The Code of Conduct

[carson elizabeth black]

new rules in BLACK

GENERAL RULES

~ Be polite. This means to everyone and not just staff. OOC rudeness and fights go in the category too. I will not tolerate this at all, it mentally tears the site apart. I read a thread on Proboards Support about cyber-bulling and these people's stories... some were awful, but to every person it was bad to them. If you are being bullied by someone on this site PLEASE LET ME, THE ADMIN KNOW ABOUT IT! I promise I will never choose sides, and I never do pick favorites! Click >here< if you want to read the thread that I did. This is intolerable and the bullier will be blocked without warning, no exceptions.

~ Remain active. This too tears the site limb form limb and slowly kills it. It sounds like war, but thats what happens when you don't get on. Please get on at least once a week, more would be better, but that is a minimum.

~ Do your best always. Don't post one liners. I was a noob once and did that and the admin hated me for it. I don't want to hate you, but trust me I get mad now with one liners... and I know others do too. If you post one liners you will get a warning, 3 warnings and your out. Like baseball. And if you don't do something to indicate talking, thats a warning as well. All posts must be at least 150 words!

~ Try making your posts look more professional. Do a signature thing like adding your avvie at the beginning, and I won't tell you mine. I personally like the smaller font. I think it looks neater and way more organized.

~ Swearing and PG13+. Swearing is Okay, but try not to totally "fluent" in it. Please try keeping it down a bit. PG13+... Put [RR] in the title. Double R's will mean R Rated, and not Reserved. If I must I will put a board for that, but just put [RR] in the title. When [RR] is in the title, I will move the thread.

~ Power playing and God modding. Power playing is NOT okay. I hate it. If you don't know what Power playing is, it is when you play someone Else's character. Not good... and God modding. This is when you act invincible. Here I go quoting Hannah Montana, Nobody's Perfect! [So no Mary-Sue's Either!]

~ Obey the admins.This means that what we say goes and end of story. If you disobey us, then you will be warned 80%. It seems like a lot, but the makers should get the final word. So just obey us!

~ Respect everyone! This means don't around telling everyone, my character is dumb, it's so weird and annoying. That's respecting yourself when you don't do that. Respect others. Don't tell other people that they are dumb and so is their character. You could get warned 50% for this.

~ Stealing Work Isn't Tolerated! Must sites will block your account for an X amount of days, but here you will be deleted and banned for it. Stealing posts, character profiles, characters, images, or anything else could possibly be take up with the government as well. It is a legal issue that isn't put up with here. You have been warned.

~ Only one character to an account. Do not ask me if you can just have 2. No. When people get out of hand with their characters on one account, some tend to go inactive and that leads up to the forum going inactive. You can have as many accounts as you'd like, but be sure that they are all active. You must post with the correct character on the correct account too.

~ Please try to keep genders and species somewhat even! For every 2 female's that you create you must create 1 male! I find that this rule is brilliant and I did get it from a few previous sites that I have played.

~ Please change your display name to your character's FIRST NAME MIDDLE NAME LAST NAME in lower case letters. This keeps the site neat and it's like my test to see if you have read the rules or not.

JOINING RULES

Joining, as in making an account is the easy part of this step. You still need to make your character.

~ If your character is not created/started within 4 days of your joining date the account will be deleted and if you wish to try again, your welcome to make a new account.

~ When making your character's bio, please be sure your display name is already the first middle and last name in lower case letters.

~ Please go over it, read it and make sure it makes sense. You must fill out the whole thing... I'm a strict admin.

~ Then be sure you go to celeb claim if you are using a celeb and claim it. You HAVE to do this if you are using somebody known because then we won't have identical people running around.

~ If you cannot make graphics, go over to the graphics board and request a set. A set includes an avatar and a signature. This will help up (when rping) to know what you look like.

CHARACTER RULES

The following goes for humans, wolves, and vampires

~ If you claim a cannon please be active! If you do not get on at an average of three times a week to RESPOND then do not claim a cannon.

~ Killing. Yes you may kill off a character but only with both the person your killing and the ADMINISTRATORS consent.

~ Open threads. If there is an open thread and no one responds to it, go ahead and respond (if it makes sense). Never leave anyone out. This happens to me constantly on other sites and I hate it and I bet you do too.

~ If you wish for your character to be a descendant, be sure that the person s/he is descending from is allowed to have a person. This IS NOT REQUIRED OF YOU, but it'd add more drama for those who play the Cullen's.

~ Female wolves will have to be pre-approved! At the moment I will only allow one in each pack, neither can be of a high rank! Basically the female wolves get pushed around by the other guys and are normally younger then the rest!

~ All of your threads should make sense. End of story.