FOR SUGGESTIONS: Simply put 'suggestion' in your subject and then go for it. Nothing is too little or too big and we love having player suggestions to think about, and possibly use!
FOR PLAYER COMPLAINTS:
CHARACTERS WHO ARE OOC
OUT OF LINE PLAYER BEHAVIOR -- ON COMM
OUT OF LINE PLAYER BEHAVIOR -- IN CHAT
HARASSMENT
GENERAL COMPLAINTS: For general complaints, just go crazy. if it's something about the community or the mod team or anything, feel free to voice it-- we will not judge you in the slightest.
Finally, ALL COMMENTS ARE SCREENED, no one will see what you have said and EVERYTHING IS CONFIDENTIAL. Only Moderators and the PR team will see your complaint (some 'suggestions' may be unscreened for the rest of the community to see and comment on themselves; if you would like your suggestion to stay private, please let us know and we will keep it screened). The one thing we ask is that you leave us some way to contact you (if it's your real sn, an anonymous sn, an e-mail, anything). We like to follow up on complaints to make sure things are getting resolved and we cannot follow up with completely anonymous complaints. However, it is entirely up to you.
Mods reserve the right to determine whether a complaint warrants action. Any talks had with the 'offending party' will not be shared with you, we will not give you details but if you ask, we will be honest and let you know if we did talk to them at all.
Player LJ: Your personal LJ, not your character's.
Way to contact you:
Email: Electronic Mail! If you don't have one, try gmail, yahoo, or hotmail.
AIM: Your AIM sn
Other: Any other means of contacting you, like MSN or Yahoo! Messenger.
Are you at least 15?: Y/N.
Current Characters: Whoever you are currently playing on
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dramadramaduck.Character: Character's full name.
Fandom: Your characters canon, be it a book, movie, game, comic, anything; if you're taking them from a specific source such as the comic over the movie or the manga over the anime, PLEASE tell us this.
Character Notes: Cannot be copy/pasted from another source. Please note that the following sections are only general guidelines for what we're looking for in the notes. Feel free to write them in any order you'd like or mix them up or combine them! Just be sure they're in your own words. (See What is Plagiarism? below.)
History: Anything you feel is necessary from their personal history; while it's easy to summarize the series the character is from, what we're looking for is actually just the events that are important to them. List them in bullets, if you'd like!
Personality: This part is very important to the moderators working on applications. While we do look up each character and their canon using whatever source is available to us, we use this section to gauge how well you know your character and match it against the information we're able to find, as well as use it as a guide when looking at your first and third person samples. For instance, if you tell us the character is normally an upbeat, bubbly teenager and that description correlates with what we've found, yet your samples paint a different picture entirely, it will be harder for us to gauge whether or not your character is IC.
Other: Anything else, quirks, habits, enjoyments, anything. Heck, even give us a picture if you want. This section is not strictly necessary, but more information is always good!
Additional Links: Wikipedia/fandom wiki's/fan websites with good descriptions/etc or even links to YouTube videos.
First Person (entry type): 100+ words
Third Person: 150+ words
The samples are the most important part of the application.
We use the first person sample to get a feel for the character's voice and the third person sample for motivations. Some of the reasons we may ask for a second sample include not being able to hear the character's voice in the first person entry. More often than not, this is because the samples tend to sound like generic intro posts; to get around that, we recommend having your character write about something that's important to them or about an event that took place in canon, even if they'll never bring it up in-game. We may also ask for a second sample if the personality doesn't match what was described in the personality section above.
Since the question was raised, it is perfectly fine to give multiple first person samples for characters that aren't very talkative.
For third person samples, we're looking for things that are less action-based and more a little motivation-based. That doesn't mean we want to see paragraphs of introspection; we just want something a little more than a description of what the character is doing. If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to ask!
That's about it! As a general rule, QUANTITY =/= QUALITY. Please keep that in mind when you apply. We're not looking for novels, promise. :3 ♥
What Is Plagiarism? with Norru Norryton.
☑ Writing everything yourself with some resource checking.
☒ Copy and Pasting straight from that resource.
⇒ Why?: Copy and Pasting straight from Wikipedia or whatever you use to find your information yourself shows us only that you know how to copy and paste. We want to know that you know your own character's information.
☑ Writing your history yourself.
☒ Paraphrasing another source.
⇒ Why?: Paraphrasing is pretty much fancy copy-pasting. I'd honestly rather you have little to no history than a paraphrased one from another source; I can look up wikipedia myself.
☑ Writing your own sample.
☒ Taking lines from canon or fanfiction.
⇒ Why?: As like the first explanation, I don't know that you know your character if you just pull lines from canon (this excludes popular catchphrases that the character would say a lot) or lift lines from fanfiction. Plus, this sort of thing honestly pisses me off. Don't do it.
☑ Working/Building on characterization from many sources/your own imagination
☒ Copying someone's characterization nearly word for word.
⇒ Why?: This is less to do with applications and more so to do with imitation not always being flattery. It's fine to see someone's characterization and build off it, but make sure you put yourself into it as well.
☑ Writing your own posts/comments.
☒ Copy and Pasting posts/comments from someone elses version of that character.
⇒ Why?: What even-- no. Do this, you and I will have a very stern talk.
☑ Writing YOUR OWN APP.
☒ Writing someone elses application for them; having someone write your application for you.
⇒ Why?: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE. SERIOUSLY. WHAT EVEN-- I CANT. WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS. NO. NO. But seriously, if I catch you doing this (writing apps for people/having people write your apps for you), I will ban all those involved from the game. By willfully submitting information that is not theirs or willfully accepting information you didn't write, you have the intent of getting (someone) into the game untruthfully. Not kosher.
To also clarify with applications:
I am okay with you using a history/personality section/sample(s) you've written for other games/websites/whatever so long as you LET ME KNOW IN YOUR APPLICATION and, if you can, link me the source.
In conclusion:
The way these things work is, I will judge your chances based on how well I know you and if I think it was intentional or not. Before now, people have expressed that they didn't know that you couldn't copy and paste histories or personality sections or what have you, so I have let it pass-- that's also why I wrote all this haha-- but that being said, it's generally a three strike rule (which was upped from the previous one strike policy). The third time I catch you plagiarizing, you will be banned from applying for three months. The fourth? You will be banned from applying all together.
I will not request your characters or you be removed from the game, don't worry, but I take this seriously and you should too. If you feel I have acted unfairly, you can talk to me about it and maybe we can work something out; despite my fairly strong stance on this, please don't feel like I won't be compassionate. I understand misunderstandings, it's okay if it's an honest mistake.
Thank you for reading all of this. Consider this your warning. :B ♥
Please respond to this post with any information characters should know ICly (for example, if they can read minds) or that you'd prefer to keep secret (like your character's alter-ego).
When in doubt, the best rule of thumb is to contact a player before making any revelations about their characters. Sure, your character reads manga and knows that Light is Kira -- but maybe the mun wants to try and keep it under wraps.
Still have a question? Ask a mod!
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If you see any errors or have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. You can reach me at samraiprosecutor on AIM. ♥
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Last update: 11/24/09
» Please be as detailed as possible so everyone can understand.
-- Yays and Nays and Suggestions are okay, but please no personal conversations-- bring those to IM.
» YOU CAN SCHEDULE YOUR VIRUS/EVENT BY CONTACTING NORRY. OTHERWISE, IT WILL BE SUBJECT TO POLLING.
» If your virus receives 0 votes or 1 vote twice in a row during polling, it will be removed.
» When posting, please specify Event or Virus in the subject.
» The mods reserve the right to reject any virus or event.
» Remember, anything that involves less than 5 people is not either a virus or an event; you can, for lack of a better term, consider that a personal plot or personal virus and those simply need to be run by a moderator on the mod approvals post.
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Reservations -- 2009
Please comment here to reserve a character application. Reservations will be held for one week AKA seven days; other applications for that character will still be accepted, but we will wait until we receive yours before making any final decisions. We prefer to avoid multiple applications (as I'm sure you do as well), so please get your application in as soon as possible.
- Please remember that reserving a character does not mean you will be accepted when you apply, multiple applications or not.
- If the reservations list is updated and you don't see yours listed, please reply again to make sure we didn't miss your reservation.
- You may renew a reservation when your reservation expires if no other applications for that character have been received.
- Please note that if you will not be eligible to apply for a new character by the last date of your reservation, your reservation will be considered invalid. Please wait until at least one week before the 1st of the new month to reserve a character if you have already used up your applications for the month.
- And, last but not least, check this list to see who is already being played before you reserve OR apply.
Current Reserves
Sorted by the day they expire
Those in red have put in their applications
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writing_on_skin; Bleach → Ichimaru Gin OCTOBER 15└lovesnotwisely; Persona 3 → Fuuka Yamagishi └savingdaisydiva; Eureka → Sheriff Jack Carter └kuja_rang; Fate/Stay Night → Saber OCTOBER 16└luminitrium; Axis Powers Hetalia → Poland/Feliks Lukasiewicz └el_khatosupreme; Glee → Kurt Hummel OCTOBER 17└savingdaisydiva; Final Fantasy VI → Terra Branford OCTOBER 18└idgiebay; X-Men: Evolution → Todd Tolensky OCTOBER 19OCTOBER 20OCTOBER 21OCTOBER 22OCTOBER 23OCTOBER 24OCTOBER 25OCTOBER 26OCTOBER 27OCTOBER 28OCTOBER 29OCTOBER 30OCTOBER 31
Hiatus Post 2008 - o1
Going on hiatus? Let us know here.
- Although it's not mandatory to tell us if you're going to be gone for just two or three days, it may be to your benefit. If you're going to be gone for more than a week, please inform us.
- Hiatuses may be taken for no more than three months. You will be dropped from the community entirely after.
- Hiatus posts do not need to be made on the OOC comm. If you do make a post there, however, you must still leave a comment in this entry. If you don't, you are liable for whatever happens in your absence.
- When you return from hiatus, please reply to your original hiatus comment stating that you have returned or else you will be on hiatus until you do. You may be dropped for excessive hiatus, otherwise.
- Do not use hiatuses as a way to get around the activity check, we will follow up.
NOTE: DO NOT COMMENT HERE IF YOU'RE TAKING A SEMI-HIATUS. SEMI-HIATUSES DO NOT EXEMPT YOU FROM ACTIVITY CHECK AS THERE IS STILL EXPECTED TO BE SOME ACTIVITY. If you feel you won't be able to make the necessary comments for AC, then please take a FULL hiatus
Previous hiatus post: here
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