| MEMBERSHIP RULES Our rules for membership here are simple enough to follow. They are: ~ You are only allowed to have only 1 student identity per member on this site! Anyone who creates more than 1 student identity will face suspension or possible expulsion from Hogwarts. If you have questions or concerns regarding this rule, please contact me or one of the Deputies for further clarification. ~ Under NO circumstances are you permitted to enter any other common room, chat room, or dormitory other than your own without first receiving my consent. Violators of this rule will cause their house to lose points & face possible expulsion from Hogwarts! If you wish to visit with other Hogwarts students from different houses, you may do so by posting comments on the BB in the Entrance Hall or chatting with them in the Great Hall. ~ All comments posted on this site are to be rated “G”. Furthermore, all participants at this school are of various races & religions. I will not tolerate any insulting, racist, or offensive remarks made by anyone (this includes comments of a sexual nature as well)! If any remarks of that nature are posted anywhere on this site, you will not only lose house points but you will also be banned from posting comments in your CR as well as the BB. There are NO exceptions to this rule! ~ Any avatar or signature images you wish to use in your CR or on the BB must be hosted on a site such as Image Shack or Photobucket as we do not allow uploading directly from your computer for security reasons. If you need help with creating or hosting an avatar or signature image, simply view our Virtual Tour for more information on how to do that or check with the house staff in your CR. Furthermore, if you plan on using an avatar or signature image found on another site, please make sure the image is not copyrighted & do not under any circumstances directly link to it otherwise we'll be in violation of bandwidth theft. The image must first be uploaded to an image hosting site & linked from there. Maximum avatar size is 200x200 & maximum signature image size is 200x500. All members MUST put a link back to the site where they got their avatar or signature image from in their "signature" space or the image(s) will be removed (this also includes base credit for dolls). ~ Plagiarism is against the law & will not be tolerated on this site! Any type of image or written work posted on this site should be your own creation whether it's for one of our various clubs, magazines, a site linked to us, or the school newspaper. If you choose to use any image or written work on this site that you personally did not create, then proper credit to the original source must be given where the image or written work is being used. If you don't give proper credit for works you submit & the original creator of those works find them on our site, we could face a plagiarism law suit &/or be slapped with penalties & fines, possibly losing our domain & all content within our site. Anyone who is found plagiarizing the works of others (i.e. using others' work without giving proper credit for them) will be banned from Hogwarts, no ifs ands or buts. Consider this your warning. ~ If you wish to advertise other RPG sites to our members, you must first seek my permission to do so. Any members who take advantage of the resources provided here (such as our forum PM systems, our forum e-mail systems, direct member e-mail links found on the site, our chat rooms, etc.) to advertise other sites that are not currently affiliated with us without getting my permission first will be banned from Hogwarts. If you don't wish to ask for my permission, then use your own personal e-mail program or IM service to spread the word. ~ Before you begin to Role Play in your CR or on the BB, please be sure to read & sign all guidelines & rules posted in the RPG sections of your CR & the BB before you begin. If you feel you cannot follow the guidelines that are set forth, it would be in your best interest not to Role Play - for every rule you break a consequence will be enforced that may ultimately get you banned permanently from our site. |