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Post by AUGUST ! on Aug 19, 2010 15:13:35 GMT -5
out of character.
read a billion times. please be considerate. obviously. respect is the number one rule for a reason -- without such a rule, the whole site would come crashing down.
don't leave two seconds after you join. if you are going to join, make sure you're at least going to be on once a week. i don't want to see people joining and then never visiting this site ever again. so. yeah. if you -do- leave, i promise, we'll hunt you down and beat you with a flaming shovel.
avatars shouldn't be too big or too small. i really don't want to see avatars being like... 500x500 or 10x10. maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration, although it's all the more disgust i have. in my eyes, good avatars are from 100x100 to 120x250; recommended size is the latter of the two. longer than wider makes me happy, too.
calm scenes over blinding fat cats with grills. yeah... i sincerely beg of you to have your signatures nice and neat with good graphics over... well, blinding fat cats with grills. really, people, i doubt anyone would like to see blobs of bright colors surrounding your post. it's just not right. this goes for avatars, too.
oh yes, and more than one color on a post just isn't allowed. unless, of course, they're very calm colors that highlight speech in roleplay posts, or perhaps nice, serene images. i think you now have the idea of how dd rolls with extremely colorful, rainbow-y things: not well. although bounding sheep and stuff with colorful fleeces as your chatbox icon is totally acceptable x3.
we don't like flaming, trolling, and blasphemy. all of that is heavily frowned upon, as well as the horrid things related to them. they're all just plain not nice, and doing that will score you a fifteen percent warning bar as well as that particular post being terminated c:.
discrimination against religions and political views = nono. we sincerely dislike it when one has a personal debate and flames the others' views. if you're going to have a discussion over it, please be understanding of the other. we'd also prefer if you carried it to pm's rather than in a post viewable by all or in the chatbox.
we go by the account per person system. don't be going on making multiple character accounts just because you want to. seriously. just don't.
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Post by AUGUST ! on Aug 19, 2010 17:19:53 GMT -5
roleplay guidelines.
more things to read. jolly.
we really don't care if your posts are all lowercase or not. if it's nice and neat and blockquoted, everything should go along smoothly; in fact, you'll become staff's prize and joy. if your posts are scattered, blinding, and unblockquoted... you'll face our wrath.
at least two hundred words is appreciated. if it's below this number, we, as a site, will most likely be stamped as slightly... illiterate. decoy dreams strives for somewhat lengthy (but quality) and very much so worth reading. however, if you come to this site with poor writing, we promise you'll leave with at least, on average, five hundred words per post. just take heed of our suggestions and apply them to your writing.
god moderating and power playing will get you banned. don't know what this is? well listen up and do it closely. god moderating (or "god modding") is basically saying you're invincible and all powerful, evading every move in battle and all those despicable things. power playing is when you take control of another person's character. even the littlest thing, such as writing out the other character's reaction, is a violation and something mysteriously mysterious (such as your warning bar raising significantly) may happen to you. beware.
graphic scenes are shunnneedddd. oh yes, we hate those disgusting things. y'know, we really don't need all the details on how your character gave birth to five kits or how two felines mated. just kinda skip through all of that, for all of our sakes and sanities. please.
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Post by AUGUST ! on Aug 19, 2010 17:20:46 GMT -5
characters and stuff.
more and more. don't worry, it's almost over.
character acceptance requirements. appearances should be 100 words long. personalities should be 200, and histories should be 300.
to join a group. if you are making a character to be in one of the existing groups, make sure to read up real quick about the members of the group, since some of them only allow characters with certain coat colors or powers.
let's be a popular kid. those darn cliché mary sues! if your character is perfect (ie. knows everything, is the most beautiful and talented and graceful and outgoing and olala everyone loves me), expect to have an army of insane sphynxes (hairless cats) claw your eyes out.
approved! please wait until a staff member has approved your character before roleplaying!
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Post by AUGUST ! on Aug 19, 2010 17:21:22 GMT -5
chatbox rules.
just a few more. hang in there.
i'll slap the meow off ya... let's not be rude. pick flowers, not fights!
you are not bringing sexy back. have taste, no vulgar language. this includes posting links to obscene literature or artwork.
let's talk about decoy dreams. no advertising! if you wish to show someone your site, send them the link in a private message!
jfk3 h3y b00ii. ...what? no chat speak, makes the staff go crazy.
you guys SUCK. ... (cries) it's so mean, please don't point out our flaws! no flaming and no trolling.
and then my pet flea died. honestly, we're sorry about your losses, your hardships and your drama. but we can only take so much of other people's crap, we have enough crap of our own for right now. please no complaining in copious amounts. all complaints should be no more than two sentences long.
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