RESPECT THE RULES !

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GENERAL !

• You can't have a proper site without respect all around. Members must respect admins, admins must respect members, but most important, let's all respect the guests. Every guest is a potential member. If they come on the cbox, be polite. Not asking you to go out of your way or anything, but say hi, maybe include them, yeah?

• Make sure to notify one of us on the staff if you are going to be away for more than four days. You never know, we could have a wacko crazy activity check and you might get deleted if you do not tell one of us that you will be gone.

• When registering, you should register with your character's first name. Either before or after you get accepted, modify your profile and make your display name FIRST MIDDLE LAST.

• Now, I will inform you that if you put a pb in your app that is already claimed, I will not accept you and not tell you why. Obviously if you took a pb that's taken, you didn't read the rules, so don't complain to me. There are some exceptions, such as you complete your app after I've accepted another character and added it to the list, then I will tell you about it.

• On the subject of face claims, no porn stars or nude models or anything like that. Be realistic--nobody would walk around school naked. Also be realistic about age. If you have a fourth year student, don't claim a thirty five year old face. Unless it's the case of Jason Earles, then he looks young enough to be seventeen ;]

ROLEPLAYING !

• Here on Born For This, we have a word count minimum of 200 words. Not too hard. That's Maybe two good paragraphs, don't you think? From personal experience, I know what it feels like when you work your ass off to make a 700 word post, then you get a post that's barely over two hundred. It sucks.

• You may curse. We are a PG-13 site, so it means no sexual content, no severe violence, plus it's in the Proboards ToS, so it's a definite no-no. But cursing, yes. Just don't go overboard. And absolutely no racial slurs. Nothing against religion, politics, races, hell, if it'll bring a fight to the site, no talking about sports. (totally kidding about the sports thing, but if it becomes a problem, we'll see.)

• Before making an adult, or even if you're making a student and you're trying to figure out a job for the parents, please take a look at the job claims. There are plenty of open jobs, so take advantage of them! This rule is especially for anyone making Canons. We can't have you making Lily Potter and saying that Harry is the Editor of the Daily Prophet and Ginny is the Charms professor when Harry is the headmaster and Ginny works for the Prophet, now can we?

• Grammar police! Yes, I am a the chief of the grammar police. If I fond you mak!n @ p0$+ l!k d!$, or anything similar, I will give you a warning. Also, use good punctuation, spelling, and maybe even hit that enter button twice when making a new paragraph, yeah?

• No, we do not have a limit on character, but you must be able to keep up with all of your characters in order to make a new one. If the Admin finds that you are not keeping up with each one, then we will ask you to either get rid of your least used character or start to include it.

• So, let's say that you have two different characters, John Doe and Mary Sue. Do not post as Mary Sue on John Doe's account. It's not that hard to log out and log into your other account and it only takes a couple of seconds.

• And on the subject of such things, only one character per account. I don't care if they're twins and go everywhere together. You must have a separate account for each character. No exceptions.

• Oh, speaking of Mary Sues, none of them. Nor Gary Stus. Don't know what they are? Well, they are people who have zero weaknesses which, we all know everybody isn't perfect. Sure, they may act it, but on the inside they are just like everybody else.

• NO GODMODDING. We have a zero tolerance of it. Godmodding is when you control another's character and/or your character suffers no damage from whatever it is you're doing.

• I know I shouldn't have to say this, but I've seen it in recent rps I've been on. No rping with yourself. If you're too shy to ask somebody to rp with you, create an open thread and I'm sure somebody will join you.

GRAPHICS !

• The only thing that I say is don't make it insanely large. I would say if it stretches the page, it's a no go. Maybe 500 for a maximum width. The height I'm not too picky with, however, do not make it 1000 px tall. There's really no sense to it.

• NO NUDE PICTURES. Period. No conversation.

• If you use somebody's graphics, please credit them. It is the right thing to do, plus if you use something off of Caution, A Thousand Fireflies, PotterWatch, etc., they ask you to credit anyway! So long story short, credit.

• You are free to post any graphics you make on here, it's what the graphics board is for. People may just request something from you and you may become a mini celebrity.

OOC !

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• Just like in character, you may curse. No racial slurs, no religion, no politics. If you need a review of that, go look at that rule again.

• The chat box is there for a reason, so use it! Don't be scared to talk to us; we are a friendly bunch and won't bite much.

• ALSO! No fighting in the ooc boards. They are there for your enjoyment and if I or any of the staff find out there are fights in the ooc boards, they will be taken away. We want to keep peace here, yeah?

• Do not post in any board except the application board until you have been accepted.

thank you so much for reading these rules! i
know i went on and on throughout them, but
it's better to explain rules in full than leaving
people with questions. speaking of questions, if
you have any questions about any of these rules,
feel free to PM any of the admin. like i said, we
are a friendly bunch and would love to answer
any questions you have.

that being said, we work on a baseball type system.
three strikes, you're out. three outs, game over.
don't know what that means? three offenses, you're
banned for three days. three bans, you're banned
forever. kapeesh?

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