Forum_Rules

Before you allow yourself to get situated and comfortable, the staff team implores you to read and memorize the contents of this thread, as every member, including them, are obliged to follow the forum's rules to the best of their abilities. They are implemented with the express intent of making this place a community where people can respect and trust one another.

By holding ourselves to these standards, we can ensure this site is, and will be, a place that always strives to put emphasis on the value—and practice—of both ethics and common courtesy!

RULE #1 — Please read ALL of the rules!

Though it might seem self-explanatory, it rings true all around; there will, at some point in time or another, be a member that cannot seem to locate a particular ruling or guideline in an instance when the topic of their confusion can be found within the rules themselves, with full transparency no less.

If you should have a question about how a specific postulation of our site functions, we ask that you please refer to the Rules first. Should this method fail to provide you with the answers you seek, drop a line in our "Support Desk" board for clarification.

Addendum: Just because something isn't physically written as a rule does not make it legal or allowable! We understand that loopholes do exist and they will be found from time to time, but it is not a blanket permissions to abuse and exploit them as you see fit. Please use common sense as best as you can here; this is a hobby forum, not a proving grounds to flaunt your perceptions of superiority.

RULE #2 — Exercise respect for one another!

They call it the "Golden Rule" in most cases, but its message is perfectly clear to anyone that even remotely knows of it: treat others as you want to be treated yourself. There will be no tolerance for people who participate in harmful, abusive, or disrespectful behavior against others, and anyone caught engaging in this kind of nonsense for any reason will be dealt with accordingly. Again, this is a hobby forum, not an echo chamber for hateful ideologies.

RULE #3 — Don't flood the place with spam!

"Spamming" is defined as the reckless, impulsive posting of redundant or useless media, which can take the form of posts, quotations, images, messages, video links, or any other such content in an excessive and repetitive fashion. It's offensive to everyone and it produces unwanted garbage around the forum. 

If you're looking to advertise your own site or become an affiliate of ours, you can do so in the appropriate section of the forum. Attempting to do so elsewhere will have your posts deleted until the message sinks in.

Spamming is not tolerated on our Discord server, either, and we ask that you exercise a little restraint with the frequency of your replies in its various channels; many messages can easily be typed out as a single, longer comment instead of being divided into numerous, bite-sized snippets that take up the entire screen.

RULE #4 — Trolls are not welcome here!

"Trolling" is defined as a series of actions made with the intent to cause distress or chaos among members of an online community; those who engage in this behavior are called "trolls". All of it is unacceptable here and will be dealt an immediate IP ban.

Examples of trolling include "flaming" (also called "bashing"). the inflammatory attacks or remarks made for the purposes of offending or upsetting a person or group of people; and "baiting", the posting of comments, images, or topics with aims of provoking negative responses or generalized chaos.

Simply put, anyone that voluntarily chooses to be destructive and cause unwanted, unnecessary stress within our community—especially for the sake of drawing attention to themselves—will be taken care of without the slightest shrivel of pity or care. Once more, this is a hobby forum, not a sanctuary for bullies and mean-spirited troublemakers. You are not welcome here.

Addendum: If you believe you are being targeted or harassed by a troll, or are experiencing any sort of directed hostility, we encourage you to inform a member of our staff team as soon as possible, and the problem will be taken care of. As a popular adage of the Internet goes, "do not feed the trolls."

RULE #5 — Explicit content is not allowed!

We want to make it clear that this is a forum that means to encourage freedom of expression. But, as per the terms of service expressed by our forum's host, we will not allow any sort of graphically explicit content to be posted on the site; this is also to take our more sensitive members into account, as some forms of media sit as an issue for them.

As a point of reference, our website follows an L2/S2/V2 rating and would otherwise be considered "PG-13" for the sake of general discussion—anything that can be found here might not be as "youth-friendly" as one would probably expect from a Digimon fan site, but we still want our members to exercise their creativity with a measure of tastefulness. 

Any and all images on this board should be kept in good taste, as well! Considering our provided rating estimates, we are still likely to have some sensitive and underage members here. Try to keep your images as safe for work (SFW) as possible, and avoid posting anything of a gruesome, sexually illicit, or downright disgusting nature. Not all of us like that kind of stuff.

This being said, please take time to read the site's overall tone and try to make an informed judgement regarding what you bring into the site. If you have any kind of doubts or concerns about what's appropriate or allowable, do not hesitate to ask a member of staff for clarification.

Addendum: If, for any reason, you feel unable to compromise with the fact that there may be suggestive themes or content here, we won't hold it against you if you decide not to register! On the other hand, if you do understand these terms, you must also be responsible about what you choose to post and show others, and we will hold you accountable for any brazen attempts to stretch the limits of your boundaries.

RULE #6 — The site is not a place for drama.

We understand that everyone has problems. We also know that some issues need external input to resolve. But please, please, we ask that you keep any dilemmas and issues that are unrelated to the site itself, away from the site itself. This is a hobby forum, not  Facebook nor Twitter, or any other kind of social media platform.

Furthermore, if you have a problem of any sort, don't expose your dirty laundry for everyone to smell, so to speak. If you're involved in a conflict with another member, keep it away from the public and resolve the dispute as best as you can. If it turns into an issue of harassment, either on the site or within the Discord, notify a member of our staff and we will address the problem directly.

RULE #7 — Don't attempt to cheat the system!

We are committed to promoting an environment of fairness and equality for all of its participants. As a play-by-post forum, we use post counts to measure and track the progress of characters as they are developed and reach certain growth milestones over time.

You not allowed to artificially inflate or modify your post count under any circumstances, either by rapidly stringing together nonsense posts in sequence or through a perpetual cycle of postings-and-deletions. If you are caught attempting to manipulate your way up the scale, we will not hesitate to remove an allotted number of posts, or all of them at once, depending on the severity of the issue.

RULE #8 — The secret ingredient is quality!

We ask of everyone that their posts be up to 200 words in length or above, whenever possible. This is to encourage effort and motivate a willingness to improve writing skill without imposing too steep of a restriction against others that do not suffer such issues, and while we understand that some of you may not be naturally inclined in the way of prose, it is also not unreasonable for us to expect a standard of quality from our members, however minimum. 

PUNISHMENT — FROM WARNINGS TO BANS

Failure to comply with any of our rules, for any reason at all, will result in the direct intervention of our forum's staff team. We understand that errors of judgement do occur, but depending on the nature of the infraction itself, there may come a point where we are led to suspect that a member is being willfully recalcitrant towards any attempts to correct any behavior deemed problematic by consensus.

To handle this kind of troublemaker, we reserve the authority to issue any punishment that is deemed appropriate to the nature, frequency, and severity of the problem member in question. These include the restriction of certain character privileges, removal of an allotted number of posts, or even a sweeping ban from the forum and its Discord server. 

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