Big site update!

[The Great ME!]

I find it a little odd that we are no longer allowed to have our characters killed or seriously injured, as pg-13 movies quite frequently do this, violently.

You are allowed to have characters killed or seriously injured, you're just not allowed to describe it in graphic detail (eg "he was shot and fell to the ground, his heart stopped") is fine but if you were to describe excessive gushing blood or guts coming out then it wouldn't be fine

For those of you who are upset by the strictness of our roleplay rules - please remember that this site has always been a family-oriented website with strict content rules and a large proportion of our members being children or young teens. I know and understand that the rules on things like romance and violence will be too strict for some members' preferences - I'm an adult too - but for those people there are just hundreds and thousands of other roleplay websites you can use which aren't targeted at young children. If you choose to roleplay here then please follow our rules. If you don't like the rules then please roleplay elsewhere.

Okay so I'm a little confused here.
The rules are improved but they're still really vague on what they allow, and I'm getting mixed signals here, so I'm just going to go ahead and ask.
How much is considered "too much"?
Like I remember and know in the Oekaki, a character with, say, a split forehead or a scratch on the shoulder and a little blood was okay and never warned or removed, but other times people had stuff up implying a slashed throat or worse and it got warned to remove the blood and such.
Would this more or less apply to roleplay as well?

So say I have a character sword-fighting with another character, and he gets his side cut by the other person, would something like:
"He hissed in pain and put pressure on the wound with his free hand, feeling that his side was hot and sticky with blood. It hurt a lot, but it probably wasn't as serious as it felt."
or something to that effect, with nothing beyond that in description and no less vague than that be "okay"?(and of course have it be a minor wound, or omit the details of how seroius it is and just say "It was a serious wound" at some point without more detail than that)
I mean I've seen worse in primetime children's TV or kid's movies so I would assume so but honestly I can't ever make heads or tails of where the "line of what's acceptable" is one day to the next on this site =/

No offence but a lot of the rules are written in such a way that it leaves a lot to be misinterpreted(though I will give credit to the fact that they've been improved with this latest update, some could still use some clarification and further detailing)

I mean I'm not really looking for anything over-the-top(i.e. dismemberment, torture, stuff spewing everywhere, yada-yada; I'd never expect something that extreme even without the rules in place for a site like this) but I like to keep a little bit of a realistic flare to my roleplays. I mean if I character gets cut then obviously they're going to bleed at least a little, that's real life. So if I character gets their arm sliced by a knife in combat or falls while hiking and cuts open their leg and needs to get stitches, I want to be able to at least briefly mention these things to tie my roleplay/storytelling together and make it complete.

I mean the "no swearing of ____ words" took some getting used to but I just put something like "He cursed" as a more appropriate replacement to be interpreted as the other reader's see fit to fill in the blanks(whether they want to imagine them saying "You're a stupid meanie-face!" or whether they want to interpret it as things which can't be said on this site) but not allowing even the tiniest description of an injury and a little blood(a little, not extreme) just seems a bit excessive to me(That, or maybe I just have issues, which is a high possibility, but that's neither here nor there)

I also like how the C$ is 'hidden' until you go over the Store. It almost makes me not spend 20 or 10 dollars just so I can see myself having more C$[/strike]

I really like that the C$ feature isn't shown until you tab the Store either. I kept mistaking it for new messages, scrolling up to open PM's, and then getting disappointed for mistaking it as new PM's when it wasn't XD

Ever since I joined in 2011, I've become so attached
to this site and the people on it.
I love it. <3

~♚

Psssh I've been horribly addicted to this site since I joined in like, '09 and I don't even know why
Oh well
Maybe there's a 12 step program somewhere

[windows98]

Uhm, Hai.
Oekaki isn't working, ever since the newest update.
At all.
Like, I'll get onto the "Create a new drawing" page, and what I'll see is that it doesn't load the choosable canvas size, or the cavas at all, and when I scrol it glitches the "Create new drawing" logo thing. And when I scroll up he glitches and repeats little bits of unfinished drawings. Its actually really annoying.
Is it my computer or the files or... yea.
Thankies~

I just used it a second ago, I think this is a problem on your end. For me it does that for like a second but then immediately fixes.

[That Flute Girl]

I love the new Item setting. It makes it so much easier to view what I have without having to start a trade.
Thanks so much, Nick!!

[Lucifer]

It's a little confusing but I'm getting used to the new layout. I really like it though!

[frytard]

I love the new updates! I'm sure everyone will love them to as soon as they get used to them ^.^

[scmarshtacky]

Hmm It's a bit different, but nothing I can't get used to. I definitely like the split in the roleplay forums. It was a pain to have to go through several pages of threads looking for the few that might be semi-lit.
Thanks for your hard work! ^^

[#skyler]

Sweet nick -thumbs up-

[Calix]

Uhm, Hai.
Oekaki isn't working, ever since the newest update.
At all.
Like, I'll get onto the "Create a new drawing" page, and what I'll see is that it doesn't load the choosable canvas size, or the cavas at all, and when I scrol it glitches the "Create new drawing" logo thing. And when I scroll up he glitches and repeats little bits of unfinished drawings. Its actually really annoying.
Is it my computer or the files or... yea.
Thankies~

I just used it a second ago, I think this is a problem on your end. For me it does that for like a second but then immediately fixes.

Agreed- plenty of others(and myself) have used the oekaki successfully since the change uvu Try updating java or your browser?

[Trexxa]

Right now it's a bit confusing for me, but I'm sure I'll get used to it soon.
All these new updates are wonderful, especially the split in the roleplay forums.
Now I won't have to spend all that time searching for the semi-lit roleplays!

[---Delete Please!]

I love it, Nick! :3