Community conduct and acceptable use

LS-POL-002 · version 1.2 · Approved · next review 2027-11-07

1. Purpose

These are the rules for everyone on the Landsidu Discord or on any game server Landsidu hosts. They say what is expected, what is not allowed, and what happens when a rule is broken. The rules post in Discord (LS-GDE-002) is the short version; this policy is the full text.

The rules apply to everyone equally. Follow them and you are welcome here; break them and you face a warning, a time-out or a ban. Writing them down means moderators act the same way every time, and every sanction can be checked and appealed.

2. Scope

This policy applies to:

• the Landsidu Discord server: every channel, voice room, thread, profile and display name;
• every game server Landsidu hosts: "Landsidu - The After" (DayZ) and, when they open, "Landsidu - The Long Winter" (DayZ) and "Landsidu - Grundwela" (Minecraft). Each server's own game rules, in its rules channel, add to this policy and never loosen it;
• conduct elsewhere that targets Landsidu members because they are members, when it is reported to us with evidence.

3. Terms

4. Responsibilities

• The Owner owns and approves this policy and hears appeals. Bans are given by an Admin or the Owner (LS-PRO-007).
• Admins and Moderators apply it, following LS-PRO-007.
• Every member and player agrees to it by joining: Discord members through Discord's rules screen; players who never join the Discord by playing, with the rules linked in each game's join message or server notes.

5. Rules

5.1 Discord's rules first

Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines apply everywhere on our server. Among them: users must be 13 or over; no harassment, threats or hate; no sharing of other people's private details; no sexual content involving minors, ever; no spam, scams or malicious links; no cheats or cheat programs. Anything Discord's rules forbid, ours forbid too, and serious cases are also reported to Discord.

5.2 Age and children

• Landsidu is for people aged 13 and over, or the minimum age for Discord in your country if that is higher.
• "Landsidu - The After" is for players aged 15 and over: DayZ is rated MA 15+ in Australia. Players aged 13 to 14 need a parent's or guardian's permission.
• The Kids and Family areas are given by the Owner only.
• Adults must not start one-to-one contact (private messages, friend requests or private voice calls) with anyone under 18 they meet through Landsidu. If someone under 18 contacts an adult this way, the adult keeps it to the public channels and tells staff if anything about it worries them.
• Nothing sexual, graphic or adult anywhere on the server, including profiles and display names.
• Any concern about a child's safety goes straight to staff, never into a public channel (section 7).

5.3 How we treat each other

• Be respectful. Disagree about ideas; never attack the person.
• No harassment, bullying, threats, hate or slurs, in text, in voice, in profiles or in game.
• No targeted pile-ons, and no carrying on disrupting a channel after staff ask you to stop: either gets a warning.
• Respectful feedback about the rules is welcome in the suggestions forum. Individual cases stay private: don't discuss someone's ban or report, or a staff decision about them, in a public channel; use the appeal route (section 6).
• Don't pretend to be staff or another member.

5.4 Personal information

• Never share anyone's personal details: real names, addresses, phone numbers, photos, account identifiers or IP addresses. Doing so leads to a ban.
• Share your own Steam profile only in your private application thread or a private report, and only if you choose to. An Admin or the Owner copies it to the player register; nobody posts it in a public channel (LS-POL-003).

5.5 Cheating and exploits

• No cheats, hacks, macros, item duplication or any program or trick that gives an unfair edge. Cheating leads to a ban from our game servers and our Discord.
• Don't talk in public about how to use an exploit. If you find one, stop once you can explain it and report it privately (LS-PRO-009). You won't be sanctioned by us for finding or minimally demonstrating it in good faith, provided you don't harm anyone, access someone else's data or keep an advantage.
• No ban evasion. A second account used to get around a ban is banned, and so is the first.
• Follow each server's own game rules.

5.6 Channels, links and advertising

• Keep to each channel's topic; use the forums for bugs and suggestions.
• No harmful links (viruses, IP grabbers, fake giveaways). Posting one leads to an immediate ban.
• No advertising of other servers, products or projects without an Admin's permission.
• Voice rooms follow the same rules as text.

5.7 Names and profiles

Display names and profile pictures must suit a server with children: nothing sexual, hateful or offensive, and nothing made to look like staff.

6. Breaking a rule

Staff judge each case and follow LS-PRO-007. The usual steps are:

1. a warning, recorded;
2. a time-out of 1 day;
3. a time-out of 1 week;
4. a ban.

Some breaches go straight to a ban: anything that puts a child at risk, sharing someone's personal details, harmful links, cheating (including using an exploit for advantage) and ban evasion. A ban for any of these covers the Discord and every Landsidu game server. Other bans cover the place where the breach happened, and staff say which.

Anyone given a sanction is told which rule was broken, what was done and when; the 30 days to appeal start from that notice. Appeals go by direct message to an Admin or, if the Discord can't be used, by email to contact@landsidu.com (LS-PRO-007).

7. Reporting

If anyone is in immediate danger, contact the police first (000 in Australia). Suspected online grooming or sexual exploitation of a child can also be reported to the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (accce.gov.au/report).

8. Review

The Owner reviews this policy every 12 months, and after any incident or change that affects it.

Basis: decisions D10, D18 and D57 to D59 in the Landsidu decisions record; the review of Discord's moderation guides of 2026-11-07.