☰ RULES

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GENERAL RULES

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Of course, for Proboards to let us use their server for the site, we need to abide by the TOS. You can refresh yourself with the TOS over here.

RESPECT,
Respect is the key to everything! Please treat others the way you would like to be treated and everything will be a-okay.

ACTIVITY,
When joining the site, please be aware that you are comitting yourself to the site and that you should at the very least, be active. Signing in once a day or so is alright and so making a post or two in a week is good. Just make it known that you're still around, please.

CURSING & MATURE CONTENT,
In compliance to the Proboards TOS, cursing and mature content (sex scenes, extreme violence) should be kept to a minimum. In the light of mature content of sex scenes and violence, please fade to black at an appropriate time or consult a staff member if you're not sure about what to do with these things.

DISPLAY NAME,
After you've made your account, please change your display name to your character's name in all capitals, last-first name format (if you're character is western, then you may have it as first-last name in all capitals).[/ul][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify]

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CHARACTER RULES

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You mustmustmust have a face claim! And it needs to be from an anime/manga. Please check the face claim list to see if the face claim you've decided on is either taken, reserved or available.

# OF CHARACTERS,
We have no limit to the amount of characters you may have, however please keep them all active per posting or just signing in a few times a week (though we would really appreciate it if you'd post more).

You must have 10 posts before making your next character on your newest account. So if you have one character so far, you need to have 10 posts first, then make your second character. If you want to make another, your second character's account should have at least 10 posts and your first should have 10+.

ORIGINALITY,
We don't want carbon copies of your face claim with different names or just. Anything related to the character at all. Your character is your character - the face claim is there so that we can have a face to a person. In addition, try not to make the same type of character over and over again; think a bit outside of the box and make a character no one would think of (within reason, of course).[/ul][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify]

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ROLEPLAY RULES

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While we do not have a specific word count required for all roleplay posts, we would love it if you could try and match up to your RP partner; if they type up a lengthy post of about 500 words, you should write a post of equal or longer length. It's common courtesy to do so, as it's kind of disappointing when someone throws out a post of 500 or so words and all they get in return is just 100 or 200 words.

STAY IN CHARACTER,
A golden rule! You know your own character, you should know how they act in certain situations. Please stick to your character's personality as put in their application and if you must make changes, contact a staff member.

THREAD TAGS,
Please properly tag your thread subject lines with the appropriate tag; such as (o) for an open thread, (c)/(r) for a closed/reserved thread, (i) for invite only and etc.

POINT OF VIEW,
Third and First Person roleplaying is allowed! But please keep it consistent; if you start in third person, stay with it and vice versa with first person.

GODMODDING, POWERPLAYING, METAGAMING, ETC,
None of this. All it causes is just wank and we don't need it. If you have some sort of need for it, contact your RP partner and staff first.

ROLEPLAY TIME,
The actual Roleplay is set in liquid time! Feel free to be in multiple threads taking place at different times, within reason. In the News and Updates board, we will have a weather and season post for you to reference to.[/ul][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify]

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MISC. RULES

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We love good, high quality pictures on the site. So have lots of those, alright? Nice pictures with readable text that aren't in bright, neon colors that hurt our eyes and et cetera.

GRAPHIC SIZES,
All images shouldn't exceed 500px in width; height is negotiable. If there is an image on the site that is bigger than the stated maximum, the staff will remove it.

USAGE OF REQUESTED GRAPHICS,
Sometimes on a forum, someone might have made something for you! Please credit them appropriately and follow their guidelines for using their graphics. Please don't steal, rip or take graphics that aren't for you or without permission.

CBOX ETIQUETTE,
Please be friendly to everyone and respect everyone! It's nice to have a dirty chat here or there, or to have a chat with some cursing but if it get's out of hand, please stop the conversation and change topics.

Include everyone into the current conversation! Help the guests out if they need it, don't spam and don't advertise in the cbox. It's there for a reasonnn~

IN CHARACTER CBOX,
The in character chatbox is used for IC antics; however it shouldn't be used as a substitute for real roleplaying. Play in the IC cbox as much as you want, but if you're posting is lacking because you aren't posting enough and are only rping in the IC cbox, we'll have to do something about that. The IC Cbox is a fun thing to have around, but we don't want to see it being abused.

SITE PLAYLIST,
We have a site playlist for the lulz; please help contribute to it by posting in the contribution thread because we know if you don't that the admin will blast Vocaloid 24/7.[/ul][/size][/blockquote][/blockquote][/justify]