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url: https://wiki.awmc.team/en/guide/group-rules.md
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# Community Group Rules

::: tip In one line
The AWMC x RankHub community groups are a place to talk about **maimai DX** and
**AWMC / RankHub** services. To keep the conversation pleasant and the service running for the
long term, please take two minutes to read the rules below.
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These rules apply to all official groups listed below, and to any other group where the AWMC
Bot is present. **Joining a group means you have read and accepted this page.**

::: info These rules may change without notice
These rules may be adjusted at any time. **Changes are not announced** and are not notified
individually; the current content of this page is authoritative. Staying in the group means you
accept the latest version.
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## 1. Groups and their purpose

| Group | Number | Purpose | Join link |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Group 1 | `1072033605` | \[Main] General chat and help | [Join](https://qm.qq.com/q/Gj3QmfEyY0) |
| Group 2 | `993795066` | \[Games] In-group mini-games | [Join](https://qm.qq.com/q/PF5t1VXPi0) |
| Group 3 | `1094792527` | \[No Bot] Chat only, no bot features | [Join](https://qm.qq.com/q/a1eRQGxoBO) |
| Group 4 | `1048450426` | General chat, overflow | [Join](https://qm.qq.com/q/WEOuqtw00O) |

::: warning Want to play games? Go to Group 2
To keep Group 1 pleasant for conversation, **Group 1 does not host in-group mini-games**
(song guessing, guess-the-member, werewolf, polls, etc.). Join **Group 2 (Games)** to play.
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Seats are limited: please **join only the groups you actually need**, and do not join several
just to idle. Administrators may remove long-inactive placeholder members.

There is also a **developer group** `1067350296` for API integration and collaboration, see the
[Developer Center](/en/dev/). These rules apply there as well.

::: danger No bots allowed in the groups — kicked on sight, no warning
**No third-party bot may join any official group.** This includes, but is not limited to:

* bots you self-host on frameworks or protocol backends such as **OneBot / NapCat / SL
  (Shamrock, Lagrange, etc.)**;
* ready-made **check-in, push notification, lottery, song-request or AI chat** bots;
* any bot a member drags in "just to play around";
* **alt accounts dressed up as bots**, or bots renamed to look like a normal human member.

A bot found in a group is **kicked immediately** — no reminder, no grace period, no
explanation. If you want to keep using one, host it in a **private group** instead.

**The AWMC Bot itself, and official bots maintained by the admin team, are exempt.**

How it is judged:

* What counts is whether it is an auto-replying bot account, not what it calls itself;
* Whoever invited the bot is responsible for clearing its leftovers (welcome messages, scheduled
  posts) after it is kicked; leaving them in place is treated as **advertising**;
* Inviting the **same bot back repeatedly** after it was kicked escalates against the inviter
  under section 6;
* A bot that only posts a few messages and then goes quiet still counts — "it hasn't spoken yet"
  is no excuse.
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## 2. Respect each other

* Be civil. Insults, personal attacks, threats, discrimination, regional slurs, call-outs and
  doxxing are **forbidden**.
* **Insults or verbal abuse directed at the bot, management team, project creators or persons in charge will result in a permanent account ban.**
* Disagreement is normal — argue the point, not the person, and do not chase people around
  the group.
* Do not make jokes about someone's privacy, appearance or identity, and avoid humour that
  makes others uncomfortable.
* **Impersonating** staff, administrators, the Bot or other members is forbidden.

### Display name requirements

Your group display name must be **readable and usable as a name**. The following are forbidden:

| Type | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `OPENID` and similar identifiers | Platform-internal IDs, `OPENID` or `Ref_ID` values returned by the bot, tokens and other meaningless strings |
| Garbled or invisible characters | Garbled text, meaningless character dumps, blank names, zero-width characters and other names used to hide one's identity |
| Posing as the bot or staff | Names imitating the bot, administrators, the owner or the official team, including near-identical forms of identity-like names such as `AWMC`, `Bot` or `管理员` |
| Impersonating others | Using someone else's name, avatar or identity markers in a way that causes confusion |

Administrators may require you to change a non-compliant name; if it is **still unchanged after
a reminder**, it is handled under section 6.

::: danger Cross-group call-outs and out-of-context reposting (permanent ban)
**Do not** take in-group chat records — messages from the owner, administrators, bot operators
or members — and screenshot, forward or repost them **out of context** to other groups or
platforms for the purpose of public accusation, opinion manipulation, provocation or
retaliation.

**Do not** publicly insult, mock, single out or gang up on a member's words in other groups or
platforms.

Anyone breaking this rule will be **permanently banned as soon as it is discovered**, with no
separate warning. None of the following is a valid excuse: claiming it was a joke, claiming it
was shared privately, or claiming the consequences were not foreseen.

In-group discussions should be resolved within the group. If you genuinely need to raise
something with the admin team, submit it **by private message** with the full context; do not
circulate cropped fragments.
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## 3. Talk sensibly

* Helping others is encouraged, but **nobody is obliged to answer**.
* If a question gets no reply for a long time, check whether it is clearly written and gives
  enough background (platform, version, full error text, reproduction steps). The more
  specific the question, the easier it is to answer.
* Read the [documentation](/en/guide/introduction) and the
  [command reference](/en/guide/bot/advanced) before asking; do not keep re-posting something
  the docs already answer.
* For bugs, account problems, wrong data or feature requests, post on the
  [forum](https://bbs.wmc.pub/forums/awmc-bot.17/) instead of @-mentioning the group owner or
  the admin team in the group.
* Avoid pushing unrelated topics for long stretches.

::: warning Having a problem? Post on the forum, do not @ the owner or admins
The group owner and the admin team **are not a support desk**. For bugs, account issues,
wrong data or feature requests, check the [documentation](/en/guide/introduction) and the
[command reference](/en/guide/bot/advanced) first; if that does not help, ask on the
**forum**:

👉 **[AWMC Bot board · bbs.wmc.pub/forums/awmc-bot.17](https://bbs.wmc.pub/forums/awmc-bot.17/)**

Include a clear description, the steps to reproduce, and the `Ref_ID` the bot returned.
Repeatedly @-mentioning the owner, admins or bot operators to chase an answer, or pestering
the admin team and members in private messages, counts as **harassment**: you will be
reminded first, and muted for **1 day** if it continues. Repeat offences escalate under
section 6.
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## 4. Forbidden content

The following are **strictly forbidden**; serious cases lead to immediate removal:

1. **Unverified information** — rumours, leaks, "I heard that...", unconfirmed screenshots and
   hearsay;
2. **Repost-for-lottery, vote-begging, like-for-like chains** — any invitation, vote, boost,
   bargain or group-buy link;
3. **Cracking, modifying or cheating in maimai DX** — including modded cabinets, private
   servers, account theft, boosting, and buying or sharing accounts;
4. **Any detail that could affect the operation of the maimai DX China servers**;
5. **Advertising and promotion of any kind** — third-party products, services, communities,
   sites, streams, commissions and traffic farming. What may be shared is limited to content
   from **mainstream social platforms** and **AWMC / RankHub services**;
6. **Other services and bots of the same kind** — do not bring up other score-lookup bots,
   status sites, group-management tools or similar services in the group, in any form:
   recommending them, comparing them, reviewing them, recruiting for them or driving traffic to
   them. The group is for using and troubleshooting AWMC / RankHub itself;
7. **DM solicitation** — advertising, group invites or sales sent to members in private
   messages count as advertising;
8. **Other people's account credentials** — `SGWCMAID`, official QR links, score-fetcher
   tokens and the like may not be requested, forwarded or displayed;
9. **Cross-group call-outs and out-of-context reposting** — screenshotting in-group chat
   records (including messages from the owner, admins and members) and reposting them out of
   context to other groups or platforms; publicly insulting, mocking or ganging up on members
   in other groups;
10. Anything illegal, pornographic, gambling-related, violent, politically sensitive, harmful to
    minors, or otherwise against the platform's rules.

::: info Where rule 6 draws the line
Rule 6 targets **other services and bots of the same kind**; it is not a ban on every external
name. Parts of the AWMC Bot's own functionality — such as 水鱼 / 落雪 uploads, TapTap cloud
saves, arcade data sources and the like — are normal usage topics and may be asked about and
answered freely.
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::: danger A note on "sensitive details"
Please do not discuss or spread any **non-public detail** about the maimai DX servers,
interfaces or operations. This is not topic censorship — it protects the service everyone here
is using. Once such content spreads, everyone pays the price.
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## 5. Message order

* **No spam**: repeating the same message, flooding with meaningless stickers or images,
  voice spam, or mass @-mentions.
* Quote only the necessary part of a message; do not repeat long quotes.
* Use bot commands appropriately, and avoid flooding with long commands (full help pages,
  batch queries). **Abusing the bot API** to scrape data or hog resources is forbidden.
* Send questions and discussion in separate short messages; keep one topic per message.

## 6. Enforcement

Administrators act according to **severity** and **repeat count**. The usual ladder:

| Situation | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Minor, first offence (off-topic spam, mildly uncivil) | Verbal reminder, message recall |
| Non-compliant display name (`OPENID`, garbled, posing as bot or others) | Asked to rename; **removal if unchanged after the reminder** |
| Third-party bot joining a group (self-hosted OneBot / NapCat / SL bots, check-in or push bots) | **Kicked on sight (removal)**, no separate warning |
| Harassing the admin team (chasing answers with @-mentions, unwanted DMs) | **Mute for 1 day** |
| Normal violation (spam, unverified reposts, mild advertising) | Warning, recorded |
| Bringing up other services or bots of the same kind (including recommending or driving traffic) | Reminder and message recall; repeat or clear traffic-driving goes to the next tier |
| Repeat or clear violation (advertising, lottery chains, sharing credentials) | **Mute for 10 minutes to 24 hours** |
| Serious violation (abuse, cracking/cheating content, operation-affecting details, API abuse) | **Removal from the group (kick)** |
| Insults or verbal abuse directed at the bot, management team, project creators or persons in charge | **Permanent account ban** |
| Reposting in-group messages out of context / publicly insulting members in other groups | **Immediate permanent ban**, no warning |
| Extreme or persistent (doxxing, fraud, organised abuse, harassment after removal) | **Removal and permanent ban**, plus a platform report if needed |

Notes:

* Obvious violations — advertising, cracking/cheating, doxxing, sharing credentials — may be
  muted or removed **without prior warning**;
* **Non-compliant display names** (`OPENID`, garbled text, posing as the bot or staff,
  impersonating others) are handled **with a chance to fix it first**: rename on request, and
  removal follows refusal or a repeat offence. Using a fake identity for scams or solicitation
  is treated as a serious violation directly;
* **Third-party bots** get no grace period: kicked on sight, whether or not it has said anything
  and whoever invited it. Inviting the same bot back after a kick escalates against the inviter
  as a **repeat violation**;
* **Out-of-context call-outs and cross-group insults** are **zero tolerance**: breaking them
  leads to an immediate permanent ban, applying to every AWMC group the person is in;
* **Harassment** (repeatedly @-mentioning the owner or admins, unwanted DMs, continuing after a
  reminder) is **muted for 1 day by default** — "I was just asking questions" is not an
  exemption; ask on the forum instead;
* **Bringing up other services and bots of the same kind** (rule 6): a passing mention is
  handled with a **reminder and message recall**; recommending, comparing, recruiting or
  driving traffic, or continuing after a reminder, leads to a **mute of 10 minutes to 24
  hours**; clear promotion of another service is treated as advertising;
* Mute length and whether to remove are at the administrator's discretion; repeated small
  violations escalate;
* Records are kept, and repeat violations across several groups count as the same person.

### Cross-service consequences

Violations in the groups are **not limited to group-level action**. For serious or repeated
violations, the AWMC team may restrict or ban the account across **all AWMC services**,
including but not limited to:

| Service | Possible effect |
| --- | --- |
| **AWMC Bot** | Restriction or ban of score lookup, upload, group features and account commands |
| **AWMC API** | Key revocation, quota restriction or access ban |
| **AWMC KOA** | Restriction or ban of the related features and permissions |
| **Events and competitions** | Disqualification, voided results or revoked prizes |

The scope and duration of cross-service action are decided by the AWMC team based on the
severity of the violation. See the [Terms of Service & Privacy Policy](/en/guide/bot/terms) for
the account restriction rules.

## 7. Responsibility and appeals

* Everything you post must comply with the **terms of service and community guidelines of the
  platform you are using**. The group is not responsible for any ban or restriction resulting
  from a platform rules violation.
* Data and risks arising from use of the AWMC Bot are handled under the
  [Terms of Service & Privacy Policy](/en/guide/bot/terms).
* If you disagree with a decision, **message an administrator privately**. Administrators will
  review it; a mistaken action will be reversed with an apology. **A normal appeal is not
  harassment** — just state the facts clearly and do not spam.
* "No harassment" here means unwanted, repeated pestering that continues after a reminder; it
  does not cover ordinary questions or appeals.
* Permanent bans may also be appealed **once**: message an administrator with the full context,
  and a confirmed mistake will be reversed. This does not change the "no prior warning"
  principle.
* These rules may be adjusted at any time and **changes are not announced**; the current content
  of this page is authoritative, and staying in the group means accepting the latest version.

## 8. Come and play

* Add the AWMC Bot: [click to add](https://bot.q.qq.com/s/uYVc4fV6nK), then bind your account
  to look up scores, queue cards and play guessing games.
* New here? Start with [Getting Started](/en/guide/getting-started); the full command list is
  in the [Command Reference](/en/guide/bot/advanced).
* Group owners and admins can send `群管理` to open the
  [group console](/en/guide/bot/group-console).
* If the bot misbehaves, keep the `Ref_ID` it returns — administrators can use it to look up
  the request chain.