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The All-Important RULES- written by Kelsey
« Thread Started on Jul 24, 2007, 3:10pm »

OOC RULES

1. Respect the Admins.
The Admins of this site love you just as much as they love the site itself. They will do whatever it takes to keep this site running and its members happy. If they make a mistake or make a decision that you dislike, please don’t criticize them for it. It is difficult to make everyone content with their decisions, so please keep in mind that they are keeping their best interests in the site.

2. Out of Character stuff belongs Out of Character.
You know what? Although it’s discouraged, fighting happens. However, we hope that it would never affect your roleplaying threads. Even if you are ticked off at another member of this site, your character should not be ticked off at their character. The same goes for In Character stuff. Yes, Sally’s character did punch your character in the nose, but that doesn’t make Sally the bad guy.

3. If someone is hesitant about joining a plot idea you have, it usually means they aren’t interested.
You are very free to think up several subplots and present it to other players. Still, every person has complete control over what his or her character does and doesn’t do. Do not force your idea on someone, and insist that they join it. Drop it, and adapt your subplot to work with another character, or some other solution you can come up with.

CHARACTER RULES

1. You are not a Metamorphagus/Werewolf/Leprechaun/Veela/Crazy-Flying-Monkey/etc.
Sorry everyone! You are a human being. Unless it’s stated in the books, we can’t accept any of these. Remus Lupin and Greyback are the only werewolves, Nymphadora Tonks isn’t born yet, Veelas belong at Beauxbatons, and Leprechaun’s and Crazy-Flying-Monkeys are just plain outrageous.

2. You are not James Potter’s sister.
Or Voldemort’s half-uncle, or Hermione’s aunt. Again, unless it has been written about in the books, your character cannot be related to a major canon character. However, there are two exceptions:

a. If your character is distantly related. We know that Ron has a huge family, so it would make sense to have a few aunts or uncles thrown in there. Let’s keep it within reason, though. A muggleborn character cannot have any relatives at Hogwarts.

b. If the character is mentioned only once or twice throughout the books. For example, the Wilkes’s, or the MacMillan’s. If the character you want to be related to is only mentioned in passing, feel free to make relatives for them.

3. Mary-Sues and Gary-Stus are a no-no.
There is no such thing as a perfect person, nor should there be such thing as a perfect character. They have flaws, they have fears, they have bad habits, and they don’t have to be the prettiest thing that has walked the earth. However, let’s not make a character that is overly flawed. They are annoying! We don’t want to roleplay with a character that is orphaned, failing all their classes, scared of anything that moves, and is a hypochondriac. That’s almost worse than a Mary-Sue!

POSTING RULES

1. Make this site a commitment.
If you join this site, be here! We don’t want you to give up your life and every single evening just to be on the site, but we don’t want a bunch of inactivity. It’s frustrating to the other person when they have to wait two weeks until they finally get a reply from the person they have a thread with. We completely understand if things come up, but don’t make inactivity a regular thing.

2. Follow the guidelines for writing a post.

a. Use Past Tense
Right - “Mary walked slowly down the street.”
Wrong – “Mary is walking slowly down the street.”

b. Use Third Person Perspective
Right – “The girl smelt the pretty flowers.”
Wrong – “I smelt the pretty flowers.”

c. No asterisks! Describe your actions in full.
Right – Tom stretched, squinting as the sun filled the brightly lit room.
Wrong - *Tom woke up*

d. Correct grammar please. No chatspeak.
Right – Oh my gosh, Sirius Black is so cool!
Wrong – omg! sirius black is lyke sooo kewl!!11!!

3. Give the other person something to work with.
If it seems like you are waiting and waiting for the other person to reply, it could be for two reasons. Either they are just being inactive, or they can’t think of anything to say back to the post you just made. If you were last the person to post before the thread became dead, take a look at your post. Add something more to it, advance the scene, and try to revive it before you declare it officially dead.

4. No Godmoding.
Unless it has been discussed beforehand with the character’s player, you must give the other character a chance to react to what’s happening in the scene. If Character A throws a punch at Character B, Character B has the option either to let it hit him, or dodge it. Play your own character’s actions, not others.

« Last Edit: Jul 24, 2007, 3:24pm by Samwise and Sarah »

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