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Blocking Policy
Blocking is the process of blocking a user, especially a disruptive one, from the wiki for a specific time or permanently. This policy sets up the guidelines as to how administrators should block disruptive users.
This is the Funkipedia Mods Wiki's Blocking Policy page. This describes all of the forms of behavior that are not tolerated on this wiki and how they are dealt with by the staff.
Overview
The Funkipedia Mods wiki primarily follows the assumption of good faith, so users won't get in trouble for minor, isolated mistakes and infractions. An Admin, content moderator, or thread moderator is always encouraged to inform a user about what they did wrong and explain why, without issuing an official warning. However, due to the number of hidden underaged users on this wiki, this may not be applicable and blocking users automatically is reasonable.
If users persistently fail to follow the rules and policies of the Funkipedia Mods Wiki, official warnings should be issued, instructing them to stop their inappropriate behavior. If said users continue to violate the wiki's rules and policies, lengthy block durations are used in place of more warnings. This is just as general guideline though, and admins or bureaucrats may choose to use longer or shorter blocks at any time depending on the circumstances.
Blocks will be extended if additional offenses are discovered after the user has been punished. At the same time, blocks may be shortened or even removed in case of accidents, misunderstandings or if the user is proven to be innocent or unfairly judged.
Certain offenses are considered more serious than others and may result in direct blocks, with no prior warning.
| Block length | Intended use |
|---|---|
| ⚠️ Minor Violations, first time | |
| First-time minor policy violations with or sometimes without prior warnings. Includes violations like profanity (non-encyclopedic for articles), persistently creating non-notable pages in the content namespaces.
Commentary abuse or Discussions low effort/spammy posting (i.e., posting excessive irrelevant article comments or comments that do not promote healthy discussion). Consistent posting of disallowed Discussions topics after post removals or warnings. | |
| 1 week | |
| 2 weeks | Multiple minor policy violations. Engaging in blatant edit warring.
Editors producing questionable edits deemed to be made in bad-faith may be subject to a 2-week block. |
| 🛑 Major Violations, first time; Minor Violations, repeated | |
| 1-3 months | Repeated policy violations or first-time infraction of a major policy with previous warnings. Violation of Fandom's Terms of Service or other Fandom policies (i.e., making death threats); any sort of unquestionable vandalism will be met with a block no shorter than 1 month. |
| 6 months | |
| 🚨 Severe Violations; | |
| 1+ years | Severe policy violations, that are excessive & repeated, including repeated or severe vandalism, premeditated or coordinated vandalism, violation of Fandom's Terms of Service or other Fandom policies, account abuse (i.e., spambotting, sockpuppetry, etc.), uploading or discussing pornographic or otherwise offensive images or content.
These blocks are unlikely to be lifted; blocks marked to "never" expire (or are "infinite") have been manually reviewed by wiki administrators and are considered irrevocable. |
| Never / Infinite | |
| ❔ Preliminary blocks | |
| Indefinite | Blocks rendered out with a length of "indefinite" are usually the result of our automated abuse filters and are able to be changed to a block of standard length, upon contesting by the blocked user. A blocked user who fails to contact a wiki administrator may not have their block length adjusted.
Users who are manually blocked with a length of "indefinite" by our wiki administrators are seen to be involved in an ongoing incident on the wiki. Administrators may initially decline to specify a standard block length in order to quickly mitigate ongoing harm to the wiki. These blocks are usually converted to a standard block after further investigation is conducted by wiki staff. |
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3 Strike System
Under this system, every user on the Funkipedia Mods wiki have an equal chance, thus, must be treated equally under the rules. If a disruptive user broke a rule, they will be warned only once. If they repeat any further offenses, they will suffer a lengthy block. The following lists a specific timeframe on how long a disruptive user should be blocked if they partake in any of the offenses.
Wiki
- Vandalism
- 1-2 Months for first offenders.
- A ban for secondary offenders.
- Plagiarism
User Conduct
- Profiles and Usernames
- Trolling
Comments and messages
Staff
- Abuse of power
Mods-Wiki Specific
- Creating pages for banned mods
- Sharing banned reuploads
Discussions Forum Guidelines
Vandalism
Vandalism is the act of deliberately adding or changing content within the wiki in order to make it incorrect or unpresentable for viewers. This may include purposefully spamming, troll editing, or other insightful acts committed against a page on this wiki.
The Funkipedia Mods wiki does not tolerate vandalism under any circumstances, and any users who get caught partaking in this practice will be punished by the wiki's administration team.
Vandalism can come in several types, all detailed below.
Edit Vandalism
- Adding false or unconfirmed information to articles (This includes incorrect references, categories, etc.)
- Adding your personal opinions to articles multiple times despite being warned to do so. (Avoid using highly subjective expressions like "beautiful" or "hot" when describing anything. If that comes from an official source like another character or the author, make sure to point it out.)
- Adding nonsensical gibberish to articles.
- Committing a nonsensical or unnecessary edit war with another user.
- Removing content from a page for no good reason.
- Erasing or messing up all or most of the contents from a page (Major offense).
- Creating pages that don't meet the minimal amount of content to justify it (An infobox, an opening sentence and the appropriate article sections, at least. Please read the style manual).
- Not following the proper layout for each type of article (Please read the style manual)
- Adding content in languages that are not English.
- Adding obscenities, slang terms, and euphemisms in articles, unless it's in context with an element from the work, which most shitpost mods use. (Ex: Bob).
Image Vandalism
This section is for detailing all forms of vandalism related to uploading images.
- Adding false information to image pages
- Misusing images in articles (Ex: Inserting an image so big that it gets in the way of the article's text)
- Uploading fan-art or anything not related to a mod. Unless it has been stated or confirmed by the creator or director that the fan art is canon. (All our content must come from official sources).
- Uploading extremely low-quality images. (Unless found in the files of a mod or purposefully created by the director/creator of a mod.).
- Uploading images made by other people without permission.
- Uploading images with watermarks or subtitles without the author/artist's permission.
- Committing an image war with another user.
- Uploading duplicate images (It might confuse users).
- Uploading collages or pictures together (Technically not official content).
- Uploading NSFW content, such as pornography and shock images (Major offense).
- Uploading images and not using them (Image might be deleted if not used after a certain period. If you don't plan on using an uploaded image, then you may request an Admin to delete it for you)
- Uploading images and not licensing them properly (Wiki becomes liable to copyright infringement).
Talk Page and Discussion Vandalism
This section is for detailing all forms of vandalism related to talk pages and discussions (which includes forum threads, message walls and blogs).
- Adding unallowed text in others' user pages
- Changing the contents of other people's messages in talk pages and blogs
- Not leaving a signature at the end of a talk page or blog comment (You should be accountable for everything you write)
- Trying to pass off as another user by changing one's signature in a talk page or blog discussion. Likewise, messing with others' signatures to pass them off as someone else. (Major offense. This is a blatant attempt to deceive the community)
- Spamming of any kind (Posts that have repetitive content or that flood or disrupt a discussion)
- Excessive bumping of threads (Difficult discussion)
Other Forms of Vandalism
This section is for detailing all forms of vandalism that don't fit any of the above categories.
- Creating pages with content unrelated to Friday Night Funkin' mods.
- Sharing viruses, malware or some other malicious program in the wiki.
- Hacking the wiki.
- Unallowed Bot accounts.
- Unallowed advertising.
Trolling
Trolling means to deliberately attempt to stir up a community by sowing discord and/or provoking users to respond back, usually through inflammatory comments, in order to get a reaction or attention from them.
Trolling might sound similar to vandalism, but the key difference here is that while vandalism hurts the experience between users and the wiki by targeting the latter, trolling usually targets the users themselves.
Anything that can be used to personally annoy other users may count as trolling to an extent. Practices that may be considered forms of trolling include:
- Posting offensive messages to other users. This includes racism, sexism, homophobia or any form of hate speech.
- Being disrespectful in general (This includes using excessive explicit language, acting with hostility and insulting others)
- Harassing other users (This includes stalking, bullying, bashing, etc.).
- Threatening other users (Major offense).
- Inflammatory comments (Ex: "THIS MOD SUCKS!!!". You're welcome to criticize respectfully any aspect of a Friday Night Funkin' mod or even another completely unrelated work, but never in a provocative, dismissive manner).
- Starting political or religious arguments (The wiki has nothing personal against politics or religion, but those are a surefire way to start an unnecessary flame war. This is not the place for that.)
Inappropriate Usernames
The following are the kinds of usernames that we do not tolerate in the wiki:
- Inflammatory (Contains an offensive message).
- Erotic (Contains lewd, NSFW content).
- Profane (Contains very foul language).
- Overly lengthy (Contains an obnoxious number of characters. Try to keep it below 30 characters)
- Spammish (Contains confusing or gibberish elements common to spam posts. Ex: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" or "heafbviqehlbceqilcxqgeuo").
- Used for impersonation or mockery of another user (If the username is a clear attempt to emulate another).
In regard to impersonation, the administration team needs to analyze and proceed with caution as coincidences can happen, especially if the username represents a generic or common theme in the wiki, like a username inspired by a Friday Night Funkin' mod OC or other modding content.
Anyone who is caught sporting an inappropriate username will have their account blocked. They might be allowed to return to the wiki under a different, more appropriate username by the request of an Admin (It's possible for the Administration to assume in good faith that a user might not have known about the meaning of a certain word, especially for non-English users).
However, those who display extremely inappropriate usernames, like something that fits two or more of the criteria established above, will probably not be allowed to return for a while or indefinitely, with Bureaucrats being advised to rename those usernames to avoid them being recorded on the wiki through edit histories.
Multiple User Accounts
While FANDOM allows for multiple accounts to be used by a single person, we at the Funkipedia Mods wiki generally expect every user to perform edits through just one account, for the sake of accountability and community trust.
Anyone who is caught using more than one account at the same time or alternately, in short intervals of time, will be punished accordingly, even if both accounts are not being used to maliciously deceive or confuse others.
There are a few exceptional cases that allow the use of multiple accounts. For example, someone who lost access to their previous account due to forgetting the password and thus created a new account to return to activity after a long time. In cases like this, it's advisable for the user to confirm with an Admin about their circumstances. The admin, in turn, should block the older account indefinitely.
Sock Puppetry
Sock Puppetry is a term used to refer to a someone who has created another account to cause a problem on a community. This may be to:
- Avoid a block or ban
- Post vandalism
- Harass another user
- Instigate conflict
- Create illusions of support
- Deceive and/or confuse other users
Sock Puppetry is a major offense in the wiki, as it not only breaches community trust, but does so in a likely dishonest, ill-intentioned manner. Extra accounts (sock puppets) should be blocked indefinitely, and their talk pages should be deleted.
Discord
While the wiki's Discord server and the wiki itself might not follow the same set of rules due to being different platforms, that does not mean that what happens in one place won't have consequences in the other as both platforms keep integrating further.
The wiki's staff team is also present in the Discord channel, and if they detect any sort of problematic behavior from the part of an user who has an active presence in the wiki as well, then the admins will have the right to at least carefully observe the user in question along with their wiki activity, with the intent of protecting the wiki first and foremost.
The wiki can't punish users on the wiki solely for rule-breaking in the Discord and vice-versa (unless under very specific circumstances where the rule-breaking may involve the other platform to some extent). However, if a user is caught breaking the wiki's rules, and said user has a history of past misconduct in the Discord server, then the wiki's Administration may use that to enforce a more severe punishment.
If a user is permanently blocked in the wiki and is actually found in the Discord server, then they shall be permanently banned. However, if a user is temporarily blocked in the wiki, they're temporarily banned in Discord. In other words, the time length of a user's block on the wiki will correspond to the time length of the Discord ban.
For more information about our Discord policies, check our official Discord Policy page.
Misuse of Blocks
The main, and only, purpose for blocks and bans is to punish users who have broken too many rules, committed major offenses or disrupted the community in some way, enough to be perceived as a threat to the wiki.
If an Admin wants to step down from their duties, they should notify a Bureaucrat. Their wiki account will remain active, however. Wiki users are allowed to request for self-blocks for whatever legitimate reason they have.
If an Admin gets into an argument with another user, they should not use blocks to end the discussion unless there's sufficient evidence that the user in question is committing some major offense, which would brand them as a possible threat to the wiki and thus justify a block. In any case, it's strongly advisable for the admin to cautiously pull back and then contact another member of the Administration, so that they may intervene, instead of taking matters into their own hands. This is to avoid possible accusations of abusing power.
Issues between Admins are usually solved by the Administration team itself, since every Admin is supposed to provide checks and balances to each other, with FANDOM staff possibly getting involved if needed. Users who believe an Admin is stepping out of line may contact another member of the Administration, a Bureaucrat or FANDOM staff in order to intervene. However, those users have to keep in mind that removing an Admin this way is a serious matter, and its necessary enough evidence and widespread community support to justify such a revocation. It's recommended that users read the "How You Can Work Through an Admin Dispute" FANDOM blog for more information about this.
In case an Admin gets globally blocked by FANDOM staff for reasons beyond the scope of the wiki, they will likely have their Administration rights revoked by a Bureaucrat, since this could lead to potential danger and disruption for the Funkipedia Mods Wiki and its community (unless the offending Admin is able to convince FANDOM staff that there was no wrongdoing from their part, thus removing their block).
Effects of Blocking
Blocked users become unable to login or edit anything in the wiki (although they can still see pages). The exception to this is the Talk Page, which the blocked user may use for protesting their block in an acceptable manner. However, an Admin may disable this right if they believe that the user has broken too many rules or caused serious disruption in the wiki.
The duration of the block depends on the expiry time that was entered by the admin at the time of the blocking act. If the expiry time is "infinite", the ban will not run out, and the user can only edit again if an admin physically removes the block. An Admin may choose to extend, reduce or even remove a blocking period, under certain circumstances.
Hall of Fame Policy
This is the Funkipedia Mods Wiki Hall of Fame Policy. It establishes the criteria used for the Funkipedia Mods Hall of Fame on the main page. Please be sure to read this before asking any questions about it. It contains crucial information.
Main Criteria
In order for a mod to be a candidate of the Hall of Fame, it must meet at least 2/3 of the following main criteria.
- Fame: How commonly played is this mod? How many posts, especially from well-known mod makers, and fan-made mods does it receive? Are their stats good enough?
- Quality: How well-made is this mod? It is important for the staff to observe the artistic and unique elements.
- How well-made are the assets and backgrounds? Are they detailed and appeasing to the average eye?
- Is the mod's narrative original? Has it been praised for its storytelling?
- Are the mechanics innovative, unique, or fun? Is it not too annoying?
- Impact: How has this mod affected the modding community?
- Normally, this is decided weeks or a few months after the mod has been released. In order it to be considered "impactful", it must influence other mods in a "good way".
Although, the criteria above are normally subjective to many, it is up to the staff members of the wiki to decide which mods are put into the Hall of Fame.
Rules and Restrictions
The Hall of Fame is meant to be fair. It is important for the staff to keep a rational and impartial mindset when discussing which mods should be included in the wiki's Hall of Fame.
- Mods that are considered to not be "popular" are not allowed, unless it's a staff pick.
- Favoritism is prohibited: Adding a mod because it's something you like or has people you like or friends who worked on the mod is not good and is a sign of power abuse. Always add mods based on the community's opinion.
- Mods that are canceled or mods that have canceled build as a final release will not be added to the Hall of Fame, unless the director or several developers of the mod says it's fine.
To see a list of potential candidates, view this list. Users are allowed to suggest/recommend mods to be candidates for the Hall of Fame. However, users will be frowned upon if they try to rush or force their mod into the Hall of Fame.
Note: Mods that are already in the Hall of Fame from previous years can be added in again if and only if they get a major update. (i.e. Vs. Whitty: Definitive Edition, Hazy River, Vs. Hex Mod (The Weekend Update) and Doki Doki Takeover Plus)
Controversy
If a mod's director gets into controversy that is considered "severe" by the staff, such as having sexual relations with minors or grooming them or doing other unethical acts, then the mod will be removed. However, if a mod's director has been replaced, then the mod may remain.
If the mod is still in development after a release or update or finished with the director having controversy, then the mod will not be added to the Hall of Fame.
Examples:
- AmorAltra, the director and creator of the Friday Night Funkin': Bob And Bosip mod, used to be featured in the wiki's Hall of Fame under the 2021 Full Weeks section. However, on Christmas 2021, he was caught sexually roleplaying with minors on Discord and doing other unethical acts. As a result, the mod was immediately removed from the Hall of Fame.
- TheMayz, the creator of Sunday Night Suicide, used to be featured on the wiki's Hall of Fame under the 2021 section. However, once TheMayz was exposed for having sexual conversations with minors as a grown adult along with several other controversial actions, the mod was removed from the Hall of Fame.
Staff Picks
Each staff member has the option to choose up to six mods to put in the Hall of Fame under the "Staff Picks" section, regardless of popularity. However, do note that these picks are unofficial additions as they are bound to change over time by each staff member's discretion. There are five criteria that a mod must meet before a staff pick can be made:
- The mod has to be released, regardless of it being a demo or an unfinished build. It cannot be an unreleased mod.
- The mod must have its wiki page created first so that it can be linked.
- The mod must have at least one icon to represent itself in the "Staff Picks" section of the Hall of Fame. If there are none, a placeholder icon can be used.
- The mod cannot be from the mainline Hall of Fame (Years and Remixes/Reskins).
- Finally, a staff member cannot choose a mod that they were involved in as a staff pick. Such action will count as favoritism, which goes against one of the restrictions of this policy.