These are the rules of the roleplay section in RPG Dreamers forum, the place where we roleplay. They have been revised several times by the RP Moderators, and this set is the latest and the current version.
Dreamers Roleplay Forum Rules (As of Sept 11, 2006)
1. Spamming is heavily discouraged. If you are trying to tell ONE person something, take it to the PM. Posts with one or two lines are alright only for the first time, so put a couple more words and sentences into your OOC posts please. If there are too many short posts, deletion will be in order. Double-posting with reason is allowed in both IC and OOC threads and not counted as spam.
2. Flaming is not tolerated. Flames will be deleted on sight, and if found highly offensive, moderator may consider giving warning points. If you have any particular unhappiness with a roleplay or somebody taking part in it, settle it with the roleplay creator or the person you are unhappy with. Only contact the moderator as a last resort.
3. Plagiarizing is not tolerated. Do not take another person’s idea or work, developed or not, little bit or not, and put it here without giving credits or getting permissions from that person. In simpler words, claiming it as your own. If found out, you will receive a warning immediately. Do it again, the moderator may consider banning you from the roleplay forum.
As for the roleplay itself, if it had already started and is pretty active, the ‘creator’ will have to get permission from the real creator to use it, or it will be closed. If it have not started, it’ll be deleted straight away, unless permission is gotten in time to save it.
4. First, you must check if the roleplay you are creating meets the Basic Guidelines for all new roleplays. If they do, then you post the OOC topic of your new roleplay in the RP Incubation Forum. If there is a minimum of three acceptable profiles, not including the creator’s, the roleplay will then be moved to the main forum where the IC topic can then be posted.
5. There is no default character limit. However, you are required to have at least two paragraphs of decent length. Use your common sense to judge how much is considered decent length, or ask a fellow roleplay to help with it. Roleplay creators may want to set their own minimum character limit, and roleplayers should comply with it.
6. The decision to close an inactive roleplay depends on the moderator. The moderator may choose to close the roleplays with a minimum of two weeks inactivity to open up slots for new roleplays. Otherwise, the moderator may choose to close the roleplays at a later time.
A notice to the roleplay may be given first, but it is up to the moderator. If the majority of the roleplayers want to revive the closed roleplay with promise of activity before the new one goes up, it can be revived. But otherwise, it is archived for good. Roleplays can also be closed when the creators request for it.
7. The number of roleplays allowed to be active at a time is up to the moderator’s decision. The same goes for the waiting list. Whether or not should the signatures be disabled is up to the roleplay creators to decide. If not decided, roleplayers are allowed to do with their signature as per their wishes. However, roleplayers are advise to keep their signature at reasonable size to prevent extensive scrolling.
8. God-modding, or ubering, is heavily discouraged, unless the roleplay creators specify otherwise. For those who don’t know what god-modding is, it is using extraordinary characters or weapons (items etc) to easily do things that are considered difficult for normal characters or weapons, or simply accomplish impossible tasks like it is nothing.
