Current as of 2023-12-15T13:00:00Z
SECTION I. CITATION
…1.1. This Act shall be known and cited as the “Regional Message Board Regulation Act”.
SECTION II. SPAM
…2.1. For the purposes of this act, “Spam” is hereby defined as any action which is meant to waste space and render the Regional Message Board (“RMB”) difficult or impossible to use OR any action which aims to annoy other nations.
…2.2. Examples of Spam shall include but are not limited to:
…2.2.1. “Multiposting” - posting the same message, or posts similar enough to each other that they convey the same message, with an intent to cause disruption to the community and/or on-going conversation.
…2.2.2. “Chainposting” - posting three or more messages on the Regional Message Board without any other nation posting in between those messages.
…2.2.3. “Posts of Excessive Length” - any message of beyond 2500 characters posted on the RMB without the use of dispatches or spoiler tags to hide the length, in order to limit the functionality of the RMB or disrupt conversation.
…2.2.4. “Pingspam” - mentioning or quoting (hereinafter “pinging”) one person over ten times within two pages of the RMB or pinging over ten people, without reasonable cause.
SECTION III. HARASSMENT
…3.1. For the purposes of this act, “Harassment” is hereby defined as any action which aims to belittle, offend, cause extreme discomfort to, or provoke any specific nation or group with an intent to cause distress and/or anger.
…3.2. Examples of Harassment shall include but are not limited to:
…3.2.1. “Flaming” - any offensive personal attack against another player expressed via name-calling, obscene comments (such as “f— you”) or depictions of obscene gestures (such as “the finger”), and/or other comments posted out of line which are designed explicitly to insult and provoke anger.
…3.2.2. “Flamebaiting” - any writing or image that, within its context, can reasonably only be understood as offending someone indirectly to provoke or solicit a reaction.
…3.2.3. “Malicious Quote Editing” - the act of altering the contents of a quote to anger or falsely discredit a resident or citizen of The East Pacific. The act of cutting out inappropriate words or content from a quote shall not be considered Malicious Quote Editing.
…3.2.4. “Impersonation” - any attempt to maliciously impersonate another nation or region without consent, or any attempt to falsely claim a position of governmental or otherwise administrative authority.
…3.2.5. “Explicit Material” - the detailed explanation or solicitation of any type of lewd or sexual content, and/or the explicit perpetration of any lewd or sexual acts.
…3.2.6. “Promotion of Distasteful Ideologies” - the promotion of Fascism, Nazism, or similar extremist philosophies prone to racism and harassment of specific groups of people.
SECTION IV. ADVERTISEMENT
…4.1. For the purposes of this Act, “Advertising a Foreign Region” shall be defined as the posting of any advertisement of a foreign region on the RMB.
…4.2. Nothing in this Section shall apply to messages intended to promote the East Pacific.
SECTION V. SENTENCING
…5.1. Any Resident who is caught committing Spam, Harassment, or Advertising a Foreign Entity shall be considered to be committing a summary offence and may face message suppression, ejection, and/or indefinite banishment from the East Pacific, at discretion of the Delegate or Regional Officers.
…5.2. In any instance where the definition or possible sentences of the aforementioned offences conflict with other statutory law of the same level, this Act shall be applied first.
…5.3. All Residents have the right to appeal to the Conclave on any punishments and/or actions taken against them.