General Conduct

General Conduct

Our cabal is proud of who we are, what we achieve and how the SWL Community sees us.
We strive to uphold a good community within our cabal, and all our members contribute to the success of this.

Nine Swords cabal is a cohesive, safe, confident, and happy community.
We value positivity, encourage involvement from all our members and underpin our longevity and success with a culture of respect and friendliness.

All prospective members of Nine Swords should:

• Read and understand the aim of the cabal. It is important that our new applicants have similar ideals and goals to 9S.
• Review our Nine Swords directives before applying to join the cabal.
• Submit an application with as much information as possible, in order to join Nine Swords.

All members of Nine Swords will:

• Remember that they are representing the cabal at all times.
• Show respect to our community.
• Use our communication resources responsibly and considerately.
• Keep themselves up to date with guidelines set out within our Cabal Directives.

The positive, inclusive, and friendly atmosphere is big part of what makes Nine Swords a fantastic cabal to be a part of. Thank you for helping to create it! 

Maintaining the atmosphere involves recognising that we come from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. We all have opinions. Keeping this in mind, as you currently do, is especially important with some real life issues.

For this reason, please discuss controversial issues via for other outlets — there are many.

The Leadership of Nine Swords will:

• Settle disputes between members that cannot be resolved otherwise. Any member who repeatedly violates our general conduct will be removed from Nine Swords.
• Work towards ensuring there are no conflicts of interest.
• Take on tasks and duties in order to make things work smoothly for the cabal as a whole. This is done to ensure the environment within the cabal remains and continues to be a positive one.

Our leaders commitment to you - is to make sure that our cabal is a place we all enjoy. We want to do everything we can to keep it a positive, supportive, and fun group.

Funcom's Rules of Conduct have precedence over our internal rules. Our members are expected to follow them.

Disciplinary measures

Rules of Conduct
All members of Nine Swords should follow the Nine Swords directives, the Terms of Service/End User License Agreement they accepted when installing The Secret World as well as general morality and local laws. When necessary, leaders of Nine Swords shall remind fellow members to do so.
Failure to follow those rules will result in the following measures being carried out:

• Verbal Warnings
  A verbal warning will be used to remind our members of our directives, and where necessary explanation will be given to the cabal member by the leader giving the verbal warning. As much as possible, this will be done in a private message or via a tell in-game to the member. Verbal warnings are not disciplinary in nature, but should be considered carefully.

• Written Warnings
  A written warning will occur when a major problem exists, but the leadership of the cabal prefers to warn the offending member rather than ending their membership. Written warnings shall be directed to the member's forum PM inbox. Leadership will keep copies of written warnings and will consider these written warnings when evaluating membership which is in jeopardy of expulsion.

Removal from Nine Swords
The removal of a cabal member from Nine Swords is a means of last resort, when everything else fails.
The cabal member will be invited to chat with one of our leadership team about the ongoing problems - and in the case that no solution can be found, the person will be removed from Nine Swords.

Objections
All members of Nine Swords may object a disciplinary measure that is given to them.
If you are in the position of action being taken against you, and you believe this to be unjust you may choose another cabal leader to reassess the disciplinary measure. In the case of a conclusion that the disciplinary measure is not justified, involved cabal members must agree on a justified way forwards. Should there be a disagreement on the action to be taken, the cabal director shall make the final decision.

Reporting Misconduct
Every member of Nine Swords should feel that they can report to our leadership team if they witness anything that is not ok in the cabal.
This can be done via a Private Message in our forums. The following things should be included in your message:

• The name of the cabal member that is being reported,
• A description of what happened,
• Names of other cabal members that also witnessed it, unaltered screenshots, chat logs.