Mineplex Punishment Guidelines

Question 1

What is classified as a punishable caps offense?

Answer 1

Capitalizing 4 or more words in a row, or 15 letters in a row

Severity 1

Question 2

What is classified as spam?

Answer 2

Sending the same or similar messages 3+ times in a row/sending messages with elongated words or meaningless strings of letters

Severity 1

Question 3

What is classified as General Rudeness?

Answer 3

Intentionally being rude to other players

Severity 1

Question 4

What is classified as hackusation

Answer 4

Accusing another player of hacking in the incorrect format (i.e not a message to a staff member)

Severity 1

Question 5

What is classified as Arguing?

Answer 5

Someone constantly contradicting what someone says.
OR
Someone protesting a punishment that has been given to them.

Severity 1

Question 6

What is classified as chat trolling?

Answer 6

intentionally saying things that are meant to confuse or mislead players.

Impersonation of a staff member.

Severity 1

Question 7

What is classified as mini modding?

Answer 7

Players who are not staff members trying to enforce the rules on people while there are staff members present.

Severity 1

Question 8

What is classified as Light Advertisement?

Answer 8

Asking players to join a server via mentioning the servers name in general conversation.

Also, advertising of Twitch channels that do not contain Mineplex related content. Or Plug DJs that are not the official Mineplex Plug DJ.

Advertisement of Youtube Videos or Channels which are not directly affiliated with Mineplex.

Severity 1

Question 9

What is classified as Bypassing the chat filter?

Answer 9

Finding a way to use words that are filtered
OR
Using other vulgar terms that are not filtered but SHOULD be.
This includes swearing in /msg or in /a.

Severity 1

Question 10

What is classified as ghosting? (In UHC, Bridges, Minestrike, Survival Games, and Block Hunt ONLY)

Answer 10

Revealing information (As a dead/spectating player) to players that are living that they otherwise wouldn’t know such as the location of players, ores, or what kind of items a player has.

Severity 1

Question 11

What is classified as Revealing the word in DMT?

Answer 11

Revealing the word that is currently being drawn via chat.

Severity 1

Question 12

What is classified as Inappropriate Behavior?

Answer 12

Saying something in chat that has sexual meaning, Intent/a threat to harm yourself, Joking about something maliciously, or generally inappropriate content.

Severity 1

Question 13

How Do you punish Severity 1 chat offenses?

Answer 13

You will be warned, if you continue with the same behavior you will be muted.

Question 14

What is classified as Abusive Behavior?

Answer 14

Being very verbally abusive towards another player with the intent to really make them upset.
OR
Bypassing the filter while being generally rude to a player.

Severity 2

Question 15

What is classified as bypassing chat filter (words that are on the list)?

Answer 15

Finding a way to use words that are blocked by the chat filter.
This includes swearing in /msg or in /a.

Severity 2

Question 16

What is classified as DDOS, Hacking, or Death Threats?

Answer 16

Threatening to harm or take the life of a player(or their family), or threatening to hack or DDOS a player

Severity 3

Question 17

What is classified as Discrimination/Racism?

Answer 17

Discriminating towards a certain religious group, sexuality, sex, race, etc.

Severity 3

Question 18

How do you punish severity 2 chat offenses?

Answer 18

Muted instantly without a warning.

Question 19

How do you punish Severity 3 chat offenses?

Answer 19

Muted instantly without a warning.

Question 20

What is classified as Medium Advertising?

Answer 20

Intentionally trying to recruit someone to another server by giving an IP, but not that it spams the chat.
OR
Bringing up other servers in chat or /msg with intent to recruit

Severity 3

Question 21

What is classified as Revealing Personal Information?

Answer 21

Giving out any legitimate personal information that could be used to identify a user, including but not limited to: phone numbers, addresses, full names (first name is not enough).

Severity 3

Question 22

What is classified as Severe Advertising?

Answer 22

Spamming an IP in chat, Spamming a server name in chat or Posting an IP in chat while being abusive towards Mineplex.

Severity 4

Question 23

What is classified as Impersonation?

Answer 23

Staff/Youtuber Impersonation
(For cases of Impersonation please contact an admin)

Severity 4

Question 24

What is classified as Unapproved Links, Scamming, or Unapproved Transactions

Answer 24

Posting content with the intent to scam a player, or to make real life currency transactions with a player.

Also posting content which could compromise a players account.

Severity 4

Question 25

How do you punish severity 4 chat offenses?

Answer 25

You will be muted without a warning.

Question 26

What are classified as severity 1 gameplay offenses?

Answer 26

Team killing, Map exploiting, bug exploiting, gameplay trolling, spawn killing, ruining DMT for other players

Question 27

How do you punish a severity 1 gameplay offense?

Answer 27

May or may not issue warning, banning

Question 28

What is classified as a severity 4 gameplay offense?

Answer 28

Innapropriate username/cape/skin

Question 29

How do you punish a severity 4 gameplay offense?

Answer 29

Immediate ban.

Question 30

What are some client offenses?

Answer 30

Unapproved mods, using a macro, hacking of any kind.

Question 31

How do you punish client offenses?

Answer 31

Immediate ban