Rule Book
May 23, 2012 13:18:35 GMT -8
Post by zoi on May 23, 2012 13:18:35 GMT -8
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These rules are in place to help ensure that AK is running as efficiently as can be expected. There are three types of rules, OOC rules, which involve posting on the forum and the chat box, IC rules, which involve things which you should not be posting or doing in character, and activity rules, which are for how often we expect people to be posting to be considered active. These rules are subject to change over time. When changes are made, notices will be sent out. Disciplinary action taken depends on the offense, but it can include bans on site and box or IC repercussions. Repeat offenders are more likely to be punished for minor infractions.[OOC Rules]
1. You may only make two accounts on AK, one per each Primary Character. In the event that you have a relative, spouse, or friend that lives with you who wants to join, the admin must be informed of such. The account display names should be that of the character you intend to use.[IC Rules]
2. For the time being, each person is only allowed two characters and one Associate Character per each of those characters. Each Associate Character must share the Faction of the Primary Character and, for Shinigami, must be in the same Division as the Primary Character, and remain unseated. For Arrancar, the Associate Character may be either Arrancar or Adjucha, but Adjucha cannot have Arrancar Associate Characters.
3. It is against Proboards' ToS to hide ads, so do not put youtube videos in spoilers; I will remove them if I see it happening.
4. Racism, trolling, flaming, and disrespect all around are not tolerated on the forum, in personal messages, or in the chatbox.
5. No posting graphic images or writings; this includes pornography of any sort or gory imagery.
6. Keep topics, whether in the chat box or forum, relatively clean. We allow for light humor and innuendo, but many members don't want to see such chats and many of our guests on forum are likely minors. We also don't want to get shut down by Proboards.
7. Do not bring up controversial topics such as religion, poltics, abortion, and things like these on the chatbox. IF you feel you must have a discussion about such things, use the spam board and use the spoiler tags with a warning label. This is because, for most people, an RP forum is a place to have fun and relax and they don't want such things staring them in the face. All other rules apply to these threads; such as no disrespectful remarks or graphic content. Under no circumstances are you to bring up the legalizing of any drugs as we really don't want law enforcement patrolling our board or Proboards shutting us down.
8. No invite only threads. RP is about interaction and not just with a set clique of people.
9. While you may have closed threads, you cannot be doing anything significant in them, such as setting a trap, destroying a building, or killing a person, even if it is an NPC. Threads that violate this rule will be deleted. Closed threads may only be occupied by a single character, making them Solo threads. Solo threads do not earn points.
10. You may be in up to two current threads at once, both as your Primary Character and as the attendant Associated Character (totalling four present threads, excluding any Events) in order to move things along; if you are joining or making a second present thread, there needs to be a two-week (roughly) IC time-difference. You may be in as many past threads as you think you can handle. A past thread is any thread taking place before whatever the current IC year is, and any current thread may take place at any point within the current IC year. It is the duty of the threadmaker to note during what season and time of day the thread occurs.
11. Unless otherwise stated in the thread, each one needs to follow the set post order so that things don't get confusing.
12. Do not argue with staff when they are dealing with another member; it simply causes more problems. If you have a qualm, PM the admin to get it sorted out.
13. Where filters are in place, namely the chat box, do not try to go around them as they are in place for a reason. Repeated offenses can lead to short or long term bans and if it doesn't stop, it can result in a permanent ban from the privilege of using the chat box.
14. Signatures are required for all accounts and must include a link to the character profile(s) used for that account. Images used for signatures may be no more than 600px wide and 400px tall. Images larger than that will be removed.
15. Do not give out links via the site for pirated material. This includes posting it in a thread, through PMs, or in the cbox.
16. No Spoilers - A controversial topic at best given that people love to argue this rule, however this rule doesn't mean you can never state what happened in a series or the like. What it does mean, is if someone legitimately doesn't want to hear information regarding a game, a movie, a TV show, a book, or anything of the sort, for fear of it being ruined before they can experience it, you respect their wishes and don't provide information on it via the box and you don't purposely seek to do so on the site either. If you are concerned information you are posting on site is a spoiler, we do have a spoiler tag you can use.
On the other hand, please don't complain about someone posting a spoiler if you don't truly care about the content of the information. This is annoying and one of the reasons people argue about having a spoiler rule. Also, posting 'Spoiler Alert' or anything of the sort in the box or site before posting something you know is a spoiler to someone, is still violating the rule as most people can read information tidbits before they can actually process it, so they end up reading the spoiler anyways.
Debating the rule or saying sarcastic or rude things in regard to the rule or people who don't want spoilers, such as, "Spoiler alert, Jesus/Whoever, dies," will earn you an automatic ban.
17. Upon the arrival of a thread's ending, once all characters have exited, the last person to exit should change the label of the thread to include the "Ready to Grade" tag so that when the time comes to grade threads, it can be done in a timely manner.
18. Each player must decide between their two accounts which will be the 'Main' Character; a thread will be established where players will post which account/character is their Main, which is their Secondary, and then list their CBox Aliases. This will be done in this thread.
19. An individual may have up to three names registered in the CBox.
1. Drugs and drinking while they can be referenced in character, need to be kept to a minimum as proboards does not approve of such things.[Activity Rules]
2. Things of a graphic nature must be omitted as the board must essentially be rated PG13 due to Proboards' ToS. This means no sex and no gory details in fights.
3. No godmodding. This includes not only the standard definitively saying you hit someone, avoid all attacks, and RPing outside you stats, skills, and abilities, but also ignoring things which are effecting your character, such as fatigue, pain, sickness, and the like.
4. No metagaming. This means taking knowledge you have OOCly and using ICly as if your character had that information as well.
5. No acting OOC. This means obviously doing something that goes against the set personality of the character due to biased feelings in either direction towards another character OOCly or doing over the top illogical things just because you feel like it.
6. You cannot enter threads already released. This means no Shikai/Bankai, Arrancar Res, or Soul Bind weapons going.
7. You cannot attack in your first post in a thread.
8. In serious threads when you are tracking or hunting a person or anything similar, you cannot simply find them in the first post.
9. You cannot attack someone/destroy something, or anything similar and try to exit in the same post.
10. You can't exit a thread if someone just attacked you in their previous post.
In order to keep AK running efficiently, activity rules are necessary. They keep people from being thread locked so that no RP occurs and allows us to keep events, and therefore the plot, moving. Without these things, there is no RP forum. The rule for all characters is the same; at least two weeks without any IC posting and you will be moved to limbo. Characters who have an attendant higher ranking, usually a Taicho or Fukutaicho, are in limbo for two weeks or more will be demoted. For Taichou and Fukutaicho, this means they lose their rank. Other ranks for the Shinigami can also be demoted after one month or more of being in limbo. Any character in limbo for two months will be killed off.
Being in a thread has its own activity rules. If you have not posted after three days since the last post in the thread, you run the risk of being skipped and will be allowed to post on your next turn; if this becomes a common occurrence, and if any other players so request it, you will be exited and have your RP (roleplay points) earned in the thread docked by half.
To have a player exited, the one making the request should PM Saikokui Kurisuna. You will not receive a warning prior to this, as it is written in the rules. The exception is if you have posted an absence in the absences thread or you contact someone to tell them you can't get on with valid reason, and they in turn must alert the staff. If you are going to be gone longer than a week, you will still be exited, though not docked points. If it appears you are not posting to avoid being hurt or killed in a fight, you will take the hit or other damage prior to being exited. If it becomes a habit, it is possible your character will be killed instead of exited.
Events have their own set of rules that the moderator in charge will issue. Those rules supersede these to some extent.