Network Rules

1. Be civil

No harassment, threats, slurs, or targeted hate. Disagree with ideas, not with people. Channel founders may hold their members to stricter standards — respect that.

2. No spam or flooding

• No repeated messages, ASCII floods, or pastes dumped across channels.
• No unsolicited direct messages, especially bulk or automated ones.
• No advertising (products, servers, other networks) without the channel's permission.

3. No illegal content

• Nothing involving minors, ever. Zero tolerance, immediate permaban and report to authorities where applicable.
• No coordinating attacks, fraud, or distributing malware.
• No doxxing — sharing someone's real-world identifying info without their consent.

4. Channel owners' word goes (in their channels)

Channel founders and ops set the rules for their channels within the bounds of these network-wide rules. If you're kicked or banned from a channel, take it up with that channel's staff — network operators don't override local decisions except for network-rule violations.

5. Bots need permission

Bots are fine in channels that want them. Network-wide announcement bots, scrapers, or anything reading/writing across many channels need approval first — email support@secy.net.

6. No impersonation or ban evasion

• Don't register nicknames intended to impersonate other users or network staff.
• If you've been banned, don't come back under a new account or from a different IP. Appeal by email instead.

7. Privacy, logs, and consent

• Channels may be logged by their members or bots. Assume public channel messages can be quoted.
• Don't publish other users' private messages without consent.
• We don't sell your data. See the server's privacy practices at Help → Profile & settings.

8. Enforcement

We aim for warnings before kicks and kicks before bans. Severity matters: a loud argument is a warning; targeted harassment is an immediate ban. Rule 3 (illegal content) is always immediate.

Bans can be:

• Channel ban — kicked from one channel (issued by that channel's ops).
• Network kill — disconnected, but may reconnect.
• K-line / G-line — IP-banned from the network for a set duration or permanently.
• Account deletion — nickname, memos, and associated data removed.