Detailed Misbehavior Descriptions

Minor Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
1	Excessively spamming text chat with text or reactions	Any instance of posting the same message, image, or gif either a. multiple times in one channel, b. once in multiple channels, or c. in multiple different CSC discords will be considered spam. This also applies to in-game chats. Reacting to many messages, in one channel or multiple channels, with the same or different reactions, can also lead to a mute.
2	Spamming voice chat/spam joining voice	Repeatedly joining and leaving, or rapidly moving between, a voice channel in the CSC discord will warrant a punishment for spam joining. You may also be warned under this rule for any instance of voice changers or loud sounds played in a voice channel.
3	General misuse of channels	Any messages that divert from the intended topic of a channel, such as regular discussion in #ask-a-coach or #introductions.
4	Baiting other community members	Creating unnecessary drama, manipulation of others, or being overly judgmental or critical of others, especially when done to generate a reaction from someone. Includes attacks or insults through in-game chat.
5	Falsely/incorrectly reporting scores	Intentionally lying in a score report to either misrepresent the correct score or reporting the wrong winner will be warned under this rule.
7	Excessive or Unnecessary pings	Pinging roles/individuals for no apparent reason. This can also apply to spam pinging an individual, or pinging after being asked to stop. No roles should be pinged between 3am-10a EST (other than mod/after dark roles)
8	Non-English text in chat	Self explanatory.
10	Being generally disrespectful, rude or toxic to community members	This refers to harassment of other players, including, but not limited to: verbal insults, text insults, and repeated, overt sarcastic responses in both text or voice chat. This can include DMs brought to the attention of the moderators. It is primarily up to moderator discretion whether or not to punish for this.
48	Suggestive Media	Posting any images, gifs, text, or videos that can be considered not safe for work (NSFW) but are not explicit or graphic. This is including but not limited to innuendos, suggestive content or sexual references (graphic or implied)
49	Mentioning or alluding to self-harm	Any instances of messages, images or gifs which mention or allude to self harm in any CSC discord channel

Normal Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
11	Explicit Conversations	Conversations referring to sex or any topic that might make a movie rated R. Many of us in CSC are adults. Many of us are not. Nobody is here to hear random rated-R tales. There is near-zero reason for these topics to be discussed.
12	Pinging a role without approval	Pinging roles, such as Event Interest, without approval will warrant an immediate mute unless approved by admins or blanket permission has been given to a staff role (ex. Media does not need approval to ping stream interest when announcing a stream).
13	Collaborating in Commiting Minor Misbehaviors	Any confirmed efforts to work together to commit misbehaviors. Strikes in this area are applied to all applicable members involved who have been shown to actively participate in preparing for the infraction(s).
14	General conduct detrimental to CSC	Any conduct that a new user would be turned away by seeing can be punished. This is a blanket rule for moderator discretion.
15	Asking for specific punishments for others	Requesting, in public, that someone be muted for breaking a rule. Please use tickets for player reports. At Mod discretion, you may instead receive exactly what you asked for, applied to you, and additional strikes may be incurred.
16	NSFW media	Posting any images, gifs, or videos that are considered not safe for work (NSFW) or other public locations due to nudity, sexual content, gore, extreme violence, or other aspects. Drastically or overtly explicit materials will instantly incur 3 strikes.
17	Swearing directed at another member	Self explanatory.
18	False accusations of serious offence	Publicly accusing a member of harassment when no such thing has been done, for example, would warrant a mute under this rule.
19	Public accusation of staff abuse	Publicly accusing a Mod of abuse for muting you, for example, would warrant a mute under this rule. This can also cover baseless accusations made in tickets.
20	Encouraging drama or rule breaking, or promising to do so	Any discovered attempts to encourage or bait other members into committing offences, or statements confirming intent to do so. Continuing or reigniting hostile conversations, making false accusations, saying you will intentionally break rules, etc. may also fall under this rule.
21	Testing, taunting, or baiting mods	Trying a mods patience, whether it be by pushing limits outside, or within, other rulebreaking, trying to garner a negative reaction from a staff member, or trying to bait mods into levying punishments.
22	Posting spam links	Any posting of links to untrusted/unknown sites or repeated posting of links (i.e. other discord links). If evidence indicates malicious intent, this is instantly elevated to a ban under Rule #41.
23	Discussing politics, religion, or other serious real-life topics in bad faith	Discussions regarding politics, religion, or other controversial or otherwise serious real-life topics in bad faith or an offensive manner. Attacking others in conversations related to these topics will likely receive strikes.
24	Harrassment	Repeated insulting of another member, even after being asked to stop.
31	Spoiling recent shows or movies (within 2 weeks of release)	Defined as intentionally revealing information about recent media (shows, movies, etc. that have come out in the past two weeks) that can spoil the enjoyment of members who are interested in that media, but have not been able to see it yet.

Serious Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
25	Retaliating Against Staff or Members	Lashing out against someone as a response to something they have done, whether it be cutting you, punishing you, reporting you, etc.
26	Impersonating Members of Staff	Any attempt to assume the role of another member or staff. This includes staff members, committee roles, or other elevated roles. Impersonation can be done through name changes, profile pictures, steam profiles, or other profiles.
27	False accusations of serious offence towards staff	Any accusation of serious nature that requires a discussion or high level investigation found to be blatantly false will give a punishment for false accusations. This is mainly found in false reports of abuse.
28	Continued harassment of community members	Harassment continued against the same member after a strike under Rule 24 will warrant an immediate strike for this rule in place of a second Rule 24 strike.
29	Creating a troll discord account	Creating a discord account solely to cause trouble in the CSC discord, or any related discord, will result in a ban of the troll account and a strike for the creator.
30	Timing misbehaviors to minimize punishments	Any revealed attempts to time potential misbehaviors in such a way as to minimize punishments, such as counting the days until a strike is removed then immediately getting another one.
32	Collaborating in Committing Normal or Serious Misbehaviors	Any confirmed efforts to work together to commit misbehaviors. Strikes in this area are applied to all applicable members involved who have been shown to actively participate in preparing for the infraction(s).
37	Slurs, racism and biogted speech	Use of highly offensive language, including but not limited to slurs, racism, deliberate misgendering, attacks against someones personal identity or other hateful and bigoted speech.
38	Serious (death/assault) threats	Any threat made that involves serious harm to another member, jokingly or not.

Other Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
34	Bypassing, or attempting to bypass, punishments in bad faith	Any attempts to subvert existing punishments, or to prevent infractions being reported and punished. Includes the use of alternate accounts, or deleting offensive content in an attempt to hide it from mods.
35	Non-serious discussion in serious channels	Any completely off-topic conversation or statements in serious-suggestion/discussion, election channels, or other serious channels.
36	Leaving Discord mid-event	Leaving a voice channel, the CSC discord, or discord server created for an event while participating in that event.
39	Leaving Discord mid-season without reason	These will be reviewed on a case by case basis, and the punishment can extend into the following season(s).
40	Pinging large roles without approval	Pinging @everyone, @League, @Spectator, @Former Player, etc. without approval
41	Posting scam links	Posting malicious links with the intent of stealing IPs, account information, or anything else of ill intent.
42	Breaking Discord TOS	Actions that go against Discord's TOS, found at https://discord.com/terms
44	Trolling with ill intent immediately after joining	Joining the server just to incite drama, protest a punishment for a friend, etc.
45	Scamming or attempted scamming	Self explanatory.
47	Messaging automoderated terms	Messaging a banned word that is automatically deleted by automod. Resending deleted messages will result in a double strike. Any successful attempt to avoid automod with banned words will be treated as a 37.
51	Doxxing	The sharing of any previously publicly unknown personal information without their consent that could reasonably be used to identify or harass the individual. This includes but is not limited to full names, aliases, surnames, dead names, images, age, and addresses. For the purpose of this strike, information shared by the individual in a reasonably public channel within CSC (ie chats in General Channels, League Channels, Tier Channels, and Off topic channels) or directly related social media accounts (ie accounts linked to your discord account or sharing the same username as your discord name or CSC name) is considered publicly known personal information. This does not include DMs or 3rd party discords.

Staff Specific Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
S1	Misuse of position	Accidentally overstepping conventions/rules for little gain.
S2	Allowing a toxic environment	Hosting an unfriendly environment and not taking control of inappropriate behavior that would warrant strikes in public CSC channels.
S3	Failure to address player concerns	Choosing not to take action on player concerns or reports within a franchise.
S4	Leaking privileged information	Leaking priveleged information from privileged roles to anyone that does not currently have access. (This can apply to non-staff players if involved)
S5	Abuse of position	Deliberately using role's powers to measurably benefit you, an affiliated franchise/team, etc.

CSC Hub Specific Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
10M1	Dodging a game	Intentionally dodging a game after ready check has popped. Multiple instances of accidental dodges will also lead to a strike.
10M2	General toxicity	Intentional rude behavior, including but not limited to insults, disrupting communications, and chat spams.
10M3	Leaving/afking a game in progress	Intentionally leaving a 10man and not returning, or going afk and not playing. This does not include for tech related issues, with intention to return
10M4	Griefing, trolling, or ruining the game in other ways	Intentionally throwing the game, not playing to the objective, or ruining the experience for other players in any way (including blocking spawns, team flashing, and other disruptive behavior in game)

Combines Specific Offenses

#	Name of Offence	Description
C1	Dodging queues/failing to join a VC	Intentionally dodging a game, or accidentally missing multiple times. This includes failing to join the team VC.
C2	AFKing/intentionally leaving an active game	Going AFK mid game or intetionally leaving an active game of combines.
C3	Griefing games	Throwing, not trying or ruining the integrity of a game in any fashion. If discovered after combines, up to a ban may be applied. Any discovered MMR manipualtion attempts will result in an immediate combine ban.

Match Integrity

#	Name of Offence	Description
MIC1	Cheating	Any use of outside programs to alter the game for the purpose of gaining a competitive advantage qualifies as cheating. Cheating in CSC is a permanent ban. Additionally, any evidence of cheating outside of CSC will result in a ban, unless it is more than 3 years old.
MIC2	Throwing/Trolling	Trolling and throwing in order to have a reduce MMR. This may include things like not taking easily obtainable kills, charging headlong without care for ones own performance, etc.
MIC3	Smurfing	Intentionally attempting to hide actual skill by non-disclosure of accounts and some combination of throwing/trolling or other types of unserious play
MIC4	Unserious Play	Players intentionally playing in unserious ways using unorthodox strategies during combines. While these players can still potentially do fine or even good during combines, their actual skill level can be hidden by doing things like only using the xm/scout/deag, resulting in numbers having an even more difficult time placing them accurately.