Post by TwoBlueFish on Jul 23, 2007 1:44:50 GMT -5
As members of our community you are expected to follow a set of rules that are compiled by that of the Administration. Hayley and I would like for you to read vigilantly through these rules and PLEASE abide by them.
When Registering: If you do not sign up with your characters name, please make sure that you change it in your profile! If you have more than one character, please ensure all names are mentioned in your username so that everyone knows who they are. Therefore, you can make your username: Devilishdelights, but we ask that you have your character name displayed.
1 - Applying:
1. A: Applications: On considering applying to Avondale Heights we ask that you thoroughly examine the Biography Applications. Where you can see plain text in brackets i.e. [ ] you cannot consider this as just a 'guide', more rather the very bare minimum that we expect from our applicants. Here at AH we are setting a standard for what we want and when we ask you, as an applicant, to entail a biography with particular information we don't want to see just the basics. Please be creative and descriptive, write what's in the image in your head, tell us what color the sky and clouds are when they reflect off the sun and how the leaves fall to the ground when the wind blows - anything is possible, you just need to be animated in creating a scene or person.
1. B: Characters: There are no "faultless" characters. People come along and they make characters that are very comparable to their own (current characters) or to someone else's. On other boards we've had people whine about people having similar characters. So PLEASE be imaginative and inspiring - we do not want the same old Mary-Sue or John Smith getting around.
1. C: Reserved Avators: Players may reserve an avator for a character for no longer than 1 week. A new player may come along and want to use a particular avator in the reserved list that has been sitting there for more than needed and Administrators will be monitoring how long your characters have been reserved for to serve the purpose of providing those who want to play immediately. It is a requirement that before or after you post your application to join AH that you go to the specified thread and request your avator.
1. D: Character Limits: You are only allowed to have a MAXIMUM of four characters. In order to gain more characters you must have been on the board for longer than a MONTH or be a HIGH quality and an extremely active writer. Unless we feel you can handle more characters, please do NOT apply for 20 different people to write with.
1. E: Types of Characters: AH is only accepting of 'normal' human characters; we do not endorse any kind of mystical, magical or fantasy creatures/humans. You may either create a High School Student, Teacher, Other School Staff, Townsfolk or Drop-out Students. The school mascot is an Eagle and the colors are blue and silver. If you have anything else in mind, please contact and speak with an Administrator before applying for your character.
1. F: Work-In-Progress Biographies: All Biographies have a time limit as to how long you will have to work on them. As a RP Board, we want everyone applying to get in and have fun with us - leaving your character for weeks on end doesn't show that you're very keen to play with us and your character may be declined should you come back in three months time to play. All Biographies left longer than 1 week will be placed in the Character Archive Forum. Should you wish to apply again if they have been moved, please either copy and paste or contact an Administrator to have he/she moved.
1. G: Body Art: Not every high school student has a tattoo, seeing as it is illegal for people under 18 to get them without parental consent. If your character is above the age of 18, feel free to put as many tattoos on he/she as you wish. If he/she is under 18, contact an administrator to have it cleared with one of us first.
1. H: Password: To indicate that you have read the rules and understand them, which means you are will to comply to them respectively, we ask that you provide us with the password located in this thread in your application. The password will be changed frequently to ensure that applying members actually read these rules. No warning will be given as to when it is changed.
2 - Acceptance:
2. A: Required Requests: Subsequent to being accepted to AH we ask for you to request a CT [Custom Title] and if you do not have one, a signature. There are threads located in our graphics forum for these purposes; they are attended to recurrently, usually within twenty-four hours. We also provide Testing threads, their purpose is self-explanatory.
2. C: Avator & Signature sizes: Signatures are an essential part of who your character is and what they look like. We have threads specifically made for such requests. There is a limit on what size they can br simply because anything too large, or larger than the normal browser width will put the site out to the right. Signatures can ONLY be a maximum 450 by 300! Avators can be either 100 by 100 pixels or 150 by 200 pixels - if they are larger than this we will ask for them to be removed and resized.
3 - Character Interaction and Threads:
3. A: Other Peoples Characters: Do not play god. We do not accept you taking control of other people's characters without their authorization. If this happens the warning system will be implemented.
3. B: Open/Closed Threads: If your post is not an open one, please type the name of the Character you want to join the thread in brackets, this saves people jumping in.
3. C: Ratings and Interactions: If you are going to interact sexually or have a post with large amounts of swearing in them, please respect others beliefs/wishes and mark it with an [R] or an [M]. We also provide posticons which represent these ratings and you are more than welcome to use them instead. Keep in mind that we may have 'younger' Role Players aboard. Sexual, Drug and Alcohol matters ARE a realistic fact of life and since we try to keep our RPG as down-to-earth as possible we offer this to our players provided they follow this guideline.
3. D: Past Tense Role Play: We play our scenes out in Past Tense. Please do not make an application without this! It will clearly show that your application is not acceptable - you obviously have not read our rules! If you do not know what 'Past Tense' means, here is an example:
"Go get it," Shouted Mark from the second floor window. Below, Cindy was having an awful time trying to understand what on the earth her brother was saying. She just shrugged and walked off.
3. E: Uniforms: Avondale Heights High School does not have a school uniform.
4 - Writing/Posting:
4. A: Post Requirements: It is a requirement that you post actively on our board if you are going to join and we ask that you do so for each character at least once a week. If you are going to be away temporarily (or even permanently) please leave a thread indicating this so that the members you are writing with know. It's not much fun to leave someone hanging.
4. B: Post Limits: We refuse to accept post fewer than three decent paragraphs. If we find a post that is too short, we will give a warning. It is frustrating to the person you are posting with and it is honestly a bother to try and come up with a reply. And please do not say that it is hard, because it is very easy to be evocative/expressive/descriptive.
4. C: Multiposting: Multiposting is also allowed. This means you can have your character in multiple threads over various stages of time. PLEASE do not mix up timelines. We offer a post thread (located in the CIC) for you to keep track of your threads and the order in which they occur.
4. D: Grammar and Spelling: PLEASE USE SPELL CHECK OR MICROSOFT WORD. Also please be considerate to others and use paragraphs when speaking and make speech as such noticeable by using italic, bold or color to make it stand out - it makes it so much easier to read. This rule also applies when you are JOINING the board! If an administrator has to speak with a player about this a warning WILL be given.
5 - OOC Interaction:
5. A: Fellow Members: It is a requirement of ah that you are kind and considerate to all members at all times. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS! If you are caught arguing, insulting or making another player feel uncomfortable serious action will be taken. We will have NO fighting this time around. This goes for the Administration, too, we are kind and courtesy to all and we do not want to be treated like dirt in return. If you have a problem with a person, please direct them to an Admin, not the rest of the board. Many before have not done this and bringing any unwanted nonsense to the board will obtain straight away a second caution (contact via PM.)
5. B: General Discussion: All problems, questions [unless sent via PM to an administrator] or something that needs to be brought to the attention of all the members are to go in General Discussion - no exceptions. If a post is made anywhere else other than this forum it will be deleted. The General Discussion provides members with a place where they can bring up concerns or even make suggestions in order to improve our community. All board changing announcements will be made IN THIS FORUM [and the sidebar, also.]
6 - Miscellaneous Guidelines:
6. A: Leave of Absence: When apart of an active Role Play group everyone likes to know that the person they are interacting with is going to be available as they are, too. If you are not going to be available to post, or will have a limited amount of time to post it does the whole board the world of good to know. In the General Discussion we ask that you post an LOA [Leave of Absence] thread entailing why [If it's for personal reasons you do not wish to reveal then we do not need to know] and how long you will be gone for. It helps those who will be around to know where they stand with certain threads, etc.
6. B: Contacts: It is generally a good idea, but by no means a compulsory act, to include your personal contact details in order for other players to contact you. This may be because of a thread that you are conducting together or some other reason. We have a thread in the General Discussion for everyone that feels the need, to use.
6. C: Archives: Every thread [except for those we deem unnecessary] that is made on AH, whether it be an LOA, CIC thread or an IC thread will be moved to the archives once we feel it is passed its used by date. If you know of a thread or would like one moved, in or out, please contact an Administrator.
7 - Warnings:
7. A: Warning System: The warning system that we have devised is simple yet (hopefully) effective - we don't want to have to use it, though! It works as follows:
• Basic Warning. (No harm done, we will politely refer you to the rule.)
• Initial caution. (A basic warning, OOC, in that particular thread.)
• Subsequent, second caution. (A written warning via PM.)
• Third and final caution. (Situation investigated, actions may be taken such as Character removed from the board, removal of player and/or banning. Third warning, within a month, will result in a ban for two weeks.)
All Amendements will be listed below:
×
×
×
We reserve the right to add or alter our rules and the like listed around the board, at any given time. We will ensure that you are notified, however.
Please follow these rules and if you find that you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to contact Hayley or Myself (Stephanie Brenner) in any way possible.
Thank You & Have Fun!!
These rules are © to Californiaxdreams//Nelliepunkin.
When Registering: If you do not sign up with your characters name, please make sure that you change it in your profile! If you have more than one character, please ensure all names are mentioned in your username so that everyone knows who they are. Therefore, you can make your username: Devilishdelights, but we ask that you have your character name displayed.
1 - Applying:
1. A: Applications: On considering applying to Avondale Heights we ask that you thoroughly examine the Biography Applications. Where you can see plain text in brackets i.e. [ ] you cannot consider this as just a 'guide', more rather the very bare minimum that we expect from our applicants. Here at AH we are setting a standard for what we want and when we ask you, as an applicant, to entail a biography with particular information we don't want to see just the basics. Please be creative and descriptive, write what's in the image in your head, tell us what color the sky and clouds are when they reflect off the sun and how the leaves fall to the ground when the wind blows - anything is possible, you just need to be animated in creating a scene or person.
1. B: Characters: There are no "faultless" characters. People come along and they make characters that are very comparable to their own (current characters) or to someone else's. On other boards we've had people whine about people having similar characters. So PLEASE be imaginative and inspiring - we do not want the same old Mary-Sue or John Smith getting around.
1. C: Reserved Avators: Players may reserve an avator for a character for no longer than 1 week. A new player may come along and want to use a particular avator in the reserved list that has been sitting there for more than needed and Administrators will be monitoring how long your characters have been reserved for to serve the purpose of providing those who want to play immediately. It is a requirement that before or after you post your application to join AH that you go to the specified thread and request your avator.
1. D: Character Limits: You are only allowed to have a MAXIMUM of four characters. In order to gain more characters you must have been on the board for longer than a MONTH or be a HIGH quality and an extremely active writer. Unless we feel you can handle more characters, please do NOT apply for 20 different people to write with.
1. E: Types of Characters: AH is only accepting of 'normal' human characters; we do not endorse any kind of mystical, magical or fantasy creatures/humans. You may either create a High School Student, Teacher, Other School Staff, Townsfolk or Drop-out Students. The school mascot is an Eagle and the colors are blue and silver. If you have anything else in mind, please contact and speak with an Administrator before applying for your character.
1. F: Work-In-Progress Biographies: All Biographies have a time limit as to how long you will have to work on them. As a RP Board, we want everyone applying to get in and have fun with us - leaving your character for weeks on end doesn't show that you're very keen to play with us and your character may be declined should you come back in three months time to play. All Biographies left longer than 1 week will be placed in the Character Archive Forum. Should you wish to apply again if they have been moved, please either copy and paste or contact an Administrator to have he/she moved.
1. G: Body Art: Not every high school student has a tattoo, seeing as it is illegal for people under 18 to get them without parental consent. If your character is above the age of 18, feel free to put as many tattoos on he/she as you wish. If he/she is under 18, contact an administrator to have it cleared with one of us first.
1. H: Password: To indicate that you have read the rules and understand them, which means you are will to comply to them respectively, we ask that you provide us with the password located in this thread in your application. The password will be changed frequently to ensure that applying members actually read these rules. No warning will be given as to when it is changed.
2 - Acceptance:
2. A: Required Requests: Subsequent to being accepted to AH we ask for you to request a CT [Custom Title] and if you do not have one, a signature. There are threads located in our graphics forum for these purposes; they are attended to recurrently, usually within twenty-four hours. We also provide Testing threads, their purpose is self-explanatory.
2. C: Avator & Signature sizes: Signatures are an essential part of who your character is and what they look like. We have threads specifically made for such requests. There is a limit on what size they can br simply because anything too large, or larger than the normal browser width will put the site out to the right. Signatures can ONLY be a maximum 450 by 300! Avators can be either 100 by 100 pixels or 150 by 200 pixels - if they are larger than this we will ask for them to be removed and resized.
3 - Character Interaction and Threads:
3. A: Other Peoples Characters: Do not play god. We do not accept you taking control of other people's characters without their authorization. If this happens the warning system will be implemented.
3. B: Open/Closed Threads: If your post is not an open one, please type the name of the Character you want to join the thread in brackets, this saves people jumping in.
3. C: Ratings and Interactions: If you are going to interact sexually or have a post with large amounts of swearing in them, please respect others beliefs/wishes and mark it with an [R] or an [M]. We also provide posticons which represent these ratings and you are more than welcome to use them instead. Keep in mind that we may have 'younger' Role Players aboard. Sexual, Drug and Alcohol matters ARE a realistic fact of life and since we try to keep our RPG as down-to-earth as possible we offer this to our players provided they follow this guideline.
3. D: Past Tense Role Play: We play our scenes out in Past Tense. Please do not make an application without this! It will clearly show that your application is not acceptable - you obviously have not read our rules! If you do not know what 'Past Tense' means, here is an example:
"Go get it," Shouted Mark from the second floor window. Below, Cindy was having an awful time trying to understand what on the earth her brother was saying. She just shrugged and walked off.
3. E: Uniforms: Avondale Heights High School does not have a school uniform.
4 - Writing/Posting:
4. A: Post Requirements: It is a requirement that you post actively on our board if you are going to join and we ask that you do so for each character at least once a week. If you are going to be away temporarily (or even permanently) please leave a thread indicating this so that the members you are writing with know. It's not much fun to leave someone hanging.
4. B: Post Limits: We refuse to accept post fewer than three decent paragraphs. If we find a post that is too short, we will give a warning. It is frustrating to the person you are posting with and it is honestly a bother to try and come up with a reply. And please do not say that it is hard, because it is very easy to be evocative/expressive/descriptive.
4. C: Multiposting: Multiposting is also allowed. This means you can have your character in multiple threads over various stages of time. PLEASE do not mix up timelines. We offer a post thread (located in the CIC) for you to keep track of your threads and the order in which they occur.
4. D: Grammar and Spelling: PLEASE USE SPELL CHECK OR MICROSOFT WORD. Also please be considerate to others and use paragraphs when speaking and make speech as such noticeable by using italic, bold or color to make it stand out - it makes it so much easier to read. This rule also applies when you are JOINING the board! If an administrator has to speak with a player about this a warning WILL be given.
5 - OOC Interaction:
5. A: Fellow Members: It is a requirement of ah that you are kind and considerate to all members at all times. THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS! If you are caught arguing, insulting or making another player feel uncomfortable serious action will be taken. We will have NO fighting this time around. This goes for the Administration, too, we are kind and courtesy to all and we do not want to be treated like dirt in return. If you have a problem with a person, please direct them to an Admin, not the rest of the board. Many before have not done this and bringing any unwanted nonsense to the board will obtain straight away a second caution (contact via PM.)
5. B: General Discussion: All problems, questions [unless sent via PM to an administrator] or something that needs to be brought to the attention of all the members are to go in General Discussion - no exceptions. If a post is made anywhere else other than this forum it will be deleted. The General Discussion provides members with a place where they can bring up concerns or even make suggestions in order to improve our community. All board changing announcements will be made IN THIS FORUM [and the sidebar, also.]
6 - Miscellaneous Guidelines:
6. A: Leave of Absence: When apart of an active Role Play group everyone likes to know that the person they are interacting with is going to be available as they are, too. If you are not going to be available to post, or will have a limited amount of time to post it does the whole board the world of good to know. In the General Discussion we ask that you post an LOA [Leave of Absence] thread entailing why [If it's for personal reasons you do not wish to reveal then we do not need to know] and how long you will be gone for. It helps those who will be around to know where they stand with certain threads, etc.
6. B: Contacts: It is generally a good idea, but by no means a compulsory act, to include your personal contact details in order for other players to contact you. This may be because of a thread that you are conducting together or some other reason. We have a thread in the General Discussion for everyone that feels the need, to use.
6. C: Archives: Every thread [except for those we deem unnecessary] that is made on AH, whether it be an LOA, CIC thread or an IC thread will be moved to the archives once we feel it is passed its used by date. If you know of a thread or would like one moved, in or out, please contact an Administrator.
7 - Warnings:
7. A: Warning System: The warning system that we have devised is simple yet (hopefully) effective - we don't want to have to use it, though! It works as follows:
• Basic Warning. (No harm done, we will politely refer you to the rule.)
• Initial caution. (A basic warning, OOC, in that particular thread.)
• Subsequent, second caution. (A written warning via PM.)
• Third and final caution. (Situation investigated, actions may be taken such as Character removed from the board, removal of player and/or banning. Third warning, within a month, will result in a ban for two weeks.)
All Amendements will be listed below:
×
×
×
We reserve the right to add or alter our rules and the like listed around the board, at any given time. We will ensure that you are notified, however.
Please follow these rules and if you find that you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to contact Hayley or Myself (Stephanie Brenner) in any way possible.
Thank You & Have Fun!!
These rules are © to Californiaxdreams//Nelliepunkin.