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 Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 6:41 am Post subject: Rules of TONFA |
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Accounts & Bios
-No member may have more than one account. You may only start a new account if you have no major black marks, eg Chronic abuse, plagiarism, chronic rule evasion ect, against your name. You can PM me through the forums about name changes but I won't change your account name every week.
-Be sensitive to personal information passed out in your account bio
-No OC character·s bios may be posted directly into an account bio, that's what the Bingo Book is for.
-Please don't go over the top with art or info in your account bios and please credit art that isn't yours. Also it get·s annoying having to scroll through eight pages of pictures and quotes.
Submitting Your Summary
Summaries posted that break the rules may be changed immediately without notice by the moderation team. This is the first part visible to visitors so I wish to keep it tidy and inoffensive. Abide by the rules and we won't have a problem.
Titles
-All stories must have a title. Banned titles include: Untitled, Please Read, ect
-All titles must be of good taste. Language may not exceed PG. As a rule, if you don't see it in the family section of a video store, it Doesn't belong in the summary. If you feel that limits the agony of your creation, go somewhere else
-All titles must follow standard conventions. This means that all words except articles must be capitalized. Non-alphanumeric characters should be kept to a minimum.
Summary:
-All summaries must be of good taste. Language may not exceed PG. As a rule if you don't see it in the family section of a video store, it doesn't belong in the summary regardless of its ratings. Honestly, if you feel you can't compose a summary without using cursing or gross use of anatomy you can't call yourself a writer. Please don't make this a nanny-archive and make me put up a list of restricted language
-Excluding the banner it may not be anymore than seven lines or two hundred words in length.
Art & Banners
Art or banners inside the summary may not exceed the dimensions of 200*700 pixels. If you have any trouble please visit the Requestssection of TONFA Forums and others will help resize it to meet requirements. It is also an excellent source for those looking for banners.
Category Rules
All submissions must be submitted to the correct category and subcategories and abide by their rules. If a category moderator feels it does not belong in their category they may send a note advising a category change and the reasons therefore. If not acted upon in one week the moderator may change it themselves. If you have any questions please contact the moderation team or ask for advice in the writing forums.
No Script-Fics may be submitted to the General, Het, Yaoi, Yuri, AU or OC fic categories. They must be written like a story, eg
Bad
Naruto: No! Run! I can take care of this.
Sakura: No way, you need me!
Better
"No! Run! I can take care of this!" shouted Naruto.
"No way, you need me!" snapped Sakura.
Best
"No! Run!" Naruto screamed as he leapt down from the tree. Already swathes of bubbling orange chakra enveloped his body. His eyes narrowed, taking on the sinister gleam of Kyuubi as his voice became a snarl. "I can take care of this!"
"No way, you need me," Sakura snapped, gasping for breath as the wind churned around her.
Concerning Juvi-Fics:I dislike any submission being deleted so if a member hasn't responded to a moderator's request in one week for breaking the rules the fic may be moved to this section. Once altered it will be moved back into the mainstream archives. If a fic remains in the Juvi-fic section for two months with no contact from the author or moderations it may be deleted. If you are unsure about basic spelling, paragraphing or punctuation please visit the tutorials section.
Characters
No more than eight/pairs/groups/characters can be selected.
If more than eight is highlighted a moderator will change the character selection to all. The reason for this is too many people are abusing this by automatically highlighting all the characters to turn up more regularly in the search engines. With the massive additions it would be just ridiculous. If you think I'm missing characters, teams or pairs, please PM me through the forums and I'll happily add it to the lot. If I see authors are using it maturely I'll change it.
If you think there's a character, group or pair is missing, please, please PM me as I would like a very comprehensive list!
Ratings
All ratings must be accurate and up to date.
Ratings Guide Ratings system is that of the British Board of Film Classification, as the MPAA has taken to sending 'cease and desist' notices to fanfiction archives. For full information of these ratings, please visit the BBFC website. Most of the descriptions were taken from that site.
[U] Universal - It is impossible to predict what might upset any particular child. But a ·U· fic should be suitable for audiences aged four years and over. ·U· fics should be set within a positive moral framework and should offer reassuring counterbalances to any violence, threat or horror.
[PG] Parental Guidance, or the equivalent thereof - General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for some children. A ·PG· fic should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, you are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.
[12/12A] - No-one younger than 12 may read a ·12A· fic. Responsibility for allowing under-12s to view lies with the supervising adult.
[15] - There may be frequent use of strong language (swears/cursing/cussing·). But the strongest terms will be acceptable only where justified by the context.
[18] - Adult-themed fanfiction. DO NOT PLACE PWPs HERE!
[R18] - Adult-themed fanfiction. This is where the PWPs go.
Warnings
All notable warnings must be accurate and up to date and specific chapter warnings need to be included in the Author·s Notes Box.
Yaoi || Yuri || Rape || Incest || OOC || Dark || Drabble
Submitting Your Story
Plagerism
From Dictionary.com:
1. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
2. something used and represented in this manner.[/list]
Plagiarism = Fail [/list]
Disclaimer
All stories must contain a disclaimer attributing rights to Masashi Kishimoto as well as any use of ideas or art created by others. Basically if it's not yours give credit. This includes fanart because I know a lot of you are nicking stuff from Deviantart and the like. If I find the original artist I will inform them and I'll come down hard. You must provide the artists name and a link. Please make it visible in the Author·s Notes box.
Story
Any story that degenerates to a flame war will be removed at the discretion of the administrative staff. There is a possibility of those who flamed being banned from the site.
No story may be submitted that contains underage (16 and under) sex.
When submitting to certain categories your story must have a certain level of readability. We understand that no one·s going to be Charles Dickens first time round but we expect some effort in submissions. Moderators must see a valid attempt at minimising spelling, punctuation and paragraphing (referred to on site as the Golden Triad) errors. We will not accept stories that have been typed directly into the submissions box, we can tell. A moderator has the right to request corrections and if no improvement has been seen in one week they may request it to be moved to the Juvific category.
If you are uncertain about the Golden Triad I recommend venturing into the tutorials section or the Forums to request a BetaReader. For those new to fic writing a BetaReader is a proof reader that corrects typos prior to the story·s submission.
Series
All series must contain at least two submissions. The Series function is to be used as an index for stories already on the site, and NOT as a place holder. This is to prevent a clog of discontinued single-fic stories in the series section.
Chapters
You may not submit individual chapters as stories. I suspect this is a newbie mistake so if found please direct them back to the rules.
Each chapter must contain at least 700 words. All chapters that don't meet standards may be deleted one week after warning.
The only submissions exempted from the 700 word rules are Poems, Drabbles and Prologues.
Challenges
Please don't post one-liners in the challenges section. "Gaara and Lee make out" is not a challenge. I will delete any one-line challenges.
So. What is a challenge? A challenge is an idea. Simple as that. A half formed thought or idea, that you've been teasing at for awhile, and really want to see written, but can't seem to write yourself... so you challenge other people to write it. Challenges can contains lists of things that the story has to have (mandatory) and things that would be really cool to see in the story, but aren't necessary (optional).
If you're a fan of Harry Potter fanfiction, you've no doubt heard the term "Severitus". Severitis is and author who made a very interesting challenge, (found here), and there were a lot of responses. Then people started omitting mandatory parts of the challenge, but still kept labelling them as "Severitus". Don't do that. If you're going to answer a challenge, mandatory means mandatory. Don't label something a challenge response if it's not.
If you really want to use a challenge, but don't want to use the whole thin, then you say "based on challenge name-whatever".
Disclaimer
Reviewing
To The Reviewer
As a reviewer you should put as much effort into a review as the author put effort into the story. You aren't required to praise the story to high heaven but insults or personal assaults won't be tolerated. Everyone receives reviews differently so if they aren't receptive to your own it's a good idea to leave them alone. Neither of you gain by flogging a dead horse. The goal of the reviewer is a well rounded critique complimenting what was good, backing what they didn't like with examples and advising how it can be done better.
To The Author
Your goal is to get as many of these well-rounded reviews as possible and put them to use! Understand that opinions vary and that a flame and a critique are two completely different things. A flame will point out what·s 'wrong', a critique will point out why it's 'wrong' and hopefully advise how to make it 'right'. Treat the reviewer who left it with respect even if you don't agree with it. If they took time out of a busy life to write more than three lines, appreciate it. If they continue to plague you, either ignore them or contact me.
Art
NO PORN! It Doesn't matter what the fic is rated or what warning you give, we will not accept explicit art anywhere on the site. It will be deleted immediately with no warning required.
TONFA does allow in story illustrations but TONFA isn't a webcomic. You must have at least five hundred words written per illustration.
All art that isn't your own must be credited with a website and an artist, if not it will be deleted immediately. The only exclusions are for anime screenshots or Flash Dolls (eg. here or here) This rule will be policed.
I've talked to many Deviant Artists, some of them have chewed me out because some of you have been taking art without permission. Some are okay with their art being used on the site, some aren't so please have the curtesy to ask them for permission first.
Size may not exceed 800x600 px.
All pictures must be either .jpg, .gif or .png
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