[ccspycrab]

The staff have been working long and hard with this rule revision. It is a full overhaul of the rules to fill in gaps that have popped up over time. This is generally how rules progress. Someone does something, staff need to figure a solution and new rule or policy, repeat again. In the end one ends up with more fleshed out rules.

We're now more or less done for this time, but this is where YOU come in, as a player. Since this is going to be us going through all the rules you will all have a say in this. This is important. If you have suggestions or ideas it is time to present them when this revision goes on. Decisions are final. We'll be going through the different types of rules one by one. The rules to go through are (so much work to do):

General Rules
Chat Rules
Forum Rules
Metagaming Rules
Powergaming Rules
Building Rules
IC Death Rules
Stealing Rules
Town/Guild/Clan/Etc Rules
In-Game and In-Character Policies
Activity Policies

A poll will be posted in each thread for simple replies if all you got to say is "okay". It will also work as deadline for each issue.

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SUGGESTION:

CHAT RULES

Global Channel (/ch g):

• Always out-of-character (talk to staff for exceptions)
  
• No spamming
  
• No all caps spamming
  
• No bad grammar/spelling (small mistakes might happen, but no "u know I 2 luv 2 do...")
  
• No fighting/heated arguing
  
• No insulting other players
  
• Keep all conversation topics and language within the PG-13 guidelines
  

Local Channel (/ch l):

• Roleplay takes place in this channel
  
• No out-of-character talking without a dot or similar (talk to staff for exceptions)
  
• No spamming
  
• No all caps spamming
  
• No bad grammar/spelling (small mistakes might happen, but no "u know I 2 luv 2 do...")
  
• No out-of-character conversations when others are trying to roleplay
  
• No out-of-character fighting/heated arguing
  
• No insulting other players out-of-character
  
• Keep all conversation topics, roleplay and language within the PG-13 guidelines
  

Messages (/msg):

• Commrunes can be used here
  
• Whispering can be done here
  
• No other roleplay
  
• No out-of-character fighting/heated arguing
  
• No insulting other players out-of-character
  
• Keep all conversation topics and language within the PG-13 guidelines
  

[Michelle]

1. Grammar in bulletpoint lists are consistency-based. Basically, you can do whatever formatting you want, but it all needs to be consistent and parallel. Ours is not as consistent as it could be; 'Keep all conversation topics and language within the PG-13 guidelines.' This is a full sentence with a full stop, whereas all the other points are not. I would either change all the other points to full sentences, or simply make this sentence into:
'All conversation topics and language within the PG-13 guidelines'

2. There are 'RP's. For consistency with decisions made in the first thread, they should now be 'roleplay's.

3. 'No out-of-character fighting/heated arguing when others can hear'
I would change to 'when others are in range', because 'hear' is a bit weird in online chat.

4. 'Caps spamming' should be 'all caps spamming'. Just makes it clearer.

That's all I got.

[SentaiPink]

No out-of-character fighting/heated arguing when others can hear

Perhaps just "No out of character fighting/heated arguing"... People shouldn't be arguing in any channel at any range, really.

[Michelle]

Actually, yeah. Pinkie has a point, and rule one already covers that... So maybe those 'no fighting/heated arguing's should be removed, as they're redundant.

[ccspycrab]

I kept the arguing/heated discussion clause for clarification. Some people do not think arguing as breaking rule 1, etc.