THE RULES !

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• T H E R U L E S ! •

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Read all the rules carefully, they are very simple to follow and are here to make the experience better for all of us. No one is above the rules, staff, guests and members included.

• TROLLING/SPAM •
This is the first rule for a reason, is very annoying and you’ll get banned if you do it. I don’t care if it’s a joke, accident. You do it and I’ll ban you, there are advertising boards. Don’t PM members advertisements unless they personally ask for it. Don’t insult anyone, don’t insult the site. You don’t like it, fine. You don’t have to be on it, just go away. You have intelligent criticism/ideas/questions, post them. If you are here just to troll, the go away.

• ACTIVITY •
When you join we expect you to be active as possible. We understand that we all have a life outside the Internet, but please try to log and post at least once a week. Even if you don’t have muse to do a good post, at least post in the Out Of Character boards. That at least tells us you are here and interested. If you are going to be gone for some time, post in the Absences Board so we know and don’t delete your account by accident. Please just don’t register and then just leave, as that's rather annoying and no one likes that. If you really want to join then welcome aboard, but if you are just going to leave the moment you register, turn around.

• RESPECT •
We are all here to have free fun. Fights and even drama in character are more than welcome. We even encourage drama like this because they keep the role play exciting! But drama between members and/or staff is now allowed. If two members are fighting, contact one of the staff members or more than one. If the discussion is between member and staff, contact the main admin, as I’ll always have the last word on the matter. Fights are unacceptable and if the staff is involved even more so. Everyone involved will receive a warning and a ban if things get out of hand. If you have a personal problem, put it aside and don’t let it get too far. Again, we’re all here to have fun, this type of thing just cause trouble for everyone else.

• SITE RATING •
This is a PG13 site! Proboards terms of service don’t allow anyone under 13 to even join this site. If you’re young, only join with parental permission. Any trouble that comes and you don’t have permission won’t be my business, I state it here and anyone that joins any Proboards site will know it. Now I want to keep our threads PG13. I don’t mind IC fighting, this is Harry Potter, there are dark spells/magic and evil characters! But when this happens, don’t make it excessively gory. If you know it's going to be a bad death or fight, fade to black.

• CHARACTER LIMIT •
I don’t like putting character limits on our members. we're such a big universe we have more than enough characters to go around! But we do have some rules to follow: First, when you have more than 2 original characters you have to take a canon for your third. If you have 2 original females, your next original needs to be a male. If you have trouble playing males, then pick a canon female. Please try to keep gender ratios even! Remember that most the canons here don’t have a history and they are a bit like originals.

• PROFILES •
I know this will be annoying for some but I do this for all my sites. Only one character is allowed per profile please.. I know it's a silly rule but I have my reasons. Every profile needs to have the character’s name (and middle/last name if they have one) an avatar of 100px x 100px, and a signature if you want 500px x 300px(maxi). Remember only real life people PB (actors, models, est.) No anime, cartoon or drawings. I know some may say “But I have a bunch of characters!” The only thing I can say, if you have lots of characters, you probably won’t be able to keep them all active at once. Example, you may only log in into 2 every day the most, so I don’t think that would be a problem.

• GOD-MODING •
Anyone who has role-played before knows what this is. When you are playing with someone else, you don’t have any power over their actions unless that other person has stated otherwise. You can’t hurt, kill or affect the other character unless you have discussed it with their owner and they accepted. When you want to kill a character off, the staff has to be notified first. We don’t really mind originals, but killing a canon off will be very unlikely to happen. If you don’t want to play a character any more, put them up for adoption.

• POSTING •
We have a world limit of 300(2 well written paragraphs), even a beginner can fill that limit. Quality is a lot better than quantity, but we don’t want one liner replies. When someone works hard on a reply is expected that the other person to do the same. If you have trouble with grammar or you are just new to this, ask for help. PM the staff and even ask other members to read your post and give you some criticism or help with spelling/grammar. It won’t only help you become a better role-player, but also a better writer. You may use coding, graphics on your post. Just make sure that the codes work in proboards and the graphics don’t stretch the page.

• C-BOX •
The c-box is for everyone to use. Avoid chatspeak, I don’t mind things like “lol”, expressions or whatever. But when writing words, use English and make sure others can understand it! For example, "lyk i t0tly agr33!!!!11" is not something that I want to see there. We also have advertising boards, so don’t advertise in there. In that note you shouldn’t even PM a member with an ad unless they asked you for it first. The c-box is a fun place for everyone. Don’t troll, spam or fight in there!


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