Often our events or contests have a section in the rules about participating in "good faith" or that submitting a "bad faith" entry may end up getting you disqualified or even lead to receiving a site warning or ban. Some folks have raised concern about the lack of clarity around this so this post should go towards clearing that up. First off, to assume that this expectation only ever applies to material you submit to an event would be a misunderstanding, it also extends to how you conduct yourself during events (or on the site generally).
Exploiting or Bending Event Rules
The Rules posts of events, especially those with imposed restrictions, often do not cover every possibility. Some things are left implied or some rules are "honours-based" because of an assumption that most people will participate in good faith, and others are not explicit rules because of how unreasonable they are to regulate by staff or the contest organizers if they were so. For instance, it's expected in KLDC that your submission is beatable without tools and that the judges can reasonably do the same, or that in ASM-less or baserom contests you don't exploit known quirks in the resources used in your entry to circumvent restrictions, or that in a VGM guessing contest you don't use a music identifier tool, etc. As such, knowingly participating in or submitting to an event to exploit unwritten rules (or gaps in written ones), to skirt good faith assumptions, or do anything else dishonorable, will constitute an infraction.
Trolling or "Low Effort" Participation
This has been gone into detail in this thread but the idea is that you don't participate with the intent of getting disqualified or do anything to deliberately waste the efforts of volunteers involved.
Poor Interaction with Community Members
Unsporting conduct has also been detailed in a thread but "bad faith" interactions would encompass other behaviour that imposes on people (both staff and other community members or event volunteers) or treats them unfairly during the course of an event. For instance: asking things of hosts or judges to waste their time, challenging the rules or premise of a given event, seeking help or offering it and not following through, lack of adequate teamwork in group or paired events, etc. This does not include well-intentioned discussion about or criticism of events, which is welcome, but engaging in the sort of ways mentioned before to the point where it causes problems will also lead to a site infraction.
That's a lot of words for things that should be common sense and come naturally to most people. The tl;dr is: be honest and sincere in your participation in community events (regardless of outcome) and in your interactions with people and you'll be alright.
Exploiting or Bending Event Rules
The Rules posts of events, especially those with imposed restrictions, often do not cover every possibility. Some things are left implied or some rules are "honours-based" because of an assumption that most people will participate in good faith, and others are not explicit rules because of how unreasonable they are to regulate by staff or the contest organizers if they were so. For instance, it's expected in KLDC that your submission is beatable without tools and that the judges can reasonably do the same, or that in ASM-less or baserom contests you don't exploit known quirks in the resources used in your entry to circumvent restrictions, or that in a VGM guessing contest you don't use a music identifier tool, etc. As such, knowingly participating in or submitting to an event to exploit unwritten rules (or gaps in written ones), to skirt good faith assumptions, or do anything else dishonorable, will constitute an infraction.
Trolling or "Low Effort" Participation
This has been gone into detail in this thread but the idea is that you don't participate with the intent of getting disqualified or do anything to deliberately waste the efforts of volunteers involved.
Poor Interaction with Community Members
Unsporting conduct has also been detailed in a thread but "bad faith" interactions would encompass other behaviour that imposes on people (both staff and other community members or event volunteers) or treats them unfairly during the course of an event. For instance: asking things of hosts or judges to waste their time, challenging the rules or premise of a given event, seeking help or offering it and not following through, lack of adequate teamwork in group or paired events, etc. This does not include well-intentioned discussion about or criticism of events, which is welcome, but engaging in the sort of ways mentioned before to the point where it causes problems will also lead to a site infraction.
That's a lot of words for things that should be common sense and come naturally to most people. The tl;dr is: be honest and sincere in your participation in community events (regardless of outcome) and in your interactions with people and you'll be alright.