# A Serious Matter - Threats
**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954
**Category:** Official News
**Created:** [November 6, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954 "2016-11-06T07:23:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954/1 "2016-11-06T07:23:26Z")
Hi Everyone,
I want to talk about threats of violence over the internet, and in particular both within these forums and in-game.
Any clear threat of violence on these forums or in-game is unacceptable to us here at Infinity Plus Two.
**1. With regards to threats against our staff members…**
As an employer, under Australian Corporate Law, we have a clear duty of care to our employees to provide them with a safe workplace. Any threats must be dealt with immediately, and reported to authorities. _Legally_ we must have zero tolerance for this.
**2. With regards to threats against our players…**
Honestly, the law is murky here… but I believe as a provider of an entertainment product, we should be providing players with as safe & pleasant an environment as possible.
In either case, the fact that law enforcement is playing catch-up with the internet, combined with international jurisdiction issues, means not much will ever be done from a legal standpoint, however, we can choose to do something here, and that is have a _zero-tolerance_ policy against this type of behavior.
Threats of violence on the forum will receive permanent forum bans.
Threats of violence in-game will receive permanent in-game bans.
I have a feeling that I shouldn’t even need to be saying this, but since we just had to ban somebody, I obviously do. Thank you to the forum member who brought it to our attention.
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### Author:  [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 7:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954/2 "2016-11-06T07:23:55Z")
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### Author:  [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954/3 "2016-11-06T07:25:01Z")
I’ve closed the thread, because no responses are needed. I just wanted to communicate this policy to you all.
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### Author:  [@Sirrian](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Sirrian)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2016, 10:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/a-serious-matter-threats/14954/4 "2016-11-06T10:34:11Z")