Forum Rules

[Ghost]

General Forum & Gameplay Rules

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1. Respect: No flaming, bitching, griping or drama on the boards or in the chatbox, please. If you have a problem with someone or something, take it to private messages or contact an admin privately.
   
   
2. Warnings: If you break forum or gameplay rules, you will receive an official warning from the staff. You only get one warning. The next offence will result in a forum ban.
   
   
3. Age Requirement: You must be at least sixteen years old to play on this forum. If we find out later that you are not, you will be removed from the site.
   
   
4. Advanced, Literate Playing: Correct use of spelling and grammar in all posts is mandatory. No net/text speak IC. The minimum word count is 300 words per in character post unless otherwise stated. This does not include quoting chunks of the posts before yours.
   
   
5. Play-Bys: Please only use human celebrities. You may not use play-bys from Model Mayhem, Deviant Art, MySpace, etc. These people's images are not public domain, so using them is considered copyright infringement, AKA theft.
   
   
6. IC vs. OOC: Please keep all serious IC posts in IC forums. Likewise, please keep all OOC chatter to the OOC boards or chat box.
   
   
7. Read the Info: Before you begin an application, make sure you have read all of the required reading, and the application rules at the top of the app template thread.
   
   
8. Forum Accounts: When you create an account, please title it Firstname Lastname of your character. No middle names, fantasy names or nicknames, please.
   
   
9. Activity and Character Limits: We would like to see at least one IC post from each registered character per week. If you cannot manage this, consider trimming your characters down. Incidentally, you may only make up to five characters, unless you receive permission for each additional character from an admin.
   
   
10. The Chatbox: Please be respectful in the chat box. Please do not flame or spam. Try to keep to a general rule of three messages in a row at most. Please only use English in the chat box. Do not advertise in the chat box.
    
    
11. Content Rating: This forum is rated M for Mature. Mature themes and language are likely to occur. However, we do not permit graphic sexual content on the forum itself, as per the forumotion TOS. If your thread progresses that way, please take it to an IM client or email.
    
    
12. Character Originality: We will not accept characters that are based on existing canons from other works of any kind (books, TV, movies, etc.), or characters that too closely intentionally resemble someone else's character on the forum.
    
    
13. Images: Avatars may be no more that 150px wide by 200px tall. Signature images may be no more than 275px tall by 550px wide. Please only use images of your playby for avatars and signatures. Meaning, please don't use unrelated artwork only, etc. Please have at least an avatar on your accounts.
    
    
14. Post Templates: To put it simply, don't use them. If your writing is engaging and thoughtful enough, you don't need extra pictures, flashy fonts, and someone else's ripped off song lyrics.
    
    
15. Post Formatting: Please don't change your posting font to anything unreasonable and hard to read. Please don't use eye-searing colours in your posts. And please don't change your font size to something too large, or too small to comfortably read.
    
    
16. Application Process: The admin team are pretty busy, so please do not pester them in the chatbox or anywhere else to look at your application as soon as it's up. Please be patient and allow up to 72 hours for us to review your app. Remember, we want to play too!
    
    
17. Application Strikes: You can have a total of three pends on your application before it will be automatically denied. We apologise for any inconvenience. (This does not mean you cannot make a new character though!)