Moderation Rules & Guidelines

List of Moderators

Exploiting or abusing the game is a serious offense. Moderators may put a blacklist in place to uses who do not follow the rules.

When adequate evidence has been collected, mods are free to punish users within the protocols of these guidelines. The length and severity of punishments depends on the circumstances of each individual case. If given case is severe enough, the punishment may be accordingly increased. Each case is ultimately up to the moderators discretion.

Provided below are examples of potential ban worthy offenses. Certain cases may arise that are not outlined in the following rules. It is up to the moderation team to determine the proper case of action in these given situations.

• The rules and guidelines listed are subject to change at any given time.
• The word of the moderation team is final unless stated otherwise.
• Players will NOT receive compensation for money/currency spent on the game prior to the time of their blacklist.
• Alternate accounts are subject to all blacklists.
• Players who purchase unreleased maps and get “world record” will not receive a whitelist. This also applies to new maps that have just come out. If your time is still the WR within a few days after release you may be whitelisted.
• These rules are specifically for the main bhop and surf games. The maptest and dev games are not subject to the rules.

*Asterisks refer to a reference section number or the glossary

1. If any account's age is under one month old and makes it into pending, it will be blacklisted unless the identity of the of account is confirmed to be a legitimate player's account.

2. Only one alternate account per world record holder (Verify with a mod which account you would like to keep).

3. Both FPS Unlocker* and Turn binds* are allowed in bhop and surf.

4. Players cannot get a whitelisted alt for an already blacklisted player. The alt and all known associated accounts with both players will be blacklisted if this rule is broken.

Upon first offense any accounts found to be belonging to said user will be blacklisted. Alternate accounts will be subject to the same blacklist reasons as the original offending account.

After first offenses users can get a second chance. Further offenses will lead to their accounts being blacklisted indefinitely. To start an appeal, use this appeal form.

1. Cheating

In the event that a player is found to be using external assitance they will be issued a blacklist to their account

• Exploits included in this list are:
  • Autostrafe*
  • Gains*
  • Timescale*
  • Nulls*
  • VR*
  • Angle changing*

After the first cheating offense, users can appeal after 4 months from their original blacklist date. Further offenses will lead to indefinite blacklists that are not appealable.

2. Autoscroll

The use of hyperscroll* or Macros* to scroll for you.

First time offenders will be warned and have their autoscrolled times deleted. Further offenses are subject to the cheating (the above category) rules.

3. Alternate accounts

New accounts made or used to cheat, or accounts that were made by an already blacklisted user.

• Using alternate accounts to evade bans is a ban worthy offense that may lead to additional punishments in addition to the first offense.
• If you are caught cheating on an alternate account, all known accounts that you are associated with will be blacklisted as well.

Alternate accounts by non-blacklisted players (as of November 29th, 2020).

• Alternate accounts are no longer allowed and will be blacklisted with the exception of alts whitelisted before November 29th, 2020.
• Players will receive warnings for using alternate accounts. Repeatedly breaking this rule may result in one's main account being blacklisted.
• Any alternate accounts that were granted immunity should no longer be used. If you use an alternate account that was already whitelisted to get times after November 29th, 2020 it can be blacklisted.

4. Account sharing (as of August 5th, 2020)

Sharing your account with another player.

• Any account with multiple users is subject to this rule.
• Boosting other players (getting times for them on their account) is also subject to this rule.
• All players involved in a shared account can potentially be blacklisted for breaking this rule, but especially the account owner themselves.
• Sharing your account with a player who was blacklisted for cheating will make you eligible for a cheating blacklist on your account.

First offenses for these rules are warnable, which means either no blacklist or a very short blacklist so that your times can be removed from the leaderboard. Further offenses will be subject to more severe punishments.

5. Edge boosting*

Abusing the edges of any platform or part in order to gain any amount of speed.

• Edge boosting at any point in a map.
• Touching the edge of a Spawn and surfing off it into a trigger to update your Spawn.
• Does NOT apply to Scroll category.

6. Bouncing*

Abusing the edge of any platform or part to abuse the game mechanics and get extra height

• This general includes bounces used only to do map skips

7. Map Skips/Glitches and Out of Bounds (OOB) skips

Any skip that involves clipping through a part or exiting the boundaries of a map is forbidden. This also includes bouncing* up to skip another part of the map.

If you are not sure if a skip is considered OOB, then ask a mod.

8. Ladder boosting (Subject to change)

• Currently in question since the mods cant decide and they dont update this page

Abuse of using ladders to boost over the edge to instantly gain units.

9. Long Pocketing

Also known as Reverse Edgeboosting to some, abuse of curved edges of parts to gain downwards velocity

10. Half-Sideways binds

Utilization of anything to bind Half-Sideways so less than 4 total keys have to be pressed is not allowed

11. Passing through an anti cheat by standing in the start zone and anti cheat at the same time in order to abuse any teleports or skips is against the rules.

12. Leaving the start zone and re-entering the start zone to gain a height advantage at the start of the map

• As a general rule, if you have to surf on a ramp to get on top of the anti telehop it is not allowed. Example: Cryogen
• Height advantages where one does not have to leave the start zone (Example: Hyperspeed) are allowed

13. Edgeing spawns and then touching triggers to spawn further on the spawn is not allowed. Example: Old lemon triggerskip

1.1

The blacklistable offenses under the appealable section are offenses that will result in the player being blacklisted on sight, and can be appealed through talking with a mod or submitting an appeal on the appeals form.

1.2

The blacklistable offenses under the warnable section are offenses that are not as serious as the offenses under the appealable section. Reasons for this include them being able to be done on accident, a gray area over what is considered a skip, or general decided by moderators to be warnable.

Autostrafe : using scripts such as AutoHotKey to bind 'a' and 'd' to your mouse movement, essentially making it sync for you.

Gains : changing the amount of speed you gain in game with external help.

Timescale : changing the properties of time in game; slowing down or speeding up your game.

Nulls : preventing the user from pressing 'a' and 'd' at the same time, possibly giving the user better sync.

Edgeboosting : edges are curved in game to where they are “miniature surfs”. You are able to boost of these edges and gain speed from them being surfs.

Ladder Boosting : boosting over the edge of the ladder and gaining units instantly.

Autoscroll : anything that will scroll for you. (Example: g502 hyperscroll wheels)

Maptest : game places where players can submit maps to test them.

Development : game places where Quaternions does testing for updates before publishing them to the main bhop and surf games.

Angle changing : changing the view angle of your character, this can be abused to play backwards and other styles while facing forwards.

VR : Virtual reality; a new addition to Roblox that can essentially be used as an angle changer.

Turn binds: These are allowed under normal circumstances, but using them as autostrafers or anything of the sort is prohibited.

Macros : These tend to be stuff like ahk scripts, these are allowed for most things that do no affect actual gameplay, /r macros, or other commands are allowed.

OOB: Out of bounds.