[ccspycrab]

The staff have been working long and hard with this rule revision. It is a full overhaul of the rules to fill in gaps that have popped up over time. This is generally how rules progress. Someone does something, staff need to figure a solution and new rule or policy, repeat again. In the end one ends up with more fleshed out rules.

We're now more or less done for this time, but this is where YOU come in, as a player. Since this is going to be us going through all the rules you will all have a say in this. This is important. If you have suggestions or ideas it is time to present them when this revision goes on. Decisions are final. We'll be going through the different types of rules one by one. The rules to go through are (so much work to do):

General Rules
Chat Rules
Forum Rules
Metagaming Rules
Powergaming Rules
Building Rules
IC Death Rules
Stealing Rules
Town/Guild/Clan/Etc Rules
In-Game and In-Character Policies
Activity Policies

A poll will be posted in each thread for simple replies if all you got to say is "okay". It will also work as deadline for each issue.

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SUGGESTION:

FORUM RULES

1. Metagaming is forbidden within the forums.
Metagaming is the application of out-of-character knowledge whilst in-character. It is considered cheating at Mesalia RP as it breaks realism aspects in roleplay and is not permitted under any circumstances when one is roleplaying or in-character. For example:

• Having your character know anothers innermost feelings about them, especially when there is no in-character evidence of it.
  
• Using lore site threads to find lore locations when your character wouldn’t know where or what was out there.
  
• Asking players to meet you in certain places in-character or asking where someone is in-character.
  
• Using town/guild posts to lead characters to certain locations or encourage joining out-of-character. These threads are used only for organization and shouldn’t include any information applicable in-character.
  

2. Do not double post, or create redundant threads.

3. Do not spam by making too many threads or posts within a small time.
Instead, edit your previous posts with a label to show you've added more information.

4. Post in English. If you post in any other language without a correct translation alongside it, it will be removed without warning.

5. Directly advertising or bashing other servers, services, companies or groups is forbidden. Discussion of services and companies are limited to games, TV programs and related media.

6. Do not post on any whitelist applications that are not your own, message any staff that have posted on that thread if you need to add/ask something that the application poster has missed.

7. Only members of staff may post within the Event and News sections, a regular user can only if it has been discussed in detail with the staff.

8. Signatures may not

• Have an image exceeding 600 x 300px in size.
  
• Contain any potentially insulting imagery or text.
  
• Any .gifs in a signature are preferably put in a spoiler for everyone’s convenience.
  

9. Any arguing on the forum is forbidden and may result in warnings for all participants and the posts being removed.

10. All warnings on the forum are to be considered the same as getting a warning in-game.
Thus, the 10 warning limit counts for the forum too and getting 10 warnings on the forum may result in a temp/perm ban.

11. The forum provider's rules and terms of use also apply.

12. All laws apply here too! As example; It is strictly forbidden to impersonate someone else, or plagiarize their work and any illegal files shared will be removed and the person punished.

13. If you're banned, temp or permanently, you're banned. If caught trying to find ways around a ban, you're instantly blacklisted. The staff take the right to question the use of proxy servers to protect the forum as property of Zarkaylia and to protect it's members.

[French_Fri]

I guess I'll... Try to do something, it'll probably be wrong though.

"Having your character know anothers innermost feelings about them, especially when there is no IC evidence of it.
Using lore site threads to find lore locations when your character wouldn’t know where or what was out there.
Asking players to meet you in certain places in-character or asking where someone is in-character."

"IC" and "in-character" are used interchangeably, and since we don't know if the reader knows what "IC" means, it should all just be "in-character".

"10. All warnings on the forum are to be considered the same as getting a warning IG."

It's also assumed the reader knows what "IG" means, so it should probably be changed to "in-game"

[ccspycrab]

That sounds correct unless Az comes in to correct us, but I made those changes. (Thanks for pointing it out)

[Michelle]

Metagaming is forbidden

Starting to think this should be a general rule, since you can pretty much get OOC information to use IC anywhere. This isn't to say that the rule should be removed from the forum rules though, since saying it's forbidden in the forums lets us give specific examples of forum metagaming.

I guess now that Zark's back, it's time to start discussing how we're going to do this editing process, because this probably won't be the last time I go 'oh wait, this should've been done to the xth section that's already been passed'. Are we going to go back after the first round? Are we going to just reopen threads when someone thinks of a thing? Are we going to just screw it, and keep moving forward and then make a really, really poorly-formatted and confusing set of rules? As you can see, I'm not too fond of the last option. Inefficient systems like that are how supervillians are made.

So... maybe I should point this out as my first major issue, because a lot of my suggestions will depend largely on how we're going to edit this.

[Zarkaylia]

Thread re-opening 1 day, continue the rest as usual along with it.