As Bungie expands into new and exciting spaces, we have revised the Bungie.net Code of Conduct for our worlds. These updates outline the principles we ask our community to follow, fostering respect, fair play, and camaraderie. These are essential for the future of our community.
In addition to our Community Standards, those who use Bungie.net and all Bungie.net services, including our Destiny Companion App, must adhere to this Code of Conduct. Many aspects of the Bungie.net Code of Conduct and the Destiny 2 Code of Conduct overlap, including Clan information and Bungie Names, and moderation actions can impact both areas.
This Code of Conduct is supplemental to our Terms of Use and is not an exhaustive list. Bungie reserves the right to remove any user-generated content and any player at our discretion.
Thank you for being a part of our community and helping us maintain a fun, safe, and inclusive experience for everyone.
Code of Conduct
Click each rule for a more in-depth explanation.
- Disrespect of any kind; including hate speech based on, but not limited to race, ethnicity, color, creed, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, medical condition, age, national origin, immigration status, or any other attribute that people use to label others and divide communities.
- Attempts to name and shame suspected cheaters on our forums, instead of submitting their names to our contact form. Our security team does not monitor our forums for reports, only submissions through the form. Please help keep our community safe.
- Personal attacks, harassment, impersonation, or bullying other members of this community or Bungie representatives.
- Violations of privacy or sharing personal information. Do not reveal personal information about others or yourself. It makes you and them vulnerable. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, real-world names and addresses, online handles, phone numbers, messaging app profiles, and email addresses. Bungie representatives will never ask for your personal information in a forum post or direct message.
- Discussions, Clan information, or Bungie Names that are in reference to politics or religion – outside the context of in-game story elements.
- Depictions, references, or descriptions of graphic violence or explicit/implicit sexual content.
- Breaking the law, plotting crimes, or describing/promoting illegal activities.
- Threats to harm other members of this community or Bungie representatives, even in jest.
- Ruining the experience of others by circulating spoilers, hacks, or cheats.
- Distributing unauthorized copyrighted or trademarked material.
- Soliciting, plagiarism, or attempts to phish or harvest accounts, account details, or other credentials.
- Posts made with the intent to antagonize users or to disrupt the flow of a thread or the forums.
- Evasion of website bans, suspensions, or our language filter.
Explanations
DISRESPECT is when another person shows a lack of respect towards another person or group. This includes anything that tries to degrade, demean, insult, humiliate, or disparage a specific person or group of people.
Additionally, HATE SPEECH (expressions of prejudice against a particular group) of any kind will not be tolerated, including all racist, sexist, ethnic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, religion-related and disability-related slurs, derogatory nicknames, or slang.
2. Attempts to name and shame suspected cheaters on our forums, instead of submitting their names to our contact form. Our security team does not monitor our forums for reports, only submissions through the form. Please help keep our community safe.
To NAME AND SHAME is to post information about another user with the intention of getting them banned or removed. While we appreciate reports about suspected cheaters, our forums are not the appropriate place to do so because our security team does not monitor our forums. This is to provide safety for both parties since it is possible the suspected cheater is not actually cheating.
- To report a user for misconduct on our website, please use the "Report" button, located on every thread, post, user profile, private message, or clan chat.
- To report potential cheaters in our games, please use this form.
3. Personal attacks, harassment, impersonation, or bullying other members of this community or Bungie representatives.
A PERSONAL ATTACK is disrespecting a user rather than the merits of their post. While disagreements on a subject matter are permissible, attacking the user instead of their post is not.
HARASSMENT is when a user attempts to target another user to make them feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. While the conduct varies, it can include multiple replies to posts or messages by the targeted victim(s), or getting other users to participate in the harassment. IF THIS HAPPENS, it's appropriate to use the "Mute" button located inside everyone's Bungie profile, then message our forum moderators.
IMPERSONATION is the act of attempting to copy another user to convince others that you are that user. This can include copying usernames, avatars, and profile information, or falsely claiming to be a different user in private messages, groups, clans, or our forums. Impersonation of Bungie representatives will result in harsh punishment.
BULLYING is a form of harassment and disrespect and is when a user intentionally tries to harm or hurt another user in the form of images, video, or written statements, including direct threats or other conduct that is threatening, humiliating, or which can cause psychological harm.
4. Violations of privacy or sharing personal information. Do not reveal personal information about others or yourself. It makes you and them vulnerable. Personal information includes, but is not limited to, real-world names and addresses, online handles, phone numbers, messaging app profiles, and email addresses.
Bungie representatives will never ask for your personal information in a forum post or direct message.
A VIOLATION OF PRIVACY occurs when a user exposes personal information about another user without their consent. This does not include anything publicly available in their profile, such as gamer IDs, game stats, or joined clans. While a user may have shared personal information previously, it's not permitted to share it again without explicit permission.
We believe PERSONAL INFORMATION should never be shared because it can put an account at risk. For this reason, Bungie employees or Ninja forums moderators may remove any personal information they find.
Personal information includes (but is not limited to):
- Full names
- Phone numbers
- Financial information
- Online handles and messaging app profiles
- Addresses, cross streets, coordinates, or other similar data
A Bungie representative will NEVER ask you to post personal information in a forum post or to share it via direct messages on Bungie.net. Users who submit a Help ticket through a contact form on Help.Bungie.Net may need to provide some personal information to help Player Support investigate their issue or process their request.
5. Discussions, Clan information, or Bungie Names that are in reference to politics or religion – outside the context of in-game story elements.
Discussions of sensitive topics, such as politics or religion, can become negative and violate a number of rules. As such, they are prohibited on our forums. However, discussions of beliefs or political systems depicted in our games are permitted.
A POLITICAL DISCUSSION is when the subject matter discusses politics, political parties, politicians, policies, governments, and types of government.
A RELIGIOUS DISCUSSION is when the subject matter discusses the belief system of a person, people, group, or religion, or the existence or non-existence of a non-human power or powers who are regarded as creating and/or governing the universe.
6. Depictions, references, or descriptions of graphic violence or explicit/implicit sexual content.
GRAPHIC VIOLENCE refers to any piece of media that depicts, references, or describes actual violence or incidences against another person, group of people, or animals.
EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT includes any content that clearly shows or describes pornography, nudity, or near-nudity in a sexual manner.
IMPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT refers to any sexual content that isn't directly apparent, such as innuendoes.
The exact definition of this content is exclusively at the discretion of the Bungie staff and takes into account Destiny 2's Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) rating of "Teen." Examples include but are not limited to:
- Websites commonly associated with sexual content
- Slang terms and close variations on them
- References to body parts in suggestive contexts
- Any reference to sexual relations with a minor
7. Breaking the law, plotting crimes, or describing/promoting illegal activities.
BREAKING THE LAW or PLOTTING A CRIME in your country/jurisdiction and using our website, app, or one of our games to do so in any way is prohibited.
Additionally, any user who claims to be or is found to be UNDER THE AGE OF 13 YEARS OLD will be banned from our websites.
DESCRIBING or PROMOTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, which includes all conduct prohibited by law in a user's country/jurisdiction, is prohibited.
Note: These discussions may be reported to law enforcement agencies.
8. Threats to harm other members of this community or Bungie representatives, even in jest.
A THREAT is a statement of intention to inflict harm on one's self or another user. Bungie takes all threats against members of this community seriously and does not tolerate any form of using threats to harm others as a joke.
Note: Threats may be reported to law enforcement agencies.
9. Ruining the experience of others by circulating spoilers, hacks, or cheats.
SPOILERS refer to any elements of information that expose important story details that a user didn't want to know without their approval. This includes leaked content and data-mined information. Spoilers for Bungie games and related media, as well as spoilers for non-Bungie games and media, are prohibited and will be removed.
HACKING or CHEATING one of our games for any reason is prohibited and can lead to in-game restrictions or bans. Spreading or circulating guides for hacking or cheating are prohibited and will be removed. For more information, see our Destiny Account Restrictions and Banning Policies.
10. Distributing unauthorized copyrighted or trademarked material.
COPYRIGHTED or TRADEMARKED material that is distributed without the express permission of the owner or a license is prohibited.
11. Soliciting, plagiarism, or attempts to phish or harvest accounts, account details, or other credentials.
SOLICITATION is the request for something, offering something, or attempting to purchase goods or services. This includes advertisements, referral links, and selling services to use in our games, such as account recoveries or carries.
Bungie does not consider the following to be solicitation: asking users to watch a broadcast or media that a user has created, or recruiting users to join a game, clan, or sub-community, within reason.
PLAGIARISM is any attempt to steal or take credit for another user's work. This includes images and videos posted on the Creations page, and submissions to community contests.
PHISHING or HARVESTING is the attempt to steal another user's personal information. Note that phishing attempts may be reported to law enforcement agencies. Bungie representatives will never ask for your personal information in a forum post or direct message.
12. Posts made with the intent to antagonize users or to disrupt the flow of a thread or the forums.
ANTAGONIZING USERS by posting something controversial in order to receive a negative emotional response is prohibited.
DISRUPTING THE FLOW OF A THREAD or THE FORUMS includes posting something completely off-topic in a forum or thread, trying to purposely change a discussion within a thread, sending unsolicited messages, or repeatedly creating posts or threads with the same message.
13. Evasion of website bans, suspensions, or our language filter.
EVASION is the act of avoiding or circumventing a ban, suspension, or our language filter.
Note: "Benign" attempts to circumvent language filtering rules are also prohibited. For example, Clan Information stating "don't be a" followed by an attempt to circumvent the language filter would still be subject to removal.
Information on Moderation
For information about Bungie.net or Destiny Companion app moderation, please see below. For information about Destiny bans and suspensions, please view our Destiny Account Restrictions and Banning Policies article.
Note: Reports can be escalated to Bungie representatives who may decide to pursue further actions than a forum bans, such as an in-game ban or contacting law enforcement.
Warnings
Multiple warnings may result in a ban. Locked threads are considered warnings.
Bans
Clans and Groups can also be banned depending on what they post or what information they have in their name, motto, or description.
