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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2018 14:53:54 GMT -8
Hi Everyone.
I know that we in the XWF have prided ourselves on our commitment to giving you all the roster as much creative control as possible not just when it comes to your characters but with what you put in roleplays and other in characters posts. Specifically things like racism, homophobia, anti semitism and other various forms of hate speech have always been allowed in the past. Pro boards however have some much stricter rules when it comes to those things and they can easily and without warning shut this site down for a period of time or indefinitely if any of the posters break their rules. Kind of like being banned on twitter or facebook.
As such we are asking that everyone please do their best to tone things down in their roleplays and other IC posts until such time when we can go back to our normal site. (Which I have no update on.)
Thank you, Darius
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Post by N.A.Z.I on Nov 8, 2018 9:48:13 GMT -8
Wait. Am I banned then, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2018 20:13:42 GMT -8
aah fuckin hell. ill try to tone down peter a bit..
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Post by Michael Mcbride on Nov 23, 2018 2:19:26 GMT -8
Boooooooo.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2018 5:43:13 GMT -8
So far we haven't any issues so I'd say whatever you guys are doing has been deemed acceptable but I would caution anyone against going really over the top with what you say.
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Post by Gator on Nov 23, 2018 6:17:27 GMT -8
I looked at the rules for proboards when I saw this first time and it's kinda vague. Basically it says Proboards is PG13+ which should mean you can get away with anything on here that a movie rated the same could get away with. So profanity is cool to a point, but things like racist slurs, excessive detailed violence, sex and nudity aren't so cool. Proboards might be okay with the bad language and stuff we use because we're writing them in character as a story, so maybe we get some leeway from that? But I don't know, I'm just a stupid, pasty white Englishman. Also source: www.proboards.com/community-guidelines
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Post by Griffin MacAlister on Nov 23, 2018 15:12:11 GMT -8
We were using Proboards when I first joined the fed back in June 2012 and there wasn't a restriction on sex, detailed violence, racism, drug use or profanity. It was more about how those elements were used. If it helped the story and aided in the creative process, it was fine. I know because these elements were there when I joined and continued to appear well after my character started to make a name for himself. The only change in that operation didn't occur until after we switched to MyBB and then there was a rating system between shows for a short time. Madness and Warfare were PG 13 shows, more or less, with Warfare strictly being for reality based characters, while Madness was a stomping ground for everyone. Then Shove It was like the NC-17, anything goes show. Still that was terms that the gms and the fed agreed upon, it wasn't the site mandating a rule. As far as Proboards go nowadays, I'm not sure but I do believe that we should be fine with how we ordinarily write our characters, so long as the controversial or racy elements that we use aid in telling the story and aren't overdone.
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