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.nothing but HEARTACHE. g e n e r a lxo1. Grammar. Please, please, PLEASE use correct grammar. Oh, and spelling. Between us two admins, I think we could both bite your head off for each of those. In other words, please space TWICE after a period, etc. Which, of course... you should already know about that if you've had decent English classes. Also, please do not talk in chat or n00b speak in the roleplaying boards [lol, g2g, rofl, etc.]. However, you may use them in the oh-oh-see boards.
xo2. Site Rating. This site is rated R, though anything that is for the older set of teens will be marked and maybe even moved to a seperate topic if it gets a little too... graphic? Swearing is allowed, but I don't want every other word coming out of your character's mouth to be 'the eff word.'
xo3. Spamming & Hate Wars. None, none, NONE! Roleplaying is about improving your writing talent, not bashing someone elses or messing up a board. If you have a problem with any of the members or staff on this site, please take it OFF OF THIS SITE. I have actually had someone on another site go off on us three admins because we were helping her with her application. Don't do it or I swear we will hunt you down and stab you with pitchforks. As for spamming, that's what the oh-oh-see boards are for.c h a r a c t e r sxo1. Joining. When registering, please register with a FIRST, MIDDLE, and LAST name. As in, Jennifer Banks; not J Banks or Jenn Banks... your character's FULL NAME. And please, don't have someone's name that's about twenty-five syllables in just the first name! And not a lot of simple names either, like Bob or Jill.
xo2. Profiles. Each member is required to have a profile; that is what they are accepted on. You are not to post anywhere except the oh-oh-see section after you have posted your profile, and only after you've posted. In other words, post your profile and either go post in the oh-oh-see boards or just wait to be accepted.
xo3. Mary Sues/Gary Stues. Oh. My. Gosh. If I see a MS / GS I think I will scream and chase after you with said spork. That means that I will spork you to death. No character or family is perfect, and none lives a total Hellhole where everyone ends up dying. Please get some originality in there, people!
xo4. Multiple Characters. You may have up to five characters on here. Your first two characters may either be a boy or girl, but your third character must be of the opposite gender that your other characters are. We want to have a good male to female ratio on here!
xo5. Signatures and Play-By's. Play-by's are big in Admin Angie's book. They really show what the character is like so, therefor, their signature and avatar is very important. I really hope you picked out a play-by for your character and have a couple of avatars for him or her. We expect when you post your application, that you at least have an avatar up, or Angie will personally take her pet dinosaur eat you for breakfast, and that is really not pretty, trust me.p o s t i n gxo1. Tense. All posts must be in past tense, third person. That means no I, me, we in general descriptions. As in, "Josh walked through the crowd at the bonfire, looking out for Alison. She said that she would meet him, and she was twenty minutes late."
xo2. No Double Posting. Pretty simple, no? The edit button is your friend, it will not bite. Please use it.
xo3. Birth & Death. Sure, this stuff happens in everyday life, but do you seriously have that many dead kids running around a boarding school?! I think not. Oh, or that many babies-on-board? Nope. [I have spread my dreams under your feet.] One or two of the subplots may deal with death or birth, though it will not be a huge part of this roleplay. Unless it is mentioned in a subplot made by the admins, you must have an admin approve whether or not your character can be pregnant.
xo4. God-Modding/Power-Playing. Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT god-mod or power-play. Both are when you do something and say what the other person does. For example, if you hit someone, they have the choice of getting hit or dodging the punch. Sure, I understand that sometimes you have to nudge the person in a direction in a roleplay, but don't all out "Jason pushed Marcus into the back of the table, his head bouncing across it like a bouncy ball." ...or anything like that!
xo5. Speech & Thought. Please speak in quotation marks ("TEXT") and do not bold or color your speech. It doesn't exactly...look the best. As for thoughts, you may either put it in single quotation marks ('THOUGHT') or in italics (THOUGHT). As long as you can tell what's going on, it's pretty much okay.c - b o xxo1. Posting. Yes, you may double post, as long as it is not spam. An example of spamming the c-box would be: "Hey you guys!" ... "You guys!?" ... "fjkdlas" ... "Gosh, everyone left!" ... "Thanks a lot, you guys." and so forth and so on. I understand that you may have to continue your text into a new message, and that is perfectly fine, as long as it isn't nonsense!
xo2. Advertising. Some sites that have c-boxes have it to where you can insert an e-mail or website URL. Well, as you probably noticed, our's doesn't have one. You are not to link to another site without a person asking for it, and if you post "[URL HERE] OMG! Join my site!!!!!" I think I will forchpick you again. Plus, advertising is done in the advertising forum. Duhhh.
xo3. Bashing/Rude-ness. Don't do it. If you have a problem with a member, as stated before, please take it off of s&s. Anywhere else besides something that deals with our site. If enough bad stuff happens, we can take the c-box down as easily as we put it up.d e m o g r a p h i c s (Important! May determine whether or not you're accepted.)xo1. Grade. Or year, or level - whichever you prefer to call it. We are trying to keep things even. Everyone has done well to even things out lately - thanks so much to those members! We are now excepting all grades except senior and junior. We still have a ton more seniors and juniors than any other grade.
xo2. Cliques. Again, we are having the same problem with cliques as we are with the grades. We currently have eight cliques to choose from - preps, populars, jocks, emos, scenes, punks, nerds, and neutrals. We have a major overload of scenesters on our hands. While they are not all in the 'scene' clique, more than half of the board has the typical 'scene' look. So, no more scene queens/kings or rock stars (with that particular look) for face claims until it gets evened out.
xo3. Age. I understand that you probably want to play a junior or senior, and that you are probably wanting to play someone who is sixteen or seventeen. But c'mon... Please don't be a smart allack and sign up for a freshman that is sixteen or older. Just as well, don't sign up for a graduate who is younger than eighteen.
xo4. Face Claims. We've only had a small problem with it, and I've addressed it to the board... But while I'm adding these into the rules, I'll go ahead and put it here. This is a high school level boarding school. There is no reason to have a face claim who is and looks much older than that of a teenager. Use some common sense when choosing your face claim. If you aren't sure if they look too old, ask around to some people how young they think that insert face claim's name could pass off as. Also, because this IS a boarding school (supposedly one of the most prestigious in the country), it doesn't make sense to have half of the student body running around with unnaturally colored hair and tattoos and piercings out of the wazoo. While there's obviously going to be one or two... it doesn't make sense to have twenty. Which we do. So no more face claims that are tatted and pierced up, or have the 'hair' issue going on.
xo5. Exceptions. There will be none whatsoever until we get things evened out. I don't care if your application is the greatest one I've ever seen. It's going to be a declined greatest ever application if you don't follow these guidelines. But I WILL say that if you are planning to take a canon or ubercanon, an exception might be made. And only because it would be preferable to fill those up for obvious reasons (such as kicking subplots into motion). So you can try for one of the canons or ubercanons that are sophomore, junior, or senior... but it really will have to be a very good application. Please don't harass any of our admins about possibly giving you an exception either... If you do, then it's a three-strike and you're out sort of deal. The first two times you do it, we'll let you off with warnings - after that, you're banned.
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