Community Guidelines

Introduction

These Community Guidelines explain the behaviour expected from anyone taking part in the Fight My Monster community.

They apply across official Fight My Monster services, including the website, Discord server, Patreon, social media pages, events, competitions, support communications, game-related services and any future community features operated by Fight My Monster.

Participation in Fight My Monster community spaces is subject to these Community Guidelines.

Fight My Monster aims to maintain community spaces that are welcoming and suitable for a broad audience.

General Rules

All users are expected to behave respectfully and responsibly.

You must not:

• Harass, threaten, bully, intimidate or abuse others.
• Use hate speech or discriminatory language.
• Spam messages, links, images or repeated content.
• Impersonate staff, moderators, users, companies or official Fight My Monster services.
• Disrupt discussions, events, services or community spaces.
• Encourage rule-breaking, abuse, harassment or unsafe behaviour.

Disagreements are allowed. Personal attacks are not.

Fair Play

Fight My Monster is built around fair competition.

You must not:

• Cheat, exploit or abuse game systems.
• Use bots, scripts, automation, macros or unauthorised tools.
• Exploit, knowingly reproduce or intentionally take advantage of bugs, glitches or unintended mechanics.
• Share, distribute or encourage others to use exploits.
• Manipulate events, giveaways, votes or competitions unfairly.

If you discover an exploit or serious bug, report it privately rather than sharing it publicly.

Account Safety

You are responsible for keeping your account and login details secure.

You should not:

• Share your password or account access.
• Ask another user for their login details.
• Attempt to access someone else's account.
• Sell, trade or transfer accounts unless expressly permitted.
• Use another person's account without permission.

The Fight My Monster team will never ask for your password.

Communication Standards

Community discussion should remain constructive, appropriate and relevant.

You should:

• Keep feedback clear and respectful.
• Avoid intentionally disruptive behaviour.
• Keep criticism focused on ideas, not personal attacks.
• Use the correct channels or contact methods where possible.
• Avoid excessive off-topic posting in project-focused spaces.
• Respect moderator and staff instructions where reasonable.

Mild or non-targeted profanity may be tolerated in some community spaces where appropriate, but abusive, sexual, hateful, threatening or targeted language is not allowed.

Feedback and Suggestions

We welcome feedback, suggestions, ideas and requests from the community.

When giving feedback:

• Be constructive.
• Explain the issue or suggestion clearly.
• Respect that not every idea will be used.
• Do not pressure, harass or repeatedly demand changes from the team.

Suggestions may be used, adapted, rejected or saved for later without compensation unless otherwise agreed in writing.

Community Events

Events, competitions, challenges, giveaways and submissions must be entered fairly.

Participants must:

• Follow the specific rules of each event.
• Submit original work unless otherwise stated.
• Not submit stolen, copied or unauthorised content.
• Not manipulate votes, judging, entries or outcomes.
• Understand that judging decisions may be final and not all decisions will be subject to appeal.

We reserve the right to disqualify entries or participants where rules are broken, submissions are unsuitable or behaviour harms the event or community.

User-Generated Content

User-generated content may include messages, usernames, artwork, monster concepts, event entries, feedback, profile information, suggestions and other submitted material.

You must not submit content that:

• You do not have permission to use.
• Contains illegal, harmful, hateful, sexual, violent, fraudulent or abusive material.
• Infringes another person's rights.
• Impersonates another person or organisation.
• Misleads users into believing it is official when it is not.

Users agree that moderation actions may include editing or removal of content where necessary to enforce these Guidelines.

Third-Party Platforms

Fight My Monster uses or may interact with third-party platforms such as Discord, Patreon, social media platforms, email services, analytics providers and hosting services.

Users must follow both these Guidelines and the rules of any third-party platform they use.

Actions taken by third-party platforms are outside our control.

Privacy and Personal Information

Do not share personal information about yourself or others in public community spaces.

This includes:

• Addresses.
• Phone numbers.
• Email addresses.
• Passwords.
• Private messages.
• Payment information.
• Personal documents.
• Information that could be used to identify or harm someone.

Do not pressure other users to reveal personal information.

Prohibited Content

The following content is not allowed:

• Illegal content or instructions for illegal activity.
• Hate speech or discriminatory content.
• Harassment, threats, bullying or targeted abuse.
• Sexual or pornographic content.
• Graphic violence or extreme gore.
• Fraud, scams, phishing or deceptive links.
• Malware, harmful code or suspicious downloads.
• Content that encourages self-harm or harm to others.
• Stolen, plagiarised or unauthorised content.

Advertising and Promotion

Unauthorised advertising, self-promotion, commercial promotion, referral links, spam and external recruitment are not allowed unless permitted by the team or relevant platform rules.

This includes repeated promotion of unrelated projects, communities, servers, products, services or social accounts.

Reasonable sharing of relevant content may be permitted where allowed by moderators or community rules.

Moderation and Enforcement

Moderators and team members may take action to protect the community, services, users and project.

Moderation actions may include:

• Informal reminders.
• Warnings.
• Message or content removal.
• Temporary restrictions.
• Event disqualification.
• Content editing where appropriate.
• Account restrictions.
• Temporary suspensions.
• Permanent bans.

Serious violations may result in immediate action without prior warning.

Reporting Problems

Users are encouraged to report:

• Harassment or abuse.
• Threats or unsafe behaviour.
• Cheating, exploits or suspicious activity.
• Scams or impersonation.
• Rule-breaking content.
• Technical issues affecting safety or fairness.

Reports should be made honestly and with as much relevant detail as possible.

False, malicious or abusive reports may result in moderation action.

Appeals

Users may request a review of moderation decisions where appeals are available.

Appeals should be respectful, clear and honest.

Appeals may be refused where the violation was severe, repeated, abusive, fraudulent or harmful to the community.

Appeals are reviewed at our discretion and do not guarantee reversal of any moderation decision.

Not all moderation decisions are eligible for appeal.

Community Safety

The Fight My Monster team may take action where necessary to protect users, prevent abuse, maintain fair play and preserve the safety and integrity of the community.

This may include restricting access to the website, Discord server, events, game services or other official Fight My Monster services.

Service Access Restrictions

Access to Fight My Monster services may be restricted, suspended or removed where a user violates these Guidelines, Terms of Use, Event Rules, platform rules or other applicable policies.

Restrictions may apply to one service or multiple services depending on the nature of the issue.

Guidelines Disclaimer

These Community Guidelines are intended to describe expected behaviour within Fight My Monster community spaces. They do not form a legally binding contract and may be interpreted and applied by the Fight My Monster team at its discretion, in conjunction with the Terms of Use and other applicable policies.

Relationship to the Terms of Use

In the event of any conflict between these Community Guidelines and the Terms of Use, the Terms of Use will take precedence.

Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these terms from time to time.

Updated versions become effective when published on our website unless a different effective date is specified.

Where changes are material, we may provide additional notice through our website, services or other reasonable means.

Continued use of our services after the effective date of updated terms constitutes acceptance of the revised Community Guidelines.

Contact Information

For reports, appeals, questions, concerns or community-related issues, please contact us at contact@fightmy.monster