MUTE AND BAN DURATIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Chat Offences (Mutes)
Severity 1 Severity 2 Severity 3
1st Offence: 30 Minutes 1st Offence: 2 days 1st Offence: 3 months
2nd Offence: 12 hours 2nd Offence: 4 days 2nd Offence: Permanent
3rd Offence: 1 day 3rd Offence: 5 days
4th Offence: 2 days 4th Offence: 7 days
5th+ Offence: 3 days 5th+ Offence: 14 days
Gameplay Offences (Bans)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Severity 1 Severity 2 Severity 3
1st Offence: 1 hour 1st offence: 6 hours 1st offence: 7 days
2nd Offence: 2 hours 2nd offence: 12 hours 2nd offence: 14 days
3rd Offence: 3 hours 3rd offence: 1 day 3rd offence: 21 days
4th Offence: 4 hours 4th offence: 2 days 4th offence: 28 days
5th+ Offence: 10 days 5th+ offence: 4 days 5th+ offence: Permanent
Client Modification Offences (Bans)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Severity 1 Severity 2 Severity 3
1st offence: 2 days 1st offence: 7 days 1st offence: 30 days
2nd offence: 4 days 2nd offence: 14 days 2nd offence: 60 days
3rd offence: 6 days 3rd offence: 21 days 3rd+ offence: Permanent
4th offence: 8 days 4th offence: 28 days
5th+ Offence: 10 days 5th+ offence: Permanent
Below are all of the Phoenix Community Discord Rules sectioned by severity. Along with each rule is a description of the rule for clarification and how long the punishment will be.
Severity 1 Offences
——————
Spamming - Sending 3 or more of the same or similar messages in a text channel.
1st Offence - Warning
2nd+ Offence - 1 Hour to 3 Hour mute (depending on severity)
——————
Group Spam - 3 or more different users send the same or similar messages in a text channel.
1st Offence - Warning
2nd+ Offence - 3 Hour mute for each user
——————
Trolling - Telling a player or a staff member to do something in order to waste their time.
1st Offence - Warning
2nd+ Offence - 3 Hour to 10 Hour mute (depending on severity)
——————
Misuse Of The #support Channel - Using the #support channel for other uses other than support from Phoenix Staff Members.
All Offences - 1 Hour to 2 Day mute (depending on severity)
Severity 2 Offences
——————
Arguments - Engaging in a dispute with another user in a text or voice channel.
All Offences - 5 Day mute
——————
Chat Flooding - Sending 5 or more messages in a text channel.
All Offences - 5 Day mute
——————
Player Disrespect - Sending messages for the intent to hurt or insult another user. Also applies to voice channels.
All Offences - 7 day mute
——————
Political, Racial, and/or Religious Disputes - Engaging in a political, racial, religious, or any other kind of dispute with another user in either a text or voice channel.
All Offences - 7 Day mute
——————
Slurs or Discrimination - Any use of any kind of slur in order to offend or discriminate against another user in either a text or voice channel.
All Offences - 7 Day mute
——————
Voice Channel Abuse - Any use of loud music, ear rape, voice changers, or mic spam in order to annoy or irritate another user in a public voice channel. Also applies to private voice channels if reported.
All Offences - 7 Day mute
——————
Inappropriate Images, Videos, or Links - Any sending of images, videos, or links that other users may find offensive or inappropriate.
All Offences - 7 Day mute
——————
Phoenix Staff Impersonation - Acting or pretending to be a Phoenix Staff Member in order to troll other community members.
All Offences - 7 Day mute
Severity 3 Offences
——————
Advertising - Sending IP Addresses to other Minecraft servers or invite links to other discords in a text channel in order to use the discord to get more members.
All Offences - Permanent Ban
——————
DM Advertising - Sending an IP Address of another Minecraft or an invite link to another Discord server to a member of the Phoenix Official Discord in Private Messages.
All Offences - Permanent Ban
——————
Leaking Personal Information - Sending any personal information of another user in a text channel for other users to see.
All Offences - Permanent Ban
——————
IP Loggers - Sending a IP grabbing link in a text channel for other users to click in order to compromise their information.
All Offences - Permanent Ban
——————
DDoS, Dox, and/or Swat Threats - Threatening to DDoS, DOX, or Swat another user or Phoenix.
All Offences - Permanent Ban
——————
Mute Evading - Using another Discord Account in order to evade a mute on your main Discord Account.
All Offences - Permanent Mute on both Accounts
——————
Ban Evading - Using another Discord Account in order to evade a ban on your main Discord Account.
All Offences - Permanent Ban on both Accounts
——————
Inappropriate Username or Profile Picture - Having a username or a profile picture that other users may find offensive or inappropriate.
1st Offence - Permanent Ban (Appealable once changed)
2nd+ Offence - Permanent Ban (Unappealable)
Other Rules to Note
1. We ask that we try to keep this server mainly in English until we get more multilingual staff members.
2. We ask that you only ping specific roles when necessary, if not it will result in a Staff Trolling punishment.
3. Swearing is allowed as long as it is not used to offend, insult, or hurt another user. If this is done it will result in a Player Disrespect mute.
4. Disputes over personal drama and other situations should be kept in private settings. Drama disputes will result in an Arguments mute.
5. Finally, make sure to have fun!
* Chat Offences *
Spamming Severity 1
Warning Required
Sending three or more similar messages within the chat box or in a
short period of time. This includes countdowns.
Group spam Severity 1
Warning Required
Player sends a message that is intended to participate in spam,
after staff have warned everyone verbally not to participate in the
group spam.
This punishment is also used for players who reply to players who
have Encouraged Group Spam.
Excessive use of CAPS Severity 1
Warning Required
Sending 2 or more messages with excessive use of capitalized
words. Excessive capitalized words means 5 or more capitalized
words in a message.
Chartacter Spam Severity 1
Warning Required
Sending 2 or more messages with multiple unnecessary characters,
making the message long and annoying.
Abuse of Another User/Disrespect/Harassment Severity 1
Warning Required
Being intentionally abusive and disrespectful towards other players.
Harassment means continuous and ongoing bullying
which is less severe than plain disrespect.
Excessive Accusations Severity 1
Warning Required
Repeatedly accusing someone of hacking, scamming, ddossing,doxing or breaking the rules.
Telling staff members to spectate a hacker is allowed, as this isn’t excessive.
Arguments
Constant arguing in public chat or in private messages to a staff member. Severity 1
Warning Required
Fake Messages
Sending fake messages in an attempt to trick players Severity 1
Warning Required
Discussing Unapproved Deals Severity 1
Talking about an unapproved IRL deal or trade in public chat. Warning Required
Only trades that include web store items and in-game items are allowed.
User: Selling my Minecraft account! Message me offers!
Unrelated Links
Severity 1
Sending links that aren’t related to Minecraft in public chat. Warning Required
Sending these links in private messages is allowed.
Keep in mind that the links can’t be related to other Minecraft servers.
Links to any Discord servers that aren’t the official Discord Servers of PhoenixMC.
Staff Trolling
Severity 1
Knowingly wasting a staff member’s time by asking them questions Warning Required
or nagging them about non-staff related matters.
Excessive Inappropriate Language Severity 1
Warning Required
Using 3 or more cuss words in a message.
Impersonating Staff Members Severity 1
Warning Required
Pretending to be a member of staff, with for example fake staff tags.
Bypassing Chat Filter Severity 1
Warning Required
Finding a way to bypass the chat filter.
Bypassing slurs is a Severity 2 offence.
Quoting these words is also punishable.
Encouraging Spam Severity 1
Warning Required
Instructing or encouraging users to spam message(s) in public chat.
Inappropriate Links Severity 1
Warning Required
Sending offensive or inappropriate links in chat.
Racial/Religious/Political Disputes Severity 1
Warning Required
Arguing over race, religion or politics in public chat.
Slurs/Discrimination Severity 1
Using racist/derogatory words and discriminating against people.
Explicit Conversation Severity 1
Talking about inappropriate or explicit topics.
Death Threats or Wishes / Encouraging Suicide / Encouraging Self-Harm Severity 2
Putting death threats on other players or wishing for them to die.
Encouraging other players to go hurt themselves in real life or encouraging suicidal acts.
Not punishable if the message is clearly talking about an in-game death.
DDoS Wishes / DOX Wishes / Swat Wishes / Rat Wishes Severity 2
Wishing for other players to get DDoSsed, DOXed, swatted or ratted.
Chat Flooding Severity 2
Sending several messages in chat (5+) in chat causing it to flood chat with a user’s message(s).
Advertising Severity 2
Sharing the IP address, the website address, TeamSpeak 3 IP, Discord link or web store link (etc.) of another server.
Advertising with fake IPs or addresses is also punishable.
Sending an IP in private messages is allowed if the other player has requested for it.
If a user accidentally pastes a server IP in chat or gets tricked into saying an IP, they can appeal it after 1 month.
Leaking Personal Information Severity 3
Sending personal information of a user.
These may include full name, address, IP address, private social media accounts or
login information to accounts. Leaking fake personal information is also punishable.
Excessive Chat Offences Severity 3
Having 40 or more Chat Offences or Warnings combined.
Only warnings and mutes within the last 2 years count towards this limit.
After being unmuted, the player is allowed to have 15 Chat Offences or Warnings before being muted again for Excessive Chat Offences.N/ASeverity 3
Can be appealed in 6 months after the mute.
Client Modification Offenses
Macros / Scripting Severity 2
Using macros other than for use of chatting or other aesthetic purposes.
Using a script that runs a command in a pattern. (For example scripting kits ).
Any Use of a Hacked Client Severity 3
Using any hacked client. Hacks need to be enabled.
Autoclicking Severity 3
Using an external program or macro to increase your click speed / clicks per second.
Hacks Found in a Screenshare Severity 3
Players have up to 5 minutes to join the Screenshare Discord after being frozen in-game.
A staff member discovers active use of a hacked client on Phoenix during the screenshare
or directly prior to the screenshare.
Refusal to Screenshare Severity 3
User refuses to join Discord for screensharing or disobeys the staff member during the screenshare.
Modifying Files While Frozen
Logging out while frozen or during screenshare
Other Punishments
DDoSing / DOXing Full Blacklist
DDoSing or DOXing other members of the community.
Mute Evading IP Ban
Can be appealed in 6 months after the IP Ban.
Having three (or more) accounts muted on the server simultaneously under the same IP.
Ban Evading IP Ban
Having two (or more) accounts banned on the server simultaneously under the same IP, for any of the following offences:
* Severity 3 Gameplay Offences
* Severity 2 Client Modification Offences
* Severity 3 Client Modification Offences
IP Ban Evading Full Blacklist
Logging in with another IP address in order to evade an existing IP Ban.
Inappropriate/Offensive Username or Skin Permanent Ban
Having a username or skin that is offensive, inappropriate or racial. Includes usernames that have a blacklisted word in them.
Having a username that is similar to current staff and using it for malicious intent is also punishable.
Can be appealed after changing the username or skin
Creating Lag or Crashing the Server Permanent Ban
Intentionally creating lag or causing a crash.