Conduct

Chat behavior. What's fine, what's not. The line between "rough adult conversation" and "actual harm."

Sunday Market doesn't pre-filter chat. The community talks like adults, often roughly. The conduct rules cover the line between "OK" and "not OK."

What's fine

Swearing — full vocabulary, regular usage, normal day-to-day
Crude humor — blue jokes, dark humor, irreverent banter
Strong opinions — politics, religion, sports, controversial takes
Friendly trash-talk — between friends and rivals
Adult topics — discussions that wouldn't fly in a "PG-13" server
Disagreement — vigorous, respectful or otherwise within reason
Memes and references — current internet culture, dark humor included

The line is "you can say it, you can mean it" — but it has to be honest engagement, not targeted cruelty.

What's not fine

Slurs

Hard line. Includes:

Racial slurs (n-word, etc.)
Homophobic slurs (f-word, etc.)
Transphobic slurs
Ableist slurs (r-word, etc.)
Religious slurs

Doesn't matter if you "didn't mean it that way." Don't use them.

Doxxing

Sharing real-world info about another player (full name, address, employer, school) — even if "publicly available" — is harassment. Don't do it.

Targeted harassment

Following someone around chat to attack them. Repeatedly insulting a specific player. Coordinating with friends to gang up on one person. This is targeted harm, not "rough chat."

Sexual content involving minors

Instant permanent ban. Real-world law applies; we enforce harder.

Impersonating staff

Don't pretend to be staff. Don't use a /nick color reserved for staff (yellow, magenta, red, deep red — these are auto-blocked). Don't claim authority you don't have.

Spam

Excessive identical messages, copy-paste flooding, bot-style posting. The chat handles this with rate limits at the technical level; the rule covers manual spam.

Server raids / hate-coordinated joins

Coordinating a raid (multiple players joining to grief or harass) gets the whole group banned. Don't.

Dark humor about historical events, controversial political topics, debate that includes bad-faith framings. Generally OK if it's part of honest conversation; not OK if it's just baiting. Use judgment. If multiple players are uncomfortable, scale back.

Banter that crosses

You're trash-talking a rival. They're laughing along. Then they go quiet. Read the room — if your "joke" is landing as harm, stop. The same words can be friendly to one player and hostile to another.

One-off vs pattern

A single bad joke from someone who's otherwise fine is usually a verbal warning. A pattern of edge-case behavior across multiple sessions is treated more seriously.

Reporting

If something crosses the line — yours or someone else's:

/helpop <description>

Staff sees the report. If it's serious, staff intervenes immediately. Less serious reports are reviewed in the staff queue.

If you're uncomfortable with a player's chat directed at you specifically, you can also /ignore <player> — their messages stop appearing for you. This is your personal mute, not a punishment for them.

Staff actions for chat issues

In escalating order:

Verbal warning — "knock it off"
24-hour mute — chat-disabled for a day
7-day mute — for repeats
Tempban — removed from server for 1–30 days
Permaban — removed permanently

Each step is at staff discretion. A genuine apology and behavior change can speed forgiveness; doubling down speeds escalation.

Why this approach works

Servers that pre-filter chat tend to:

Drive their best chatters to other servers (no one wants to be infantilized)
Create cat-and-mouse with creative-bypassing
Foster "the rules are unenforceable" cynicism

Servers with no rules at all tend to:

Devolve into hostile environments
Drive away players who deserve protection
Become unrelenting toxic spaces

The middle path: trust adults to be adults, enforce on actual harm. Most players self-regulate. Staff handles the rare cases that don't.