These are the rules of the forum, explanation of what each means as follows. Not knowing the rules is not an excuse. We will gently remind of the rules when you first break them. If you continue to persist in it, we will then warn you via the warning system and a PM explaining what is wrong and why you need to cease. After that it will be a 24-, 36-, 48-hours banning for each infringement, after the last one it will be perma-banned from the forums.

Spammers, get no second chance, they are automatically perma-banned.

The Rules

1) No bigoted remarks will be tolerated, be they racial, religious, or otherwise.
---This includes, but is not limited to making snide comments about Jews (as we've already nagged at people for), Religious comments, politics, or anything else that can be construed as insulting or bigotry. If you aren't sure, take the side of caution and just don't do it.

2) No nudity, be it in a linked picture, posted picture, linked website, or avatar.
--We will delete and warn immediately for any nudity. Posting a warning is not suitable either. Just don't do it.

3) No flaming, trolling, name calling, baiting, or harrasment.
Flaming, plain and simple is calling someone a moron, an idiot or name calling in general just because you have no better arguement than that. If you have nothing to say, don't say anything at all.

Trolling is looking for a fight and wording things or attacking people in a way so that you are considered a troll. Trolls are bad. Report them and do not feed them.

Baiting is similar to trolling except its doing things to where they'll respond or be upset and flame in return.

Ghis and I will edit your lovely posts into something sickingly sweet anytime you troll/flame/insult/harass. Just don't do it.

4) No SPAM. SPAM will be edited or deleted and promptly locked.

5. Signatures.
--Signature images need to be restricted to 600x125 pixels and less than 50k in size.
--You may have multiple images in signatures, however they cannot exceed the 125pixel height or the file size.
--Text signatures need to be a little more contained than they have been. translation, tone them down. Many of the signatures make up the majority of a post, which just isn't right. So tone them down. I'd like to keep to a maximum of 6ish lines. I'm not gonna be strict on it unless it doesn't change.

The biggest rule, however is this:

"Be nice or don't post. "

We're just all trying to enjoy ourselves, folks. Please make it enjoyable for everyone to be here.

If anyone ever needs to discuss a problem they have with these rules or anyone else, PLEASE feel free to contact Me or any of the Moderating Team - we're all here to help as best we can.

And please if something is full of links, don't click on them, just hit the "report" button and one of us will handle it ASAP.

Note: You can derail threads in here, but only in this forum. But flaming or trolling will get you in trouble

Second Note: We've mentioned it several times before, common sense says that if you've been corrected or think someone or something is doing something wrong, to PM the mods, not accuse openly in the forums. This is considered trolling and isn't constructive. It is never -wise- to tell the mods how to do their jobs in public.


-Copied from Kayhynn's awesome rulez of narly (yes, I said narly, deal with it)

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The above rules were copied from the other forums, but as this is a new fanfic forum, be aware that we may add to, change, or amend the rules to suit the new fanfic forum as things roll along.

Topic titles:
When you post your fanfic, please create a unique title and add a short topic description, so users can get a general idea of what you are writing by viewing the topic list. Don't just put "My first fanfic", "Another fanfic" or something similarly vague. Save yourself some space in the topic title and leave "fanfic" out of it; it's kinda redundant on this forum.

Content:
Anything you might see in the comic is fair game. Since the fanfic writers and readers of this forum are all LFG fans, the same elements that cause us to enjoy the comic will probably do well in a fanfic: humorous violence, smartass comments from Richard, epic battles, plenty of "facepalm" moments from Cale, etc.

Generally speaking, anything that has the potential to make a reasonable number of readers very uncomfortable probably won't be allowed.
This means:
no exceedingly descriptive violence
no descriptive torture methods
no rape or sex scenes
no descriptions of nudity
no "slash" fiction
As Kay put it: "Romance/implied relationships are fine. Going into detail about them doing things that folks don't really care about is not." This isn't the place for erotic fantasies.
*This list is not all inclusive.

We expect our fanfic writers to use common sense and their best judgment in what is OK and not OK, and to PM a moderator if they are unsure about something they'd like to post. We shouldn't have to write out every single example we can find of what is and isn't allowed; based on what you see in the comic, you should be able to figure out what is OK and what is not. Keep it clean.

Again, if you have questions concerning something you would like to post in your fanfic, please PM a moderator first.

Thanks.

This forum is now the home for any fanfics, short stories, novelettes, etc. you'd like to share, provided they follow the above rules. It's no longer just for LFG stories.

Everyone thank Ghislord for changing the board name.