Questions - Rules & Reporting

[Ech0Chamber]

1. What is exploiting?

2. Does climbing the vines in Temple to get to the mountains count as exploiting?
3. Does it count as exploiting behind the painting in Office?

4. Does advertising count as saying your YouTube names and posting video links?
Exsample: "My Youtube name is xXx_420Swager_xXx subscribe!" (Not actual YouTube name)

5. Does it count as spamming if you spam the chat with "I'm inoccent!" or "I'm next to xxxxxxxx!"

6. Can I be reported for saying "I'm reporting you" in chat?
As some players said they will report me for such lies.

7. Is excessive reporting banable?

8. If a staff warns me or bans me for something that is not punishable should I report them?

 

[StarTheFishGirl]

1. Finding an in-game bug and abusing it to your advantage.

2. & 3. This is a slightly more difficult situation, since map bugs can be easy to accidentally do. But basically, if it causes an unneeded issue to other players via a feature that wasn't meant to be there which a player means to do, then it is map abuse. Either way, these maps should be fixed asap to resolve these issues.
So, for example the door on office would count, as I believe you can no longer get in there in 1.8, so it is abusing an unfair advantage. As for the vines on temple, it depends, if the player is trying to get around the mountains into places difficult to get to and impossible to get back from then it would be map abusing.

4. Its allowed to tell people their youtube name, but not to post links, or to "advertise" it. So saying "everyone subscribe to youtube name", which when people do say that it also tends to be spammed, counts as advertising.

5. Yes.

6. People can report you, but it would be a completely invalid report.

7. No, not unless they're troll reports.

8. If you were warned for something not against the rules, I would advise asking them why you were warned, if you do not get a sufficient answer, make a thread in staff abuse, where it can be explained or resolved. As for bans, if you think you were banned without reason, make a staff abuse thread, if you think you were wrongly banned make a ban appeal.