Post by Adelle on Apr 6, 2010 23:27:14 GMT -5
Registration/Account
01. When Registering, Please make the attempt to register as your characters name and not something random like "thzc8273" or you will automatically be seen as a possible forum bot or spammer.
02. You May Have One account For Multiple Characters. But Only The Limit of THREE (3) Characters on One account is Allowed.
General
01. First and foremost, No Excessive Swearing, we don't need your character cussing like a sailor. This is supposed to be a pretty much family friendly forum. But I do Not Mind The occaisonal "Dammit" etc.
02. Secondly I do not want to see ANY bashing on Other Members Because of, Opinions, Ideas, Race, Gender, Religion, And The Many Other trivial things people discriminate others for.
03. Absolutely And Positively NO BITING THE NEWBIES. This includes, insulting, harassing and making biased reviews on applications. (In other terms, to not mess with anyone new to the site).
04. Keep all NC-17 related things under the mature board. If you want the password, we will gladly send it to you via Private Message; remember not to abuse the privilege of having the board. If you do not want to see anything in the forum past PG-13, then do not, I repeat, do not, ask for the password.
05. Absolutely, positively, NO SPAM. Spam is hereby Defined By: the posting of advertisements, abusive, or unneeded messages on Internet forums. Which In Simpleton Terms Means, Unrelated, Un-useful threads that don't do the forum any good. When You Do Spam and Talk about Random Stuff unrelated to this forum. Please Keep it to only The spam Bin Located in The General Category.
06. Harassment is against the rules because even if we did not mind, it is against the law, and terms given by Proboards. If you believe that you are being harassed, you are to report it to one of the administrators, who will look into the issue. You may play with people, and tease them, but do not go overboard in doing this.
07. There will be no applying for staff status, not through PM, nor through any other means (i.e. IMing staff, threads). Doing so will probably merit a banning.
RP
01. No Spamming in RP Threads, We Aim For IC threads that arent cluttered by OOC (Out Of Character or Out Of Context) Thoughts. If You Must Post an OOC comment, Make Sure to Use The following Symbols ((YOUR TEXT HERE)) or [YOUR TEXT HERE].
02. Regarding post-length; We aim for Three Good sized Paragraph. And A Paragraph here, is within the range of 5-7 Good sentences. We are also alright if your posts are to-the-point, but leave something open ended for another person to work with.
03. When in fights, There is to be absolutely no God modding. Meta Gaming etc. The Definitions and examples of These two things are listed below:
"God Modding" is in essence when someone’s character has the ability to do practically anything without limits or boundaries. And example is when they simply cannot be harmed by any and all means other RP-ers try.
-It can be killing or injuring a character without the other player's permission.
-It can be when they simply can’t be hit and dodge all attacks or anything for this matter aimed at them.
-It can also be using other characters that other people RP with. In other words, if you do not RP as a gang Member, then you cannot have The Gang Member say anything, or do anything, without the player's express permission.
Another RP example of this would be:
Player A: Punches Player B
Player B: Dodges attack, grabs Player A and throws him. Player A flies at Player B, who warped behind him just in time to slashes Player A across the back.
Metagaming is a broad term usually used to define any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed ruleset, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. In other words, sometimes using out-of-game information, or resources, to affect one's in-game decisions. In role-playing games, a player is metagaming when they use knowledge that is not available to their character in order to change the way they play their character (usually to give them an advantage within the game), such as knowledge of the mathematical nature of character statistics, or the statistics of a creature that the player is familiar with but the character has never encountered. In general, it refers to any gaps between player knowledge and character knowledge which the player acts upon.
04. You Must Have an Accepted Application Before You start RPing here.
05.Proper grammar and punctuation are to be followed, because that is common sense. We dont want post lyk tis. It really isn’t that hard to use the spell check, and it is suggested that you type anything up using Microsoft Word, or any program with spell/grammar check capabilities.
06. No 1337 speech. Save Chat talk for MSN, AIM, etc. Or The C-box. We Dont want it in rp posts.
Character
01. You are not allowed in any circumstances to ever have a character that is godlike. Meaning Your character can not dodge every attack thrown at them. Or Kill in one move.
02. Please for the Staff of this forums sake, NO Mary-sues or Gary Stus. Those terms are defined as follows:
Mary Sue, sometimes shortened simply to Sue, is a pejorative term used to describe a fictional character who plays a major role in the plot and is particularly characterized by overly idealized and clichéd mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly. The author may seem to push how exceptional and wonderful the "Mary Sue" character is on his or her audience, sometimes leading the audience to dislike or even resent the character fairly quickly; such a character could be described as an "author's pet".
A male "Mary Sue" is usually referred to as a 'Gary Stu' (or similar masculinized term). References to male characters being a 'Gary Stu' are less common than those to female 'Mary Sues'. They are generally identified as being much cooler, tougher, and sexier than the canon characters. Gary Stus are often shown as the popular, excessively popular, and the jock of every story. Girls in the story will fall over themselves to capture a Gary Stu's attention.
03. There will be no Vizards, Vasto Lordes or Non-Captain Bankai applications no matter what. Any of these sorts of things you can either be approached by the staff to discuss for being "chosen" due to your long and superb membership, or have a chance to win in a lottery-like setting if possible. (Any questions regarding this, please ask on the Cbox or send a message to a staff member!)
04. The Character Limit is as follows:
Allowed Captains/Vizard/Espada: 2
Medium Strength Canons: 3
Allowed Customs: As Many as You Can Handle
Graphics
01. No Pornographic or extremely offensive material is allowed in your signature, your avatar or your custom title.
02. Your Signature Should Not ever stretch the page, If you want to get graphics made look in the fanart section in the Graphics Shop Index.
C-box
01. No Spamming, This was described above in the rules. If you have read them you will know what this means.
02. No Advertising, Advertising consists of posting a link to another site and saying "Join this place!" We have an advertisement board, use it please.
03. No excessive swearing, again, its really rude and extremely immature.
04. No Flaming, if you have an argument to settle, please do NOT use the c-box as a way of figuring the issue out. Use the PM button, or IM them. pass is ilovekitties. That way we can have a civil site even if there are some conflicts.
Admin
01. Admin and Mods are to help a member no matter how ridiculous the request is.
02. Being rude and careless about how a person feels, usually drives our precious members away. Please be aware that even they have feelings.
03. Flaming someone because they clearly don't know something isn't something fair to do, there has been some point where you haven't known something.
04. Lastly, make sure the site is an enjoyable place to be. Don't allow members to ruin it for others, prevent a verbal arguement and solve it with Mod-like qualities.
05. I lied. No power abuse, it's unhealthy.
