Most of these are guidelines and tips to help you during your game play at Fandom High.

Keeping Traffic Down: If there's already a post for a particular location (eg. the second floor common room or the Perk), start a new thread in that post for your purposes rather than starting a new post. Just label it with where exactly you are and when to keep things clear.

OOC comments in IC threads: Try to keep OOC comments to a minimum in IC threads. If need be, just start a new thread dedicated for OOC comments so those involved can keep track easier.

Slow-Play: Due to the pace and international nature of the game, slow-playing scenes (continuing to play beyond the real-life day in which the scene is set) is allowed. Please try to be courteous about this, and restrict it to threads where everyone involved is good with the slowplay, and nothing is happening that would affect or contradict events in the game at large, which will have already moved on.

Pre-Play: If you know that there will be scheduling problems when trying to finish an important post (plot-related or not), it is acceptable to pre-play the thread. This involves playing with the other people involved either via instant messenger, email, GDocs, a filtered LJ post or some other means, coding the finished product into a table and then posting it in character journals at an appropriate time. There's also a Pre-Play Coder to help automate a lot of the table creation for scenes pre-played in an LJ post!

Not Work Safe and Sensitive Topics: Any content (major swearing, sexual content, graphic violence, drugs) that would not be safe for people to read at work should not be posted in the communities. You're welcome to post such things in your character's journal, but please label the post as "NWS" (not work safe) or with references to sensitive topics inside, so people can carefully avoid it if they want to. Detailed Guidelines on Handling Sensitive Topics

Due to LiveJournal's wavering standards on adult content, we do request that you friends lock posts with NWS content. This isn't a requirement, but it's probably safer so your journal is at less risk of being deleted.

Absence: If you don't have time to play out a scene, it is acceptable in some cases to arrange OOCly with the other people involved to handwave something happening. Please try to keep this to a minimum, but we understand that sometimes things just can't get finished due to timing clashes.

Deleting Threads/Comments: Deleting complete threads/posts is a big no-no without admin permission (and even then, the admins will only approve it if the thread is grossly inappropriate). It screws with continuity. Headache. Please don't do it. Deleting comments in a thread in progress should only be done if all players involved have given their permission and should be used to correct accidental godmodding/infomodding/mistakes or change the direction of a conversation that is making a player uncomfortable.