Clarification on the Personal Conduct Policy

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1. Personal Conduct Policy

a. The SSL Commissioner(s) and/or Board of Directors (BoD) reserve the right to enforce punishments and suspensions for personal attacks against other users and/or their player, cheating, breaking rules defined in this Rulebook, and any other action deemed detrimental to the league.



a.i  An enforcement can be taken based on actions made on, including but not limited to, the league forum, SSL-related Discord servers and in private messages to league users.



b. Personal attacks and conduct violations are defined as language or rhetoric that includes hate speech (including but not limited to racism, homophobia, ableism) or belittle members of a certain religious, ethnic or oppressed group, harmful or abusive language towards another user and/or their player, graphic descriptions of violent actions, harassment, excessive or malicious trolling, and spamming. 



c. Cheating includes but is not limited to stealing money and/or TPE, creating multiple users (known as "multis") with their own player, and multiple attempts at misusing the rules for an individual gain.



d. A user may not post private or sensitive information, e.g. team trade blocks, war room information, report logs, league job information etc., that is not intended for public view.

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a. Any user in breach of the Personal Conduct Policy will incur the following punishments: 

i. First Offense - 2 week posting ban, Discord suspension, and a 5 game player suspension.

ii. Second offense - 1 month posting ban, Discord suspension, and a 10 game player suspension.

iii. Third offense - Permanent ban from the league.



b. The BoD reserves the right to enforce harsher punishments based on the severity of the individual case.