rules to live by.

general.

i know, i know. no one likes rules, but there needs to be some order in this place that's filled with drama.

-- this is probably the most important rule; please please please be at least literate with your apps, posts, ect. no one likes someone who typz lik dis. make every one of your posts descriptive, it'll make it much more exciting for us admins.

-- almost anything goes on this site between characters. if you have a problem with someone on the site, try and work it out like civilized people. if the problem continues, the admins will have to step in.

-- cursing is acceptable on this site, but please do not make your every-other-word a curse.

-- this site strives for originality, so do not in any way shape for form steal someones' character. even if given permission by the character's original creator, we don't want you using someone's idea. if we catch wind of any of this happening, the account will be terminated.

-- your character's life in no way is flawless, but we also don't want them having a piece of crap life either. give it a good medium, mix it up.

-- if your character hates someone else on one thread, then they hate them on all boards. don't make things complicated, but being two-faced is completely acceptable.

-- you're allowed to be on more than one board with your character, just don't bite off more than you can chew.


characters/ accounts.

-- we all want this site to be clean and orderly, so here's how it goes; there is only allowed one character per account. this means that the account you make will be for the character you want to apply for.

-- hard to wrap your head around that? well, i'll go into further detail about it if you are confused. your username can be whatever you choose, but it would probably be a lot easier for you to remember ( if you have multiple characters ) to make it associated with the character, a nickname perhaps. but your display name must be your character's full name.

-- example:
username: dannyk
display name: dante aiden kronos

-- simple, yes?

ratios.
-- okay, can you imagine laguna beach being filled with a whole bunch of guys that play guitar? no? neither can we, so we'd like to keep the ratios even between everything. boys/ girls and musicians/ actors( actresses .) we'd all like a 2 girls to every 1 boy. also keep the high school students/ college students pretty even. if things get out of balance then there will be a ban on that particular thing until the status evens out once again.

-- as an example, say the site has... 23 boys and only 15 girls. i or one of the other admins will put a ban on boys until the girls catch up. you follow?


images.

application.
-- this is obviously the images that go into your applications. it states in the application that you need 3 100x100 icons of your character. i think that pretty much is nuff said.

icons.
-- talking about the icons that appear to the side when you post. we'll only accept 150x300 size icons. we'd like it if they were different images than the ones you used in your application, just so we can see more of your character's pretty face!
we won't be too picky, though.

signatures.
-- these tend to be a little bit of an issue, a lot of them end up size huge and stretch everything out.
siggies must be no larger than 450x300, but can be smaller if by choice. if the siggy is larger than the set guidelines above then an admin will message you to make the siggy smaller. if you do not comply, then we will have to remove it. we don't want to have to remove anything from anyone, so please follow the size limit.


special rules.

party policy.
-- we are all aware that your characters are going to party hardy whether we want them to or not (but oh, we do.) thing is, kids under the age of eighteen have a very slim chance of making it into a bar, then other bars won't even let in eighteen year old's, just those over twenty-one. we want this to be as realistic as possible, so don't have a sixteen year old teen sneaking in with the twenty-one year old crowd (though it does happen.) but we have no control over who buys your underage character alcohol. ;]

sexual content.
-- due to proboard's TOS, we are forced to keep the nasty to a PG-13 level. anything you wouldn't want your parents to see is probably not okay on the boards. sorry guys. fade it to black. feel free to continue it elsewhere if you wish, just not on the site.
we wanna keep the site open, and we don't wanna have to start deleting characters. we will warn you if things start to get too graphic.



the end.

-- alas, all good things must come to an end, but rules change with its people. make sure to check back if there is an announcement because you don't want to be left in the dust.