Alter Aeon Rules of Conduct

Rule 8.4 - Thou shalt not separate equipment from its rightful owner

As a general rule of thumb, the rightful owner of a piece of equipment
remains the rightful owner until the equipment is discarded, sold, or
actively given away.

In general, equipment dropped on the ground or donated is considered
discarded, but there may be cases where this is not true.  When in
doubt, don't be a jerk - ask if someone meant to throw something away.

Exceptions to this include equipment that is removed from you without
your consent, such as when you die.  Additionally, weightless containers
purchased via donation are NOT to be touched and must be returned.

Here are a few other scenarios where the equipment or items may not
be taken:

Corpses
Zapped equipment
Disarmed weapons
Corpse eq (after the corpse has been eaten)
Equipment donated for the purposes of a corpse retrieval
Equipment in a player's inventory
Equipment worn by a player
Equipment placed on a pet or golem
Weightless containers purchased via donation
Characters you happen to know the password to

Note that there is also a grey area for storage characters that feel the
need to drop containers due to weight concerns.  In general, you should
be polite when encountering stupidity of the level required to drop five
hundred pounds of equipment on the ground in a public place.

For those of you with storage characters, we strongly recommend that your
character be capable of sorting its inventory without resorting to
dropping stuff.  If this isn't the case, you're a dumbass.