-- BOARDRULES --
Midnight-Shadows.org

GENERAL POSTING

• We do not tolerate bashing, cursing or attacking members and staff of this board. This is taken very seriously and usually followed by heavy administrative action.
• Keep spamming to a minimum. Excess spamming / banter posts will be deleted without further notice.
• Never use ALL CAPS, DiStOrTeD TeXt and kool t@lk.
• No double posting. Edit your post if you need to add something else.
• Talk of illegal activities on this board (for example illegal downloads) is forbidden.
• Do not post multiple threads of the same subject, as it will be removed or merged with the already existing one.
• Threads posted in the wrong forum will be moved/deleted without notice.
• You must not cannot advertise your board/site on any post. These will be removed without notice.
• No pornographic, NC-17 or questionable material. Keep it according to the board's rating [[more on the board's rating]]
• The use of tags is allowed and encouraged. Keep the tags according to our rating and make them useful to other members (not just yourself) as much as possible. Moderators are encouraged to monitor the use of tags on threads and will edit them when needed without further notice.

ACCOUNTS/NAMECHANGE

• Each member is only allowed one account. Duplicate accounts will be deleted.
• Impersonating somebody you're not (actor/employee/character from any television show or other media) will result in a ban.
• Name changes are only allowed three months after your last name change.
• When requesting a name change use this form.
• Usernames can't be longer then 15 characters in total.

LINKING

• Please be considerate of other members when linking videos, images or any other media from other websites. Anything that is linked should be acceptable under the board's rating [[more on the board's rating]].
• Consider that if whatever you link, be it images or other media, requires a warning about the nature of the content then it can be considered unsuitable for Midnight Shadows.
• Posting such unsuitable material will lead to administrative actions such as official warnings or banning.

PRIVATE MESSAGES

• Chain letters through PM are not allowed.
• Do not harass members via PM. This is reason enough for a ban.
• Do not advertise (i.e. your web site) via PM.

SIGNATURE

• Signatures should not exceed 500 pixels by width and 150 pixels by height.
• Signatures should not exceed ten lines of text.
• You may have a picture and text, but you should alter them to fit in with the guidelines.
• If signatures do exceed this allotted amount, the offending sig will be replaced with a warning and link to the sig rules thread.
• You are not allowed animated images in your signature.
• No pornographic, NC-17 or questionable material are allowed in signatures [[more on the board's rating]].

HELP/NEWS

• If you need any help, post it in the Blood Lust forum.
• If you have a problem or question that does not go into the Blood Lust forum check this page to so who is in charge of what here on Midnight Shadows.
• If you need assistance of have any queries in any of the RPG's, please contact managers and assistants via PM. This is to respect MS staff's personal time on any instant messenger platforms.
• To keep up on important announcements concerning the board, look here in the Midnight's Call.

SOCIAL GROUPS

• Users are allowed to create their own social groups.
• Please check that the group you are creating does not exist already. Double Groups will be deleted.
• Try to keep the same format for Group names. I.e. put TV Show in front of the show's name, Movie in front of the movie name etc.
• Keep spam to a minimum.
• Keep it decent. No bashing of members, staff, actors, actresses, singers, bands etc. This includes but is not limited to good-natured jibes at members or even characters. Groups even just giving the impression of supporting any kind of 'hate' towards anyone on this board or their character (whether you have their approval or not) will not be tolerated, deleted immediately and might lead to severe administrative consequences for the group starter.
• Keep it according to our rating at all times [[more on the board's rating]].

COPYRIGHT

• Under no circumstances are you allowed to copy or use images/ content/ avatars/posts /RPG content from Midnight Shadows, without written consent from one of the administrators of this board.
• Before using someone else's work you're required to get their permission! This means, PM them and ask! Or simply use your own ideas! This includes copying content from one of the board's RPGs to another, or even within the same RPG.
• Plagiarising content in any shape or form will lead to severe consequences including temporary or even permanent bans.

RATING

• We have given Midnight-Shadows the rating of PG-14.
• The rating is similar to the PG-13 one with minor edits as specified below:
  
  

  Parents Strongly Cautioned - Some material may be inappropriate for children under the age of 14. This rating may contain sexual content, brief or partial nudity, some strong language and innuendo, humour, mature themes, political themes, terror and/or intense action violence. However, bloodshed is rarely present. There may be mild drug content present (for example smoking of marijuana). The rating allows for more profanity than PG and slightly more than PG-13. Simply consider, that words that are automatically filtered when posting pose the limit. Circumventing the board's filter in any way is frowned upon and will lead to consequences. The rating allows for "intense violence" in the way where blood is present in a violent way. Heavy torturing scenes, maiming or killing (what's referred to as bloodshed) does not fall within this rating. Please note that once we enter the area of "graphic" descriptions (esp. in sexual themes) you're automatically considered to cross the line this rating draws.

  
  
• This rating applies to any content posted on this board (whether you're the creator or just copying / linking it from other sites), including roleplaying posts.
• If ever in doubt on whether something you did / do / want to do in post form is suitable for the board rating then please contact one of our staff members.