8.2 - Karma and warnings
Karma is what shows your reputation in the game. Upon registering, you receive 10 karma points. You lose karma points if you break the rules. Losing karma points can mean you lose access to certain game features, such as the forum or sales.
If you break a minor rule, you receive a warning. If the situation repeats itself, you lose karma.
Losing karma
| How you can lose karma: | |
|---|---|
| Inappropriate images or comments: | With content that is sexual, racist, threatening, harassing, or violent in nature; that incites violence and hatred; or that divulges a player's private information. This restriction includes links to other websites containing such images or comments. |
| Cheating: | Asking other users their passwords, organizing scams, breaches of trust, stealing accounts, trafficking with accounts with passes or in-game items. Cancelling pass purchases after passes have been spent. Exploiting any aspect of Howrse via using bugs or abusing temporary game defects. Multiple accounts and use of scripts. |
| Behavior towards others: | Lack of respect or common courtesy, aggression, insults, profanity, defamation, or identity theft. This also includes behavior towards customer service representatives. |
| Copyright infringement: | Theft of creations, images or illustrations that are not in the public domain. |
| Specific rules: | Disrespect of specific forum rules, private messaging... |
This list is not exhaustive and may be changed at any time.
Earning karma
If you lose karma points, you can get them back: one point per 30 calendar days starting from when you last lost karma points.
You can have up to 10 karma points.
Effects of karma loss
| Your karma affects your access to the game's community features | ||
|---|---|---|
 | 8 points | Loss of access to co-management, pre-production versions of the game, aging Yggdrasil, equestrian center forums, and temporary closure of the forum for your equestrian center, loss of access to daily objectives (including opening the Horn of Plenty) |
| 6 points | Loss of access to all the forums, to personal page and equestrian centre page customization, to creation/edition of Help Center content, and loss of access to item donation and the item exchange |
| 4 points | Loss of access to the sales and to proposing creations |
| 2 points | Loss of access to private messaging |
| 0 points | Two-month ban from the game |