No Talking Order (ATBW Blog)

A No Talking Order is a temporary rule issued to a player in an ATBW Blog Online Multiplayer Game by one of the game's admins or staff while in game, with its first appearance in Deer Tracks in 2004 by Calligraphy Studios, which is the one that gets its noted for being the first to implement this order. Users who do not follow this order could get banned from the game for a certain amount of time.

The rule is used in most ATBW Blog Online Multiplayer Games but they will have different consequences for the offense, usually with the player being banned for a minimum amount of time. However on some servers, if it is too persistent, the offender could even risk being permanently banned from that game.

Some companies including Watercolor Studios call them gag orders, which are otherwise the same as a no talking order. The term gag order is also used in online games including Buoy Run Online, as well as some community servers in California City Street Racers or California City Defense.

Deer Tracks
In Deer Tracks, any player breaking this order may get banned for a minimum of 3 days but no more than 1 week, with ban evading granting double the amount of time given to the ban. Additionally, anyone who refuses to comply with the ban could even risk getting banned permanently.

These orders are often enforced by local community server admins, but can also be enforced by game staff on rare occasions.

CCTV Online Games
CCTV Productions constitutes bans on users who break the order, but they are generally more laid back than other companies and mostly only heard of from local admins who run individual community servers they are admin on. The same can go for a moderator of the server if they implement it, and even the server owner can enforce it if needed.

California City Street Racers
Anyone breaking such order on a community server when implied by a local admin of that server, the user could be subject to bans if they refuse to comply. Further, if the user creates alt accounts to evade that ban, those accounts often become permanently banned and either the ban on the original account being reset or being extended for a longer period. In rare cases, admins can even permanently ban anyone just for breaking the order.

California City Defense
Anyone breaking such order on a community server when implied by a local admin of that server, the user could be subject to bans for refusing to comply. Additionally, global admins in the game can even implement this order on a casual or competitive server if they join, though this is extremely rare and almost never happens.

In the case of a local admin order to that specific server, the user can be banned for a certain amount of time or in extreme cases even permanently banned from the server altogether.

In the case of a global admin order to that specific server, the user can be banned from every community server if it is on a community server or the whole game entirely if on casual or competitive, or in extreme cases, be permanently banned from all community servers or even the entire game together. In the case of staff, which is rare, the user's account can be terminated under severe circumstances.

Watercolor Sheep Racing
Anyone caught breaking this offense could be subject to bans if they refuse to comply. Local community server admins on a specific server can issue an order and will often lead to a ban if the order is violated. Additionally, game staff may also issue an order under rare circumstances if they are to inform others of any issues.

With a no talking order issued, users under the order are not allowed to say anything through the chat or the voice chat or they can be subject to bans for failure to comply. Asking questions to them is also not allowed and local server admins, global server admins, and even game staff are allowed to deny any user to ask then questions and have the right to ban them for doing so.

The first notable order was implemented in a community server in early 2003 when two users were breaking game rules by skipping over boundaries of the game race track, with a game staff member eventually joining the server and warned them if they cheat again they could get banned from the game. Another user who told the staff member "sir I'm not going to break any rules I'm a good person," was told to stop talking or he would be banned from the game for a week.