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This was a list of official policies on Chat

C.Syde's Wiki had a dedicated on-wiki Chat feature as part of the MediaWiki software which also allowed real-time communication between users of the wiki. By using Chat, users agreed to be bound by these policies and acknowledge that violation of policies could have result in being kicked or banned from Chat.

The following rules governed use of Chat

There was no official topic and any kind of discussion was allowed whether it be related to the wiki, or anything off-topic. However, discussions must have been suitable for a general audience.

Spamming/flooding Chat was not tolerated and may have been given a kick and/or a ban from Chat and in severe enough cases, an on-wiki sanction may also have been applied.

Harassment of other users, flaming or trolling was unacceptable and may have been addressed by an administrator via a warning, kick or a ban from the Chat and if severe enough, may have resulted in an on-wiki sanction.

Swearing was permitted in chat, as long as the swear words weren't used to insult other users. Evading a ban using sockpuppets would have resulted in a ban on-wiki too as part of our policies which forbid sockpuppetry.

Flatulence or anything else that was similar, such as discussing topics about bodily fluids etc. was not permitted in chat, and you would receive a warning if you did this. Failing to heed the warning would most likely have resulted in a kick, or if the case was severe enough, a ban from the Chat.

Discussing topics related to suspected sockpuppetry was not permitted in chat, although a private discussion was tolerable. If a user needed to discuss topics related to sockpuppetry with an administrator, they would have needed to do so in Chat via private message. If there were no administrators in the Chat, a user would have needed to ask an administrator to join them in the Chat first.

Chat Moderators

Chat Moderators were marked with a badge next to their name when viewed in Chat. Administrators and Discussion Moderators were chat moderators by default. They were able to kick or ban users who did not follow the policies set above.

A kick was a temporary removal from the Chat and served as a warning. A ban could have had a limited duration or have been indefinite, depending on the severity of the case and any past actioned taken against the user.

The duration of a ban would have corresponded roughly to the existing policies on blocking users from the Wiki. Bans from Chat were able to be viewed here.

Banning and Unbanning Restrictions

Before June 2017, Administrators were not able to kick other Administrators from chat, but they could ban other Administrators from chat, as well as kick and ban Chat Moderators from chat. They could also have unbanned themselves, if they ever got banned by another Administrator. Chat Moderators couldn't kick or ban other Chat Moderators or Administrators, and couldn't unban themselves if they were banned.

However, as of a code cleanup in June 2017, Administrators lost the ability to kick or ban Chat Moderators from chat, or ban other Administrators from chat. However, they could still have done these things with the use of JavaScript.

Unfortunately thanks to the code cleanup, Chat Moderators were then able to use JavaScript to kick and ban other Chat Moderators from chat, and kick Administrators. They could also have unbanned themselves if a Chat Moderator banned them, which was until then impossible. Also Administrators were then able to kick each other. In short, the lines between Administrators and Chat Moderators in chat were barely visible.

However, as of early February 2018, it was discovered that Administrators either regained or still had the ability to ban Chat Moderators so they couldn't unban themselves the entire time, and Chat Moderators either lost or never had the ability to ban Administrators. To maintain the traditions and go around the issue caused by the code cleanup, some new policies were added for Administrators and Chat Moderators and how they may and may not have used their kick, ban, and unban tools. Chat Moderators were not to use JavaScript to kick or ban another Chat Moderator from chat.

Any Chat Moderator that was found to have kicked an Administrator or another Chat Moderator from chat, was found to have banned another Chat Moderator, or was found to have unbanned themselves would have been likely to have had their Chat Moderator status revoked. Discussion Moderators were bound to the same guidelines as Chat Moderators.

Administrators may have banned other Administrators from chat since they were always able to do this from the beginning. However, they must not have done this unless the other Administrator had for some reason gone corrupt, in which the corrupt Administrator would sooner or later have been demoted anyway. It was not against the guidelines for an Administrator to try to deal with a corrupt Administrator, but they needed to be absolutely certain that the other Administrator's behaviour was malicious and intended in bad faith.

Administrators kicking other Administrators from chat was not prohibited, despite it being something that Administrators were previously unable to do, though they should not have kicked other Administrators for any reason other than the same reasons that they would have for banning them.

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