[2019] Can we get a list of Band Topics so we don't get banned

Heyo Captains,

The forum rules are a great place to check to ensure that your topics do not need to be addressed by moderation, they can be found:

Typically speaking;

- Avoid political/religion/sexual themed topics.

- Avoid posts that are designed to create unrest.

- Avoid posts that are trolling in nature or nonconstructive.

- Avoid posts that directly insult another player / group / staff / etc

What I like to say is stay constructive and respective and you'll be good to go!

Fem,

Solicitation and Advertising. Doesn't come up as often which is why it wasn't on my shortlist.

Guys, we don't have any strict rules of not mentioning other games, because we don't want to over moderate and want to give you as much space for discussion as possible. But overall, this is WoWS forums, and if you want to discuss other modern games, it makes all sense in the world to go to the respective communities. As a team, we're interested in hearing your feedback and experience in OUR game. If you make a valid point or question like "hey, do you like how X implemented in Z game", we will do our best to treat it loyally, as it can be useful and constructive. However, if a discussion of any other game will become a central topic or will go into advertising/promoting area, we will do some moderation to set the discussion back on track. It is not the case where we can have a perfect mathematically precise rule (as I said, we don't want to have just a restrictive no), so each case will be treated and evaluated individually.

I appreciate the American education and input on things happening overseas, but I believe you should still go to some relevant platform or club to discuss political history. There are quite a few of them. As for discussing what politically related things are or not are in the game, this discussion is not happening. We're not in position to engage in this debate, and trying to fuel it will result in ban. The game and forum is about navy, ships (and weeb stuff sometimes). Thank you.

Actually, from my long experience with a lot of online and game communities, WoWS is the best, most mature and reasonable. Really.

I am not stamping anyone's voice or something. I don't tell you what to think. I don't ask you to change your views or do research or anything. I just ask you to chill out and stop bringing this up here. It is our rules. You accept the rules or you don't use Forums. You break the rules, you get banned. And the rules are not about criticizing the game or discussing navy history. They mostly restrict things that are not related to the game and things that Wargaming as game development studio has nothing to do with. It is done not to shut anyone's voice, but just to get rid of heavily loaded things that we don't have any interest in, as well as most of our players. Some things that are acceptable in a small community or some independent platforms are not necessarily okay for an official Forums, of the game, which is published by a big company worldwide. Unfortunately, as much as I love good discussion on everything personally, it's not the place. Thanks for understanding and I will stop commenting on that now.

If you still think it's not fair, you can always stop using the Forums. While we try to accommodate as many players as we can, we realize that the rules can not suit everyone. If they don't suit you, I apologize, but they are in place for too many reasons to ignore them. Cheers!

Russian community is great, but has one challenging trait - these guys LOVE to get personal. Although, as for communities as a whole, our experiences seem to differ, but just to be clear: I mostly engaged in EN-language communities throughout my gaming life.

Dear friend, what did I just spend 4 minutes of my life on? I find it disturbing and strangely satisfying at the same time....

There are a...anchorholes in any part (port!) of the world. Most times I observe, Russian people are quite friendly actually. The thing here is that we don't really show excessive emotions. For example, here in US people tell me "How are you?" while they mean "Hi". In Russia, if a person says "How are you?", most likely he really wants to know how are you. And if he's smiling, he IS happy - not trying to be friendly There are different nuances here and there. But from my experience from travelling across US, to China, to Europe - most people have same values, same hopes and fears, and don't have real reasons to dislike each other. But there is always bad apple here and there. I'm sorry for your bad experience.

Lul.

Well take this in return: