The Fashion Police team functions under a 'good faith' policy. You will be warned for most rule-breaking behaviour before receiving an infraction. However, should the team feel the user acted in bad faith the team will reprimand the user with infractions without warning. The Fashion Police holds the right to enforce rules and take action against users they feel are not acting in good faith. Additionally, breaking multiple rules in a short amount of time may incur additional infractions even if different rules were broken.
When your account receives an infraction, it means you will receive one or multiple points. When your account reaches a certain amount of points action will be taken against your account. All users are free to ask about decisions made towards their account, publicly or privately, but keep in mind Fashion Police are not obligated to respond publicly.
━ Infraction System ━
The infraction system is based on a system of points to determine how severe offences were, how often they were committed, and what kind of action will be taken when a certain number of points are accumulated.
Before infraction points are given users will be warned 3 times for small offences, one time for bigger offences, and no warning is given if the offence is egregious. If someone is showing behaviour that is dangerous to the site and community, they will be put on trial immediately.
● 2 points = 1 day forum ban
● 4 points = 3 days forum ban
● 6 points = 5 days forum ban
● 8 points = 1 day jail
● 10 points = 3 days jail
● 12 points = 7 days jail
● 14 points = 30 days jail
● 16 points = Going to trial
━ Rule 1: Protected Characteristics ━
Users are not allowed to post or promote anything discriminatory towards a person's identity, status, and genetics, this includes the following characteristics but is not limited to:
● Age
● Familial status
● Pregnancy and parental status
● Disability, chronic illness, and overall physical and mental health
● Race, skin colour, nationality, ethnicity, or national origin
● Religion or belief
● Sexual orientation
● Sex and Gender
FP will consider you to have broken this rule if you make a post or comment that is:
● Promoting discriminatory or hateful beliefs towards one or more of these characteristics
● Insulting people based on one or more of these characteristics
● Suggesting or promoting harmful “fixes” to one or more of these characteristics
● Refusing to call people by their preferred name, gender, and pronouns, or otherwise undermining their identity
● Anything else that the Fashion Police believes to have been posted in bad faith with regard to protected characteristics on the site
Any user who is found to be posting or promoting any of the listed offences will be warned once before receiving 4 points or up infraction, depending on the severity.
━ Rule 2: Illegal Content ━
Users are not allowed to participate in or promote/post positively about the following illegal activities and content:● Doxxing - the posting/sharing of another user’s personal information without prior knowledge or consent of the user. This includes but is not limited to social media accounts (Facebook, X, Instagram, Discord etc.), real world identity (real name, photographs etc.), home/work addresses, contact numbers, email addresses.
● Committing identity theft/fraud, e.g. convincing people that you have the identity of a different person in real life than who you actually are (For example, pretending to be another user)
● Stealing information and/or money from other people through phishing and/or scams
● Linking to viruses, malware, or otherwise harmful programs that can damage a computer, phone, or other electronic device
● Hacking or attempted hacking of the ximboland website, database, ximboland user accounts or associated ximboland media
● Pirating software or media, suggesting pirating software or media, and sharing pirating platforms and other methods of piracy
● Infringing intellectual property rights and third-party rights (trademarks, copyrights, etc.)
● Pedophilic content or behaviour
● Bestiality content
● Rape content
● Revenge porn content
● Real-life gore content, including excessively detailed and/or realistic art or illustrations depicting violence, injuries, wounds, or body horror outside of the scope of what is available in the shop
● Encouraging others to commit self-harm or suicide, including callous, harmful, hateful, or mocking responses to users who mention struggling with thoughts of self-harm
Any user who is found to be posting or promoting any of the listed illegal activities and content will go to trial immediately.
━ Rule 3: Adult content ━
Because Ximboland is an 18+ website we allow the posting and discussion of adult content such as sex, sex roleplay, alcohol and legal drug use, heavy/mature topics, and illustrated artistic nudity that does not go beyond what we already have on Ximboland (nipples and pubes). We expect real life rules around consent to be followed on site.
Users are strictly not allowed to:
● Post real-like or illustrated videos and images of explicit pornography
● Sexual Harassment, for example, unsolicited ERP (Erotic Role Play).
● Encouraging or glorifying excessive usage of substances in real life, to the point of serious mental/physical harm.
Any user who is found to be posting or promoting any of the listed offences will be warned once before receiving 8 points or up infraction, depending on the severity.
━ Rule 4: Behaviour ━
Here on Ximboland, we believe in free speech and the freedom to share your opinions, concerns, feedback, and constructive criticisms. What we don't believe in is harmful behaviour towards the community, derailment and disrespecting others.
The following behaviours are not allowed:
● Posts in any language other than English outside of designated threads
● Topic derailment
● Harassment
● The usage of slurs towards individuals in an attempt to hurt and/or offend, or using slurs when talking about a collective group
● Threats of violence towards one another
● Spam, including posts with no discernible content, posts that are either gibberish and/or repeatedly posting the same thing multiple times in a row (threads where this is the stated purpose are excluded)
● Anything else that the Fashion Police believes to have been posted in bad faith to harm the Ximboland community
Any user who is found to be posting or promoting any of the listed offences will be warned three times before receiving 2 points or up infraction, depending on the severity.
━ Rule 5: Politics ━
Strong opinions on topics pertaining to real-life, such as politics, are allowed and will not be censored. That being said, there is a respectful and constructive way in which these opinions should be shared. Posts and discussions should be respectful, educational, and non-harmful towards other players. Discussions of serious topics that could provoke disagreement should be kept to the politics section of the forum, within The Senate.
Any user who is found to be posting material outside of the designated forum section will be warned three times before receiving 2 points or up infraction, depending on the severity. Any user who is found to be breaking any other forum rule in the context of a political post will receive a corresponding infraction.
