Post by |ADMIN MEG| on Aug 27, 2012 15:12:57 GMT -5
Hello. I’m pretty sure that we all know from my other two lectures that I’m Global Moderator Meg by now. And I’d like to welcome all of you to my third lecture. Now, I’d like to inform all of you of the content of this lecture, as I will be covering a lot of information in this particularly verbose demonstration. First, I shall be going over the rules in their entirety, and then explaining the purpose of each rule. Now perhaps this doesn’t sound too hard, but bear with me, for you’re in for a long read.
So to start, I shall go over the rules. Just let me state beforehand, as I have stated many times before, THE RULES APPLY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. All of you who read my lectures will know this, and if you have not read my lectures before, shame on you. Go read the other two before proceeding any farther and digging yourself a deeper grave in my front yard. Alright, now that I have made myself clear on that point…
RULE NO. 1
Leave drama at the door (or in pms, if you prefer).
We’re all big kids, we all know that we should give each other space. After all, does not every Erik need his own lair? Let me give you a pertinent example of what this rule means. Take, for instance, the relationship between Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera and his sequel to the musical, Love Never Dies (Now I know that some of you have not seen either of these plays, but I’m sure you can look up a basic synopsis). At the end of the first play, we see that the Phantom has let Christine and Raoul go on their merry way. THEN, in the next play, he decides that he was being a dumbass by letting them go, and that he wants Christine back, so he devises a stupid and overly complicated plan to get her back, while telling NO ONE what the plan involves and hurting more people than he really should have. GOOD JOB MISTER Y. You see? His problem was that he couldn’t leave his drama at the door. He had to go ahead and plan revenge, dragging EVERYONE ELSE into it and being a total selfish douche about it (Please, guys, do keep in mind that I personally love this musical, for reasons that are my own, so any debates on LND should be brought to me and not commented on under this lecture). So please guys. DON’T be a Mister Y. Be someone better than a vengeful socially awkward man, and leave everything that’s happened on other sites ALONE here. We are a family. Not a collection of middle school cliques.
RULE NO. 2
Respect admins, guests, and other members AT ALL TIMES.
OKAY, it’s very sad that I have to restate this rule so often, but I feel that now I have to explain WHY I keep restating it. We’re all Role-players, right? We all have something to do with Phantom of the Opera, right? Then that should be good enough. We can all at least ACT like we all like each other to the degree where we can play nicely. We can all at least TALK to each other in a way that is polite and concise, without being bitchy or whiny about anything, like the Victorian BADASSES I know we all are (After all, I can’t be the ONLY Gay Victorian Man in a Girl’s Body out there). I know, and I realize, that perhaps this explanation isn’t needed, but this is my own interpretation of this rule, and I would love for everyone else to perhaps see the sense in my interpretation. I’m not asking you all to see things the way I do, just consider my opinion as highly as you would want me to consider your own.
RULE NO. 3
Two paragraphs per post, please. Posts can be a short two paragraphs, just give the other player something to work with.
This particular rule is not really something I get really snippy over, as I’m one of those people who adhere to this rule. HOWEVER, if your posting starts to become a problem in that each “paragraph” is only one sentence long, over and over and over again, then you shall have to be talked to by someone. Sorry, that’s just how it is. Keep in mind that sometimes, it’s alright to have one sentence be your paragraph, but don’t make that half-assed move something that’s considered normal for you. I’m sure you can pump out a bit more than just two sentences per post.
RULE NO. 4
We are an INTERMEDIATE roleplay, but we expect proper grammar, and for you to write in the third person, unless it’s approved by an admin that you can write in first person.
Okay, guys…this rule is a super easy rule to adhere by. Just write in complete sentences and act like a narrator, and you should be fine. Unless it’s a one shot post or a journal, stick to third person limited point of view (I sound so much like an English teacher…perhaps I should include a list of terms…). We here at the Manor understand that not all of you speak English in your homes, and that your first language might not have been English. THAT’S OKAY. Please, let one of the staff members help you! Don’t be afraid to Private Message one of us, or if we’re on the chat box, don’t be afraid to talk to us! We’re happy to help you out in anything that you ask us, and we shall try to help you in the quickest and most convenient way for you as possible. The only thing that we ask you to remember is that a subject is included in every sentence (“I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/we wumbo, Wumbology: The Study of Wumbo, etc.).
RULE NO. 5
Graphic sexual scenes are not allowed. You can move it to pms if you like. Just fade to black if this becomes the case.
Now, I understand that we have been having a few complications on this rule with some of our more NC-17 based Role-players and Characters. Now, while I understand the importance of keeping this site PG-13 – Proboards does not allow anything NC-17 – is key, I can present you with an alternative should you choose to use it. If you’d like to continue your wink-wink-nudge-nudge scenes on the board, you have to make it just that. Wink-wink-nudge-nudge-say-no-more (insert funny hand gestures and overzealous winking here). You have to insinuate that something’s going on without saying it outright. USE METAPHOR, SIMILE, OTHER DEVICES FROM ENGLISH THAT CAN BE YOUR FRIEND. Describe thoughts and feelings instead of action, don’t just state that something happened over there with a bowl of cream of mushroom soup. There are plenty of ways, using basic English poetic devices, to get around this rule if you can be clever enough to think outside of the box. HOWEVER, because I have given this wonderful suggestion, you have to run any of your naughty scenes by one of the administrators first, just to keep things all nice and neat here on the Manor. After all, no one wants to be chided severely for just taking a suggestion, so let’s avoid that sort of trouble.
RULE NO. 6
Roleplayers are allowed up to six characters each.
This is a pretty cool rule, right? Unfortunately, with this type of rule, there’s a great deal of responsibility toward the players that we have to put on you. No one, unfortunately, is going to get more than six, as that’s a huge amount of posts to look after anyway. Unless the administrators decide that you are competent enough to handle all the extra work, aside from your daily lives and the characters you take care of anyway, then you’re going to have to stick with the six you created. Be careful when you come up with your six characters. Recently, there have been people dropping characters to make new ones that they’d rather have. Applications are a lot of trouble, and reading through the application carefully is something that the administrators do that takes time out of their daily schedule. To accept an application, there is a process to it. In order to make things easier, for both yourself and in essence the administrators, there should be some thought as to who you want as your six, if you choose to take six characters. Please, don’t make a character just because someone else asked you to. After all, if your best friend destroyed an opera house, would you destroy one too?
RULE NO. 7
Each roleplayer is also allowed only two versions of each of the main trio. That means you can’t take six Eriks or four Christines. You are allowed to have two Eriks, two Christines, and two Raouls. This only applies to the original canon trio, so you can have OC Eriks, Christines, and Raouls, but be careful about variety. We encourage originality and going for the supporting characters or an original character (ghost, phantom OC, or townsfolk included!).
There’s not really anyone breaking this rule at this time, but it should still be explained in its entirety. So basically, NO CHARACTER HOARDING. As far as I know, no one here is a total hoarder of any characters, be it Christines or Eriks or anyone else (Although I think we’d be hard-pressed to find a Raoul hoarder). There’s plenty of room in the village for more villagers, and there can be more ghosts to interact with one another. GUYS, THE GHOSTS HAVE THEIR OWN BOARD! THE THRONE ROOM! Why, then, don’t we make more ghosts to use it? WE HAVE A WHOLE BOARD FOR ALL THE VILLAGERS TOO! Why, then, are there barely any villagers in this huge village? Please, guys, love the village, love the ghosts, and be original by shoving a nice new character in there to wow us all.
RULE NO. 8
If you take an Erik or Christine or Raoul from a certain canon, you CANNOT take another character from that canon. It would be far too weird for you to play the same characters in one canon.
This means that if you are, for example, Erik Whatshisface from the Idontgiveaflyingmonkey Fandom. You can’t also be Christine Whothebloodyhellareyou Daaé from the Idontgiveaflyingmonkey Fandom. Then you’d be put into the most awkward turtle of situations whenever a scene between Erik Whatshisface and Christine Whothebloodyhellareyou Daaé goes down, and that’s far too much trouble for anyone! To make a role-play more complicated than they already really are is a little bit counterproductive, and while you may enjoy the cognitive challenge, not everyone wants to have complicated and unnecessary plotlines and role-plays that aren’t even for them ensue to give them hell for a month.
RULE NO. 9
No godmodding (unless the other roleplayer consents to it, and it can’t be too outrageous like setting fire to the manor or something), powerplaying (you can find a guide to roleplaying terms here if you are unfamiliar with these), or character deaths. Character deaths can ONLY be approved by the admins. Now, if you want your character to become a ghost, that’s a different story. You still have to clear it with an admin, so that we can change your member group, however.
I don’t care if you’re the President of Burundi; NO ONE has the authority to god-mod the Manor, or any player without the player’s permission. The moment a complaint about God-modding is received, it shall be looked into with the most careful of investigations. This brings me into my next point: DON’T TAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO ANYONE ELSE BUT THE ADMINISTRATORS. Please, for the love of Faust, take your complaints to someone in power instead of trying to handle it yourself. If you’re not a staff member, discuss your problems with a staff member. If you are a staff member – including administrators – discuss it with other members of staff so we can ALL decide on what should be done about your situation. Okay, now to the next topic. Don’t kill off your character without permission! No matter what, you need to have any character deletions or killings or murders or whatever APPROVED BY AN ADMIN. The least you can do is bring it up in a polite way to a staff member and it will be mentioned in conversation at least once between staff so we can discuss the pros and cons of how you’re wanting to brutally off your Jane Doe by shoving her off of a balcony from the topmost bell tower because of some conspiracy that she’s being tracked by Mary Sue, who just so happened to buy a machete at an inconspicuous weaponry supplier the other day while out for groceries. If Jane there becomes a ghost, you still have to inform an administrator, so we can change your grouping and let you have fun playing Let’s Murder Everyone We Can Think Of.
RULE NO. 10
When you want to apply for a second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth character, we ask that when you apply for a second character that you have a minimum of 25 posts (mostly in character) with your first, and the rest have 15 posts (mostly in character) each for a new character.
I’m sure we can all go by this rule. No trying to sneak in more posts for one of your characters by cheating (Yes, there is a way to add more posts to your character without doing anything too hard. No, I’m not going to tell you). Please make at least 80 percent of the posts in your minimum are in-character posts. Thank you!
RULE NO. 11
Original Characters must be well thought out and developed. No Mary-Sues or Gary-Stus, please. We will deny any application that seems to fit this qualification.
MARY SUE, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! But seriously, guys, don’t make your character oh so perfect for whatever thing that you want them to do. GIVE THEM FLAWS! GIVE THEM FEARS! Don’t make them some blind chick that is so perfect for Erik because she’ll love him for his personality (If they’re not blind, don’t make them one of those “Oh, I don’t judge by appearances because I’m so tolerant and nice and I have a history of blahblahblah leik so totally OMGLOLBBQ U R SO HAWT!!!!11!1). Make sure your history and personality are nice and fleshed out. Once again, don’t be afraid to come to an administrator or moderator for some help! We’re all happy to help, so don’t be scared to give us a shout if you need some assistance.
RULE NO. 12
Please keep plotting in threads or IM, don’t flood the cbox.
I’ve gone over this particular rule before, I do believe, and we don’t have many breakages of this rule. However, we need to consider that while the chat box might not be flooded with plotting, is it flooded with something else? Perhaps keeping a wary eye out for something that has become talked about too much would be a good thing, right? Try to keep things interesting on the chat box. Like the news that Hugh Panaro has decided to propose to Moderator Meg is totally fine, until it’s been the only thing talked about for a month. Then, it’s old news, no one wants to hear it, and there’s not much use talking about it anymore.
RULE NO. 13
Please keep signatures to a maximum of 500 pixels in width, so as not to stretch the board. Avatars can be up to 100x100 pixels.
GUYS, STRETCHING THE BOARD IS NOT COOL. MY LAPTOP IS ONLY SO BIG…In all seriousness, we need to think of ourselves and others when images are involved. We don’t want to have to scroll halfway through a page to reply to you just because your signature is so big it can be seen from space. YES, have fun with your signature. YES, make it so pretty that someone might die from all the frills and sparkles and giant rainbow unicorns. BUT DON’T MAKE IT SO HUGE THAT IT COULD GAIN ITS OWN ZIP CODE.
RULE NO. 14
There will be absolutely NO advertising of any kind that involves asking our members to sign up for something that might be a scam, or is just plain spam, even if it is in the advertising board. The only advertisements allowed on this forum will be for other RP sites with the appropriate information on their board, and can only be in the advertisement section.
Telemarketers, tremble in fear! Those of you who decide that it’s okay to troll our forum and post advertisements in a place where the advertisement board is NOT: you shall be hunted down and caught like a fish. If you spam our board, there will be a very angry Moderator Meg after you, and trust me, NO ONE WANTS THAT. If you scam our members, you will have a very angry Moderator Meg on your doorstep within 24 hours with a large heavy bat and a Rodent Of Unusual Size. You have been warned.
Alright, guys. That’s it for today’s lecture. Hopefully, this recap will be read by everyone. I want whoever reads this to send it to someone who hasn’t read it, and pass it along. Okay? Good.
CLASS DISMISSED
So to start, I shall go over the rules. Just let me state beforehand, as I have stated many times before, THE RULES APPLY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. All of you who read my lectures will know this, and if you have not read my lectures before, shame on you. Go read the other two before proceeding any farther and digging yourself a deeper grave in my front yard. Alright, now that I have made myself clear on that point…
RULE NO. 1
Leave drama at the door (or in pms, if you prefer).
We’re all big kids, we all know that we should give each other space. After all, does not every Erik need his own lair? Let me give you a pertinent example of what this rule means. Take, for instance, the relationship between Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera and his sequel to the musical, Love Never Dies (Now I know that some of you have not seen either of these plays, but I’m sure you can look up a basic synopsis). At the end of the first play, we see that the Phantom has let Christine and Raoul go on their merry way. THEN, in the next play, he decides that he was being a dumbass by letting them go, and that he wants Christine back, so he devises a stupid and overly complicated plan to get her back, while telling NO ONE what the plan involves and hurting more people than he really should have. GOOD JOB MISTER Y. You see? His problem was that he couldn’t leave his drama at the door. He had to go ahead and plan revenge, dragging EVERYONE ELSE into it and being a total selfish douche about it (Please, guys, do keep in mind that I personally love this musical, for reasons that are my own, so any debates on LND should be brought to me and not commented on under this lecture). So please guys. DON’T be a Mister Y. Be someone better than a vengeful socially awkward man, and leave everything that’s happened on other sites ALONE here. We are a family. Not a collection of middle school cliques.
RULE NO. 2
Respect admins, guests, and other members AT ALL TIMES.
OKAY, it’s very sad that I have to restate this rule so often, but I feel that now I have to explain WHY I keep restating it. We’re all Role-players, right? We all have something to do with Phantom of the Opera, right? Then that should be good enough. We can all at least ACT like we all like each other to the degree where we can play nicely. We can all at least TALK to each other in a way that is polite and concise, without being bitchy or whiny about anything, like the Victorian BADASSES I know we all are (After all, I can’t be the ONLY Gay Victorian Man in a Girl’s Body out there). I know, and I realize, that perhaps this explanation isn’t needed, but this is my own interpretation of this rule, and I would love for everyone else to perhaps see the sense in my interpretation. I’m not asking you all to see things the way I do, just consider my opinion as highly as you would want me to consider your own.
RULE NO. 3
Two paragraphs per post, please. Posts can be a short two paragraphs, just give the other player something to work with.
This particular rule is not really something I get really snippy over, as I’m one of those people who adhere to this rule. HOWEVER, if your posting starts to become a problem in that each “paragraph” is only one sentence long, over and over and over again, then you shall have to be talked to by someone. Sorry, that’s just how it is. Keep in mind that sometimes, it’s alright to have one sentence be your paragraph, but don’t make that half-assed move something that’s considered normal for you. I’m sure you can pump out a bit more than just two sentences per post.
RULE NO. 4
We are an INTERMEDIATE roleplay, but we expect proper grammar, and for you to write in the third person, unless it’s approved by an admin that you can write in first person.
Okay, guys…this rule is a super easy rule to adhere by. Just write in complete sentences and act like a narrator, and you should be fine. Unless it’s a one shot post or a journal, stick to third person limited point of view (I sound so much like an English teacher…perhaps I should include a list of terms…). We here at the Manor understand that not all of you speak English in your homes, and that your first language might not have been English. THAT’S OKAY. Please, let one of the staff members help you! Don’t be afraid to Private Message one of us, or if we’re on the chat box, don’t be afraid to talk to us! We’re happy to help you out in anything that you ask us, and we shall try to help you in the quickest and most convenient way for you as possible. The only thing that we ask you to remember is that a subject is included in every sentence (“I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/we wumbo, Wumbology: The Study of Wumbo, etc.).
RULE NO. 5
Graphic sexual scenes are not allowed. You can move it to pms if you like. Just fade to black if this becomes the case.
Now, I understand that we have been having a few complications on this rule with some of our more NC-17 based Role-players and Characters. Now, while I understand the importance of keeping this site PG-13 – Proboards does not allow anything NC-17 – is key, I can present you with an alternative should you choose to use it. If you’d like to continue your wink-wink-nudge-nudge scenes on the board, you have to make it just that. Wink-wink-nudge-nudge-say-no-more (insert funny hand gestures and overzealous winking here). You have to insinuate that something’s going on without saying it outright. USE METAPHOR, SIMILE, OTHER DEVICES FROM ENGLISH THAT CAN BE YOUR FRIEND. Describe thoughts and feelings instead of action, don’t just state that something happened over there with a bowl of cream of mushroom soup. There are plenty of ways, using basic English poetic devices, to get around this rule if you can be clever enough to think outside of the box. HOWEVER, because I have given this wonderful suggestion, you have to run any of your naughty scenes by one of the administrators first, just to keep things all nice and neat here on the Manor. After all, no one wants to be chided severely for just taking a suggestion, so let’s avoid that sort of trouble.
RULE NO. 6
Roleplayers are allowed up to six characters each.
This is a pretty cool rule, right? Unfortunately, with this type of rule, there’s a great deal of responsibility toward the players that we have to put on you. No one, unfortunately, is going to get more than six, as that’s a huge amount of posts to look after anyway. Unless the administrators decide that you are competent enough to handle all the extra work, aside from your daily lives and the characters you take care of anyway, then you’re going to have to stick with the six you created. Be careful when you come up with your six characters. Recently, there have been people dropping characters to make new ones that they’d rather have. Applications are a lot of trouble, and reading through the application carefully is something that the administrators do that takes time out of their daily schedule. To accept an application, there is a process to it. In order to make things easier, for both yourself and in essence the administrators, there should be some thought as to who you want as your six, if you choose to take six characters. Please, don’t make a character just because someone else asked you to. After all, if your best friend destroyed an opera house, would you destroy one too?
RULE NO. 7
Each roleplayer is also allowed only two versions of each of the main trio. That means you can’t take six Eriks or four Christines. You are allowed to have two Eriks, two Christines, and two Raouls. This only applies to the original canon trio, so you can have OC Eriks, Christines, and Raouls, but be careful about variety. We encourage originality and going for the supporting characters or an original character (ghost, phantom OC, or townsfolk included!).
There’s not really anyone breaking this rule at this time, but it should still be explained in its entirety. So basically, NO CHARACTER HOARDING. As far as I know, no one here is a total hoarder of any characters, be it Christines or Eriks or anyone else (Although I think we’d be hard-pressed to find a Raoul hoarder). There’s plenty of room in the village for more villagers, and there can be more ghosts to interact with one another. GUYS, THE GHOSTS HAVE THEIR OWN BOARD! THE THRONE ROOM! Why, then, don’t we make more ghosts to use it? WE HAVE A WHOLE BOARD FOR ALL THE VILLAGERS TOO! Why, then, are there barely any villagers in this huge village? Please, guys, love the village, love the ghosts, and be original by shoving a nice new character in there to wow us all.
RULE NO. 8
If you take an Erik or Christine or Raoul from a certain canon, you CANNOT take another character from that canon. It would be far too weird for you to play the same characters in one canon.
This means that if you are, for example, Erik Whatshisface from the Idontgiveaflyingmonkey Fandom. You can’t also be Christine Whothebloodyhellareyou Daaé from the Idontgiveaflyingmonkey Fandom. Then you’d be put into the most awkward turtle of situations whenever a scene between Erik Whatshisface and Christine Whothebloodyhellareyou Daaé goes down, and that’s far too much trouble for anyone! To make a role-play more complicated than they already really are is a little bit counterproductive, and while you may enjoy the cognitive challenge, not everyone wants to have complicated and unnecessary plotlines and role-plays that aren’t even for them ensue to give them hell for a month.
RULE NO. 9
No godmodding (unless the other roleplayer consents to it, and it can’t be too outrageous like setting fire to the manor or something), powerplaying (you can find a guide to roleplaying terms here if you are unfamiliar with these), or character deaths. Character deaths can ONLY be approved by the admins. Now, if you want your character to become a ghost, that’s a different story. You still have to clear it with an admin, so that we can change your member group, however.
I don’t care if you’re the President of Burundi; NO ONE has the authority to god-mod the Manor, or any player without the player’s permission. The moment a complaint about God-modding is received, it shall be looked into with the most careful of investigations. This brings me into my next point: DON’T TAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO ANYONE ELSE BUT THE ADMINISTRATORS. Please, for the love of Faust, take your complaints to someone in power instead of trying to handle it yourself. If you’re not a staff member, discuss your problems with a staff member. If you are a staff member – including administrators – discuss it with other members of staff so we can ALL decide on what should be done about your situation. Okay, now to the next topic. Don’t kill off your character without permission! No matter what, you need to have any character deletions or killings or murders or whatever APPROVED BY AN ADMIN. The least you can do is bring it up in a polite way to a staff member and it will be mentioned in conversation at least once between staff so we can discuss the pros and cons of how you’re wanting to brutally off your Jane Doe by shoving her off of a balcony from the topmost bell tower because of some conspiracy that she’s being tracked by Mary Sue, who just so happened to buy a machete at an inconspicuous weaponry supplier the other day while out for groceries. If Jane there becomes a ghost, you still have to inform an administrator, so we can change your grouping and let you have fun playing Let’s Murder Everyone We Can Think Of.
RULE NO. 10
When you want to apply for a second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth character, we ask that when you apply for a second character that you have a minimum of 25 posts (mostly in character) with your first, and the rest have 15 posts (mostly in character) each for a new character.
I’m sure we can all go by this rule. No trying to sneak in more posts for one of your characters by cheating (Yes, there is a way to add more posts to your character without doing anything too hard. No, I’m not going to tell you). Please make at least 80 percent of the posts in your minimum are in-character posts. Thank you!
RULE NO. 11
Original Characters must be well thought out and developed. No Mary-Sues or Gary-Stus, please. We will deny any application that seems to fit this qualification.
MARY SUE, YOU SHALL NOT PASS! But seriously, guys, don’t make your character oh so perfect for whatever thing that you want them to do. GIVE THEM FLAWS! GIVE THEM FEARS! Don’t make them some blind chick that is so perfect for Erik because she’ll love him for his personality (If they’re not blind, don’t make them one of those “Oh, I don’t judge by appearances because I’m so tolerant and nice and I have a history of blahblahblah leik so totally OMGLOLBBQ U R SO HAWT!!!!11!1). Make sure your history and personality are nice and fleshed out. Once again, don’t be afraid to come to an administrator or moderator for some help! We’re all happy to help, so don’t be scared to give us a shout if you need some assistance.
RULE NO. 12
Please keep plotting in threads or IM, don’t flood the cbox.
I’ve gone over this particular rule before, I do believe, and we don’t have many breakages of this rule. However, we need to consider that while the chat box might not be flooded with plotting, is it flooded with something else? Perhaps keeping a wary eye out for something that has become talked about too much would be a good thing, right? Try to keep things interesting on the chat box. Like the news that Hugh Panaro has decided to propose to Moderator Meg is totally fine, until it’s been the only thing talked about for a month. Then, it’s old news, no one wants to hear it, and there’s not much use talking about it anymore.
RULE NO. 13
Please keep signatures to a maximum of 500 pixels in width, so as not to stretch the board. Avatars can be up to 100x100 pixels.
GUYS, STRETCHING THE BOARD IS NOT COOL. MY LAPTOP IS ONLY SO BIG…In all seriousness, we need to think of ourselves and others when images are involved. We don’t want to have to scroll halfway through a page to reply to you just because your signature is so big it can be seen from space. YES, have fun with your signature. YES, make it so pretty that someone might die from all the frills and sparkles and giant rainbow unicorns. BUT DON’T MAKE IT SO HUGE THAT IT COULD GAIN ITS OWN ZIP CODE.
RULE NO. 14
There will be absolutely NO advertising of any kind that involves asking our members to sign up for something that might be a scam, or is just plain spam, even if it is in the advertising board. The only advertisements allowed on this forum will be for other RP sites with the appropriate information on their board, and can only be in the advertisement section.
Telemarketers, tremble in fear! Those of you who decide that it’s okay to troll our forum and post advertisements in a place where the advertisement board is NOT: you shall be hunted down and caught like a fish. If you spam our board, there will be a very angry Moderator Meg after you, and trust me, NO ONE WANTS THAT. If you scam our members, you will have a very angry Moderator Meg on your doorstep within 24 hours with a large heavy bat and a Rodent Of Unusual Size. You have been warned.
Alright, guys. That’s it for today’s lecture. Hopefully, this recap will be read by everyone. I want whoever reads this to send it to someone who hasn’t read it, and pass it along. Okay? Good.
CLASS DISMISSED