Rules and Guidelines

The following rules apply to players and their characters in the U.A High School Discord server.

## Out of Character

1. **Deliberate bullying, doxxing, spamming, discrimination, and usage of slurs is forbidden.** This will result in an instant ban. Swearing is okay as long as it is not used in a deliberately malicious manner towards someone.
	1. Excessive OOC chatter and conversation in an RP channel will be considered spam. Please keep your OOC commentary about a RP in the RP discussion channels.
2. **Respect others.** Do not deliberately contact someone with the "DMs Closed" tag, beg artists for art, make fun of other people’s writing/characters/art, or pressure anyone to roleplay. Art theft is not tolerated.
	1. *Submitting Artwork*
		1. Respect other players' hard work by waiting at least an hour after the last post before submitting to #art-gallery; any images posted before the one-hour timeframe will be deleted. You do not have to wait an hour if the last post was your own, but the following posts will not reset the time frame (i.e. if you made a post at 1:00, and posted again at 1:21, the next person can still post at 2:00.)
		2. If you have 2+ variations of one work, compile them into one image instead of sending all the individual pictures one by one.
3. **Explicit adult and NSFW images in any channel are forbidden.** The occasional inappropriate joke is fine, but prolonged NSFW conversations are not allowed.
4. **Please do not advertise other servers without Admin permission.** We are not looking for partnerships with other servers of any kind.
5. **If you join on another account, you must specify that you are an alt, as well as disclose your main account, on your character sheet.**
6. **To ensure the wellbeing of other players, please do not vent or discuss heavy/sensitive topics in OOC chats.** We encourage you to reach out to a trusted, willing individual through DMs. It's perfectly fine to feel or speak of something strongly or passionately, but be sure to keep everyone's well-being in mind and try to avoid delving deeply into matters that have the potential to make others uncomfortable in the server.
7. **No minimodding.** This applies to all teams on the server (Admins, Moderators, Admissions, and Plot). We understand that you have good intentions and we are grateful for your involvement in the server, but we would like to assure you that our teams are capable of following server procedures. To ensure players are receiving the correct information, we would like you to refrain from personally reaching out to offending players. Please leave staff duties to the proper team members to prevent confusion among members due to the misunderstanding of a rule/false information.
8. **If you make significant changes to your character and/or their backstory after you've already been approved, you must contact the Admissions team** by pinging @Admissions in #player-help. What is considered significant is at the Admissions’ discretion; if you are unsure, please enter a private discussion channel. Once you are approved, you may resubmit/edit your character sheet.
	1. If we see a character’s Quirk growing capable of things far beyond what was on the original sheet without approved discussion, your character may be nerfed. When this happens, you will be placed into Spectator until you resubmit your character sheet and get it approved.

## In Character

1. **No godgaming.** All significant combat scenes must be agreed upon by all parties involved. Controlling other people’s characters or severely injuring them without prior arrangements or permission is not allowed.
	1. If your characters are in the same year and Department, combat debates will not be as one-sided as you may assume. Please respect your opponent’s wish for a roll if they request for one.
2. **No metagaming.** Your character should not be acting or speaking on the knowledge that you have OOC.
3. **Please portray alcohol/drug use, gambling, nudity, and mature content tastefully.**
	1. Gambling and drug/alcohol use may be portrayed, but must not be endorsed.
	2. Nudity can be stated or implied in a scene where it makes sense for a character to be nude. Please do not describe it in detail. Example: “Her underwear was removed” versus “Her underwear was removed, revealing her [insert body part].”
	3. The sexual behavior of adult characters may be referenced, but explicit sexual roleplaying is not allowed for *any* character.
4. **Violent acts are allowed, but heavy gore should not be described using detail and intense imagery.** Prolonged torture and child abuse should not be explicitly shown in a scene or through a character’s backstory.
5. **Please portray illnesses, disorders, trauma, and different cultures respectfully.** While we understand that the Moderator team has no place to be objectively judging how to represent these, we may reach out to you if we have reports of other players being uncomfortable in order to ensure a positive environment for others.
6. **Do not let real-life sensitive topics such as racism, sexism, and homophobia become an extremely serious issue IC among characters.**
7. **Ask before joining a scene/taking a channel unless the channel hasn’t been used in over 72 hours (3 days)/the previous scene is over.** In that case, you are free to use it. (This rule does not apply to open channels.)
	1. OOC messages such as “will reply later” or “please do not take this channel” do not count as a last message; only actual IC responses do.
	2. Teachers, other staff members, class/deputy representatives, or Plot NPCs such as shop owners or police officers may step into a fight/conflict without asking if the scene is happening in a public area. In most cases, they will ask first, but they reserve this right.
8. **You may not construct plots that affect other characters or the server as a whole without permission.** This includes having your character act severely out of turn or disturb other roleplayers in sanctioned plot scenes such as classes, as they interrupt the purpose of the scene.
9. **Do not let IC conflicts become OOC.** Your character can hate another character, but you must respect the player writing the other character.

## Rulebreaking

*What is considered rulebreaking is at the Moderators' discretion.*

If a player oversteps a rule a bit, they may receive a **Heads-Up**. They are not in any trouble if they receive one; it is just a note to try and avoid that in the future. If they continue to deliberately break rules to a degree where it negatively affects other players, they may receive a **warning**. A ban will be issued to those who receive three warnings. Bans are irrevocable.

If you would like to report any rulebreaking or problems, please join a Moderator Line (information pinned in #player-help).

## Wiki Guidelines

1. Players are to respect the Wiki. This includes, but is not limited to, leaving other character pages alone, refraining from commenting/posting spam, and refraining from creating joke/meme/satire pages. Players discovered disrespecting the Wiki may receive server consequences.
2. **You must have permission to use any images posted on character profiles**, whether it be art you drew yourself, art you commissioned, or an avatar created on an avatar/doll maker. All art must have proper credit in the image caption, even if you drew it yourself. Art theft will not be tolerated.
3. Do not add random page categories. Categories are very important in keeping the server organized/helping players find things easily. Do not add a category if you're not sure it exists.
	1. Be mindful of your spelling when adding categories. "Generation 1" should be "Generation One," and "Student" should be "Students."

All pages are subject to editing/deletion by administrators.