Network Rules

Chat Guidelines
These rules have been adapted from the SCP Wiki Chat Guide.

Age
You must be 18 years of age or have parental consent to be on the SkipIRC network. As on site, all chat members are expected to be at least 16 by May 10th, 2021, at least 17 by May 10th, 2022, and at least 18 by May 10th, 2023. They will also be expected to behave and express themselves at a maturity fitting those ages.

Topics
Discussion about SCP ideas and drafts take priority. Any NSFW (Not Safe For Work) links must be tagged as NSFW (check below for examples). No illegal activity is permitted, period.

Reporting
If you need a chat operator urgently, you can often get our attention by saying ops and we will be notified. Abusing this ping will result in disciplinary action.

Pinging Ops
Saying the word  will ping the entire operator team. Please only do this if you need an operator and there is not one actively chatting. Abuse of this will result in disciplinary action. Only users with registered nicks are able to ping ops.

Requesting help from staff
Staff members are happy to help you with issues related to using the SCP Wiki and IRC chat. If you do request help, please be patient and don't leave while staff members are assisting you.

Use of disposable email addresses
As disposable email addresses have generally been used by trolls and other disruptive users, we don't allow them for nick registration. Your email address will be kept confidential and only used for nick verification and in the event we need to contact you for an important reason; we don't send bulk mailings to registered nicks.

Chat Nicknames
To change your nickname, enter, where ''[newnick]]' is your desired nick.

We forbid certain kinds of nicknames in our channels:


 * No nicks with "SCP" or "Class D" or an SCP number.
 * No nicks with a Foundation character that isn't yours (like Dr. Bright, Dr. Sophia Light, Able, or Alto Clef).
 * No nicks saying you're official website or chat staff (like 'admin', 'administrator', or 'operator').
 * No nicks saying you're in charge at the fictional Foundation, or other fictional groups on our website (like Senior [anything], MTF Leader, O5, Director, Executive, or Overseer).
 * No nicks with profanity (swear words) or offensive content. If you have one of these nicks, we may kick you. Please change your nick.

You can, however, have nicks like "DoctorX", "ResearcherX", and "AgentX", because these names don't say you're in charge at the Foundation. If you're not sure, ask a staff member. Do not use a nick that is only the title (For example just "Doctor").

Behavior
It is the responsibility of each chat user to know what is or is not acceptable behavior.

The following are some specific things to avoid. This doesn't include every possible offense and if you're not sure whether you're about to break a rule, ask rather than finding out the hard way.

Bigotry
Bigotry will not be tolerated. This includes bigotry based on race, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Users expressing bigoted views may be permanently banned without prior warning.

Trolling
Acting deliberately inflammatory. If you're doing it, you know you're doing it. If ops believe you're trolling and you don't think so, then you need to rethink your behavior. This includes targeting people or a group of people based on their gender, sexuality, race, etc.

Harassment
Asking for pictures, pressuring discussion of sex lives, etc. PMing or repeatedly talking to a user who has asked you to stop talking to them. You can be banned from the SkipIRC network altogether for this.

Creepiness
Making others uncomfortable by behaving in a way that would be socially inappropriate if done in public.

Rape
Almost any discussion around this topic will be inappropriate and against the rules.

Spamming
You can be banned from the SkipIRC network altogether for this.

Brigades
Do not use SkipIRC as a base for bothering people on other sites. No one cares. Do not use SkipIRC to get an SCP you hate downvoted. You will be banned.

Being Annoying or Disruptive
If an OP says you're being annoying, listen and try to improve. Being annoying isn't entirely against the rules, but you can still be banned for it if it gets bad enough. Example offenses here include (but are not limited to) derailing chat, over-proselytizing your opinions, being incoherent, antagonizing others, roleplaying, backseat modding, typing in "zalgo" text, and the use of slurs. This includes racist, sexist, and sexual-oriented slurs, as well as slurs and sayings targeting the mentally disabled or differently abled such as retard, spaz, or ree.

Pronoun Bot Fuckery
Adding joke pronouns to Secretary_Helen is one of the quickest ways to earn a one-week ban. See the "Chatbots" tab for more information.

Sockpuppeting and Ban Evasion
You can, within reason, have multiple chat nicks, but you can't pretend to be your brother just because you did something stupid. Ban evasion is obviously not allowed. Users should note that frequently attempting to join the chat during a ban might be viewed as de facto ban evasion, if you do it enough to be disruptive.

NSFW
First, don't link outright porn. Tag all these kinds of images:
 * 1) Nudity, of a non-pornographic nature. Tag "NSFW".
 * 2) Extreme violence and gore. Tag "NSFW".
 * 3) Jump scares, screamers, flashing lights. For these, you must always identify what they are when you link them. This is because we have members with epilepsy, and this can trigger seizures.

Discipline & Bans
Channel operators (ops) have the authority to dictate the course of conversation. 'Operator orders are to be followed at all times.'

Operators have the authority to warn and ban users. Minor or accidental offenses may result in multiple warnings or several shorter bans. Especially bad offenses may result in a ban of any length.

Respect chat operator decisions, even if you disagree with them. If you feel that a decision was in error, you may protest the action in the Help Channel,  or in a private message to a chat operator. Generally, you should discuss the situation with a different chat operator, especially if you were the one warned or banned.

The final authorities on disciplinary matters or rule disputes are the [SkipIRC_Staff Chat Administrators]. Please report any serious misuses of authority to them.

Please also note that while banned users may enter  to appeal or ask genuine questions unrelated to their ban, they may not remain in the channel once their questions or appeal have been handled.

Standard Ban Escalation
Operators may decide to follow or ignore this at their discretion. It's only listed here for reference.


 * Warning. A warning may involve asking a person officially to stop doing something, or it may be a kick, or it may be an immediate 'warning ban' of any length between 5 minutes and 2 days.
 * Week Ban.
 * Month Ban.
 * Year Ban.
 * Permanent Ban.

Bans will generally appear in the Chat Users Forum on O5 Command.