Post by Fen on Sept 3, 2010 19:47:19 GMT -7
After a brief chat with our wonderful Moderator and Chief Admin Josh, I have got the go-ahead to start planning out a RP forum based around the world of Teddy Ruxpin.
Due to events that have happened in the past, such a forum was frowned upon. However, I think we have a good group of moderators here that it could work.
I'm borrowing some of the rules from an already established Sonic based RP forum because it is one of the few places I've been to (besides this place) that is run and moderated by genuine people who care about the topic and do their best to make the rp experience fun for everyone.
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The Rules
Important note - The first two rules are the most important, because they are about your behaviour as a member, and thus should be considered as the 'prime' rules. They carry the harshest punishment, and ultimately the weight of the banhammer.
We work on a 'three strikes and you're out' principle, so rule breakers will be warned twice before banning, but once the ban happens, it will be permanent. This warning will be official and clear, so don't panic if you've only been given a friendly reminder about something. Again, it will only be the first two rules really that will result in a warn, unless minor rules have been broken over and over by the same member, despite reminders from the staff. The one exception to this (the instant banhammer) is mentioned in rule one.
1) Be Excellent to Each Other. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Rudeness, especially to our staff who are just trying to do their jobs and make the game fun for everyone, WILL NOT be tolerated. Flaming/discrimination of any kind is the one thing that will equal instant banhammer, and for once I’m not joking here.
2) We Don’t Want No Drama. This is basically just following on from the first rule. Members who start conflicts, are generally difficult for no reason, and ‘rock the boat’ continuously will be warned. These forums are generally a pretty chilled out place with a mature member base who just want to kick back and do some RP. In game drama is perfectly fine .
3) Do Not God mod. Your character cannot have every power going, your character cannot be unaffected by all the other characters powers, your character cannot be better than everyone at everything – let’s face it, no one likes a show off! You must obey the power rules, they are there for a reason to keep the playing field level.
4) Do Not Move Other People’s Characters Don’t put words into their mouths, don’t hurt them badly with out permission. (This also applies to 'NPCs' they have created, unless it's been stated that they are shared NPCs). This just polite.
5) Do Not Spam Please try and put some substance into your posts – especially the RPG ones. One line posts or less is not RPing – it’s spamming. Put thought into your posts, try and give the other players something to respond to. Occasionally there is a need for short posts, but only occasionally. I want to see Paragraphs people!
Also please try not to double post – the edit button is there for a reason, it’s not hard to use it if you need to add to a post. Thank you for reading the rules, to prove you have done so tell me one totally random thing about yourself reply to this topic, try not to be obvious about what you are doing and read the rest of the rules first!
6) Careful With Your Content
Anything that would change the game rating from G. Anything that would tarnish the idea of Teddy Ruxpin as being a child safe environment. Romance is not to exceed beyond what would be classed as Disney style. IE Kissing is ok, but it ends there. Even with married couples.
7) No Eye-burning! Text based RP is all about reading. For that reason you must make your posts legible. This means no making your text super super tiny, or random odd colours.
It's okay to use a little colour to highlight things or whatever, but large blocks of text in random colours are hard to read. If your RP is hard to read, people won't want to play with you.
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I think this is a fair start.
Any impressions would be welcome.
Due to events that have happened in the past, such a forum was frowned upon. However, I think we have a good group of moderators here that it could work.
I'm borrowing some of the rules from an already established Sonic based RP forum because it is one of the few places I've been to (besides this place) that is run and moderated by genuine people who care about the topic and do their best to make the rp experience fun for everyone.
************
The Rules
Important note - The first two rules are the most important, because they are about your behaviour as a member, and thus should be considered as the 'prime' rules. They carry the harshest punishment, and ultimately the weight of the banhammer.
We work on a 'three strikes and you're out' principle, so rule breakers will be warned twice before banning, but once the ban happens, it will be permanent. This warning will be official and clear, so don't panic if you've only been given a friendly reminder about something. Again, it will only be the first two rules really that will result in a warn, unless minor rules have been broken over and over by the same member, despite reminders from the staff. The one exception to this (the instant banhammer) is mentioned in rule one.
1) Be Excellent to Each Other. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Rudeness, especially to our staff who are just trying to do their jobs and make the game fun for everyone, WILL NOT be tolerated. Flaming/discrimination of any kind is the one thing that will equal instant banhammer, and for once I’m not joking here.
2) We Don’t Want No Drama. This is basically just following on from the first rule. Members who start conflicts, are generally difficult for no reason, and ‘rock the boat’ continuously will be warned. These forums are generally a pretty chilled out place with a mature member base who just want to kick back and do some RP. In game drama is perfectly fine .
3) Do Not God mod. Your character cannot have every power going, your character cannot be unaffected by all the other characters powers, your character cannot be better than everyone at everything – let’s face it, no one likes a show off! You must obey the power rules, they are there for a reason to keep the playing field level.
4) Do Not Move Other People’s Characters Don’t put words into their mouths, don’t hurt them badly with out permission. (This also applies to 'NPCs' they have created, unless it's been stated that they are shared NPCs). This just polite.
5) Do Not Spam Please try and put some substance into your posts – especially the RPG ones. One line posts or less is not RPing – it’s spamming. Put thought into your posts, try and give the other players something to respond to. Occasionally there is a need for short posts, but only occasionally. I want to see Paragraphs people!
Also please try not to double post – the edit button is there for a reason, it’s not hard to use it if you need to add to a post. Thank you for reading the rules, to prove you have done so tell me one totally random thing about yourself reply to this topic, try not to be obvious about what you are doing and read the rest of the rules first!
6) Careful With Your Content
Anything that would change the game rating from G. Anything that would tarnish the idea of Teddy Ruxpin as being a child safe environment. Romance is not to exceed beyond what would be classed as Disney style. IE Kissing is ok, but it ends there. Even with married couples.
7) No Eye-burning! Text based RP is all about reading. For that reason you must make your posts legible. This means no making your text super super tiny, or random odd colours.
It's okay to use a little colour to highlight things or whatever, but large blocks of text in random colours are hard to read. If your RP is hard to read, people won't want to play with you.
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I think this is a fair start.
Any impressions would be welcome.
