Last Updated: July 19th, 2025

Disclaimers

• Viewing and having an understanding of our rules is your responsibility. By joining our network, it is your responsibility to understand our rules page and abide by it. Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse for breaking them.
• 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. Further action may be taken if repeated rule breaking or abuse occurs.
• False reporting other members or making up incidents that didn’t happen can also result in a 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 may adjust punishments where appropriate and may take action in situations not explicitly covered by these rules.
• Make a support ticket through our Discord if you are unsure whether something is against the rules or not.

Chat Offences

<aside> 💬 Chat Disruption Verbal Warn → Warn → 30m Mute

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Sending 5+ messages that are typed within 15 seconds and are uninterrupted or sending the same message 3+ times within 15 seconds.

Sending a message that contains 20+ of the same or unrelated symbols or more than 2 chat lines of the same symbol.

Encouraging or promoting other members to spam the chat.

<aside> 🇬🇧 Foreign Languages in Global Chat Verbal Warn → Warn → Warn → 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 private messages and not the public chat.

<aside> 🤖 Controversial Topics Verbal Warn → Warn → Warn → 6h Mute

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Discussing controversial topics that can include but is not limited to; politics, religion, terroristic threats/content, inappropriate debates, etc.

<aside> 👤 Impersonation Verbal Warn → Warn → 1d Mute

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Impersonation of staff members, staff ranks, or other players, including falsely claiming to be a staff member is not permitted.

<aside> ⚠️ Explicit Content Verbal Warn → Warn → 1d Mute

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Any excessive behavior that contains explicit content or otherwise breaks a rule. This can include but is not limited to; inappropriate language, sexual or pornographic content, discussion about severe drug-related topics, severe gore-related topics, severe violence, etc.

<aside> 🤬 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 7d Mute → 14d Mute → 30d Mute

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Any use or baiting of group-targeted harassment, homophobia, or any form of derogatory discrimination.

<aside> 🔗 Illegal Links / Media 6h Mute → 12h Mute → 1d 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> 🚨 Abuse of Reports & Alerts Verbal Warn → Warn → 1d 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> 🩸 Suicide Encouragement / Threats 7d Mute → 14d Mute → 30d Mute

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Encouraging or making any kind of death threat or violent statement to another member of the community is strictly prohibited. This includes any form of threatening language or behavior that targets other players in a harmful way.

<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> 💬 Command Spam Kick → 30m Ban → 1h Ban

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The use of commands to spam another member’s chat or cause unnecessary disruption.

<aside> 🤖 Botting / Raiding Perm Ban

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The use of bots to interact with chat or other members in any capacity. This also pertains to server raids.

<aside> 🗣 Advertising Perm Mute

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

<aside> 🚫 Malicious Activity 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.

Related instances can include but is not limited to; Doxing/DDoSing, Swatting, Malicious Links, Malicious Blackmail, etc.