Post by Cyan on Jan 25, 2009 16:31:28 GMT -5
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[li]Your posts must be at least 75 words. It's really not that difficult, guys. I'll be going around randomly checking posts for this.
[/li][li]Keep it PG 13, please. Absolutely no sexual content. It can be implied, but definitely not RPed or discussed in detail. Swearing, aswell. Try to keep it minimal. You can have them here and there, just not a whole string of them.
[/li][li]No god-moding or auto-hitting. These two are related, because you can use one of them to take advantage of the other. Auto-hitting is dealing damage to an opponent without giving them a chance to reply. We all know how annoying this is, so don't do it!
[/li][li]God-moding is when your character seems invincible. Always succeeds, can dodge anything...Like I said, don't take advantage of the auto-hitting rule. Just because they didn't say if it hurt your character or not doesn't mean you can go dodging every single one.
[/li][li]Absolutely no chat-speak in the role-play threads. I never, ever want to see any posts with, "he tried 2 run b4 the monster could atk him..."
[/li][li]Unless it is absolutely necessary, no pure OOC(Out of character) posts in the IC boards.
[/li][li]No power-playing. This means deciding what someone else’s character says and does without permission.
[/li][li]Punctuation. Please, please, please use it! This means either . ? or ! at the end of your sentences, capital letters wherever they are needed, and commas and apostrophes where it is necessary! Another huge one; Quotation marks. "These" or 'these' should be used whenever anyone is talking. I will not accept bolded font or different colored font. Thoughts should be italicized or bolded.
[/li][li]Grammar and spelling. I hope that if you are role-playing here, you have at least average spelling and grammar. Either way, either review your post, or use spell check. Typos seem to be fairly common these days, and everybody makes mistakes. If I notice any posts that are particularly bad, I’m likely to send you a PM asking about it. Don’t worry, I don’t expect bios and posts to be perfect, but they have to be legible.
[/li][li]Role-play posts must be in the past tense. Third person is preferred, but if you wish you may RP in first.[/size]
2. Characters
[/li][li]It's easiest to make your character names actual human names, but if you wish, you may make up names. Just be advised, more often than not made up names sound incredibly stupid. Another thing that won't work is naming a character after an object. Honestly people, no one wants to be talking to a boy named "Cute" or a teacher called "Mr. Lit Candle".
[/li][li]Please, sob stories are cliché and really annoying. It's not very realistic to have a whole village full of orphaned children who've watched their sister commit suicide and their best friend drown in a lake. I know it seems like tragedy makes the history more interesting, but there is such thing as going overboard! If you must put calamity in your bio, keep it real.
[/li][li]There is no character limit, however, you must keep all your charries active. You also must keep some sort of list of all of them in your signature, so you and others can keep track.
[/li][li]Yes, I understand that there are battles, and with battles come injuries, but if you are planning on doing something serious to someone else’s character, ask first! If a character is killed, the owner of the character must PM me this form, and the character will be removed from the lists.
Name of Character:
Name of Owner:
Species:
Reason of Death:
[/li][li]There is no limit to high positions that one person is allowed, however it is unlikely that you will end up with more than one, as I will take it into consideration when choosing them who already has one.[/size]
3. Out Of Character
[/li][li]Spamming: SPAM-Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages. This is the overall worst one, and most of the others are based on this. I think it's fairly self-explanatory. Spamming is things like posting saying “I like blue” in a thread about how someone’s dog died. It’s things that are, well, pointless. It includes, but is not limited to: Flooding, double posting, advertising, "Let's see how many posts we can get" and similar threads.
[/li][li]Advertising: There is a board for this. Please, don’t advertise in the C-box, role-play or OOC boards.
[/li][li]Religion: It's simple. No talk of religion in OOC, at all. We don't want to offend anyone, right? Right.
[/li][li]Plagiarism: This means taking credit for someone else's work. People should be allowed to post their stories, poems, drawings, etc, without having to worry about it getting stolen.
[/li][li]Swearing: I won't completely rule it out, as most of us are teenagers here, however, keep in mind that there may be younger people on this site. Like in RP, I don't want a whole string of them, especially not some of the worse ones. Use common sense, guys. [/size]
4. Miscellaneous
[/li][li]Just because something isn't on this list doesn't mean you won't be punished for it. Stop and think for a second. There are going to be consequences for things like hacking causing serious fights, of course! Don't expect it'll get you out of trouble just because it wasn't on here.
[/li][li]The rules may change at any time. To ensure that people are aware of this, a code phrase is needed whenever you make a bio. The current code phrase is “I give the staff permission to eat me”. If it has changed, then you know the rules have as well, and it would be best to look over them and see what this is.
[/li][li]When a staff member tells you to do something, you do it, no arguments. If it doesn't seem reasonable, you may PM me about it. [/size]
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