Shoddy Battle Rules

When you join the Smogon Shoddy Battle Server, you are to obey the following rules in order to keep the chat nice and clean. Please be sure to read them thoroughly and check up on them once in a while because they are subject to change. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse. Violation of any rules may result in warnings, kicks, and / or bans.

• Use common sense. You will end up following most of these rules automatically if you use common sense. Please try to think before you act. Don't act dumb; the definition of "dumb" is up to moderator discretion.
• Do not link to pornographic websites. You will be banned.
• Any player found cheating on the ladder will be banned for a minimum of 7 days.
• Respect the decisions of the moderating staff. Do not talk back after being warned, kicked or banned. Do not question the actions of the staff. If a staff member tells you to do something or not do something, do not do the opposite. Do not disrespect the staff themselves.
• Do not flood, spam or clog up the chat. This involves repeating the same thing over and over, stretching the screen horizontally, repeatedly joining / parting, etc.
• Do not ask for a battle in the main chat. We have ladders with find tabs for Standard, Uber, and Underused matches; use those instead, or manually challenge people. It might be polite to PM people before you manually challenge them, to agree on which metagame and rules to use.
• Smogon is an English website, so only speak English in the main chat. Keep other languages to PM. In other words, falam apenas em Inglês and hable en ingles solomente.
• No excessive use of CAPITAL LETTERS. It makes you look childish and the only attention you are going to get is negative attention. Additionally, overuse of characters like '!!!!!!!!!!' or '??????????' is not considered funny, so please do not do it.
• Do not junior mod. This means that you should not tell staff how to do their job. Do not post messages in the chat like "in b4 kick" or "ban that guy".
• No advertising. Linking to well-known sites like YouTube and MySpace is okay, but sorry, we don't care about your obscure upstart "community".
• The standard assumed rules to be turned on are: Evasion Clause, Freeze Clause, OHKO Clause, Sleep Clause, Soul Dew Clause, Species Clause, Strict Damage Clause, and Timed Battle. Those are also the rules you will find when battling on the ladder. Most of these rules are used to keep the game in balance. It is heavily recommended to battle with Timed Battle turned on, because this way people are forced to continue battling (opposed to being free to stop moving whenever they choose, like when they are about to lose). Information on tiers can be found here.
• Respect each other. Having a discussion is one thing, but do not flame, troll or bait other users merely because they disagree with you, got a critical hit on you, etc.
• If someone rejects your challenge, that is usually the sign he / she does not want to battle. Do not repeatedly challenge someone manually.
• Do not go off-topic and disrupt the current conversation. For example, if the chat is currently about Fire Emblem, then don't randomly interrupt with "Which is better 252/4/252 or 252/252/4?".

If you follow these simple rules, you really have nothing to worry about. Have fun on Smogon University!