World of Warships Code of Conduct

[Seraphice]

World of Warships Community Code of Conduct

Welcome to the World of Warships community!

By joining us on our official platforms, you are also joining an important mission—the mission to keep the World of Warships community a fun and interesting place to be, where anyone is welcome if they behave excellently toward each other. A healthy community is built upon trust and respect, and by following this Code of Conduct, you will contribute to creating the best possible experience for you and your fellow Captains.

When someone violates this Code of Conduct or EULA, the World of Warships team is committed to moderating such content. This applies to every part of the official World of Warships experience, including chat, forums, the official Discord, YouTube, Twitch, direct messages, voice channels, and other platforms. The exact moderation instruments and measures used may vary depending on the specific platform and specific cases, but the below principles apply universally, and we hope they will serve you as clear guidance. The World of Warships team reserves the right to moderate the content and the users on World of Warships platforms for any reason at our own discretion. Please use the following examples of what is prohibited to steer clear of conflicts and moderation:

Excessive profanity and inappropriate language

• This includes cases where it is abbreviated or otherwise altered.

Religious, political, and other sensitive topics not related to the game

• Such topics can quickly derail and lead to massive rule violations.

Discussing moderation or abusing its system

• If your content has been moderated and you believe it was incorrect, please provide feedback in private.
• Do not make false reports about content that is not breaking the rules.
• Do not create or use secondary accounts to bypass moderation or sanctions on your main account. These secondary accounts will be sanctioned, too.
• Do not repost content that was hidden, moderated, or held for moderation.

Disrupting conversations in the community

• This includes spam and heavy off-topic interactions that disrupt the ways in which players communicate on given platforms or channels.
• Specific to forums, it includes excessive bumping—especially bumping threads that have been inactive for 6 months or longer.
• Specific to forums, it is forbidden to bump threads in the Clan recruiting section more than once in any 24-hour period.
• Posting content in a language other than the official language of a specific channel.

Posting sensational content

• This includes posting inflammatory content, titles, & thumbnails.

Posting exploits/hacks

• If you come across a bug or third-party tool that would otherwise impact gameplay, please report it using the appropriate channels.
• Discussing exploitation of the game mechanics or encouraging the usage of mechanics outside of their intended design.

Personal attacks and disrespectful behavior

• This includes trying to cause an argument and making sarcastic, off-topic, rude, stat-shaming, and disruptive posts or discussions. Do not bait, flame, or troll. Do not provoke staff members or other members of the community.

Posting links to “shady” sites

• Links to other sites should not be used to advertise content or discussions that would be inappropriate in official channels under this Code of Conduct.

Begging/soliciting

• Including, but not limited to, asking users to transfer real money to virtual wallets, asking for additional credits, and requesting the transfer of in-game currency.

Advertising account sales or services related to the game like grinding, leveling, or pay-for-play in competitions

Account sharing

Bullying, which can include:

• Personal defamation
• Gossiping about other people
• Harassment
• Stat-shaming

Pornographic, drug-related, and other taboo or explicit content

Inciting other players to violate this Code of Conduct, the EULA, and other Wargaming policies

Discrimination and hate speech

• This includes, but is not limited to, hate speech based on race, gender, nationality, religion, etc.

Distributing real-life personal information

Posting real-life threats

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After evaluating the severity of a violation, a moderator or staff member will issue an appropriate sanction:

• Written warning asking you to behave according to our Code of Conduct
• A short ban of up to 2 weeks for the platform account
• A medium ban of 1–3 months for the platform account
• A long ban of 6 months for the platform account
• A permanent ban for the platform account

Depending on the specific platform, context, and previous history of violations, some of these stages may be skipped or, on the contrary, repeated several times before further escalation. For example, in the worst-case scenario, a clear and severe offense may result in an outright permanent ban, but such cases are uncommon. On the other hand, repeated lesser violations can result in a ban as well, but only if they accumulate and the same behavior continues despite several warnings and short-term bans. Please note that we also reserve the right to remove players who violate the Code of Conduct from VIP groups and special programs, as well as withdraw other benefits.

Our moderators and staff will always do due diligence to resolve every situation appropriately and start from a written warning or a simple friendly reminder. Remember—the mission is to make the World of Warships Community amazing, and this is only possible if you act in an excellent way to each other.

[Psychological_Warfare]

Stat-shaming does not exist.

Your stats reflect how well you play and quite often people who have no idea what they are talking about try to force their flawed opinions into the discussion. That, in itself might not be a "big" issue, but it gets bad when such people do "feedback" to certain ships and game mechanics or - even worse - when new players come into the forum and read the stuff that people wrote who are simply wrong about it. 

 

 

You already made the mistake to let people switch their stats to private and now you want to cover it up even more by including the fantasy of "stat-shaming"?

 

"Oh yes, lets hire this guy for our Q&A team, he refused to show his school diploma and/or grades but i am SURE he knows what he is talking about"... said no one ever.

 

 

*edit* that might sound a bit arrogant, but i am done with star-sparkling and using silk gloves. You are bad? Nothing wrong with that, but don't behave like you are not.

[Benser33]

4 hours ago, Psychological_Warfare said:

Stat-shaming does not exist.

Your stats reflect how well you play and quite often people who have no idea what they are talking about try to force their flawed opinions into the discussion. That, in itself might not be a "big" issue, but it gets bad when such people do "feedback" to certain ships and game mechanics or - even worse - when new players come into the forum and read the stuff that people wrote who are simply wrong about it. 

 

 

You already made the mistake to let people switch their stats to private and now you want to cover it up even more by including the fantasy of "stat-shaming"?

 

"Oh yes, lets hire this guy for our Q&A team, he refused to show his school diploma and/or grades but i am SURE he knows what he is talking about"... said no one ever.

 

 

*edit* that might sound a bit arrogant, but i am done with star-sparkling and using silk gloves. You are bad? Nothing wrong with that, but don't behave like you are not.

I think there is a difference between pointing out someones creditibility and people who stat-shame by just posting someones stats to say "look at how bad this guy is".

 

I've seen plenty of discussions where a players stats have been brought in to question, and it's fine to say "your opinion lacks experience" or whatever, but would you say it is okay to make a thread with the sole intent of mocking someones ability to play? That isn't something I would expect to be tolerated.

[AngryDragon70]

Ah well. No one will read these replies except the 500 forum users which are still here. The well known "minority".

This game is dead (made dead), and so is this forum.

 

Lets hope this gets down to 100 users max or so.

 

Its sad, but the current wg (development) team is inconoetent to the bone.

[Psychological_Warfare]

12 hours ago, Astolfo_Is_My_Waifu said:

I think there is a difference between pointing out someones creditibility and people who stat-shame by just posting someones stats to say "look at how bad this guy is".

 

I've seen plenty of discussions where a players stats have been brought in to question, and it's fine to say "your opinion lacks experience" or whatever, but would you say it is okay to make a thread with the sole intent of mocking someones ability to play? That isn't something I would expect to be tolerated.

Oh yes, you are right. But thats just plain misbehaviour in my book and the "stats" are just the tool for making/boosting an insult and not "stat-shaming". But that might be a definition issue.

 

Thanks anyway for clarifying and bringing a valid point instead of some other guy here.

[Siagor]

On 12/7/2021 at 11:27 AM, Psychological_Warfare said:

I spoke about how i feel about the "stat shaming" and how i think it does not exist and what is wrong about that.

 

You replied with provocation and obviously malicious intent to bait for ToS infringement.

 

I might do the same with "personality shaming" and how that does not exist.

 

When someone say something you don't like, you go to their stats and if they shoot worse than you, you can trash them and justify it as legit, cause he has worse stats than you? It's not stat shaming, "that does not exist"?

 

Well then if one comes on the forum talking pure nonsense and all-macho bullcrap like you did, the others may trash/tease you legit, because you talked nonsense. You can't categorize it as "provocation and malicious intent" because that's how it is, calling on your clearly presented nonsense.  It is not personality-shaming, that does not exist too.

[Crysantos]

18 hours ago, Astolfo_Is_My_Waifu said:

I think there is a difference between pointing out someones creditibility and people who stat-shame by just posting someones stats to say "look at how bad this guy is".

 

I've seen plenty of discussions where a players stats have been brought in to question, and it's fine to say "your opinion lacks experience" or whatever, but would you say it is okay to make a thread with the sole intent of mocking someones ability to play? That isn't something I would expect to be tolerated.

This, there is difference between using information to have a constructive discussion to help somebody or to use it insult / bash another player. That's something we want to avoid here and we want to give players a feeling of being welcome here, no matter whether they're a unicum or not. They should be able to participate in discussions, share their opinions and have a chance to learn from the more experienced players - without being shamed. That's something that no player should experience here in our opinion and to add my personal 2 cents, I've been playing multiplayer games for over 20 years by now and I've never met a single player who changed his attitude about the game or personal approach after being insulted or mocked.

 

That doesn't mean you can't have a discussion about skill level and where to improve but it should be done in a respectful way - even if it's ending in a "agree to disagree" stance :)

 

Greetings, Crysantos

[Sunleader]

On 12/6/2021 at 6:13 PM, Psychological_Warfare said:

Stat-shaming does not exist.

Your stats reflect how well you play and quite often people who have no idea what they are talking about try to force their flawed opinions into the discussion. That, in itself might not be a "big" issue, but it gets bad when such people do "feedback" to certain ships and game mechanics or - even worse - when new players come into the forum and read the stuff that people wrote who are simply wrong about it. 

 

 

You already made the mistake to let people switch their stats to private and now you want to cover it up even more by including the fantasy of "stat-shaming"?

 

"Oh yes, lets hire this guy for our Q&A team, he refused to show his school diploma and/or grades but i am SURE he knows what he is talking about"... said no one ever.

 

 

*edit* that might sound a bit arrogant, but i am done with star-sparkling and using silk gloves. You are bad? Nothing wrong with that, but don't behave like you are not.

 

1.

It does exist. And is in fact often used to Harass others or just to Silence an opposing opinion without bringing any kind of proper argument or explanation.

Especially often it is used by people that have lost an Argument and got Proven wrong and then try to claim that the Opposing Players Argument is Invalid due to them not having Unicum Stats etc.

2.

You actually state it yourself. Your Stats reflect how well you play. But that is often not linked to how good you understand the game. Many very good players are actually preaching completely different things to what they themselves do because they dont understand what it is that makes them play well. Thus often Pushing Fatally wrong Arguments purely based on an Attitude of "I got better Stats so I must be right"

3.

Frankly. It has no bearing as Feedback as WG will generally just Choose the Feedback they Agree with or which are gathered by their Spreadsheet which doesnt care about you having hidden stats or wether your Stats are mentioned.

And New Players are more often Influenced by YouTubers and not Players with Bad Stats that make Arguments in the Forum. The Forum is only visited by a small amount of New Players anyways.

Most Players only Join the Forums after being pretty experienced already.

This isnt surprising. People coming to the Forum are often People willing to put it some extra effort.

Thanks to that the Average Forum User actually is way better than the Average Player. And while of course some people in the Forum do have Bad Stats as well. The ratio of People with good Stats is far higher in the Forum than in the Game itself.

But more Importandly. Often its actually Horrible Advice to try and give a New Player the Tactics of a Unicum. Because the New Player will often end up doing absolutely Horrible at the Attempt of taking the Strategies the Unicums Adviced to him.

Something many Unicums forget. Is that the best Strategy they know relies heavily on them also being Skilled enough to actually pull off that Strategy.

4.

Frankly. I think the Biggest Mistake is to Show People each others Statistics. Its doing next to nothing Positive for the Game.

In most cases its serving as little more than a measurment contest or is abused to try and silence discussions.

Meanwhile its giving nothing positive to the Game.

It would actually be better to remove Statistics entirely and not allow others to see each others Statistics at all.

5.

Funny enough. In many cases a Diploma does not require very good Results. And many Companies will actually prefer to get their own Picture instead of looking at the Grades because they know that School Grades tend to not really give you any decent Picture of your Future Employees.

Small example for you. When I entered Apprenticeship I was actually the only one which did not have the additional Qualification to go to Highschool. Everyone else either had Finished Highschool or had the Qualification for Highschool but decided to enter the Apprenticeship.

Yet. Half of them could not even do Basic Percentage Calculation or Apply Pythagoras.

Worse. The Company never expected them to be able to. They knew that School Grades meant nothing. And thus such Basic stuff was already Included in the Curriculum to bring the Apprentices up to Speed for actual Industry Specialists.

Thats why any Bigger Company will actually Ignore your School Grades almost Completely. Instead Judging you based on how well you made your Application and how well you did in the Application Testing.

6.

Frankly. Barely anyone ever does that. So far I had like 2 or 3 People in this Forum which Hid their Statistics and then Pretended to be Good Players when they were not.

And these People Generally Faced heavy Ridicule even without being Stat Shamed. Which is not Surprising. Because if someone makes Grandiose Claims it is very easy to just Demand they put their Money where their Mouth is which is much much more powerful as an Argument than trying to Statshame someone who just Voiced his Opinion based on some recent good Results.

 

 

 

 

Small Story for you.

I still remember how I asked for Advice in the Forum once.

I quickly got Advice from some very good Players. Tried it. And got utterly crushed.

Reason was Simple. The Advice was of course the Meta Tactic. But I was nowhere near Skilled enough to actually do that. And the general statement to "just keep doing it till you learn it" only resulted in my Stats dropping badly as I had no idea what to even learn from this.

Which was not Surprising. Because these Good Players might have been Good Players. But they had no Idea why their Tactics worked and they didnt convey half of what they did and how they judged when and why to do something.

Meaning that I who didnt know this. Simply had no way to actually do what they did. Instead just ending up Suiciding with a Strategy that I had no Idea how to actually pull off.

So I started using the Advice of other less good Players many of which were Stat Shamed or told to shut up because they got no Idea.

But their Advice worked. It did not make me Unicum of course. But it vastly improved my Stats because it was stuff I actually understood and could do.

Needless to say that when I dared pointing out that their Advice helped me while the Advice of the Unicums did not work. I got shouted down as a Noob and told to shut up because I got no Idea of the game and my Stats are Bad.

 

Take a guess on how much Value I put on someones Stats nowdays ;)

 

 

[anonym_cwVecOS6ecVy]

 

On 12/7/2021 at 5:53 PM, Crysantos said:

This, there is difference between using information to have a constructive discussion to help somebody or to use it insult / bash another player. That's something we want to avoid here and we want to give players a feeling of being welcome here, no matter whether they're a unicum or not. They should be able to participate in discussions, share their opinions and have a chance to learn from the more experienced players - without being shamed. That's something that no player should experience here in our opinion and to add my personal 2 cents, I've been playing multiplayer games for over 20 years by now and I've never met a single player who changed his attitude about the game or personal approach after being insulted or mocked.

 

That doesn't mean you can't have a discussion about skill level and where to improve but it should be done in a respectful way - even if it's ending in a "agree to disagree" stance :)

 

Greetings, Crysantos

Your argumentation is completely ridiculous and irrelevant when you actively incentivice and promote the skipping of tiers and cashing into high tier premiums. All WG does care for is money and you know it. You are creating bad, incompetent, unsportsmanlike, ignorant and learning-resistant players in masses with your shady schemes ALL by yourself. Do not blame stat shaming on the enthusiasts who are completely annoyed by the utter downfall you have made out of this game and who care for a healthy environment. WG has created more than enough safe spaces both in WoT and WoWs to a point where skill matters less than the fact which team gets the less complete braindead bots. Nothing else. Do not push teaching players on the enthusiasts also. They mostly do not want to learn and are offended like snowflakes when you tell them why and actually prove it. It is YOUR job to educate players properly and not have them sailing around in tier 10 after 50 games. But then again WG just does not care as long as these individuals pay silently and continue to ruin the game. The worst part is you know all of this. But it is your job to play along and put on your diplomatic smiling mask. At several points now you should already have doubted your loyalty towards such an abusive employer.

[MadBadDave]

I totally agree there needs to be a code of conduct, HOWEVER a great number of insults and salt throwing comes from the lack of a proper coherent karma system, Win rate obsession (which also sees a large amount of insults and salt), and the final scoreboard, among many other things which effect a players state of mind.   Removing the friendly fire damage also eroded any instant retribution (AFK, not defending the base or DD sat behind a BB for example),  if a team mate costs you a game because of stupidity, and we ALL see it, other than leave a pointless plays poorly what other “constructive” things can we do ?.    Not forgetting the very frugal amount of feedback we can leave,   I would rather have a more constructive system that points the player in the right direction than spread salt,  how many good players have been marked down because of a disgruntled foe or because you steal killed, and what of cv players.

 

Get the Karma system right and you halve the salt overnight.

 

In light that there is no real game objective; just keep playing people want positives from playing,  I got a forum ban because I moaned about my experience in a Fletcher; totally dominating reds and carrying the usual dire team mates killing 4 but still losing, frustration doesn’t come close, and yet reds who did zero by comparison received more xp and credits than I because their team won,  my kills etc showed I was easily one of the better players in that game, I might as well have played like the player I saw last night (doing zero, dying easily and finishing bottom,  the result : loss.    Is exactly the same.   

 

An example of this is below, from my very latest "ranked" game (17th Dec 21), 6 of my team went to A cap, I went to C cap, I came top and was a total pain in red's arse, killing Bourgy, who came top,  but xp and credit etc wise immelmann got more than me, btw being solo I was singled out by max (twice) until his losses and lack of affect saw him go after the other 6.   Now the scoreboard says one thing, who was "really" the best player ??.   And that really "hisses" me and a lot off; you carry a team, have a good personal game and dim shite team mates let you down, now if we had a "decent" karma system and a "decent" scoring / reward system don't you think there'd be less salt and insults ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.  How do we the players assess WG's Code of Conduct; BADLY.

[anonym_cwVecOS6ecVy]

By the way, they have also censored the Wargambling avatars and signatures. After several months WG found out they do not fit their agenda. This is WG's transparent and pro-customer communication offensive! GG

[DINGENS_2021]

Am 6.12.2021 um 23:06, Astolfo_Is_My_Waifu sagte:

I think there is a difference between pointing out someones creditibility and people who stat-shame by just posting someones stats to say "look at how bad this guy is".

 

I've seen plenty of discussions where a players stats have been brought in to question, and it's fine to say "your opinion lacks experience" or whatever, but would you say it is okay to make a thread with the sole intent of mocking someones ability to play? That isn't something I would expect to be tolerated.

You are right in my opinion. I`m a new player. And yes , I had an orientation first at "Senior Players". But it changed. This Players Stats Diskussion and Using is , for me, gone. I hate it. It`s stupid. And I think, there is definitelly a prospection on stats. I have, i think , no top stats, but i have an opinion. It`s an cultural question, i think. People are defining themselves thru a game. That`s not my thing. We will never solve this.

Many people are coming together here. Intelligents, Empathics, Idiots, Pathogens... That´s it in an official game. We have to work with that. So: I want to play. I want to enjoy and spend my freetime lustfull.

AND: I have the same Toleration Quotiant like you :-)

[landmissile]

Your stat, by nature, measures your credibility of the understandings of the game. Thus, it is [edited] to say that "low stat players have their own understandings and should come out and express themselves". They totally have no idea what they are doing and are unaware of what to do to impact the game. It is meaningless to waste time in discussions with low stats since you could never change their self-righteous understandings of their ships.

Stat insulting never happens. We unicums are just merely pointing out the truth of low-stats' ignorance

[admiraldelorin]

On 12/6/2021 at 6:13 PM, Psychological_Warfare said:

Stat-shaming does not exist.

Your stats reflect how well you play and quite often people who have no idea what they are talking about try to force their flawed opinions into the discussion. That, in itself might not be a "big" issue, but it gets bad when such people do "feedback" to certain ships and game mechanics or - even worse - when new players come into the forum and read the stuff that people wrote who are simply wrong about it. 

 

 

You already made the mistake to let people switch their stats to private and now you want to cover it up even more by including the fantasy of "stat-shaming"? 

 

"Oh yes, lets hire this guy for our Q&A team, he refused to show his school diploma and/or grades but i am SURE he knows what he is talking about"... said no one ever.

 

 

*edit* that might sound a bit arrogant, but i am done with star-sparkling and using silk gloves. You are bad? Nothing wrong with that, but don't behave like you are not.

1. Individuals must be able to keep their data PRIVATE by LAW you have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to information about what any individual does and does not do or when or how much time and money any individual spents. Get over it, get a life !!   (BTW this is not a psychop)

2. Stats are just stats, and no matter how high your score is, you realy arre allowed to think that the game and it mechanics are the best ever. (seriously) I for one refuse to play that way.. to bad for you. Get over it, get a life!
 

[LemonidasM]

This is fantastic, instead of actually fixing the game to work , you get caught in ''Sensitive chatting ''  . Turn off the chat completely. Kill Stats completely , cause we all know that generates toxicity.
And by doing so , MAYBE and i saay maybe,  we all get to enjoy the game . 

[Stronginthearms]

just dont use chat , has for rules   when are wows going to follow some rules they say 1 thing and do it for a week then throw it a way, i know your hear to make money BUT we will only take so much and for a lot its getting to close to ditching the game

[NastyBossJnr]

what a joke this game has become its expensive, long term players abuse the mechanics of the game destroying game play and now there is no point using chat  

[mel1111]

How can I forward a message sent by another player to me to wows?

The guy has really lost the plot completely

 

[Takru]

On 2/2/2022 at 2:11 PM, mel1111 said:

How can I forward a message sent by another player to me to wows?

The guy has really lost the plot completely

 

If it was sent to you ingame, send the screenshot (probably including the replay) to customer support. 

If it was sent on this forum, you can use the report function.

[johncl]

WG you have the Cheek to talk about codes of conduct .........Please Far Cough 

[Zemeritt]

27 minutes ago, Attiglios said:

what do you want to say ?? I lie ???

 

Can you prove your point? No? Guess thats your problem.

You made a statement without any prove whatsoever. This statement was an exaggration aswell.

100 Detos in two weeks would be around ~7 detos per day.

Prove it and noone would doubt your statement.

But as things stand right now: You "claim" is unrealistic.

[HarbingerWOD]

Due to the abuse in game, (last one had one player telling me to go one place and another to go somewhere else). I wanted to go somewhere else, and in end, we lost the game, because I did not follow my instincts. Got abuse from the one player then reported by him / her. Shame really, I know I can report players, but makes the game unpleasant, so I just tinker about in Coop now. (May even get it here, lol)

[ThePolishDJ]

Just a friendly reminder to keep your discussions civil since I had to remove a few of your comments, thank you and have a good day.

[SkipperCH]

Removed 1 post for insults

[IGL]

from your news article:

Updated on September 20, 2022:
Starting today, players from the CIS server are being offered the option to transfer their accounts to the EU server. The transfer window will remain open into October. As a result, you may notice an influx of new players in the coming weeks—let's give them a warm welcome!

 

YEAH! Warm welcome for these folks:

 

FYI: Akhmat referring to that Kadyrov guy, Putins lapdog