Rules of the Nonhuman National Park
May 11, 2021 21:43:40 GMT
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Post by Who-is-Page on May 11, 2021 21:43:40 GMT
The Nonhuman National Park prides itself on fostering an open and welcoming environment. In the interest of doing so, please read and abide by the listed rules and expectations of the forum below. Breaking of forum rules may result in warnings, mutes, and, after repeated offenses, a ban. Understand that these rules may be updated and change at any given time, and that it is your responsibility to keep up-to-date with them.
Age Ratings
In order to be a part of the Nonhuman National Park, you must physically be 13 years or older. The general rating of this forum is PG-13, except for specifically labeled adult (18+) boards. These boards have restricted access. Because of this general rating and the presence of minors on the forum, we do not allow for discussions, images, or conversations within the public spheres of the forum that contain mature imagery or themes. Examples of such include discussion of paraphilias and other sexual themes, written erotica or pornography, and depictions or conversations centered around graphic violence. We also disallow the discussion or promotion of illegal activities within these guidelines.
Language
This forum requires all posts and discussions to be written in English. While slang and shorthand is allowed, please avoid l33tspeak and similarly heavily-modified forms of typing: not all members may be native English speakers and some members may have reading disabilities. Be considerate of your fellow park-goers and keep your posts accessible!
Walls of text are also not permitted. This is, similarly, to try and help keep the Park accessible for all visitors. Don’t be afraid to bust out a paragraph break when you need one.
Respect & Responsibility
While visiting the Park, you are expected to be respectful to others and responsible for your own actions.
Disagreements are bound to happen, but keep things like excessive insulting, cursing others out, and similar inappropriate reactions out of it, even in the debate-focused boards. Regardless of your age, you’re expected to act like a mature adult and treat other forum members with civility.
It is also forbidden to intentionally post deliberately misleading or false information on any of the Park boards, including: impersonating someone else in order to ban-evade; lying about your age in order to gain access to specific boards; spreading conspiracy theories and stories as fact (something especially relevant now, during a global pandemic).
By being in the Park, you’re agreeing to abide by rules of civility, and rules of honesty.
Absolutely No Bigotry
The Nonhuman National Park strives to build gates, not fences. In welcoming people from all walks of life, there may be content and individuals within the Park that you disagree with or find offensive. You are not required to buddy up to every other park goer, but, as part of our Respect & Responsibility rule, you are required to tolerate and be civil to your fellow forum users. Slurs, personal attacks, harassment, and similar will not be tolerated within the Park.
Promoting any kind of inequality (including but not limited to): disability, ethnicity, nationality and race, religion and spirituality, gender identity/expression, and sexual identity/ orientation, is also disallowed from the Nonhuman National Park under this rule.
General Forum Guidelines
Respect the Staff
Help staff is here to do exactly that: help. In using the Park, you understand that the staff team may modify, move, split, and lock threads or posts as necessary. You also understand that the staff may warn, mute, and ban users as necessary for repeated rule offenses. We’re not here to censor you or order you around, but we do want to keep the forum well-organized and in-line with these posted guidelines as much as is possible.
If you feel a staff member is acting inappropriately, please reach out to one of our Administrators.
Age Ratings
In order to be a part of the Nonhuman National Park, you must physically be 13 years or older. The general rating of this forum is PG-13, except for specifically labeled adult (18+) boards. These boards have restricted access. Because of this general rating and the presence of minors on the forum, we do not allow for discussions, images, or conversations within the public spheres of the forum that contain mature imagery or themes. Examples of such include discussion of paraphilias and other sexual themes, written erotica or pornography, and depictions or conversations centered around graphic violence. We also disallow the discussion or promotion of illegal activities within these guidelines.
Language
This forum requires all posts and discussions to be written in English. While slang and shorthand is allowed, please avoid l33tspeak and similarly heavily-modified forms of typing: not all members may be native English speakers and some members may have reading disabilities. Be considerate of your fellow park-goers and keep your posts accessible!
Walls of text are also not permitted. This is, similarly, to try and help keep the Park accessible for all visitors. Don’t be afraid to bust out a paragraph break when you need one.
Respect & Responsibility
While visiting the Park, you are expected to be respectful to others and responsible for your own actions.
Disagreements are bound to happen, but keep things like excessive insulting, cursing others out, and similar inappropriate reactions out of it, even in the debate-focused boards. Regardless of your age, you’re expected to act like a mature adult and treat other forum members with civility.
It is also forbidden to intentionally post deliberately misleading or false information on any of the Park boards, including: impersonating someone else in order to ban-evade; lying about your age in order to gain access to specific boards; spreading conspiracy theories and stories as fact (something especially relevant now, during a global pandemic).
By being in the Park, you’re agreeing to abide by rules of civility, and rules of honesty.
Absolutely No Bigotry
The Nonhuman National Park strives to build gates, not fences. In welcoming people from all walks of life, there may be content and individuals within the Park that you disagree with or find offensive. You are not required to buddy up to every other park goer, but, as part of our Respect & Responsibility rule, you are required to tolerate and be civil to your fellow forum users. Slurs, personal attacks, harassment, and similar will not be tolerated within the Park.
Promoting any kind of inequality (including but not limited to): disability, ethnicity, nationality and race, religion and spirituality, gender identity/expression, and sexual identity/ orientation, is also disallowed from the Nonhuman National Park under this rule.
General Forum Guidelines
Please use the search function to see if a thread topic already exists before starting a new one, in order to better keep the Park organized and tidy. While necro-posting is allowed, we encourage forum users to add actual discussion and substance to resurrected threads. Double-posting is not allowed outside of self-created Pavilion (Gallery, Writer's Corkboard, Gift Shop, and any later-added boards) threads and Journal Scrawls threads; please use the edit feature to add in any additional content to your previous post. "Bumping" threads to show that they are still active is only allowed in self-created Gift Shop and Blood Sports threads. Cross-posting is not allowed anywhere on the forum. Keep threads in the sections they go in, title your threads appropriately, and make an effort to stay on-topic in threads you participate in.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Unless you have evidence to back it up, please do not make claims of being able to physically shapeshift, or claims of other "special" physics-defying powers. We also ask that our forum members refrain from labeling themselves as being of particular special nonhuman/alterhuman rank or leadership within the Park- this forum is considered neutral territory, and all of its members exist on equal footing regardless of outside achievements or claims to fame.
Please do not advertise for, solicit for, or request advice on how to create packs/similar groups. We also ask that gatherings/meetup posts, such as arranging Howls, be restricted to the 18+ board for the safety of younger forum members.
Respect the Staff
Help staff is here to do exactly that: help. In using the Park, you understand that the staff team may modify, move, split, and lock threads or posts as necessary. You also understand that the staff may warn, mute, and ban users as necessary for repeated rule offenses. We’re not here to censor you or order you around, but we do want to keep the forum well-organized and in-line with these posted guidelines as much as is possible.
If you feel a staff member is acting inappropriately, please reach out to one of our Administrators.