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Our goal for this site is to keep a fun, friendly environment, and these rules help ensure that people of all ages and backgrounds will enjoy this board.

Common Sense is our main rule, first and foremost. However, to keep any confusion or future misunderstandings at bay, below is a more comprehensive list of rules, rules that are subject to change.

While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. As such, we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

General Rules

1. This site has very specific, content-geared forums. Members are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting to ensure they are posting in the correct forum. This rule is very forgiving, but users who repeatedly post in the wrong forum despite corrections from a moderator may be given a warning (only after the aforementioned nudges in the proper direction).

2. These forums are geared toward a general audience, including members under the age of 18. Members are not to post obscene, vulgar, racist, graven, offensive, or illegal posts, links, or images on this forum. Users who choose to do so may be warned or, in extreme cases, banned without a warning.

3. Flaming other members, or groups of members, is not to be tolerated at all. Also, using this forum to negatively promote another person or website is not allowed. If you have an issue with someone else, please take it up with them personally. By posting something on the same forum, or even another, is immature and childish. Any offending posts or topics will be deleted or locked on sight, and if necessary, a warning may be given.

4. A. Members are not allowed to bait/goad other members. Baiting/Goading is an attempt to anger and provoke another member into a negative response, regardless of whether or not it ultimately leads to a larger issue. Such behavior may lead to a warning and offending topics or posts will be removed.

B. Members are also not allowed to seek pity and cause drama by posting up MIAs that talk about "thinking about leaving" or something to the effect. This is not the place to seek attention and pleas for you to come back, to stay, but to let the community know if you're actually taking a leave of absence, or need to separate yourself from the site. Any offending posts or topics will be deleted and, if necessary, a warning may be given.

5. Members are not to harass or abuse other members in topics, private messages, signatures, avatars or profiles. This includes stalking other members, both online and in real life. Such behavior will lead to a warning or a ban.

IMPORTANT! If you are using the private message system to harass another member and they request that you cease contact with them, you must do so immediately or you will be banned.

If a member is harassing you in any way through this site, please report that member to the administrators.

6. Members are not to violate the privacy of other members by publicly posting personal information about them; this is to include full names, street addresses or P.O. Boxes, telephone numbers, etc. You may not post the contents of a private conversation with another member anywhere on this site without the consent of the other member. Exceptions may include notifying a staff member of a violation through private channels such as the board private message system.

7. All rules apply to the private messaging system, and the CHAT as well, abuse of the Private Messaging or the CHAT system will result in a Warning.

8. A. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.

B. Members are not to link to other roleplaying sites. There is a place specified for advertising and as such that is the only place links to another RP site are to be allowed.

9. Members are asked not to post using l33t speak, txt speak, abbreviated expletives, posting in ALL CAPS in “In Character” posts, topics, chat or blog posts. Repeatedly posting in these methods will result in a warning. Exceptions from this rule are in regards to whether or not a character is engaging in a form of text or instant message communication within the post.

10. God-moding is not allowed at all.
"God Moding" is in essence when someone's character has the ability to do practically anything without limits or boundaries.
Examples:
When they simply cannot be harmed by any and all means other RP-ers try.
It can be killing or injuring a character without the player's express permission.
It can be when they simply can't be hit and dodge all attacks or anything for this matter aimed at them.
It can also be using other characters that other people RP with. In other words, if you do not RP as Legolas, then you cannot have Legolas say anything, or do anything, without the player's express permission.
The only time that God Moding is allowed is with the explicit consent of the other player or players. If you are found to be violating this rule, you will receive a verbal warning. Repeated offenses will result in a logged warning, followed by a temp ban and then a permanent ban should the behavior continue.

11. There shall be no threads anywhere entitled "I'm so Bored', 'Desperate to RP', 'Need RP fix', etc. Threads found like this will be deleted on sight without a warning. There is plenty to do and participate in to keep yourselves entertained.

12. New players wishing to join a current RP must check with the thread author prior to posting in the IC for said RP. They can do this by either posting in the OOC, which is the best method, or just sending them a PM. In some cases, the title or the first post of the IC may indicate that the thread is still open therefore posting is allowed without the permission of the thread author. For all other cases, getting the permission of the thread author is required first.

13. There is to be no posting of “Out of Character” in the “In Character” sections. If there is no OOC thread, then such information or chatter should be sent via pm and/or some other form of communication. This is listed in the section specific rules, but it is also being written here as a means to drive home the importance of this rule. The exception, to this rule are small notes in regards to a post. I.E My character moved to the other side of the room. Entire Out of character conversations are not allowed at all.

14. Bumping of threads is allowed and encouraged. However, using the word "BUMP" (in any form) and any other such impatient postings are not allowed. We understand that threads can get pushed to the backs of pages due to the activity of others and members would like their ideas to be seen. If this is the case then posting "Still looking for player/players" is allowed, or even adding more information to the thread. Put some thought into the post. A single word or impatient feeling bumps could result in the thread being locked for a day as a means of punishment for the offending bumper. If you wish to get the attention of the people involved in a thread, then PM them, use the site tagging system or contact them in some other means but do not "BUMP" the threads by using the word "Bump."

15. Overall Content of the forum: Fight For Future's Past is primarily an NC-17 forum for language and violence. What this means is that in terms of descriptive content we use the "Scream vs. Saw" example. While both of these movies are classified as horror movies the level of descriptive detail between the two varies greatly. Foul language use is allowed within all of the In-character sections of the board, as characters are allowed to express themselves as needed. Violence is allowed throughout the board as well, but the descriptive detail has to be limited. I.E, no describing in great detail how the organs looked like when they spilled from the open gut wound. Keep the details simple and you are fine. Any excessive violence must be cleared through Admin or Mod. Sexual scenes must either fade to black or only use the barest minimum of details. Similar to the rule on violence less or none at all is better rather than more. There will be NO sexual violence or sexual activities of any kind. Unsure about a post feel free to reach out to a staff member for a once over.

16. We are a forum-based, play-by-post site. As such, we ask that you do not join for the sole purpose of seeking out Instant Message/Email/Skype/Off-site roleplay. This does not mean that our members cannot engage in that, but if you’ve no intentions of using the forum as it was intended for on-site roleplay and are only interested in something off, this site may not be a good fit for you. We need to be able to see that you are, in fact, using the board for roleplay, and not merely searching for your roleplays in an off-site faculty; PMs will be sent to check in should we see the opposite and then action will be taken.

If you're found to try skirting the rules we have in place by taking any roleplay offsite or to PMs, you will be issued a temporary ban.

If you do join for this sole purpose, any interest check or search will be deleted, along with the account.

18. There is a minimum word limit on posts. All posts that are in character must be at least one hundred & fifty (150) words or more. There is however not a maximum word limit. Try and keep your posts at a similar length to the person that you are posting with. On another note, a thousand word post is wonderful if there is content. However, if you give a long post that another person cannot reply to, you may have to cut it back and add in some more dialogue. Try and have at least one piece of dialogue in each post . If you need help with word counting (I know I did when I first began) THIS is a free tool that you can use. Just copy and paste your post and hit submit. It'll count the words for you.