Post by Tropius on May 23, 2016 13:05:20 GMT -6
Posting Rule
This applies to all boards.
This applies to all boards.
1) Be courteous. Be respectful.
2) No harassment. Whether it's sexual harassment, insulting nationality, ethnicity, race, sexuality, or what have you, keep it to yourself.
3) Keep cursing to a minimum. Find another way to rephrase what you would have say with curse words.
4) No posting of pornographic content and commercial content. This isn't porn site or Craiglist or ebay. Leave that out.
5) No spamming. If you really need a word count, give each posts at least 5 words. Repeated message or repeated text is a spam. Irrelevant posts are spam. A lot of unneeded caps is also a spam.
6) Don't feed the trolls. If there's a problematic post, content, or user in the forum or chat, let a moderator deal with it. Thanks!
7) One account per person. We know that role-playing can be fun with multiple characters, but please only use one account per person. And in that vein, what happens to that account, you will take responsibility for it. So do not have a younger sibling/whoever break the rules. Log off if you need to. it will also unfair to others by having multiple accounts in the forum.
7A) And on this note, at the moment only 1 character per user! As activity and interest grows, PMU will allow more characters per person. Thanks!
8) English only. This is an English language based board. Your majority of content should be in English, and if you do have to use foreign language, do it sparsely.
RP Rule
This only applies to RP boards.
This only applies to RP boards.
1) Your minimum word per RP posts should be about 200 words. anything shorter than that will be given warning. If you put a little more effort and creativity into your writing, the moderator will likely as well. Give your moderators something to work with.
2) No God-modding. A moderator will decide if your Pokemon's move will hit accurately, will land a critical hit, land a status condition, etc.
3) Do not mix IC and OOC. Remember when you're posting on the board as a character versus posting as actually you. An example will be your character or NPC or another character might use insult in the face of a losing battle, but don't take it personally.
4) Do not role-play out someone's character. The human character, should under any circumstances, not to be role-played out by another user, memebrs or moderator. The user could, however, give consent to speed things up, such as "walking from one side of Mauville to another", or "A character follows another character to a diner". Pokemon characters though, could be controlled a little to create plot or event, but nothing extreme like causing injuries or death. An example would be "Pikachu accidentally bumped into a sleeping Wingull and caused the Wingull mad."
5) Be patient with replies. The multiple turns per post mechanic allow posts to be sped up a bit due to game-play versus forum differences. This also pairs with real life events that could slow down replies or modding between users. For group threads, please give other users a week (7 days) at least to reply, before reminding another player.
RP Guide
You can't get in trouble for these but it will make RP smoother.
You can't get in trouble for these but it will make RP smoother.
1) If you're using text box, please use a tasteful choice of color. Don't use bright color text on a bright color background. Don't use font size that will be too small.
2) Use OOC to clarify attacks or moves done. Maybe you want to RP your Pokemon as a little hard to control or very smart to attack on their own. Use OOC to clarify moves that could behave similarly, such as if you have a Pokemon with Tackle and Feint Attack. just write a simple "OOC: Meowth use Feint Attack" will suffice. You can also use OOC to clarify other things like moving Pokemon between parties and box, equipping or unequipping items, using items to heal, etc.
3) If a moderator make a mistake, please be polite and let the moderator know what the mistakes was. After all, we're all humans.
4) If you would like use to OOC to remind a moderator about your Pokemon carrying an item or its ability that would definitely come into play, please simply state what your Pokemon's ability or item was. For example: "OOC: My Seviper have Shed Skin", Or "OOC: My Primeape have Vital Spirit". Please also use this kind of OOC sparingly like only for gym battles.
5) Color coding or bold or italicize character speeches and thoughts will be helpful as well.