Last Updated: September 18, 2024

Disclaimers

• Viewing and having an understanding of our rules is your responsibility. By joining our network, we assume that you understand our rules page and will abide by it. Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse for breaking them. Members caught repeatedly breaking rules will be permanently banned from the Vortex Network.
• Members caught repeatedly attempting to break rules by pushing limits will be punished according to the rule(s) that they are trying to push/break.
• False reporting other members or making up incidents that didn’t happen will also result in punishment. The member reporting will be punished, while the accused will go unpunished. This also includes reporting incidents that did not happen, in attempt to get free items from staff.
• Management reserve the right to adjust punishments as they see fit and may grant punishments for rules not explicitly stated.
• Management or Screenshare Verified Staff Members reserve the right to screenshare any player at any time if you are suspected of breaking rule(s).
• Make a support ticket through our Discord if you are unsure whether something is against the rules or not.

Chat Offences

<aside> 💬 Chat Spam

30m Mute → 1h Mute → 3h Mute

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Sending 5+ messages that are typed within 15 seconds and are uninterrupted or sending the same message 3+ times over a short period of time.

<aside> 💬 Excessive Character Spam

30m Mute → 1h Mute → 3h Mute

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Sending a message that contains 20+ of the same or unrelated symbols.

<aside> 📣 Encouraging Spam

30m Mute → 1h Mute → 3h Mute

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Encouraging or promoting other members to spam the chat.

<aside> 🇬🇧 Foreign Languages in Global Chat

30m Mute → 1h Mute → 3h Mute

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Speaking other languages in the global chat is not allowed. If you’re talking in a foreign language, please do it in /msg and not the public chat.

<aside> 👤 Staff Impersonation

1d Mute → 3d Mute → 7d Mute

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Impersonating any staff member or staff rank or making false claims of being staff.

<aside> 🔗 Illegal Links / Media

1d Mute → 3d Mute → 7d Mute

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Sending any link or media channel name that is unrelated to Vortex within global chat. Allowed links include Vortex related: image sites, YouTube, Twitch, and Vortex websites.

<aside> 🤬 Excessive Toxicity / Harassment

3d Mute → 7d Mute → 14d Mute

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Using excessively harsh, malicious, or harmful language towards another member.

<aside> ❌ Racism / Discrimination

14d Mute → 30d Mute → Perm Mute

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Any use or baiting of racist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory language.

<aside> 🩸 Suicide Encouragement / Death Threats

14d Mute → 30d Mute → Perm Mute

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Any statements or behavior which encourages harm to another member.

<aside> 💬 Command Spam

30m Ban → 1h Ban → 3h Ban

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The use of commands to spam another member’s chat.

<aside> 🚨 Abuse of Reports & Alerts

30m Ban → 1h Ban → 3h Ban

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Using /report or /request for anything other than asking for Staff assistance. The report and request systems are not there to bypass mutes with.

<aside> 💲 Real World Trade

3d Ban → 7d Ban → 14d Ban

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Seeking or engaging in a trade that involves a currency or items outside of Vortex.

<aside> 🗣 Advertising

Perm Ban → Blacklist

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Advertising of other servers (through direct IP address), hacked clients, discord invite links, or other forms in any chat.

<aside> 🚫 Doxxing / DDoSing

Blacklist

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A threat or attempt to share personal or private information about another member or the server. This includes threatening, attempting, or actually Doxing/DDoSing a member or the server.

<aside> 🔗 Malicious Links

Blacklist

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A threat or attempt to send a malicious link intended to grab a member’s IP address or personal information.

<aside> 🤖 Botting

Blacklist

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The use of bots to interact with chat or other members in any capacity.

In-game Offences