DoG has many institutional rules and regulations that help keep our communities running. Members are required to follow the Code of Conduct to the best of their ability at all times. These rules and policies ensure that all members have an enjoyable and rewarding online gaming experience.
Disciples of Gaming maintains a standard of respect among its members. Violations of this policy are considered among the most severe in DoG. This includes, but is not limited to, the following: trash-talking, disrespectful gestures, harassment, racism, sexism, discrimination, screaming, threats or aggressively foul language. All members are expected to maintain a professional and respectful attitude at all times, even if others around you are not.
Members may not appear offline or hidden from the DoG community. Players should not be booted or forcibly removed from a party unless they have first been asked to leave and refused. Quitting a game out of frustration or anger is considered unsportsmanlike conduct and in serious cases may be punishable. We do not leave teammates alone in the heat of the battle. This does not include situations where a player's connection to the game was severed due to loss of power or internet service.
Disciples of Gaming requires that every member displays honesty, fairness and integrity at all times. Honesty is one of the cornerstone principles of Disciples of Gaming, and any form of dishonesty is considered to be a serious violation of the Code of Conduct. It includes both honesty to others and to oneself, and about one's own motives and inner reality. Acting without honesty or cheating, lying or being deliberately deceptive is not acceptable behavior within the Disciples of Gaming community.
Cheating in any form is prohibited. This includes modding, bridging, standbying, forcing host, circle-boosting, and de-ranking (unless done in a full party with all members consenting). Glitches may not be used to make scoring impossible for an opposing team. Intentional team killing of a teammate in last stand or second chance is not allowed as it is makes scoring impossible for an opposing team. Intentional team killing is not allowed unless all members in the party agree to do so. The same rules apply to custom games and other user-created game scenarios. In DoG, we respect the game and play by the parameters it set out in the game.
Allowing another person access to your gamertag, who falsely represents to be a Disciples of Gaming member for the purpose or intent of ranking is up is not permitted and is considered cheating. Additionally, allowing another person access to your gamertag for the purpose of participating with other DoG members in a sanctioned Disciples of Gaming tournament is also not permitted and is considered cheating. These offenses will not be tolerated and are bannable offenses.
Member poaching, clan hitting or any other destructive act directed toward another community is strictly prohibited.
Poaching includes targeting another community’s membership as a whole or individually for transfer, use of threats or coercion to initiate transfers, or deliberately misleading a member of another community to persuade them to transfer. This behavior will be punished whether it takes place between DoG communities or is initiated by any DoG member.
Hitting includes the deliberate removal of one or more members of a community, intending to cause harm to the community, without the consent of a Commander or higher. Hitting any community will result in immediate expulsion and a permanent ban from the DoG community.
DoG has many institutional rules and regulations that help keep our communities running. Members are required to follow all rules to the best of their ability.
Members who leave DoG on bad terms and/or are banned from the DoG community will be permanently expelled and will not be allowed to return. Bad terms is defined as, but not limited to, violating any policy or leaving the DoG community without explanation. The Colonel has the authority to reverse a members banned or bad term status. Members who are banned from the DoG community must first notify and receive consent from their Commander prior to applying to the Colonel for a reversal of their banned status. All respective parties must then present their case to the Colonel for a ruling and decision.
A member may only leave DoG on good terms provided that they inform their commander and major of their reasons prior to their departure, and it is deemed by both the commander and major to be on good terms. Members who leave DoG on good terms, may apply for reinstatement to the DoG community to be approved at a Major’s sole discretion. Commanders cannot solely approve a past member to rejoin the DoG Community under any circumstance. Members who have departed the DoG community on good terms must first notify and receive approval from their Commander. The commander and member involved must then get final approval from the respective Major.
Members may request to transfer from one DoG community to another. Members must first seek approval from both their commander and Major. The Major must then notify and seek the approval of both the commander and Major in the community that the member wishes to transfer into.
Members of DoG are not allowed to be members of any other organized gaming community and/or clan. Casual association with another community or clan is allowed. Members that are a part of or leave the DoG community to join another organized gaming community and/or clan will be permanently expelled from DoG and will not be allowed to return to the DoG Community.
The DoG website and forums are for the use and enjoyment of members in the DoG community only. Members who leave DoG and/or are expelled from DoG, will have their accounts removed and/or banned from the website/forums.
Members are not allowed to be registered users on the DoG forums and on another organized gaming community or clan’s forum or website and will have their accounts permanently removed and/banned from the DoG forums.
Members below the rank of Commander may have no more than one (1) gamertag in DoG. at any one time. Commanders must receive permission from their Major before incorporating a second tag anywhere in DoG.
Recruits must be at least 17 years of age. If a potential recruit is 16 years old, they may be brought in with the direct approval of the Major in the community they are joining.
Recruits must register on the website within one (1) week of the day of their recruitment. Recruits must register using their gamertag and, in the required field state which DoG clan they have joined. Accounts will not be activated unless the above-noted rules are followed. Forum accounts that are inactive for a period of 3 months or more will be removed.
Every recruit in DoG must be given a recruiting speech that contains a complete rank structure, a list of major rules, and the punishment for breaking those rules.
Staff privileges will be given to a new commander upon promotion. Overlord privileges will only be given to a commander with a Major’s approval.
Every community is required to have a minimum of one (1) scheduled meeting every week.
Clan rosters must be sent in at least once a month, prior to the 1st of each month.
Members may only be removed for inactivity if their tag has been inactive for longer than three weeks (21 days) and they have made little or no attempt to contact the clan or explain their continuing absence. If a member is removed for inactivity, a Lieutenant or Commander will send the member a friend request explaining the removal.
DoG tags are available only to those who have attained the rank of Sergeant or above, and then, only with the explicit permission of the clan Commander AND Major.
No person of any rank is eligible to promote another person to that same rank. Exceptions exist at top ranks in DoG.
The DoG community maintains a standard of respect among its members. Members must follow the chain of command at all times. Members are asked to refer to a person of higher rank than yourself with any questions or issues.
DoG has procedures by which members can return to the DoG community and transfer from one DoG Community to another referred to in the Respect the Rules section of the Code of Conduct. The Chain of Command must be followed at all times during these procedures. If the procedures are not followed, the consequences for this infraction are demotion or removal from the DoG community. No excuse will be valid.
