Recently we have seen an increase in mental disorders and illnesses being used as insults around the league. This is a troubling trend in what many of us consider to be a good, fun, and accepting community. In the past we have punished users for racist and homophobic remarks, but haven't had to punish anyone for this kind of hate speech. Since this is something new we wanted to come out with a warning before handing out punishments. We have updated the SHL Rulebook to reflect this for future infractions:

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• Personal Attacks/Forum Related Discipline
  
  1. <li>Personal attacks, excessive trolling and trolling in a malicious way, baiting and spamming, racist or homophobic remarks and any other types of comments that are meant to slander members of a certain religious, ethnic groups, or those with disabilities will not be tolerated.
     
     1. <li>The punishment will be a mixture of game suspensions, fines and posting restrictions, judged based on the level of severity of the offense. 
        
        
     2. Repeat offenses will be punished more harshly. Accomplices to any punishable offense, including ganging up on a specific member, can face up to as harsh of a punishment as the original offender.
        
        
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We would like to remind everyone that this is a community with a lot of common interests. We may not always get along, but resorting to hate speech is unacceptable. Please think before you type.