New Penguin Guide/Tutorial: Communicating

Ways to Communicate

You can talk to other penguins by chatting, using emotes, and doing actions.
To chat, if your account settings are set to Standard Safe Chat, you can either type in the text box at the bottom of the screen and press enter or click ‘send’; or, you can use the menu on the left.
If your penguin does not have a text box to type in messages, you are set to Ultimate Safe Chat.
In Ultimate Safe Chat, you cannot type in messages, but can communicate using the Ultimate Safe Chat menu on the left, as well as by emotes, actions, and greeting cards.
Note: If you are in Ultimate Safe Chat mode, you will only see other Ultimate Safe Chat messages, as well as actions, emotes, and greeting cards.
You can easily Change Your Safe Chat Level.

To send a post card to another penguin, you first need to open their player card.

If they’re in the same room as you, click on their penguin.
Or, you can click on your buddies list (Smiley Face icon, third from the right on your bottom menu), and click on their name.

Once you have their player card open, click the envelope icon on their card to “send mail”.
This will open the Post Card Catalog.
Pick the card you want to send (they cost 10 coins), and click “Yes” to send the card.

If you swear or say something against the rules, you will be banned. This means you will not be able to use your account for a period of time – anywhere from 24 hours to forever.
If you are a member and you are banned, you will not be reimbursed for the time that you were banned.
A ban can happen automatically, which takes effect instantly, or be assigned by a moderator, which may take a little more time.
Learn more on Club Penguin rules.

A penguin can be banned either automatically or by a moderator.

An Automatic Ban occurs instantly when the player has said one of several flagged bad words.
A Moderator Ban happens when:

A player reports another player;
A record of all conversation at that time in that room is sent to the moderators, including filtered messages;
A moderator reviews the conversation;
If the moderator sees bad language or inappropriate behavior, they will ban the guilty penguin 24 hours for a first-time offense or 72 hours for a second or third offense.
Four or more offenses may result in a permanent ban.

You can communicate by using the emotes and actions. Emotes, or emoticons, are small icons displaying a thought or emotion. Your emotes button is on the left of the toolbar. You can also display emotes by using Quick Keys.

Your penguin can do certain actions – wave, dance, sit, and throw a snowball. To do one of the actions, click on the actions icon – the sitting penguin (on the left side of your bottom menu). Then click on the action you want to do (sit, wave, or dance).
If you want to sit down, click the direction you want to face in the action menu.
You can also use Quick Keys to do actions.

Snowballs:

Another action you can do is throw a snowball.
To throw a snowball, click the Snowball icon (on the left of the toolbar), and then click a target.