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The Rules

Registration and Application

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• You can register using whatever screen name you want as long as you change it to your character's name to their First Middle and Last in correct capitalization.
  
• There is no limit to the number of characters you create as long as you can keep up with it.
  
• Every day that you are on the site, log in to every account that you have. Let's keep this place looking active as it is.
  
• Try to keep some variety with multiple characters, though.
  
• Post your application in the correct place and pay attention to the information on where and how to post your applications.
  
• You have a week from the day of posting to complete your application.
  
• Check the canon list for face claims that are unavailable even if they're not on the face claim list.

Characters

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• The ages of the characters will be around as follows:14-15, freshman; 15-16, sophomores; 16-17, juniors; 17-18, seniors; 25+ teachers, counselors, and medical staff.
  
• Let's try to keep the boy/girl ratio pretty even, people.
  
• Give us some variety with personalities and physical characteristics. I don't want a bunch of little clones running around.
  
• You must PM the admin first before you can have: a pregnant character, twin characters, or have a character commit suicide/die.
  
• Try to choose a play-by that resembles the age of your character. I don't want to see Johnny Depp as a fifth year (unless you're willing to only use older photos where he looks young enough, and then you must pm me first).
  
• Don't get mad if someone has already taken your wanted face claim. If you need help finding another, leave a shout in the C-Box or PM someone.

Posting

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• Our site requires a minimum of 300 words per post. Period. If it takes you a bit longer to come up with that much, fine, but at least hit minimum word count.
  
• Posts must be made in the third person, past tense. Meaning your post should read like: "He wandered down the hall with his hands shoved into his pockets."
  
• Posts should not break the pg-13 rating.
  
• No Godmodding. Don't know what that is? Check out Caution 2.0 and read up on it.
  
• Need help flushing out your post a bit more? Once again, Caution is a great place for that.
  
• New threads must include either at the top or bottom of the original post: a brief description about when the thread is taking place (for example, a thread taking place on a Saturday evening in October would say something like: Saturday, October 10th, evening.). Then you must link to it in the timeline thread. This way we can all keep track of what is going on when.

General

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• Respect everyone, period. If you don't respect people, there will be a huge issue. You may not agree with everyone, but that's no reason to disrespect them.
  
• Listen to the staff members and be courteous with them. They have a lot to do to make the site work for you.
  
• Never use the words "fag", "nigger", or "dyke" in my c-box. The only exception for those is if you're using "fag" to mean a cigarette, or the correct term for a dyke.
  
• Be patient. If you're not patient with the staff, or while waiting for a reply with someone, you might end up upsetting someone, which is not something any of us want. So, if you find yourself waiting, talk to people in the c-box or start/play a forum game, think of plots, plot with a character you wouldn't have, do something, but don't nag.
  
• Do not fight in my C-Box. If you're going to fight with someone, keep it to PM or MSN or something else, but not my C-Box.
  
• Do not judge or get mad at any member for what a character did. I trust you're all mature enough to draw a line between the two.
  
• You must be 13 to join the site. Sorry, kiddos, it's Proboards rules.
  
• This is a pg-13 site, which means: moderate swearing, violence, sexual content are allowed as long as it is not graphic. Anything graphic needs to be done elsewhere.
  
• You may only post in the OOC sections and the c-box until you have been accepted.

Graphics

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• No graphic may exceed 500 pix in width. Period.
  
• No nudity or drugs are allowed in any graphics.
  
• No excessive language, though moderate swearing is fine.
  
• Basically make sure it falls under the pg-13 guideline.
  
• Signatures may be up to 500 pix tall and 500 pix wide.
  
• Icons must be 150x200 pix.
  
• Yes, this site has a function that automatically resizes overly large graphics to 500pix wide, (_{code words: rubber ducky}) but do not rely on it. It slows down people with slower connections.
  
• If you don't own a program to resize your graphics, use photobucket or tinypic, both have editing options that allow you to do so, and they're free, or you can put up a request in the OOC section.

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this rules page was created by Alice. do not steal/edit/use without her permission.
as admin, she has the rights to modify these rules at any moment without forewarning.

modified november 5th, 2012.