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

[Combeferre]

I particularly enjoy the organization of the roleplay forums! However, I like semi-lit and fandom-based RPs, but if I were to seek one that is both I wouldn't know where to go since there isn't really a distinction. Is there any possibility for further subforums, or do you have any advice as to where to go for these specific roleplays?

[dontdrinkthepoison]

I really like the changes except for one thing. I really miss having the POUND tab in the "home" menu.

The reason for this is because when it is almost time for the pound to open... that last 30 seconds... you can just click and scroll, click and scroll, over and over until it opens. With extra clicks to reach the Pound, it is waayyy too tempting to just hit F5 to refresh. I don't know if this is true but I have heard this refresh from several users is rather taxing on the server. In any case, it does take a lil longer for everything to reload. Sometimes my computer just goes all white for like 2 or 3 minutes.

Anyways... it's not a big deal I suppose. I just think it would makes sense to discourage the refresh thing. I love everything else.

Thanks Nick... :D

[Atwood]

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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)
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That's exactly the sort of thing the violence rule is referring to - sick violence, 'gorn', blood and guts everywhere, fountains/pools of blood, all that gruesome stuff. And believe me, all that and worse has shown up often in the RPs here. >.< I worry about kids sometimes...

For your example with the sword-fighting, what you wrote would be fine. :3 Probably anything that would be considered a 'normal' level of injury would be okay, like the hiker falling and needing stitches or breaking a bone, but not if it was described in loving detail of how the bone protrudes or globby bits dangling from the wound. 'Excessive' violence is pretty much what you described as 'over-the-top'.

[bookworm.]

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

I completely and utterly agree with this, the rules are getting a bit too excessive; there's got to be a point where you just quit not allowing stuff and instead quit allowing role plays at all. It's going to get to the point we're we have to play my little pony to not be breaking any of the rules. Also, I think allowing only one picture is completely silly. I mean, really? Why can I have only one picture, I know some people are excessive with them, but I often use little gifs or pictures of my character to make it look pretty and fill space.

[Kohaku]

this is a fantastic update, thank you so much! the new organization is so easy to use.
are we going to continue to have big announcements posted at the top of the forum the way this one is? I think that would be a really helpful addition.

[Atwood]

this is a fantastic update, thank you so much! the new organization is so easy to use.
are we going to continue to have big announcements posted at the top of the forum the way this one is? I think that would be a really helpful addition.

The panel says 'Daily tips/announcements', so maybe it's planned to be a permanent feature? I don't know for sure, but it would certainly be handy if that's the case. ^^

I particularly enjoy the organization of the roleplay forums! However, I like semi-lit and fandom-based RPs, but if I were to seek one that is both I wouldn't know where to go since there isn't really a distinction. Is there any possibility for further subforums, or do you have any advice as to where to go for these specific roleplays?

My assumption is that all boards are 'non-literate' unless specified otherwise, so a semi-lit+ fandom RP would go in the semi-lit+ board that best matches the fandom. :3

[Kohaku]

oh, good point! I hope it will be.

[Clio.]

I like the new way the site is organized. Yes the rules may be a bit stricter, but I think it's a small price to pay for having a variety of different rp's to chose from, unlike some sites where it's all oriented on One RP.

[Schuyler]

I love the new layout! It's so much easier to find everything now, and it's great that I can see all my items without having to edit a pet. I don't roleplay, so I can't really say much about the rules or forum changes there, but everything else seems to be a nice improvement.