As part of our desire to foster a community here at worldisminecomic.com, we have implemented several features that will allow registered users to interact with each other. We hope that this will give people the opportunity to make friends in a safe, fun, respectful environment; but in order to ensure that is the case, we have some guidelines that everyone needs to follow.
If the guidelines are not followed it can result in temporary or permanent banning from the website and/or the disabling of certain features like private messaging and groups.
For the purposes of these guidelines “you” refers to any person(s) who is a registered user on worldisminecomic.com.
Forums:
- In addition to the rules posted in each individual Forum, any individuals using the Forum are required to follow the additional guidelines:
- Icons and banners cannot have inappropriate imagery that violates any laws or any of the guidelines of the forum. Examples; sexual content, graphic violence, iconography promoting hate groups, iconography associated with bigotry and/or systemic oppression, photos of someone else, and harassing/goading images.
- Descriptions cannot have inappropriate wording that violates any laws or any of the guidelines of the forum. Examples; sexual content, graphic violence, the promoting of hate groups, bigotry of any sort, harassment, or someone else’s personal information.
- You may not link to any content that violates any laws or any of the guidelines of the forum. Examples; Links to NSFW websites, hate group websites, websites promoting bigotry, etc.
- You must follow the individual rules of every forum.
- Failure to comply with these rules may result in temporary and/or permanent banning depending on the severity of the offense.
Groups:
- Groups are not to be created with the intention of promoting hate organizations or terrorist groups, or with the intention of creating hate organizations or terrorist groups.
- Groups not created with the express purpose of but are still found to be engaged in the practice of promoting hate groups, terrorist groups, or creating hate groups or terrorist groups will be disbanded and individual members will be banned.
- No sexual content or explicit graphic violence can be posted in or described within groups.
- Groups cannot be created with the express purpose of excluding protected demographics of people. (For example, if you would like to make a group for trans fans as a safe space, that is fine. But if you make a group where everyone except trans persons are allowed, that is not fine).
- Groups that are found to be engaged in or encouraging the practice of exploitation of children and teens or the practice of grooming children and teens will not only be disbanded but individual members will be permanently banned and reported to the authorities where appropriate.
- Groups and individuals within groups are not to engage in bullying and/or harassment of other users on the site.
- Titles and descriptions of groups must not contain inappropriate wording or messaging such as the promotion of hate groups, bigotry, terrorism, sexually explicit content, graphic violence, harassment or someone else’s personal information.
- Groups may not promote or engage in the practice of sharing/displaying content that is discriminatory towards any persons based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual and/or romantic orientation, gender and/or gender identity, intersex conditions, mental and/or physical disabilities, etc.
- Groups may not engage in or promote any activity that breaks any law in the US, Brazil, or the group members’ countries.
- Spoilers can be discussed in groups but groups that discuss spoilers must be labeled spoilers either in the title or description.
- Groups cannot contain in their descriptions, titles, or contents, discussions which promote or normalize bestiality, pedophilia, or incest.
- Members of a group that have reported guideline violations or were at the receiving end of guideline violations will not be banned on a temporary or permanent basis based on their membership in that group. However, members who were not on the receiving end of guideline violations and were not involved in the reporting of the violations are considered to be complicit and will be banned on a temporary or permanent basis based on the severity of the violation.
Private Messaging:
- For your own safety we advise that you do not disclose any sensitive and/or personal information over private messages.
- Do not spam message one or more person(s)
- Do not send messages that are sexually explicit or contain graphic depictions of violence.
- Do not send messages that contain harassing and/or threatening language.
- Do not send messages that promote hate organizations or terrorist groups, or with the intention of creating hate organizations or terrorist groups.
- Do not send messages that engage in or encourage the practice of exploitation of children and teens or the practice of grooming children and teens.
- Do not send messages that are discriminatory towards any persons based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual and/or romantic orientation, gender and/or gender identity, intersex conditions, mental and/or physical disabilities, etc.
- Do not send messages that contain spoilers unless given explicit permission by the person you are sending the spoilers to.
- Do not send messages that promote or normalize bestiality, pedophilia, or incest.
- Do not send messages that break any law in the US, Brazil, or your own country.
- Do not send messages that engage in or encourage the bullying of one or more person(s).
- Depending on the severity of violation, you may lose your ability to send private messages. Should this occur, do not try to bypass this by making a new profile or you will be permanently banned.
- Severe violations will result in temporary or permanent banning from the website. Some violations (such as exploitation of children) may be reported to the authorities where appropriate/warranted.
Post Comments:
- Post comments are moderated and will only be published after being reviewed by website admins.
- Your comment may be deleted and not posted if it meets any of the following criteria:
- Hateful language towards any or all members of the Flipcartoons team (Note: criticism is not the same as hateful language).
- Hateful, bigoted, or discriminatory language towards any persons based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual and/or romantic orientation, gender and/or gender identity, intersex conditions, mental and/or physical disabilities, etc.
- Promotion, encouragement, or endorsement of hate groups and/or terrorist groups.
- Threatening and/or harassing language towards any person or groups of persons.
- Sexually explicit comments.
- Promoting or normalizing bestiality, pedophilia, or incest.
- Spoilers (any information revealed in an episode released within the last 14 days).
- Spam (the same message posted multiple times and/or comments including spam offers or links).
- Soliciting personal information from others.
- Purposeful misgendering of any member of the team, characters, or other persons.
- You will be notified when your comment has not been published along with the reason why. In some cases you will be allowed to resubmit an edited version of your comment, but in the case of severe violations you may be temporarily or permanently banned from the site.
Reporting Harassment and/or Guideline Violations:
- Along with our moderation team, we expect users to report violations of any guidelines as they encounter them. Users who see guideline violations but do not report them will be considered complicit and may be temporarily or permanently banned from the site.
- Reports should be sent via the contact us page and should include screencaps of the violation in question.
- Reports that are not substantiated will be noted but will not be enforced until substantiation occurs.
- Reports should contain the guideline(s) that were violated, the name of the user who violated the guideline(s), the name of any user(s) who are reporting (if joint reporting) as well as screencaps showing the violations in question.
Disputes:
- If you would like to dispute a temporary or permanent ban or any loss of privileges on the website, email us at worldisminecomic.com with an explanation of why you believe your ban or loss of privilege was unwarranted.
- We cannot guarantee a dispute will be approved simply because it has been filed.
- If your dispute is approved we will restore your account and/or lost privileges accordingly.