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Post by emma on Jan 12, 2012 21:20:29 GMT
it's the rules! alright, we all know we hate these things but they're here to keep the forum running as well as possible, so stick by them or else you could be temporarily or permanently banned from the forum, alright? and also, it'd also be good if you really did check out the probabords terms of service, because if we break any of them, we risk the forum being deleted, and we put a lot of work into this place so we don't want that happening, kapiche? just a quick note about signing up this is just to say, that when you sign up you can use anything as your account name, as long as it's not a curse word or something stupid like that. once you've created your account, the display name of it should be changed to first middle last all in lower case characters. for instance, tom marvalo riddle would be perfect. at the moment we've got a five characters per person thing going on at max, only because we want to make sure you plot and develop and keep everyone active, oh and each character has to be registered to it's own account, to stop things getting confusing. You may not make more than two characters at once. More characters can be made after much roleplaying has been done with the first two but don't expect to be able to make three undeveloped characters or worse, try to make a fourth. It's about developing and threading the characters you have, not making a billion inactive ones. graphics basically, don't stretch the board. we don't like having to scroll down twenty times to get to a reply, and we don't like having the forum size distorted either. as a rough guide, don't be surprised if we remove your signature should it exceeded 500 width and 350 height. we agree that this is a reasonable size for a decent signature, and it shouldn't stretch the board either. as far as avatars are concerned, we've put in a code so that avatars get to be bigger than standard, which means that anything from 150width x 200 height to 100widthx200 height is acceptable, just don’t have gigantic avatars, because if you do it's likely we'll downsize them or remove them completely. also, no nude or inappropriate pictures that would conflict with the pb tos. and if you need any graphics, check out the graphics board, to see who’s got some shops up, or if you like, you can pm emma and she’ll be happy to try her hand and make you some. posts we do have a minimum post count, and at the moment it's 300 words per post. it's just enough at least to give your posting partner something to reply to, and that's what we're looking for, because otherwise it could get mighty hard for threads to progress. if you find that you're struggling to get this, don't worry, we've got you covered! we've got this rp help thing going on, where you post up in a board asking someone to help you improve your posting, and members and admin alike can give you tips on improving things, by giving you situations to respond to, and none of these posts will count to current rp's so you don't need to worry about that, so feel free to post up and i'm sure there will be many people wanting to help! i know for a fact shideh loves doing this, because 'i got soul but i'm not a soldier', and that's a pretty important thing! also, please do your best to keep in character whilst posting. the only other thing on this topic would be, please don't post in the rp boards until you're accepted and sorted into a member group. cheers. content so according to the proboards terms of service, we've got to got to keep things pg-13, which means no explicit descriptions of drug use, sex or anything else that you wouldn't want a thirteen year old reading. i know that now thirteen year olds aren't as innocent as we once were, but there we have it. this is not to say that you cannot have instances where your characters do have sex, use drugs or drink, and it also does not mean they won't get pregnant, but it does mean that during such sex and drugs threads, when it gets to a point, we'll want you to use the fade out approach. if it passes that point, and you've not faded out, we'll lock the thread and pm you, letting you know that we'll unlock it and give you a chance to amend it, or we'll move it to the archives and be done with it. we would be more lax about this, but the consequences of breaking this rule could mean the deletion of the site, and we worked way to hard for that. also, in posts, no text speak. also, it would also be fantastic if every other word was not a swear word, because we don't want to test those tos too much, alright? pregnancy, death and marriage yeah it gets it's own little section! so here's how it goes, weddings and deaths are fine, as long as to get married they're over the consent age in america, or they've got their parents consent and are old enough to marry with that. deaths are fine. however, should you want your character to become pregnant, please pm an admin asking about it. first off, both players of the character's involved should be ok with it. the only reason admins have to approve this is because we can't have twenty teenagers walking around pregnant in this little town, it's not realistic. also, when asking for permission for a pregnancy, if you want multiple births, please include that detail in there. this is just so we don't have thousands of toddlers wandering around. ooc no bullying, homophobic comments or racism. that's that. we want everyone to feel welcome here, and that's why the cbox is there, to encourage friendly chatter and get everyone friendly and connected. don't be afraid to pop in and say hi, sure sometimes conversations get a bit random, but that's half the fun! we're very welcoming here, i promise. if you've been bullied over pm, please post quotes or screenshots of the offending pm's and sent them to an admin account, either myself or shideh, and we'll sort it. we don't tolerate bullying at all. other than that, in the cbox please don't use every other word as a swear word, and also don't spam with pointless letters and stuff, it's not funny. one more thing, advertising is not to be done in the cbox and anyone advertising will have their messages deleted and possibly could be banned from it. also, please try and be active, getting on daily is amazing, but once every three days is great, and signing in isn’t enough, we’re here to rp, and so if you could at least post once a fortnight, i think that’s reasonable. the only other rule is to have fun! thanks for your time!
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