Rules wrote:1. You can only adopt one Sweeten per litter, and once per 12 hours. If another litter comes out less than 12 hours after the first you adopted from, you cannot adopt from the second. This is to ensure everyone can get one. Using alternate accounts to get around this is grounds for an instant ban and Sweetens belonging to alts
will be revoked from you. Play fair.
2. Sweetens are first come, first serve.3. You are not permitted to edit your Sweeten's sprite in any way.4. Editing adoption forms is not allowed under ANY circumstances until a litter is fully adopted out, and numbers cannot be changed. If for any reason you need to change the number, you must QUOTE your form and change it there. The reason for this is to prevent people from changing their Sweeten to one that someone took after them. (This rule does not apply to general posts).
Your post will be disqualified if it's edited unless you quote it, and you'll receive a strike if purposely trying to steal another Sweeten adopted after you or caught posting forms before a scheduled litter is released to get a "head start."5. Do not "write your adoption forms in advance" before a scheduled litter. You are not allowed to copy and paste an adoption form before the litter is up to get a head start. Because of this, if your form is the wrong hexcode of a previous litter or has the codeword of a previous litter, it will be disqualified and you will receive a strike. Furthermore, while you will not receive a strike, your form will be disqualified if you change the hex to a different color or remove it. It's necessary to check the validity of your form.
6. This is a given, but do not steal someone else's Sweeten. This includes putting it in your signature without permission (if you have permission, credit them, and let me know first.)
7. Sweetens placed in your signature MUST link back to this thread.8. You can change the Sweeten you want later on, but if someone claimed the Sweeten you want instead before you, you can't change it to that one, even if you initially adopted before them. (i.e., A claims 4, B then claims 3, A can't change their Sweeten to 3)
9. Please don't remove the codeword, it's necessary to find forms of specific litters. If it's removed, your form will be disqualified.
10. You must put down one number in your adoption forms. Forms that say "3 or 5," "anything open," etc. will not count.
11. I won't notify you by PM when you've claimed the Sweeten, as I do a final quote post when all are adopted. Please don't ask. I do not have the time to PM everyone, please check the thread if you want to know if you got the Sweeten, on the adoption post or search for the quotepost. If your name appears on this page, it's yours. If it's been over an hour and I have not updated the page,
you can DM
me asking if you got it. (I will not DM you)
12. A Sweeten with "(Reserved)" next to it is not available and was reserved for the artist of the litter to keep.13. Please avoid mini-modding. This is defined as telling someone they're breaking the rules when you're not an official Sweetens moderator. Answering questions is okay if nobody has responded in 24+ hours.
14. Please do not guilt-trip if you miss a litter or post messages such as "I'll never get a Sweeten." Saying mild things such as "Oh no, I missed it! Oh well." or constructive criticism on how to improve the system is okay, but messages expressing anger or resentment at the staff for missing a litter or complaining about how you constantly miss litters is not.
Despite this, please do not ask us to change the "FCFS" nature of Sweetens, or ask us to implement "raffle litters". "draw/write-a-story-to-adopt" litters, or paid-only litters. We've answered this question many times and the answer is no (on the main thread, we sometimes host something similar for the first two in our
Discord server, but they will not be implemented on the main thread). The system we chose was chosen for a reason and we ask that you respect this or simply find another species if this is not your cup of tea.
15. Please do not spam. What counts as spam is up to mod discretion, but the general rule of thumb is: if it's irrelevant or doesn't have a clear purpose, it's likely spam.