Post by Dominique Weasley on Apr 9, 2011 4:45:08 GMT -6
BOARD RULES
These rules are for everyone's enjoyment of the site! We want to make sure that everyone gets a good and fair chance at RPGing on this site. We all want to have a good time and to do that we need to follow the rules and make sure that everything is alright for any new members as well. Yes yes...I understand. No one likes them. However, they are necessary for the smooth running of a board. No secret phrases. The honor system is much nicer, right? Don't make me regret this...pretty please?
These rules are for everyone's enjoyment of the site! We want to make sure that everyone gets a good and fair chance at RPGing on this site. We all want to have a good time and to do that we need to follow the rules and make sure that everything is alright for any new members as well. Yes yes...I understand. No one likes them. However, they are necessary for the smooth running of a board. No secret phrases. The honor system is much nicer, right? Don't make me regret this...pretty please?
GENERAL RULES
2. The RP is loosely based on Potterverse. Which means, if you need to do research, that's fine. None of us our real witches or wizards here, and if you are - I'm sorry some of us might bother you with slow and sometimes labored responses, but we are all working hard to make this as reliable as possible. Not only do we like to base the histories on the books, we will also allow histories based on the movies.
3. Be civil! There’s no need for anyone to be rude and obnoxious. If it’s in your character’s nature to be rude, that’s fine, however, OOC I would like people to be civil to one another. Remember, just because your characters don’t get along doesn’t mean that you don’t have to!
4. Language: There will be a very low tolerance for swearing on this board. We will allow a little leeway with certain words, however, if I notice any extremely rude or offensive language is used, it will result in admin interference.
5. Chat speak: Don’t use chat speak on the board. An RP involves using proper English and spelling. There’s some ability to use abbreviations in OOC boards and such, but it’s easier for everyone to understand and looks much better for the board, if people try to use proper spelling and some grammar.
6. Narrative: This RP is in third person. You are also required to post in paragraph form. By posting in paragraph form, I mean separating thoughts. Don’t try to indent, just skip lines in between paragraphs.
7. Posting Limits: All posts must be a minimum of two paragraphs, which is about 200 words. That means at least two sets of four complete sentences. It's not fair for the people who put a lot of effort into their posts to get a two word reply. Be considerate and remember, your characters are always thinking and always moving! Describe, describe, describe!
8. Staff Powers: For Staff members, do not abuse your powers. We trust you when we give you this position, so make sure you'll keep it that way.
9. Listen to Staff members. Do as all Staff members say, if they say Not to do something then don't or you'll get 2 warnings, over 2 will mean you get a ban for 48 hours and if you get another 2 warnings. You'll be banned. Permanently!
10. Passwords: Make sure you have good passwords, especially the staff members.
11. Characters: You may have as many characters as you wish. However, please keep them all active. And for each character you have, please create a different account for each of them. You MUST use your character’s name for the display name of the account. It will be so much easier for those involved in a thread to know who they are posting with.
12. Character Portrayal: Please have your character portrayed by a celebrity; it is so much easier on everyone this way. And don’t forget to post them in the face claim.
13. Character Acceptance: Since Abby is a self proclaimed admin of not being good with apps, thus this duty falls solely upon Ry AKA Scorpius. Abby is more of a coding admin than anything else. The only time she will look and accept apps is if Ry is the player of the app or if he is unavailable to do so. Also do not bug us to look at your app once it is done. We both work and have lives outside of this game. If you haven't heard any feedback from us in a few days, feel free to poke one of us in the CBox or via a PM. BUT PLEASE DO NOT BUG OR NAG US TO LOOK AT YOUR APP! Doing so will only get you a fast track to the denied pile, and you do not wish for that to happen.[/ul]
APPLICATION RULES
2. Quidditch Players. So, you're a Quidditch player are you? Simply put in the application for your character that you are a Quidditch player, somewhere in the likes section, and mention which position they play. Then the admins will add you to the house team, if the position is full you will be PM'd about the situation, and you can either choose a new position, or choose to not be on the team. When the team is filled, the admins will choose the captains.
3. IC Posting. Do not post anywhere until your application has been approved. Not hard, we are on every day to look over this stuff. If we do not get to it in two days, you may contact one of us to remind us, especially if one of us asked you to make changes to your application. This also means for you to be patient, we cannot be on 24/7, though we try our best.[/ul]
IC RULES
2. Mary-Sues/Gary-Stu’s: Mary Sue/Gary-Stu’s is an utterly perfect character. He/She stands in for the author and performs every heroic feat known to fandom, often outdoing the main characters of the story. He/She is beautiful/handsome, fit, wise, and incredibly intuitive. He/She is either the best friend, lover, or unrequited love of the most handsome/beautiful and desirable male/female character. He/She often has psychic or supernatural powers (not so much here since we are dealing with some unknown races of beings), which he/she uses in the most predictable and boring ways. He/She is introduced without preamble, has not a single weakness or flaw, and can kick the butt of the most powerful person in the story.
This is not acceptable on my boards. Mary-Sues/Gary-Stu’s aren’t realistic and can’t be realistically thrown into the plot. Make a character that is developed in every way and has flaws as well as strengths. No one wants to RP a cliché! Have fun and create your own UNIQUE characters. Seeing this definition should steer people away from creating this type of character.
3. Other Character Types. But also, we don’t want characters that run around depressed all the time, with a completely tragic life story. If your character is like that, contact me first. We don't mind a couple tragedies, but no "Kill me or I'll do it myself." said Johnny as he stood on the edge of the Astronomy tower. type kids, okay? Remember, believable.
4. Romance: Romance is fine! There is no reason people can’t be in love! However, there are times at which one should draw the line. Don’t drag out love scenes. If people are going to kiss/make-out please keep it to a minimal. We don’t want to read about people eating each other’s faces.
Same goes for “romantic” scenes. KISS (Keep It Simple Sam/Samantha) it.
5. Violence: People can fight, but I don’t want to see huge descriptions of bloody fights and such on the board. Grace over the really bad parts of the violence and just post the after effects if that’s better for you. Just consider other people when you post fight scenes and such.
6. Tagged Threads: If a thread is tagged with names, don't join if your name isn't in it. If you really want to join then ask the one who started the thread to join via a PM.
7. Mature Threads: There will not be any on my boards. If I find any, you will be banned and stripped of any rank you may hold. This is to insure that we are compliant with Proboards Terms of Service. This is your one and final warning on this subject!
8. Character Pregnancy: This actually ties in with the mature threads and romance rules. We will allow pregnancy for students attending Hogwarts. Mrs. Rowling may not have addressed this issue in her world, but it does happen in the muggle one. However, in order to keep female characters from running around pregnant, you MUST PM a member of staff. We will decide if your character is going to have a child or not, as we must see how many others on the board are also pregnant first. If we tell you no at first, please be patient and await for the number of expecting parents to dwindle before requesting again.[/ul]
Graphics Rules
2. Signatures: All signatures will be no bigger than 500 pixels wide by 200 or 300 pixels tall.
3. Other Graphics: All other graphics will be no wider than 500 pixels.[/ul]
C-BOX RULES
2. No Adult Content. You can poke, kick, hug, whatever. But nobody wants to see anyone going any further then that. Little kids can see what goes on in the C-Box. DON’T GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN TO MOMMY AND DADDY ABOUT!
3. Be Nice, No Fighting. Playing around fighting is fine. Like poking, kicking, don't do anything too severe though, and make sure you both are playing around. No actual fights. No yelling, swearing, being bitches to each other. Also, NO PICKING FIGHTS WITH PEOPLE.
4. No Advertising! Means, No advertising. No posting links to other sites on the box, talking about your site so much that people can figure out the url to it, or talking about sending someone a PM to a url of a site. All is NOT allowed. There is a board strictly for this.
5. Have Fun! There’s no need for anyone to be rude and obnoxious. I would like people to be civil to one another.
6. Guest Friendly. You do not have register or join anything to chat in the C-Box. It is 100% guest friendly!
7. Language: There will be a very low tolerance for swearing on this C-Box. We will allow a little leeway with certain words; however, if I notice any extremely rude or offensive language is used, it will result in admin interference. The C-Box is used for talking.[/ul]
Rule outline is created/formatted by December, Esq of RPG-D. The rules themselves are created by Ambrosine LaRoux. December, Esq is not responsible for attitude of rules/admin.