HOUSE RULES, Read these before posting anything.

[Nevermore]

The House Rules.

1: On Posting

Primarily, you may post whatever you want as long as it isn't rude or offensive to anyone. We will not allow any lewd or pornographic items to be posted, and this will be grounds for an immediate and swift banning.

Profanity is to be kept at a strict minimum. There are moderate censorships in place, but I would prefer not to put more than the bare minimum. So, no quoting George Carlin. The man's a genius, but that's not the kind of language we use for a civilized forum.

There will be no double posting. You can delete any accidental double posts. No bumping of topics. Responses with one word responses or only smiley faces will be considered spamming and will be deleted.

2: On Gravedigging

Topics are kept alive for a 30 day period. After the first few days following the 30 day limit, the topic will be in a grace period. If no one responds during these few days, any new responses to this topic will be considered grave-digging and the
topic will be locked.

Sole exceptions are Titan/JLU episode discussions and favorites threads. As long as it's relevant.

Consistent gravedigging will be grounds for a week long suspension, after which time you will be allowed to return to the forum.

3: On Courtesy

Show courtesy to each member of the forum. Arguments may get heated and that's all well and good, but keep it on a professional and on a dignified level. Anyone participating in a flame war will be issued a suspension.

Respect the moderators and administrators of the forum. They run things and work hard to keep things running.

Don't disrespect the focus of the Board.

No bashing people on basis of their own biases. Anyone who believes Robin belongs with Starfire are welcome, nay, encouraged to post here and maybe get introduced to why we enjoy our own piece of... non-canon... heaven.

No disrespecting anyone for their choice of religion, diet, or way of life.

4: On Banning

For most minor offenses, a suspension will be given. This suspension for a week will give you time to cool off and hopefully approach the circumstances with a cool head. But, you only have two chances. After the second suspension, you will be given one last chance. The third time action is taken, you will be banned from the forum.

5: Trolling.

The principle of spamming profusely (while anonymous) while not showing an iota of constructiveness, deriding and showing comtempt for our primary pairing, or anything else they may not care for, while in their infancy with their time with the board for the most part.

So as such, new members there whose posts are there strictly to deride or not respect our preference and can't say anything constructive, shall be banned. And their posts deleted.

Unfair? Perhaps, but if you hate the pairing, why come and run them down to us? I'm sure there are plenty of forums where they can use your "special" talents, such as it were.

We don't need it. I'm sure you can move on with your lives.

Remember, it's a TV show, you should really just relax.

6: Signature Space: Max picture signature dimensions 500 width X 400 height. Similar to mine but gives you some leeway.

As such.



Violations come on a case by case basis based on two conditions:

One) Tastefulness. Picture signatures with nudity and violence or suggestive worded ones will be removed.

Two) If the picture signature isn't resized or replaced by the time the offender signs on again, the admins will remove the signature. Whether the user wishes to use another sig is up to them.

Therefore if you want to keep a sig/avatar, be tasteful. Deletions will up to 5 without any problems. If persistent past that, then it will enter as a warning or suspension. Depending on case by case basis.

Addition: The first image may not be larger than the 500x400 dimensions as shown above and that other images may not be larger than 150x150.

Also, a limit for a number of images. Three images total for sigs. Any more and it makes for quite the distraction and bunches loading time.

In addition to the "tasteful and no suggestive themes/nudity" rule to the sigs, same rules apply to avatars in that they can be deleted as well.

7: Anti Spamming and Grammar: Especially since some of you are spammers.

First off: a reply can not mean "I like this" or "I agree" or just a smiley face and that's all you have to say. You have to speak something about the discussion at hand. Something of actual relevance. Doesn't matter if positive or negative. If you can't, then don't say anything at all and save us the time from deleting your useless post.

Multiple spamming will result in suspension and a full warning/strike against you.

Grammar/spelling rule:

Grammar will be enforced and cyberspeak is more or less prohibited. You can't get away with idiotic grammar anymore.

8: Spoilers: Are to be kept to yourselves, like your avatars and Sigs as an example. Both images and quotes. Those shall be removed. Unless there is enough of a demand for a spoiler thread of an episode via PM to the staff, then we shall remedy. Some of us would like to wait.

For the record, it's considering a spoiler if the content in question airs before the US does.

Those who would like to post images, post them as links.

9. Double profiles: Such deception is not tolerated nor is insulting to our member's intelligence with tricks.

So as such, the IP address/e-mails of both the pseudo account and the original shall be permanently banned. And if consistent with the deception in the future, the future pseudo accounts shall be banned.

We're honest with you, be honest with us.

Apologies we didn't attend to this sooner. We'll keep adding/amending as we go.

Thank you.

Editing this to add until Nevermore can add her own insight.

Thank you.

-The Weez

This post has been edited by Dark Weezing on Dec 9 2005, 06:05 PM

[Dark Charaxes]

New addition to the rules.

For zero posters, if you sign up and do not post afterwards in at least two months time, you will be deleted from the directory. However you may sign up again and try again but if you're still stagnant after that, we will review your case to see about a fitting fate.

Also, given Tomasito's penchant for petitions, this should also be addressed. Petitions can be promulgated publicly if there is an actual purpose to a petition and chance of success, if not, keep it to yourself and try to get your message across privately via PMs/Emails/IMs. We do not wish to be connected to such gestures of futility.

Thank you.

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule!

Lately I've been noticing occasional guns on the avatars now and then. I don't mind future looking or fantasy guns (like say what Killer Moth uses) but realistic handguns, no. The gun culture is high enough in the USA without it promulgating it any further.

So no, no guns. Or shotguns. Or semi autos or anything that looks violent. You want violent, get a musket.

From December to March without a new rule. A record until now.

Thank you.

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule!

We know that people have been tearing their hair out with the sig rules and violating with the exact number of pixels, we have amended it somewhat. As long as you're off by only 10, it's fine. No higher than that.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by Dark Charaxes on Apr 1 2006, 08:07 PM

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule!

As we've seen from Tomasito and ShadowRaven's recent song lyrics, another issue has now cropped up: the character bashing. We've covered the ship bashing, but not the character bashing.

Part of respective opinions, someone may care for a character that another doesn't. To show our open minded ness as we do with ships, we should extend to the next logical progression: the characters. So no character bashing and punishment will be meter out depending on the severity of the bashing.

You can poke and point out the foibles of character like Raven or Robin as is your right all day long but do so in a respectful way.

Thank you.

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule!

In the outbreak of all the unauthorized contests, all further contests and board prizes have to be approved by a staff member. If you want your own contests, do it on your own board and resources and not tie up our board name and space.

No need to nag all of the staff members, just PM one will do and they'll/we'll get back to you.

Any current contests can finish out their runs out but offer no board related prize in its stead.

Thank you.

This post has been edited by Dark Charaxes on May 11 2006, 02:03 PM

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule! In light of certain members "enlightening" us, it's starting to force our hand.

Nuisance Rule: Any member who insists on nagging the staff, PM-ing certain members constantly, or spams in topics to increase their post count, as well as other aggravations, is considered a nuisance to the board and their spam clutters up the forum. If the member cannot provide any constructive imput into the topics they post in, and if it happens on a consistant basis, they will be given a warning. A two-week suspension will be given after the second violation. Following a third infringement, a month suspension at least, if not longer.

Thank you.

[Dark Charaxes]

New rule!

It has come to our attention that some of our members have used our FAQ and our rules for their own Robin/Raven forums as shown here. Unfortunately, this flies into the face of our plagiarism policy. And this is not including the fact that these forums rob us of our bread and butter and things being dead as it is. That being said, our hand is being forced.

Now, to the members that we can prove are connected to these active forums, a warning will be issued and be given a week to re-alter the content of the absconded material. If a week has passed without any change, a 3 day suspension will then be warranted. If nothing after that, then another day up to a week will be added.

If you ask for permission, as some forums have, then it would be acceptable. It's only those that haven't, we're after. It's fine that you want to make your own R/R forum, but don't use us as a stepping stone to do it. It's an insult in addition to the competition. Forgive the rhyme.

Thank you.