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<daiml title="Detailed Explanation of Game Rule 3c">
    <section id="summary">
        <title>
            Summary
        </title>
        <p>
            [Abuse of the rules] <strong>Do not make false or vexatious claims that these rules have been broken.</strong>
        </p>
    </section>
    <section id="description">
        <title>
            Description
        </title>
        <p>
            The Game Rules have been designed to protect the community and preserve the integrity of the game. As the intention of their presentation is chiefly accessibility (see the sticky 'Overview: the Game, the Community, and Why We Have Rules') there should be little in-game confusion about when the rules are violated and when they are not.
        </p>
        <p>
            It is a fact that dealing with alleged violations is time-consuming and disruptive to the Vol, the alleged perpetrator, potentially any victim, and often to the entire community. Therefore meritless claims will meet with a penalty.
        </p>
        <p>
            If the character Badman has just been penalised, logging in with a similar name, such as Badmann, violates this rule.
        </p>
    </section>
    <section id="penalties">
        <title>
            Penalties
        </title>
        <p>
            The precise nature of a penalty, and whether it is preceded by a warning, will be determined by the Vols on a case-by-case basis. See the stickies <a href="file=viewtopic&amp;t=4204">'Enforcement of the Game Rules'</a> and <a href="file=viewtopic&amp;t=4205">'General Interpretation of the Game Rules'</a> for further explanation of these issues.
        </p>
        <p>
            Otherwise isolated violations of this rule may result in any combination of:
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>
                <strong>single kick;</strong>
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong>short, medium, or long mute;</strong>
            </li>
            <li>
                <strong>short IP ban.</strong>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </section>
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