DRAFT: Standards>Community Standards

[TeaLeaf]

Slightly reworded.

Our standards have been put in place to keep the atmosphere within our community at a mature and respectful level and to help maximise the enjoyment you gain from your gaming and socialising with us.

Language & Behaviour
We believe that we should maintain a mature level of conduct at all times. We should be helpful and respectful to others and keep our language and behaviour in the forums and to each other at that same level.

Understand the Dead Men Walking Ethos
dMw is a supporter and advocate of team-based and tactical gaming wherever the situation allows. We believe that where game designers permit cooperation between players with a view to better completing the game objective that full advantage of this feature should be taken. We work as a team wherever possible, complete your given game's objective! Wherever possible we use voice comms! The ability to communicate verbally in real time greatly enhances our gaming experience and adds a hugely enjoyable social element too!

Community
A big part of Dead Men Walking is the sense of community our members feel with each other. As part of this community, we work to resolve and help fix problems we see in-game or on our forums that are contrary to the our mature, team-based philosophy. If a member sees something that doesn't fit with this philosophy then we'll work together to improve things.

Acceptable Use Policy
We have an Acceptable Use Policy on our forums and servers.

Our Game Servers
We host both public and private servers and also support games where a hosted server is not an option (e.g. for an MMORPGs)..  We password protect some of our gaming servers to maintain the integrity of our tactical and team-based style of play and so that Members can enjoy their gaming to the fullest extent with other members.  

Variety
We encourage and support a range of different games within our community. We usually try them all!  We believe a little bit of variety usually spices things up and when we find a new game we think is worth trying to post about it in our forums so that we can all give it a go!

Fun
We believe membership of our community should be fun.  We want our Members to enjoy their gaming and socialising with other Members more than playing solo on a random online server.  We want our Members to to enjoy not just the game, but the company of other Members.   If it isn't more fun then you should probably try something different!

[Benny]

I'd be tempted to reword it slightly. Just an opinion, and everyone knows the old adage;

Language & Behaviour
We believe that we should maintain a mature level of conduct at all times.

I think you should remove the 'We believe' and change it to read; "All of our members maintain...."

Fun
We believe membership of our community should be fun. We want our Members to enjoy their gaming and socialising with other Members more than playing solo on a random online server. We want our Members to to enjoy not just the game, but the company of other Members. If it isn't more fun then you should probably try something different!

First and foremost, membership of our community is about fun. We want our Members to enjoy their gaming and socialising with other Members more than playing solo on a random online server. We want our Members to to enjoy not just the game, but the company of other Members. If you aren't having fun, either we're doing it wrong, or you're in the wrong place!