Post by Alexa St Laurent on Jul 22, 2006 21:12:06 GMT -5
to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school, play and sleep - sometimes with each other, where the girls are dazzling, the guys are gorgeous, and the summer heat is the perfect excuse to throw a fabulous roof-deck pool party. As if we need a reason! We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, and we know how to party. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it.
Now, before you run off and begin your new notorious life in the fabulous New York City, there a a few rules to this forum so bare with me for a minute.
1. Have Fun!
Just thought I'd throw that out there first. This is a role-play so don't take it too seriously, i.e. disrespect other role-players.
2. Don't register under an unavailable character.
This means that you MUST check the list of available characters before registering. It's just common sense that we can't have two of the same character running around.
3. Stay in character.
Unless you're in the "Out of Character" board, please try to stay away from off topic posts. Furthermore, if you are registered under a character from a Gossip Girl novel, do your best to behave like that character. For example, if you were to role-play as Vanessa, this would be considered unacceptable:
"Like, OMG! Serena! You look SO fab! I just luuuuvv that dress! Whered you get it, I just have to know!"
Catch my drift? Which brings me to my next point.
4. Grammar!!
Please, please, please do your best to maintain proper grammar. It's so much easier to understand. Stuff like "ur, kewl, plz, omg, etc." is annoying and not allowed. Writing in all capitals is also not allowed, although I don't understand why someone would do that.
5. Avatars & Siggies
This is common sense. No nudity or images of a graphic nature please. On another note, if you have many pictures featured in your signature, try your best to keep it tidy and resize your images so that they don't mess up a thread. If an administrator or moderator finds that your signature is messy and difficult to manage, we will not resize it for you, it will be removed.
6. Spamming
More common sense. Just don't do it.
7. No One-Liners
If all you have to say can be written in one sentence, don't post it. It's basically a waste of a post. Sleep on it and come back when you can write a bit more. Please write at least one clean paragraph, it'll make things more interesting, give more detail, and develop your skills as a role-player. Trust me, once you start getting into it, you could probably write a book.
8. Stay Active
It's obvious that you have a life outside of the computer, hopefully, therefore if for some reason you will be absent from the site for some amount of time, i.e. more than a week, please PM me with how long you will be away so that I know you're still part of the site. As a member, we expect you to be active. We need to know that you're not here to steal ideas or just browse around. If you do not PM me with an absence notification and you're not active for 1 month, your account will be deleted.
Any violation of these rules will be dealt with and can result in being banned from the site. Of course there are other things that can get you banned that have not been mentioned, but they should be common knowledge. Swearing is "allowed", although it will be censored. If you have another site, please don't advertise it anywhere other than in the section that is designated for advertising.
Alright! So, now all that remains is registration. Please register your character and wait for approval. Once you've been approved, post in the Celebrity Face thread, start a thread in the "Residences" board for your proper house and enroll in one of the schools. Then let the scandal begin!
(Any questions, pm me
Have fun!!)