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RULES.
Jan 19, 2010 17:26:50 GMT -5
Post by ! LEX on Jan 19, 2010 17:26:50 GMT -5
REGISTRATION
* welcome to sydney, i love you! first and foremost, be respectful. i shouldn't have to lecture you on not being mean or rude to other members. respect your admins and anyone you may be interacting with. remember the golden rule, kiddos. treat others the way you would want to be treated. if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it at all. those same things apply here. according to proboards rules, you must be thirteen and older to be here. this is a mature site, so i suggest you respect that rule entirely.
* don't register with a ridiculous username like bbygirl123. register with your alias, or your characters name. something simple and easy to remember. try not to join and then decide to randomly leave a day later, but if you know you won't be returning, please let me know so i can delete your account and everything along with it. upon registering, please change your display name to your character's FIRST MIDDLE LAST names in all capitals. no symbols. also, try to avoid ridiculous names, and try to avoid using the same name as someone else. we shouldn't have 3 different jessica's running around. be aware of that. check the face claims and you should be good to do.
* you are allowed as many characters as you can keep active. you can use as many canons as you would like, that doesn't matter to me. for every two girls you make, the third must be a boy, and vice versa. i don't want ratios getting out of whack, and bans are no fun. try not to make two people of the same member group, either. let's get a nice variety going. also, use a face that we know. do not use random myspace or deviant art models. i need a first AND last name. however, if you can supply me with a good amount of pictures, i might allow them. do not use animated characters either. real people.
* do not post an unfinished application. if you're going away, or not done with it, save it to your computer. we like to keep things clean. if there is an unfinished app posted, it will automatically be deleted from the board and pmed back to you. please post all application subjects as LAST, first middle. it will not be accepted if it's not in that format because we have everything filed alphabetically by last name.
CANONS & CLAIMS
* make sure your intended playby isn't already taken or used as a canon. if you see that someone is making that character but not finished, be respectful. don't race them to get the face first. see if they need a twin. if not, wait until the face opens up or choose a new one.
* reservations for both canons and face claims last for only three days. once those three days are up, the character or face opens up again. once you finish a character and they have been accepted, go BACK to the canon board and post specifiying that you have been accepted and the character is done. same with the face claim. if you do not do this, someone can come along and take your face/canon and i cannot stop them
* post all claims WRAPPED IN CODE.
GRAPHIC RULES
* all icons should be 140x200, nothing more and nothing less. if you need someone to make you graphics, please ask in the graphics board. i would love to make your character graphics. the signature should not exceed 450x450. you must have an icon and a signature or you will not be accepted. have the graphics before you post your application, please. or, if you need graphics, let me know prior to your applying. i'll be happy to make something for you. otherwise, check caution or any other graphic resource site for a picture. all innapropriate graphics can and will be removed by an admin. no naked/pornographic pictures. plain and simple.
CBOX & LC
* be respectful in the main cbox. do not pretend to be another member. do not start drama in my cbox. if you're having a problem with someone, let me know privately. do not advertise your site in the cbox. you may link your name to a plotpage, but thats about it. do not use icons, and try to avoid that annoying chatspeak. sometimes we do it for fun, but not for rlz. do not post innapropriate pictures, phrases, or be innapropriate in anyway. you will immediately be blocked.
* you may have used an IC box in the past, like mini threading. we don't do that here because it takes the fun out of threading and more often then not, people depend on the ic box instead of posting at all. so now we have the LC, which is a magical little chat room offered by proboards. the link is in the menu under the main banner. you can enter in character and interact with other characters like a chatroom. by clicking on a name, you can have private chatrooms. this should all be done in character. there should be no actions involved. its a chatroom, like you and your friends all hoping into an AIM or MSN chatroom. use the screen name you claim for your character enter. you do not have to register, but you do need java. download the latest java on the java website if you cannot see the LC box. it won't mess up your computer, and it's tonsss of fun.
POSTING
* there will be activity checks on this site, once a month or so. you will be required to prove your activity with links to threads, so get started on that early. the more you plot the easier it will be to thread. just saying. try to post once or twice a week at least. don't depend on aim threads or the lc box to keep you active.
* make sure you put some effort into your plots, it makes things way more fun. plot with everyone and don't be afraid to try new things. we aren't going to say don't go for the predictable plots, but try and come up with new things. check out people's plot pages and the want ads, see what everyone else is coming up with. don't be afraid to include drama. don't be afraid to get multiple characters invovled in one plot.
* this is an intermediate/advanced roleplay site, which means we expect a decent word count out of you. yes, word counts are annoying, but if your partner can easily spit out over a thousand words, its only fair to give them the same thing back, otherwise it might be hard to reply. we don't have a word count here, but i don't want to see one liners. give whomever you're roleplaying with something to work off of. however, quality over quantity. try not to ramble on for two thousand words if it won't help with whomever your rping with. this is also a mature roleplay, meaning that sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, it's all allowed. if you're going to thread something with a mature theme, please mark the title with an M or something along those lines.
* posts should be third person, past tense. he went to the market, as opposed to i am going to the market. use the spell check. embrace the spell check. we know that sometimes you can slip up on grammar and spelling, so we aren't going to mind very much. but if things are consistantly and always wrong, we'll be alerting you. in your templates, use a small, readable font. don't use obnoxious colors if they cannot be read. templates are encouraged. we like it when things look pretty and neat.
* as always, no godmodding or powerplaying. if you don't know what that means, basically, you can't control the other character's actions. you can't say that jimmy fell down the stairs if he didn't. ask permission to do something like that.
* pregnancies are allowed but YOU MUST ASK AN ADMIN FIRST. we don't need a thousand pregnant girls running around, nor do we want that. note that not everyone will be fulfilled their request if they want to have a pregnant charrie. you cannot come onto the site pregnant without permission first. if your character engages in sex with another, let an admin know and we'll tell you if your character is pregnant or not. after all, like real life, you don't always have a say in things like that. if you've read this far, make sure in your application you tell me that the phrase is the bottom of the ocean. we aren't going to allow twins without special permission and they must be played by two different people. you cannot kill/rape/harm another character without permission by an admin and the other person.
THANK YOU!
* yeah, that was a lot to take in. we just want to make sure that you get the best out of this experience. seriously though, have fun you guys! even if you're a guest dropping by, don't be afraid to say hi in the cbox :3
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