Post by Bernese Mountain on Jul 26, 2015 14:39:01 GMT -5
Image Posting Rules in the Roleplay Boards
We are introducing some new rules about images in the roleplay boards. These new rules will affect everybody who uses these boards. Please read through and make sure your roleplay topics adhere to these rules in future.
Appropriate Images
Like the rest of the site, all content should be child-friendly. If you're using images for your roleplays they need to follow these rules:
No personal photos - it breaks our privacy rules to share photos of yourself or your family and friends
No nudity, including those with strategically covered breasts/crotch. Males can be shirtless.
No images of people in sexually suggestive or flirtatious poses
No images of people with focus on the breasts/crotch/butt
No images of people who appear to be undressing or with clothes suggestively slipping down
No images of people in skimpy underwear/swimwear or see-through fabric - however some images may be acceptable if the clothing has reasonable covereage and the pose is not sexually suggestive example.
No images of excessive blood/gore/horrific injury
Character Reference sheets
You may only post one reference picture per character, unless they are a shape-shifter and then you can add one picture per species/form. If you want to describe different outfits, hair styles or accessories then do that in writing. Do not post secondary images or link to extra images; roleplay is about your writing skills so you should be able to describe your character without heaps of pictures.
Please do not try to make massive image collages or animations to get around the 1 image per character rule. Your reference picture should be no more than about 600px on the longest side, as large images make browsing difficult. Large animated gif files may be removed if the file size (in mb) is too large.
Your reference image should either be something you personally own the rights to use such as a drawing you made, or something which is widely distributed online for fan use such as celebrity/movie images, famous models, or TV characters.
You should never use someone's personal art/photography/characters/fursonas taken from websites like deviantart, tumblr, furaffinity, Chicken Smoothie and related image sharing websites unless the artist/photographer said you could use it, or said that it was for anybody to use.
Roleplay Description Pages
You should only use 1 image (max) per setting that you wish to describe for your roleplay - for example one picture of the highschool, one picture of the city, one picture of the sports field.
Any character references posted on the main post should follow the same rules of only containing one image per character.
Any fontmeme images or roleplay descriptions used should be created specifically for the roleplay. Copying text and images from other roleplayers is not acceptable behavior.
FontMeme pictures or other images containing text in roleplays
FontMeme is the name of a website that allows people to make cool headings and subheadings in different fonts
It's fine to use images like these as headings/subheadings for your character reference sheet or for a roleplay description page. However, you should not use these for every roleplay post you make as posting images repeatedly is considered spam.
Repeating Images/Text in Roleplay Posts
You should only need to post your character reference information and image once per roleplay topic. Once you begin roleplaying with that character there is no need to repeatedly post images of your character, or other decorative images and text flare such as poetry and fontmeme images. If you copy the same content into more than one post then it is generally considered "spam" and is not allowed.
Special formatting for reference sheets and roleplay topics, common names and images
We sometimes get reports complaining that someone has stolen their layout or "form". Unfortunately you cannot copyright your particular layout of bb code and font colors. We encourage everyone to design their own roleplay layouts, but there's nothing we can do if someone else's font color, alignment, size and placement of images looks suspiciously similar to the formatting of your own posts. It's quite possible that the same design may have been thought of independently and it's not worth getting upset about it.
We also sometimes get reports about character "theft" if someone else starts using the same reference image that you use, or the same character name. If you own exclusive rights to the image then you should report anyone else who uses it, but if it's just something random you found online then you don't own it and you can't stop anyone else from using it. If your character name is particularly unique then you can report the person who you believe stole it and give us any information to explain why you think they stole it. However, if your character is just named something like John or Taylor then there's nothing unique about that and anyone can use that name.
We are introducing some new rules about images in the roleplay boards. These new rules will affect everybody who uses these boards. Please read through and make sure your roleplay topics adhere to these rules in future.
Appropriate Images
Like the rest of the site, all content should be child-friendly. If you're using images for your roleplays they need to follow these rules:
No personal photos - it breaks our privacy rules to share photos of yourself or your family and friends
No nudity, including those with strategically covered breasts/crotch. Males can be shirtless.
No images of people in sexually suggestive or flirtatious poses
No images of people with focus on the breasts/crotch/butt
No images of people who appear to be undressing or with clothes suggestively slipping down
No images of people in skimpy underwear/swimwear or see-through fabric - however some images may be acceptable if the clothing has reasonable covereage and the pose is not sexually suggestive example.
No images of excessive blood/gore/horrific injury
Character Reference sheets
You may only post one reference picture per character, unless they are a shape-shifter and then you can add one picture per species/form. If you want to describe different outfits, hair styles or accessories then do that in writing. Do not post secondary images or link to extra images; roleplay is about your writing skills so you should be able to describe your character without heaps of pictures.
Please do not try to make massive image collages or animations to get around the 1 image per character rule. Your reference picture should be no more than about 600px on the longest side, as large images make browsing difficult. Large animated gif files may be removed if the file size (in mb) is too large.
Your reference image should either be something you personally own the rights to use such as a drawing you made, or something which is widely distributed online for fan use such as celebrity/movie images, famous models, or TV characters.
You should never use someone's personal art/photography/characters/fursonas taken from websites like deviantart, tumblr, furaffinity, Chicken Smoothie and related image sharing websites unless the artist/photographer said you could use it, or said that it was for anybody to use.
Roleplay Description Pages
You should only use 1 image (max) per setting that you wish to describe for your roleplay - for example one picture of the highschool, one picture of the city, one picture of the sports field.
Any character references posted on the main post should follow the same rules of only containing one image per character.
Any fontmeme images or roleplay descriptions used should be created specifically for the roleplay. Copying text and images from other roleplayers is not acceptable behavior.
FontMeme pictures or other images containing text in roleplays
FontMeme is the name of a website that allows people to make cool headings and subheadings in different fonts
It's fine to use images like these as headings/subheadings for your character reference sheet or for a roleplay description page. However, you should not use these for every roleplay post you make as posting images repeatedly is considered spam.
Repeating Images/Text in Roleplay Posts
You should only need to post your character reference information and image once per roleplay topic. Once you begin roleplaying with that character there is no need to repeatedly post images of your character, or other decorative images and text flare such as poetry and fontmeme images. If you copy the same content into more than one post then it is generally considered "spam" and is not allowed.
Special formatting for reference sheets and roleplay topics, common names and images
We sometimes get reports complaining that someone has stolen their layout or "form". Unfortunately you cannot copyright your particular layout of bb code and font colors. We encourage everyone to design their own roleplay layouts, but there's nothing we can do if someone else's font color, alignment, size and placement of images looks suspiciously similar to the formatting of your own posts. It's quite possible that the same design may have been thought of independently and it's not worth getting upset about it.
We also sometimes get reports about character "theft" if someone else starts using the same reference image that you use, or the same character name. If you own exclusive rights to the image then you should report anyone else who uses it, but if it's just something random you found online then you don't own it and you can't stop anyone else from using it. If your character name is particularly unique then you can report the person who you believe stole it and give us any information to explain why you think they stole it. However, if your character is just named something like John or Taylor then there's nothing unique about that and anyone can use that name.
