Rules and Guidelines for our Steam Discussions

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Steam Discussions rules and guidlines https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4045-USHJ-3810&l=english

Additional rules that we enforce based on our own forums:

Global Rules

• Forum moderators may or may not be Tripwire Interactive staff members, but either way, please respect them, as they are the authority of the forums. Speaking to them with intentional spite will not be tolerated and may result in the loss of your forum privileges.
  
• Any decisions made by any member of staff or moderator are final and not subject to discussion. Doing so may result in a ban from the site.
  
• The owners of Tripwire Interactive Forums reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason, as well as to remove access to the forums for any individuals with or without warning for breaches of the rules.
  
• If you have a complaint regarding another user, PM the appropriate moderators

General Behaviour

• Use the search function before posting. Chances are your question has already been answered.
  
• Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention either in the title or the body of the post.
  
• Up to 10 emoticons are allowed in a post
  
• Political discussions are prohibited.
  
• Flaming - We do not tolerate abusive, malicious, personal attacks. You will be banned if you persist in this behavior.
  [8]Trolls - Anyone deliberately antagonizing other forum users by posting 'flame bait' type messages is not welcome. You will be banned (possibly without warning depending on the severity of the issue) if you persist in this behavior.
  
• Personal insults (directed at anyone) will result in a ban. If the behavior is not corrected, it will be made more permanent.
  
• Constructive criticism is welcome. However keep in mind we (and other forums goers) may not agree with you. If you can't keep the conversation civil, you will be removed from the forums.
  
• The use of hyperbole, one liners, and images as part of a forum debate is likely to get you infracted. You have many ways to participate and be a constructive part of this community, even when you disagree.
  
  
• To make the highlighted bits above 100% clear to everyone, the following WILL NOT BE TOLERATED:
  
  • Personal attacks, insults, antagonism of any forum-goers, moderators or Tripwire Interactive staff. This includes the use of emotes, gifs, and videos.
    
  • Breaches of confidentiality and privacy of any sort.
    
  • Any form of racism, bigotry or attacks on race, creed or color.
    
  • Linking to posts on other forums related to ANY of the above, whether you are the originator or not, without exception.
    
  • There has been too much in the way of abhorrent personal behaviors in the past. These will cease. It doesn't matter who started it or who reacted to it - it will all result in moderator action. If you have to indulge your hatreds, for whatever reason, go do it elsewhere - and do not try and drag our forum-goers over to enjoy your hatreds.
    
  • We understand that people have strong feelings about our games, what we do for a living and how we respond (or don't) to comments on the forums. We all aren't going to agree about everything. So, BE CIVIL in your disagreements!

DO NOTs

• DO NOT Transmit any message, information, data, text, software or graphic files, or other materials ("Content") that is unlawful (including illegal drug usage), harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful or racially, ethnically, sexually or otherwise objectionable. This includes publicizing private information, such as individual's real names, IP addresses and anything else that might be used to identify them to the freakier members of the internet. This also means you may NOT publically share private communications (PM, email or anything else) without the original poster's permission.
  
• DO NOT Post or transmit any Content that contains a virus, Trojan horse or other mischievous Content.
  
• DO NOT Post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation.
  
• DO NOT link to posts on any other forums, or any other form of media, that breaches our rules. It will be treated just the same as if you had posted it here.
  
• DO NOT Double Post, cross Post or restart closed threads.
  
• DO NOT Intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, rule or regulation.
  
• DO NOT Upload or transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party.
  
• DO NOT post cheats or exploits; THIS INCLUDES ALL/ANY REFERENCES TO HACKING, PIRATED SOFTWARE etc. This will result in a ban.
  
• DO NOT complain about being banned from a server and DO NOT complain about other players on servers - that is between you and the admin, no need to get the community involved.

TL:DR

You will not be banned for your opinion, but you can and will be banned temp or perm for how you choose to express it and engage with others.