Post by THE GOLDEN SNITCH on Oct 13, 2011 15:52:43 GMT -8
RULE NUMBER ONE: ProBoards TOS
- If you are not familiar with proboards TOS, please familiarize yourself with them. They can be found at Proboards.com. You must be at least thirteen years of age to join this role playing forum.
RULE NUMBER TWO: Member Activity
-Ok here is the one of the biggest rule if not the BIGGEST rule of them all. If you want to rping here and keeping rping here, you MUST do your part. You can do that by posting at least once every other day. That is a requirement for this form. We know that school can often put a damper on your muse and rping time HOWEVER, being students themselves, if the staff members can find time to build you a site and rping at the same time, there is NO excuse as to why you can not post once every other day. Unless you have alerted us before hand and have a valid reason for not posting (EX; family reunion or small vacation), you must post 200 words once every other day or your account will be terminated. It takes five minutes at the most and we know you have plenty of "five minutes" hanging around. Please understand this site is for the serious Harry Potter Role Player.
RULE NUMBER THREE: Just Don't Be a Jerk Policy
-Everyone who joins and/or visits the forum must be respectful to each other. There will be no trolling, intentionally rude sarcasm to others no matter if you're in-character or out of character, and no imitating members on the chatbox or on the forum. It will not be tolerated here at all. If you are found to be doing any of the above, you're IP will be tracked and you will be deleted and banned from our site. Just don't be a jerk!
RULE NUMBER FOUR: Forum Content
-Ok, here's the deal. I know everyone likes to have fun but, we can only allow so much to be shared. When it comes down to it, the forum is PG-13. You can have some fun but spare the intimate details and make sure your a warning in the title of your thread every time you have a PG-13 thread, etc for everyone's sake. Go easy on the language too please, even the British terms!! When it comes to violence, keep the details fairly tolerable alright? Thanks
RULE NUMBER FIVE: Forum Registration
-When registering here, please sign up with the name of the character that you wish to be playing all in lowercase letters. If you are accepted you must change the appear of your name form lowercase to all uppercase letters. Please no names with asterisks or any of that nonsense!
RULE NUMBER SIX: Character Limits
-Unless you an extremely dedicated member who actually has time to rp more than one character at a time and can prove their daily activity, everyone is limited to playing one character. Not one original character and one canon. Pick one or the other please, for this will help with keeping the forum active. No Mary Sue's here please or Gary's for that matter. No one is batter than anyone else here (no matter what you Slytherin's think ;]), and we all know that given the time of year, even rping one character can be hard sometimes.
-Also, not everyone can be Slytherin or Gryffindor. If we find that everyone is signing up for those two houses, a ban will be put on each house for a while. Also, we need our fair share of adult characters to run this joint so please, don't everyone sing up as a student either.
RULE NUMBER SEVEN: Playing a Canon
- If you want to play a canon character you must understand this first. You must be dedicated to the canon. You can play the canon either in-character or a bit more our of character (if that's your style), but you must be active with the canon. If you are not, your chance at playing that character will be stripped and given to someone else. Please don't make us do this. So, only apply for a canon if you WILL role play and post at least once every other day
RULE NUMBER EIGHT: Canon Fights
-Ok, let's get this one straight. No original character can claim a canon character as theirs and theirs only. LOL. If you want your character to have a chance with another one, go the the members area and post in that characters relationship plotting thread (if he/she has one). Or you can PM the member who plays him or her and ask if your characters can get to know each other through rping. It;s easy and fair for everyone. No squealing.
RULE NUMBER NINE: Application Time Limit
-If you can not be done with your character application the same day you have started it, you have a maximum of two days (48 hours) to complete your character application. This includes the day you began your application. Basically you have till midnight the next day or you application will be deleted. We are looking for active members.
RULE NUMBER TEN: Word Count
- This is a literate site so please, nothing less than 200 words. It's really easy and doesn't take long at all. 200 words is about two decent paragraphs. So about five sentences twice.
RULE NUMBER ELEVEN: Third Person Role Playing
-If the title of the rules doesn't give it away...this format in which we role play here is in third person. We do not tolerate first person, preferring the more description birds eye view of the situation.
EX;
Hermione walked slowly among the pumpkin patch before realizing where her feet had taken her. Now in the belly of the beast, she suddenly wished she had her wand.
not
I hadn't realized the hallway was really this long. I had been thinking so much about the decorations that hung on each office door that I had forgotten where I was.
RULE NUMBER TWELVE: Graphics, Content, and Sizes
-Everyone here must have a signature and an icon of the celebrity/model who you chose to represent the character you are playing. However, you man not have any pornographic related images incorporated or used in either images. They must be appropriate for everyone to look at.
-That being said, we hate it when people stretch our boards. Your signature may bot be any bigger than 500x200. Your icon may be no bigger than 150x190.
-Also, you may not have drawings, anime, marvel, etc, characters represent the character being played. You must use a real person.
RULE NUMBER THIRTEEN: The Chat-box
-Whether it be on the In-character cbox or the ordinary cbox, please do not advertise, spam, troll, swear, or post links to things of inappropriate nature. Thanks! If you do, we'll catch you and ban you from everything.
Thank you for sticking with it and reading over the rules! Everything else is pretty common knowledge and if not, just ask for help/clarification. However, make sure you check our handbook, FAQ, and additional information boards to see if your question can be answered that way first! We hating biting so don't make us!
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