Just a friendly reminder about the chat rules. It's been a very long while since we've had a revision. Rules 7, 11, and 13, in particular, have been changed. Regardless of changes, please go over them carefully if you have not for awhile. The Administration has instructed the staff to begin enforcing the rules with renewed vigor. Chat Rules 1. Keep it clean, profanity is not allowed, don't use language you wouldn't use around your mother or small children. 2. Capitalizing whole phrases is considered rude and also spam. 3. Use of Obscene linkage or Obscene language in the chat will result a ban from the chat, or a permanent ban from the website. 4. The primary language of Simtropolis Chat is English. If you would like to speak in another language, we ask that you open your own room. 5. No talk promoting piracy is allowed. If you admit to using pirated software, you may have your account temporarily banned from chat. 6. The Golden Rule applies! Treat others as you would like to be treated. 7. Religious and/or political debates have their place in the Current Events and Off Topic forums, not in the chat room.. 8. Clones are only allowed when used in separate rooms. 9. Users are not to ask to become an op, mod, admin, or dirktator. If you have what it takes, you will be chosen. 10. Excessive repetition of words, symbols, numbers, etc is also considered spamming. 11. Do not attack another person, their heritage, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, their sexual orientation, or their homeland. There is no tolerance for prejudice. 12. Respect others. Deliberate provocation of other users is not allowed. We reserve the right to exclude mean people. (Just be nice). 13. This is a PG-13 room. Material is expected to be suitable for everyone. Any discussion that is explicitly sexual is forbidden. 14. Chronic abuse of these rules will result in the user being banned from chat.