Punishments
The following is a list of punishments in accordance to the rules of this guild. Each punishment is final and shall be handed down upon a member immediately. If a member feels that their punishment is unjust, they can submit to the Appeals Process for further, however, an Appeals Process must be approved so there is no guarantee that a case will be looked back over upon.
The rules were created in fairness and with accordance to Gaia ToS. These punishements are meant to reflect the severity of each rule as it is implied in the guild. There is no tolerance for any misconduct and each appointed staff member knows this. We ask that you have fun in our guild but do so responsibly and not give way to foolish behavior that clearly breaks any of our rules.
This list is here for all to see so that they may understand how serious we are when it comes to enforcing these rules and the types of punishments that lie ahead for those who intend on breaking them whether it be purposeful or accidental. Once again we ask that each of our members have fun while in the thread but also to be responsible for their own actions in doing so. No one is here to ruin anyone's time.
Please note that these punishments can change at any given time so it's always best to recheck the list every so often to keep up with any changes that have been made.
1. No God-modding! Moderators and Gods/Goddesses will decide what is and isn't God-modding. If no God/Goddess or Moderator is present at the current time, then it shall be determined by the highest ranking official present. Rankings are to be determined by status at one’s respective school.
- A person(s) who is caught God-modding shall be found guilty and upon first offense be punished with a written warning.
Upon second offense the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 5 consecutive days and no more than 7 consecutive days. Upon completion of the suspension the student(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy.
Upon third offense the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 30 consecutive days and no more than 180 consecutive days and shall have all ranking and awards stripped from their possession. Upon completion of the suspension the student(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 30 days.
Upon the fourth offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
2. Follow the Gaia ToS. This includes any Guild, Forum and Sub-Forum rules as well.
- A person(s) who fails to follow the Gaia ToS and all other Forum, Sub-Forum, and Guild rules shall be found guilty and shall result in suspension from the Academy upon the first offense of no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. However, expulsion from the Academy can be issued upon the first offense depending on the severity of the violation. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 30 days.
Upon second offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 60 days but no more than 1 year. However, expulsion from the Academy can be issued upon a second offense depending on the severity of the of the violation. All rankings and awards shall be stripped from the person(s) possession. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 60 days.
Upon the third offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
3. Please post your profile in the profile thread upon entering into the Academy. This will help others to know your character a little better to create better relationships and role-playing. Upon completion of the profile in the profile thread, a student will be issued an ID badge for which they will place in their signature.
- A person(s) who fails to successfully complete a profile and have it posted in the profile thread after 48 hours upon entering into the Academy shall be found guilty and shall upon first offense be issued a written warning and given another 48 hours to post a profile within the profile thread.
Upon the second offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 5 consecutive days and no more than 7 consecutive days. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy only upon successful completion and submission of a profile within the profile thread.
Upon the third offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
4. Romances are allowed but please keep everything PG-13 and below. This is out of respect for others. If you want to get into a more serious nature with your significant other then please take it outside the Academy to somewhere private. Please do not make a character simply for the sake of a love story.
- A person(s) caught posting publicly in the Academy anything that is R rated or above involving romance and/or a relation of any kind shall be found guilty and upon first offense given a written warning.
Upon second offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. Upon completion of the suspension the student(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy.
Upon the third offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 60 consecutive days and no more than 180 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no more than 30 days.
Upon the fourth offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
5. Bumping and advertisements for things that are not RP related are NOT allowed. This is a RP forum and needs to remain as such. Bumping should be referred to the OOC subforum or the Chatterbox forum thread.
- A person(s) caught posting a bump or an advertisement that is not RP related and that is not posted within the appropriate forum shall be found guilty and upon the first offense be issued a written warning.
Upon the second offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 1 day and no more than 5 consecutive days. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy.
Upon the third offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and placed on a probationary period of no more than 14 days.
Upon the fourth offense, a person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
6. Respect the members of the staff and the other role-players. Remember the Golden Rule. Be courteous to other members entering into the Academy by welcoming them. No one should be ignored.
- A person(s) that acts with blatant disregard for authority; unmindful; uses excessive profanity; excessively abuses another emotionally, mentally, and/or physically, i.e. bullying; or is otherwise horribly disrespectful to a member of the staff or other students shall be found guilty and upon first offense shall be issued a written warning and face a mandatory 2 hour suspension from the Academy.
Upon second offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 14 consecutive days and no more than 30 consecutive days. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 14 days.
Upon the third offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 60 consecutive days and no more than 180 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back into the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 30 days.
Upon the fourth offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
7. No page stretching without good reason.
- A person that is caught stretching out the page of a thread either horizontally, vertically and/or both without justification or approval to do so shall be found guilty and upon first offense be issued a written warning.
Upon repeat offenses of this rule, it shall be up to the discretion of the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator to issue out an appropriate punishment from a written/verbal warning all the way up to expulsion from the Academy grounds.
However, upon a fifth offense within 14 days time the person(s) shall be found guilty of habitually offending and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards they possess. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy on a probationary period of 14 days.
8. This is a semi-lit guild so please use "quotation marks" for speaking and don't use symbols for actions. Examples of symbols are: ~ , * , : , - , = , etc. Thoughts must be written in italics with the option of quotation marks.
- A person(s) caught using a symbol in a manner of which an action is applied, is caught speaking without the use of quotation marks to distinguish what is speaking and what is action, and/or is caught having a thought and does not use italics shall be found guilty and upon the first offense be issued a written and or verbal warning.
Upon repeat offenses of this rule, it shall be up to the discretion of the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator to issue out an appropriate punishment from a written/verbal warning all the way up to expulsion from the Academy grounds.
However, upon a fifth offense within 14 days time the person(s) shall be found guilty of habitually offending and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards in their possession. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy grounds on a probationary period of 14 days.
9. Please no one-liners. Try and at least make your posts three sentences in length minimum. If you're having difficulty with spelling and grammar, there are many different word processors out there to help run checks before posting.
- A person(s) caught not making any attempt as to try to write out at least three sentences minimum length for their post and/or that makes a one-liner response to another post shall be found guilty and shall be upon first offense issued a verbal and/or written warning.
Upon repeat offenses of this rule, it shall be up to the discretion of the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator to issue out an appropriate punishment from a written/verbal warning all the way up to expulsion from the Academy grounds.
However, upon a fifth offense within 14 days time the person(s) shall be found guilty of habitually offending and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards they possess. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy grounds on a probationary period of 14 days.
10. Please try and keep OOC chatter to a minimum. If it doesn't pertain to the role-play or the schools then take it to the PM's or OOC subforum. No fighting in OOC! If you're going to talk OOC, please use parenthesis or brackets to distinguish between IC and OOC so that no one gets confused.
There is an OOC Forum for those who wish to post OOC stuff, but remember to follow Gaia ToS and the Academy's rules when making threads and posting within them.
The following set of punishments shall apply to all forums and threads except for the OOC Forum and it's threads within. However, all other rules still apply while within the OOC Forum.
- A person(s) caught posting a post containing OOC (Out of Character) talk that does not pertain to the role-play or to the schools, caught fighting in OOC talk, or caught talking in OOC without the use of parenthesis or brackets shall be found guilty and upon first offense be issued a verbal and/or written warning.
Upon repeat offenses of this rule, it shall be up to the discretion of the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator to issue out an appropriate punishment from a written/verbal warning all the way up to expulsion from the Academy grounds.
However, upon a fifth offense within 14 days time the person(s) shall be found guilty of habitually offending and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of any ranking and awards they possess. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy grounds on a probationary period of 14 days.
11. All students and Academy personnel must wear their ID badge that has been issued to them by the Moderators and have that ID badge placed within their signature. If you have lost your ID badge then please request one be reissued to you by a Moderator.
- A person(s) caught not wearing the proper ID badge that has been issued to them and having it placed within their signature for all Academy attendees to see shall be found guilty and upon first offense be issued a written warning.
Upon the second offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 1 hour and no more than 2 hours. Upon completion of the suspension, the person(s) shall be allowed to return to the Academy.
Upon the third offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 24 hours and no more than 48 hours. Upon completion of the suspension, the person(s) shall be allowed to return to the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 7 days and no more than 14 days.
Upon the fourth offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of all rankings and awards in their possession. Upon completion of the suspension, the person(s) shall be allowed to return to the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 14 consecutive days and no more than 30 consecutive days.
Upon the fifth offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitely.
12. No person shall impersonate a member of this Academy's staff, any Gaia staff, or any other staff from any other Guild or thread.
- A person(s) caught impersonating a member of the Academy's staff, a member of the Gaia staff, or any other staff from any other Guild or thread in ANY MEANS shall be found guilty and upon first offense shall be expelled from the Academy indefinitey.
13. All students and Academy personnel will have only 1 main element and may have up to 2 sub-elements of their choice to use for a grand total of 3 elements. Elements can be switched out but the person switching their element must forgo all knowledge and skill of the element that they are getting rid of in favor of the newly chosen element. A person must also forgo any rankings within that element that they have achieved and be downgraded back to student status for the element that they are transferring to.
A person switching out their element must complete and submit the proper documentation and have it approved by the God/Goddess of that element. If no God/Goddess of that particular element exists, then the approval must come from the God/Goddess of the element that the person is transferring to. All requests must go through the Moderators for approval as well. Only a Moderator can change a person’s elemental status within the schools.
- A person(s) caught having more than 1 main element, more than 2 sub-elements, and/or using more than their allotted 3 approved elements either in battle, training, instruction, etc.; is caught not having forgone their knowledge and skills of their previous element that the person(s) transferred out of; is caught still obtaining the ranking from that previous element that the person(s) transferred out of; or caught transferring from one element to another without having filled out the proper documentation and/or having that documentation approved by both the God/Goddess of the current element or God/Goddess of the joining element and the Moderators shall be found guilty and upon the first offense receive a written warning.
Upon repeat offenses of this rule, it shall be up to the discretion of the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator to issue out an appropriate punishment from a written/verbal warning all the way up to expulsion from the Academy grounds.
However, upon a fifth offense within 14 days time the person(s) shall be found guilty of habitually offending and shall be suspended from the Academy for no less than 7 consecutive days and no more than 14 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of any ranking and awards they possess and shall have all requests pending approval for elemental transfer automatically denied without the possibility to apply once more. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy grounds on a probationary period of 14 days.
14. Any person(s) that is caught tampering with a post to cause it to be reported or tampering with a reported post before an official can review will be subject to punishment accordingly. We believe in fairness and equality for all of our members so please do not report anyone unless they are in violation of the rules.
- A person(s) caught tampering with a post in order to cause it to be reported and/or tampering with a reported post before an official can review it shall be found guilty and upon first offense be suspended from the Academy for no less than 30 consecutive days and no more than 60 consecutive days. The person(s) shall be stripped of any rankings and awards they possess. Upon completion of the suspension the person(s) shall be allowed back within the Academy and shall be placed on a probationary period of no less than 30 consecutive days.
Upon second offense, the person(s) shall be found guilty and shall be expelled from the Academy grounds indefinitely.
15. Suggestions for improving the Academy shall be placed within the proper thread for it, the Suggestion Forum. These suggestions shall be looked over by the Gods/Goddesses and Moderators and any suggestion that is enacted upon majority vote shall be notified within the News and Annoucements Forum for all members to see. We are very open to any and all suggestions and welcome them but remember to show courtesy and respect when making them. The Suggestion Forum will not be made for bashing and it will not be tolerated.
- This shall be treated in the same way as rule number 2 and rule number 6 depending on the severity. Please refer to the punishments under these rules for further.
16. An Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddesses and/or Moderator shall adhere to the strict guidelines and rules that have been created for them.
- Any Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator found to be in violation of the rules that have been created for each of their respective positions and/or abusing their powers in any fashion, shall be found guilty and upon first offense shall be issued a written warning.
Upon the second offense, dependent to the offense, the Instructor, Lead Instructor, Master, Head Master, God/Goddess and/or Moderator shall be found guilty and shall be stripped of their ranking and any awards that they have in their possession. They shall also be disqualified from re-applying for any future available spots that become open.
