Post by Crystal Hatake on Jul 19, 2007 22:44:50 GMT -5
Before I get into the rules, I want to say that they are made for this forum and this forum alone. I wanted this forum to be unique in a way no other Naruto forum has been. Therefore, I created these rules to help me accomplish that. Members and lower ranked staff can huff and complain all they want about them, it won't make a difference. I only want to hear the opinions of Madara, and Uzumaki Naruto, the main reason is because they have been reliable thus far, Naruto on this site, and Madara on another one.
I personally think that these rules are fair because they give members different oppertunities, and allow characters to grow. Take note though, that I may frequently modify these rules.
There are different rules here that I have seperated into catagories, please read through each set and follow them!
Regular Forum Rules
* Respect The Members We're all here because we want to RP. Let's keep it that way.
* No sexually orientated scenes. You can kiss somebody but nothing explicit. I'm wanted a PG-13 site. Not an R or X...der.
* Advertising in the CBox isn't preferable. If you want to advertise an actuall site put it in the Advertising board. If your just showing someone something on the enternet it's fine.
* If an Admin tells you to do something, do it. We, the staff, have the right to ban any member we feel has broken a major rule, or otherwise given us the thought.
* We will not tolerate any swearing. Think of the younger members that might join, we do not need them to get into the habbit do we?
* NO spamming anywhere except for the prefered spam section that I made. In that area, you can double post advertize, or anything you want as long as you don't break any major rules!
* Please do NOT make fun of people because of their race, sex, religion etc. If you are caught doing this then dire consequences may be taken.
* We do not tolerate any advertizing through pms. This is disrespectfull to the other members and will be dealt with accordingly.
* One word posts and double posting is not acceptable. It's very hard to reply to something that's shorter then a paragragh. Also let the other members reply before they post again. A three word post is not tolorated. Prefered is a 5 sentence paragraph.
* Do not join this forum if you are not going to post. We will be deleting inactive members every three months, if you are not going to be here for longer than 3 days tell us so we do not have to delete you. We dont like AWOL (Absent With Out Leave)players.
Staff Rules
* Do NOT abuse your powers.
If someone breaks a rule, punish them accordingly. Don't give them a like 70% warning if all they did was cuss more than once in a thread. Don't bully members just because you are a part of the staff, remember that I am the head admin of this forum and I alone have the power to demote or ban you.
Before banning or deleting someone think, do they deserve it? To solve this problem, all Kages, ANBUs and Rogues must have a discussion and a vote of at least four to five people before taking any serious action.
RPG Rules
* Please try not to be ill-literate, this means abreviating, having bad grammer and spelling. Of course noone is perfect that's why I will accept anything that's semi-literate, that means doing a full paragragh of at least three sentances and having moderate spelling and grammer. However if you are a really literate person, try to do at least three full paragraghs with good spelling and grammer, I will be really surprized if you do this, and you might even get a surprize of your own!
* Do NOT control another person's character! This counts as godmodling as well as being super powerful, never being hit etc. This is unfare to the other members, if you do this we will give you a warning, if it continues you will be banned.
* As a new shinobi, you are required to mess up occasionally. This means being injured, or doing a jutsu wrong etc. Also, you can not do a jutsu and say that it was perfect, it doesn't leave an opening for any of the other players. Instead either let them decide, or say you missed or was injured.
* More then one character is allowed for each person, but keep in mind that to have at least three different characters you must be a moderatly good rper, and be able to keep up with each rp thread.
* We also require you to have the same desplay name as your main character, so after a week if you don't, then one of the staff will modify your profile for you with your characters name.
* All Konaha ninjas must start in the hidden light village at first, mainly because the plot will say that Konaha needs to be rebuilt. Eventually you will work your way back to Konaha where the disaster struct!
Acceptence Rules
* Before a character, weapon or jutsu can be aproved they must have a vote of at least three or four staff members. Madara or I must be one of the three or four that check the bios to give our aproval.
* Keep in mind that, if you don't have an image for your character, then the appearance must be at least one paragraph. The personality should also be a paragraph, the character's history and the RPG sample must be at least three paragraphs.
Special Rules
* This is rule #1 and possibly the most important. Now that we seem to be getting more members, unless you have special permission from one of the Kages, ANBU or Rogue, you will have to create your character as an acadamy student. If you want permission otherwaise, then pm one of the staff and we may aprove, depending on what rank you want to be.
* All acadamy student must start at an age bellow 10. The minimum is 6 and the maximum age you can be is 9. This is to make sure that noone becomes Genin right off the bat.
* As an acadamy student, you will. . . attend the acadamy, (Duh!) you will however, be given small missions. Nothing too big though. I mean like delivering messages, gathering infomatio etc.
* Depending on how well you rp, your character may mature faster then others, and become more powerful. You will not however go up an age until I or another staff makes a thread like, ALL ACADAMY STUDENTS FROM_______THIS TIME, MAY AGE or something to that effect. Also at the age of ten, you can start taking the Genin exam. If you're not a good rpger, then it will take you longer to pass. We will not however, hold anyone past the age of 12.
* When you start off as an acadamy student, you may have three basic jutsu, and one low ranked custom jutsu. The weapons will be added when you move to Genin level. As a Genin, you can have two weaker weapons and one custom that is at the same level.
* This isn't necessarily when you move up a rank, but as a Genin you are put into a squad, with a teacher who will teach you different Jutsu, wich you may add to your bio, but ONLY if the instructor says that you've mastered it.
* If by chance you wish to move to Missing Nin or Rogue level, you can when you become a Chuunin. But only if you tell the staff what you are doing first.
* If you've noticed the first two rules, you will see that I am trying to make this site, like the show, and a bit more realistic. In the way I am doing it, this could also encourage new RPGers to improve somewhat. Any of the higher ups on this forum can go and try to help members with their spelling and grammer, but only if they are a part of that thread. Just because a staff member is allowed to do this doesn't mean that a member can't, if you see, even an experienced RPGer with a mistake then tell them so they can fix it.
* All villages are to have to same number of shinobi in them. Konoha ninja characters are now currently disallowed until the other villages get equal or near equal amounts. This is to prevent one place from becoming overcrowded, and to give people with a character that is low on people someone to roleplay with.
Contest Rules
[/b]I personally think that these rules are fair because they give members different oppertunities, and allow characters to grow. Take note though, that I may frequently modify these rules.
There are different rules here that I have seperated into catagories, please read through each set and follow them!
Regular Forum Rules
* Respect The Members We're all here because we want to RP. Let's keep it that way.
* No sexually orientated scenes. You can kiss somebody but nothing explicit. I'm wanted a PG-13 site. Not an R or X...der.
* Advertising in the CBox isn't preferable. If you want to advertise an actuall site put it in the Advertising board. If your just showing someone something on the enternet it's fine.
* If an Admin tells you to do something, do it. We, the staff, have the right to ban any member we feel has broken a major rule, or otherwise given us the thought.
* We will not tolerate any swearing. Think of the younger members that might join, we do not need them to get into the habbit do we?
* NO spamming anywhere except for the prefered spam section that I made. In that area, you can double post advertize, or anything you want as long as you don't break any major rules!
* Please do NOT make fun of people because of their race, sex, religion etc. If you are caught doing this then dire consequences may be taken.
* We do not tolerate any advertizing through pms. This is disrespectfull to the other members and will be dealt with accordingly.
* One word posts and double posting is not acceptable. It's very hard to reply to something that's shorter then a paragragh. Also let the other members reply before they post again. A three word post is not tolorated. Prefered is a 5 sentence paragraph.
* Do not join this forum if you are not going to post. We will be deleting inactive members every three months, if you are not going to be here for longer than 3 days tell us so we do not have to delete you. We dont like AWOL (Absent With Out Leave)players.
Staff Rules
* Do NOT abuse your powers.
If someone breaks a rule, punish them accordingly. Don't give them a like 70% warning if all they did was cuss more than once in a thread. Don't bully members just because you are a part of the staff, remember that I am the head admin of this forum and I alone have the power to demote or ban you.
Before banning or deleting someone think, do they deserve it? To solve this problem, all Kages, ANBUs and Rogues must have a discussion and a vote of at least four to five people before taking any serious action.
RPG Rules
* Please try not to be ill-literate, this means abreviating, having bad grammer and spelling. Of course noone is perfect that's why I will accept anything that's semi-literate, that means doing a full paragragh of at least three sentances and having moderate spelling and grammer. However if you are a really literate person, try to do at least three full paragraghs with good spelling and grammer, I will be really surprized if you do this, and you might even get a surprize of your own!
* Do NOT control another person's character! This counts as godmodling as well as being super powerful, never being hit etc. This is unfare to the other members, if you do this we will give you a warning, if it continues you will be banned.
* As a new shinobi, you are required to mess up occasionally. This means being injured, or doing a jutsu wrong etc. Also, you can not do a jutsu and say that it was perfect, it doesn't leave an opening for any of the other players. Instead either let them decide, or say you missed or was injured.
* More then one character is allowed for each person, but keep in mind that to have at least three different characters you must be a moderatly good rper, and be able to keep up with each rp thread.
* We also require you to have the same desplay name as your main character, so after a week if you don't, then one of the staff will modify your profile for you with your characters name.
* All Konaha ninjas must start in the hidden light village at first, mainly because the plot will say that Konaha needs to be rebuilt. Eventually you will work your way back to Konaha where the disaster struct!
Acceptence Rules
* Before a character, weapon or jutsu can be aproved they must have a vote of at least three or four staff members. Madara or I must be one of the three or four that check the bios to give our aproval.
* Keep in mind that, if you don't have an image for your character, then the appearance must be at least one paragraph. The personality should also be a paragraph, the character's history and the RPG sample must be at least three paragraphs.
Special Rules
* This is rule #1 and possibly the most important. Now that we seem to be getting more members, unless you have special permission from one of the Kages, ANBU or Rogue, you will have to create your character as an acadamy student. If you want permission otherwaise, then pm one of the staff and we may aprove, depending on what rank you want to be.
* All acadamy student must start at an age bellow 10. The minimum is 6 and the maximum age you can be is 9. This is to make sure that noone becomes Genin right off the bat.
* As an acadamy student, you will. . . attend the acadamy, (Duh!) you will however, be given small missions. Nothing too big though. I mean like delivering messages, gathering infomatio etc.
* Depending on how well you rp, your character may mature faster then others, and become more powerful. You will not however go up an age until I or another staff makes a thread like, ALL ACADAMY STUDENTS FROM_______THIS TIME, MAY AGE or something to that effect. Also at the age of ten, you can start taking the Genin exam. If you're not a good rpger, then it will take you longer to pass. We will not however, hold anyone past the age of 12.
* When you start off as an acadamy student, you may have three basic jutsu, and one low ranked custom jutsu. The weapons will be added when you move to Genin level. As a Genin, you can have two weaker weapons and one custom that is at the same level.
* This isn't necessarily when you move up a rank, but as a Genin you are put into a squad, with a teacher who will teach you different Jutsu, wich you may add to your bio, but ONLY if the instructor says that you've mastered it.
* If by chance you wish to move to Missing Nin or Rogue level, you can when you become a Chuunin. But only if you tell the staff what you are doing first.
* If you've noticed the first two rules, you will see that I am trying to make this site, like the show, and a bit more realistic. In the way I am doing it, this could also encourage new RPGers to improve somewhat. Any of the higher ups on this forum can go and try to help members with their spelling and grammer, but only if they are a part of that thread. Just because a staff member is allowed to do this doesn't mean that a member can't, if you see, even an experienced RPGer with a mistake then tell them so they can fix it.
* All villages are to have to same number of shinobi in them. Konoha ninja characters are now currently disallowed until the other villages get equal or near equal amounts. This is to prevent one place from becoming overcrowded, and to give people with a character that is low on people someone to roleplay with.
Contest Rules
Every once in a while we may have contests for things like karma or a certain character etc. This is a list of rules that you must follow when entering a contest:
* Most contests, like the ones for winning a character, whether it is canon or custom, will be strictly for experienced RPGers. New RPGers can still participate however, they can be judges and will gain ten karma, for reading through the contest RPG.
* Anyone who is a judge, will not be allowed to participate in the contest, for the reason that it may simply make it unfair.
* Each contest will consist of an RPG thread, with a plot that must be followed.
* When judging a contest, what are you looking for? The answer is simple, good spelling or grammer, good punctuation, and lengthy posts.
(take note that there will be more rules comming. . .)
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