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rules !
Oct 4, 2010 16:20:42 GMT -5
Post by ronnie on Oct 4, 2010 16:20:42 GMT -5
general rules---
• accounts. you may only have one account per user! i don't want to see people making multiple accounts just for the sake of boosting the member count or anything like that. you do not need extra accounts and i don't want my member count cheated by inactive/unnecessary users! thank you.
• avatars and signatures! i won't be overly restrictive with these other than the fact that all avatars must be within 100x100 pixels. that is the normal size for proboards avatars, by the way. signatures should not be wider than 400 pixels as that will stretch the forum and make it look ugly. if your signature does stretch, i will ask you to remove it or resize it, and if you don't, i will remove it or resize it myself.
• content. i don't know why i should have the reason to put up this rule, but as seen from other sites, i shall. any graphics should not contain nudity, political/religious/sexual views, fighting, pg-13+ content, or swearing. again, no inappropriate content within images, text, or otherwise. i can't stress this enough. any violation of this rule will result in warning, in mild cases, or a permanent ban, in serious offense!
• cursing. another no-brainer. you are allowed to curse in the c-box and in ooc but not in the ic! warrior cats don't curse with human words; they have their own insults and ramble words. if i see your character swearing the post may be deleted, or the word changed. swearing elsewhere is limited to the occasional statement, but if you start swearing to insult another member or guest, you will be punished. discriminating curses will be dealt with immediately.
• spamming, threatening, and contempt will be dealt with immediately. spamming is immature and just plain annoying and will result in a ban. it's rather sad to have to make a rule for that; it should be common sense at the age and 'intelligence' of the human species. threatening is not allowed and if you are found threatening another user you will be banned! contempt, aka bashing the site for no apparent reason and bashing members without reason will not be tolerated. you are allowed to have an opinion and say this site sucks or this person sucks as long as you give a legitimate and honest reason as to why. you are excepted to be courteous to the other users.
• advertising should not be done anywhere on the site except for in advertising boards and in pms. i don't want to see you plastering your site ad all over the boards and in the member's areas. i don't care if all you want are 'opinions'. unless you ask for permission to put your ad up in the c-box or board, you are not allowed. staff are allowed to give permission to members requesting showing their ad.
• new users should be treated with respect and patience. if they need help finding their way around the site either give it to them, or if you find yourself incapable of being nice, don't say anything at all. if another user is being disrespectful, please notify a staff member. screen shots can be taken by hitting the "print screen/sysrq" key on the keyboard if you have a screenshot taking tool. not every computer has one so please be patient.
• opinions/point of view. unlike some other sites i allow you to state your point of view/yell at me when you don't like what i say because i need to hear your opinion. if you don't like what's going on, then tell me. you're allowed to have feelings and likes and dislikes different from mine; i'm just a staff member and i hate authority, believe it or not. the only reason i made a site is because i like making sites and they're fun. i don't want to be a bully and force you to do whatever i saw. you have opinions here and i want you to give me them so the site can be great for everyone, not just me.
posting rules---
• i'd like all ic posts to be at least 200 words long. there is a quick link to a word counter in the header and i expect you to use it if you are unsure about how long your posts are. if you can't make the word count at some point in time say in your post that it is unfinished or don't post until you can meet the count. it's not that high of a word count and i would make it higher if it wasn't for the fact that i don't want to hear anyone complaining about 300, 400, 500 words. this is the bare minimum, and though i don't expect everyone to write a 1000 word novel, try and shoot for something higher.
• have fun! don't just sit around in the ic boards role-playing constantly. go to the ooc and have fun. having fun will be a rule! i'll seriously spam your inbox if you don't post in the ooc at least once every two weeks. yes, that's right. just once. shouldn't be too hard. welcoming new members can keep your ooc active. games are always welcome.
• high position characters must be role-played with at least one every two weeks with the exception of medicine cat apprentices who really aren't in a lot of threads on forums these days. inactive high positions will be removed and replaced with active ones. please be aware that you should also post with all of your character, high position or not, at least twice a month. be active!
• double posting. this is actually a kind of spam in my opinion. this is only for ic posts. if you post more than once in a row in an ic board, that is considered double posting. it is annoying and takes up space unnecessarily. please wait for someone else to post in your thread before you post again. you will be punished if caught double posting. it's a bit of a pet peeve for me.
• god-modding and power-playing. the both fall in the same category of annoying, so don't do it. god-modding is basically making your cat perfect at something. when role-playing your cat can not dodge every blow, or hit every blow. they must have flaws and at some point they must be struck unless it's a tiny skirmish where nothing really happens. when hunting, there should be at least some threads where they have missed their catch and stuff like that. don't make your cat the fastest, the strongest, the smartest, best hunter, best fighter, anything. that's a rule. power-playing is basically auto-hitting or making someone else's cat do something that the member didn't agree to or type up themselves. you are not allowed to do this and if this happens, members have my permission to ignore that section of anyone's post.
• formatting. there are some things that can be used, others that should not. when changing font colour please make sure that the font is readable on the current skin. it shouldn't be hard. we only keep one skin at a time here. blockquotes should not exceed three, and i don't see why they'd get past two. do not wrap your entire post in the 'quote' code, or the 'code' code. that is just plain annoying. centering, or right justification is allowed. font size should not get smaller than 1 or bigger than 3. i use size=2 because size=1 is too small for me to read, and size=3 blows up my screen. again, obvious. please do not wrap your entire post in glow tags or sub/sup tags, and do not put youtube videos in your post. i don't know why i need to add that but apparently i do.
• point of view. i don't care what point of view you use, first, second, or third, as long as the name of your cat is clearly defined somewhere in the post. it's no fun looking everywhere in the post trying to figure out who's being posted with and what not. if you don't have the name in the text itself, put it in the title or above the text as a sort of intro.
• content. i'm a bit harsh on this. i don't want any gross content on this site including mating, kits being born, or otherwise. for the mating, just say it happened. for giving birth, don't be graphic about the blood and slimy newborn kits or anything like that. that's disgusting and not needed. wounds should not be described as 'deep gashes with guts spilling out everywhere'. just call it a wound and if it's bleeding then come up with a creative, if you wish, but not violent way of saying so. no exceptions.
character rules---
character rules will by assisted by information threads in the cat creation board.
• you may create as many characters as you like. unlimited characters means that you have to keep them all active, and if some become active we will block you from creating another character until you post with them or abandon them. we do not like inactive cats being left all over the site. that's irresponsible and an abuse of this rule.
• appearance, personality, history and age rules will found in the cat creation board.
banning guidelines---
• warnings. not all rules start with a warning. some result in instant ban. but if you are warned then you have a chance to redeem yourself. when warned because of something that happened on the c-box you will receive a three day ban from the chat box as punishment. all other warnings will result in the warning bar in your profile. if the problem persists then the punishment will increase.
• bans. when banned after or warning, or after a serious offense, it is usually permanent. your account is deleted and your threads/characters moved to the archives permanently. you are completely erased from the site. we do take apologies and if you were banned for something not too serious, i may accept you back if you apologize and prove yourself trustworthy again.
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