If anyone detects changes in these Rules Please let me know so I can update copy and paste. - 9mmbooks

1. While in Kaneva, you must respect the rights of others and their rights to enjoy the world. To this end you may not defraud, harass, threaten, impersonate, give unwanted attention or cause distress to other users.

2. You may not use sexually explicit, harassing, threatening, harmful, abusive, obscene, defamatory, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language, in any language.

3. You may not post or link to any sexually explicit, harassing, threatening, harmful, abusive, obscene, defamatory, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive imagery or content.

4. While in Kaneva, you may not spam or flood the chat, comments, or forums with repetitive text or obscene language.

5. You may not use information gathered on Kaneva to spam other Kaneva users with offers of goods or services.

6. You may not impersonate any employee of Kaneva.

7. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.

8. You must follow the instructions of any Kaneva employee while in Kaneva.

9. You may not provide false information or intentionally hide any information when registering for your Kaneva account.

10. You may not misrepresent your age in any way if this crosses the boundary of the adult/minor threshold of 18 years of age. This includes: your profile, sharing your account with someone younger or older than you, chat in world, private messages, etc.

11. You may not attempt to interfere with, hack into, or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Kaneva service.

12. You may not attempt to exploit any bug in the Kaneva service and you will not communicate the existence of any such exploitable bug to other users, instead immediately reporting any bug to Kaneva using the feedback function.

13. You may not release any real-life information about any other users or any Kaneva employees.

14. You may not create duplicate threads about the same topic on the forums. This includes threads about other threads that were closed by a forum administrator.

15. You may not create posts or threads concerning disciplinary action taken against any member of the community, including chat logs, personal messages, bulletins, or emails between that member and the Kaneva employee.

16. If you post material that is deemed to be of an adult nature that by rule should be restricted but you did not mark as restricted, then that material will be deleted.

17. Restricted items include: nonsexual nudity, profanity, substance abuse or graphic violence. Kaneva reserves the right to deem what is and isn’t restricted material.

18. Material that will not be allowed, restricted format or otherwise, includes but is not exclusive to the following: incendiary material, racial, ethnic or religious slurs and pornographic content or any depiction thereof.

19. A community owner is responsible for ensuring that all Kaneva Rules of Conduct are met within their community. Failure to do you so may bring about that community’s suspension or possible deletion.

Added Rule: Added here on 10/2/07 9mmbooks
20. Misuse of the reporting system is not allowed. You may not falsely report members for things they have not done. We do consider this a form of harassment.

Kaneva reserves the right to make changes to these rules as deemed necessary.