Rules

The only in-game rule Mcpvp has is 'no hacking'. This includes minimaps, flying, x-ray, auras, aimbots, speed hacks, among others. The only allowed mods players can legally have installed are optifine (which reduces lag), Mcpatcher, and the Official Mcpvp Mod. Mcpvp has a customly coded anti-hacking plug-in which includes x-ray detection. There has been much controversy over the accuracy of these plug-ins and Mcpvp has said itself that they are not perfect. Users who are banned from these automated system may make an appeal on the Mcpvp forums and have them removed. If this happens repeatedly, occasionally users may not be able to remove them. Actions such as scamming, betraying, some cases of spamming, and trolling are not against the rules.

A common misconeption with the auto-banning system is the time at which it records a hack as a hack. Mcpvp has officially released information stating that when a player is found to be hacking, the system waits exactly one minute before actually banning the player. During appeals, players are aksed to state what they were doing one minute before their ban.

Banning Procedures
The process of the auto-ban for Mcpvp has gone through many stages throughout its history. At first, it permanently banned players for a first offence. This was changed after it had proven to be quite inaccurate. It was then decided that there should be a 'three strikes and you're out' rule implemented, in which users who received more than three automated bans were then permanently banned with each ban banning the player for 24 hours. This was changed again to simply ban the player for 24 hours without subsequent consequences and then again reduced to where it is now at 30 minutes, because of many unpurposeful bans. Players who are found to be hacking are kicked for 30 minutes and cannot appeal during this time. After the 30 minutes are up, they may play again.

Forum Rules
Mcpvp has rules regarding behavior on the forums.

Users may not:
 * obsessively bump topics
 * intentionally spam the forum or user's inboxes
 * post pornography
 * use excessive swearing
 * have multiple accounts
 * impersonate staff members
 * bypass IP bans on the forums in any way
 * post malicious software
 * posting multiple topics
 * no quote pyramids
 * no sexism/racism/hate speech

Administrator Rules
Administrators and moderators have rules themselves.

They are not permitted to:
 * use their admin powers for personal gain
 * use their admin powers to help their friends
 * take sides in an argument