Rules

These rules were written by Flicker the Overseer and Lux. Any requests on updating? Leave 'em down below, message an admin or content mod on their wall, or create a discussion post. If you're a content mod or admin, just edit directly.

## The First and Most Important Rule

The rules can be summarized in two words:

* **Be respectful.**

## General

* **No swearing.** Swear word substitutions (like "darn", "dang", or "fiddlesticks") are okay, but real curses should be avoided or censored and never used to insult another user.
* **Don't be toxic.** This is an unsaid rule of any community. Don't insult or talk down on others.

## Content

* **Vent appropriately.** If it's serious, create a blog post. If it's not too serious, comment on the venting page or chat about it.
* **Don't create new categories.** If you think one should exist, message the mod team.
* **No mature content.** This is a family-friendly wiki, and any kind of mature/graphic content will not be tolerated.
* **Don't vandalize.** Do not edit other users' profiles unless they say you can, and the same goes for pages unless you are correcting it (adding categories, correcting grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, fixing links, etc.) or inserting yourself into a friend group.
* **Don't steal.** Coding/art/idea theft is not tolerated and will get the page with stolen content removed. This action will not be reversed and you will not get the content back unless you can prove it wasn't stolen.
* **Ask first.** If the rules don't say you can make a certain type of page, ask the mod team, just don't make it, or turn it into a blog post.
* **Blog posts are fine.** The only things you can't do on a blog post are:
	+ Swear.
	+ Hate.
	+ Write mature content.
	+ Steal.

### Friend Groups

In this wiki, anyone can make a friend group. You have a lot of wiggle room but to make a friend group you must:

* Ask a content mod or admin. This is mostly so we can keep track of how many friend groups there are on the wiki. Simply state the group's name, founders, and its purpose.

Friend group pages must have, at minimum:

* The name of the group.
* A list of members with links.
* Information on who is the current head of the group.
* A description of the group.
* Group rules.

Discussion threads, images, ad such are optional.

There can be friend subgroups, for example a Harry Potter friend group could have Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Gryffindor subgroups. These can be sections of the page or subpages.

If you are a friend group moderator, you must make sure that:

* The friend group doesn't encourage violence, hate, etc.
* The friend group doesn't revolve around some controversial subject.
* The members follow the rules.

If you are a friend group moderator, you reserve the right to ban users from the friend group. If you abuse this power, you will be banned from the friend group by another group mod or by a content mod/admin.

If any problem arises and its related to your friend group, members of the problematic friend group might receive warnings or punishments, depending on the case.

### Persona Pages

Persona pages are pretty lax on requirements. They can be pretty much anything, from a character made in the universe of your favorite book series, to an entirely new creature of your own design. A persona represents you.

* **One persona per person.** This is to prevent the wiki from being spammed with tons of new characters.

### Story Pages

This is not a wiki for authors. The linked wiki is one of those. Nevertheless, you may write stories and post them as pages. There are rules for these, though.

* **Long and detailed.** Any stories too short and without details will be deleted.
* **Don't forget about them.** Any incomplete stories that haven't been edited in a while will be deleted and have their content submitted to the author(s).
* **Don't make other pages.** Don't make info pages for anything in the story. You can make blogs for them.
* **Violence warnings.** Violence and the graphic description thereof is allowed in stories, with the condition that you state very clearly that there is violence. Excessive violence, however, will not be tolerated.

## Chat

* **Don't spam.** It's annoying and gets on people's nerves.

### Topics to be Careful With

These topics are to be talked about in a way that won't degenerate things into that flaming dumpster that is an Internet culture war.

* Venting
* Religion
* Mental illness
* Sexuality
* Race
* Politics
* Violence

### Banned Topics

These topics are to be avoided at all costs and will get you kicked from the chat, maybe worse.

* Mature content
* Alcohol
* Swearing
* Drugs
* Controversial issues

## What Happens When You Break the Rules

This is the normal order of things, but if you commit a serious offense, we may have to skip steps.

We keep track of how many offenses you've committed to determine how best to deal with the situation. However, if you behave well for long enough, we will forgive and forget, giving you a message to say that we have done so.

* **First offense**

Warning

* **Second offense**

Warning

* **Third offense**

Removal from the wiki for a week

* **Fourth offense**

Removal from the wiki for a month

* **Fifth offense**

Indefinite removal from the wiki

## Wiki Administration

* Sunray

Founder, admin, bureaucrat

That one person who will crawl out of her shell for what is right.

* Rogue

Content moderator

That one ~~irresponsible~~ awesome idiot who develops a wiki and calls it heroism.

* Lux

Content moderator

That one friendly garbage can with wheels. It's a garbage can, not a garbage can't!