Verbal Abuse and Harassment

It is our goal to keep the Internet Chess Club an environment where anyone can have fun playing chess and chatting. The ICC offers a unique and exciting opportunity for people of different genders, ages, races and nationalities, from all over the world, to gather together, play chess and socialize. Every registered member accepts our user agreement prior to entering the ICC, which, by acceptance, members agree to abide by our community standards listed in the agreement and our atmosphere policy. The ICC is multi-aged, multi-national and multi-religious thus our policies are created to benefit all.

ATMOSPHERE RULES and REGULATIONS:

  1. No profanity is allowed.
  2. No verbal harassment will be tolerated.
  3. No racial, sexual or otherwise offensive language is allowed.
  4. Targeting other members, by shouts or notes, to their distress or embarrassment, is harassment, and will not be permitted.
  5. Revealing personal or private information about other members, such as real names, home addresses, telephone numbers, etc., without that member's permission, is not allowed.
  6. Political or religious public discussions are discouraged, and should take place in their respective channels. For more channel information, refer to 'help channel'.
  7. The ICC does not allow advertising of any type, except in your finger notes, without prior written permission from ICC.
  8. Pretending to be an ICC official, in an attempt to intimidate or extract information, is not allowed, and will result in the loss of your membership, without refund.
  9. The repetitive transmission of tells, messages, moretime commands, offers to draw, abort, or adjourn, games, requests to take back moves, or any other communication with the intent to distract, annoy, or intimidate other members is considered to be "spamming" and is not allowed.

Any breach of these policies may result in the loss of your privileges to use certain chat mechanisms, until you have read and promise to abide by our rules. Continued and repetitive breaking of our rules may well result in loss of membership, with no refund.

Please note that excuses such as "my friend did that while I was away from the computer" are not valid. You are responsible for everything that occurs on your account. The ICC administrators make judgments as to what is offensive and what infractions have been made, and their decisions are final.

If you encounter rude or hostile behavior from a player on the ICC, please Report it! You can use the Report Abuse feature in the Action Menu. Illustration below:


TIP: You can also submit the same complaint via the command line, by typing: complain <handle> <your comments>
  • Example: /complain fpawn He used bad language after the game.

    • Important: Please do not retaliate with verbal abuse. It will only get you both in trouble. Following the instructions above will cause the server to transcribe recent private communications between you and the member whose handle you enter. This transcript will be made available for all administrators to read and will be submitted to the ICC complaint staff for possible disciplinary action. Complaints about verbal abuse or harassment must be submitted within a short period of time after the communications take place in order for the server to be able to generate a transcript. Each account is limited in the number of complaints it can file per day using this method. Public communications, such as shouts and channel tells cannot be transcribed using this method and should instead be immediately brought to the attention of any available administrator. To view a list of available administrators, type the following on the command line: showadmin

    See Also:
    Handling Problems
    command line help -- help rude Dealing with rude players.
    command line help -- help Complain Reporting abuse.