Post by Eden on Jun 21, 2020 1:37:18 GMT -5
By applying you are saying you have read the rules and agree to them.
RULES
1. No bigotry. Since apparently "offensive" was too vague, I'm going to be crystal clear. If it's definable as hate speech, it's not acceptable here. I know wrestling back in the older days had a lot of garbage in it, but there's not a mainstream promotion on the market today that would dare do that stuff now. If you're not sure if something is acceptable, stop and think whether you'd want a person from that real demographic to read what you just wrote. Being that this is the internet, you should bet that someone from the demographic you're using as the butt of your joke is going to run across it.
2. No gatekeeping and no bullying. I don't care if you think someone's work sucks, because you sucked when you started at this. So did I. Nobody died and made you the fun police. Being smarter or having more experience than someone does not make you an elite class of person.
3. No IC/OOC bleedover. You are not your character. You are to keep your shots to the character's traits and not the writer's. We're here to get along OOC and keep the antagonizing stuff IC. There is no audience here but ourselves to work 'kayfabe' on-- trying to emulate it in efedding can be just plain toxic. We didn't put up with guys trying to live their gimmicks in real pro wrestling unless they were making us money, and there's no money in efedding. I also understand that in some cases, you can end up aiming for the character and hitting the writer instead, but I need a good faith effort from you.
4. "RP > Real Life" vs "Your Participation Matters"
This part always outranks the next part: do not compromise your quality of life for this game. If you've got something going on-- illness, extra work stress this week, family issues, death, other things beyond imagining-- just let me know, in whatever level of detail you're most comfortable with, and I'll take it into consideration when it comes to your participation.
At the same time, do understand that the quality and quantity of your participation matter in how you're portrayed here. Participation builds the community of an efed, and the social element of the shared experience ties into the very root of what pro wrestling is. If you're here month after month and your motivation remains as literally only generating fun for you, and everyone else can go flock themselves? You can take your ball(s) and go home, because that's masturbation.
5. No godmoding, because communication is valued. That means no using characters without the handler's permission. I hope to create an atmosphere here where people aren't too shy to check in with each other and ask if an idea is okay. If I need to bring people together or play messenger, I don't mind doing so. And on that note, if something happens in results that you view as a mischaracterization do let me know.
6. Feedback for feedback. Feedback is my labor of love. It's the kind of work that's at the core of why I as a fedhead am doing this. But it takes time, and not everybody wants it. If you want feedback, notify me-- if you know in advance of judging that's especially helpful. The public state of feedback can be a subject of a future poll.
And on the flip side of that, I can't make this place better if you don't tell me what hit the mark for you and what didn't. If you want me to put in the work to help you improve, then help me improve too.
7. If it's 1 Promo Only, then response promos get a penalty. This will go into scoring going forward, but if your opponent posts first and you come up behind and do a direct response to your opponent, that's going to be a -2 (on a 1-5 scale) to your Argument section, to mitigate the advantage you're taking.
8. Super-stuff is okay... within reason. WWH has a history of the weird and supernatural. It's fun to explore those elements. At the same time, don't use it to interfere directly with the relatively level playing field of the matches from an in-character perspective-- meaning don't write in superhuman strength, speed, et cetera as an attribute. And try to keep it on the down-low-- our settings may be some cyberpunk/arkham-fight-club tweaked realities, but like most worlds we don't acknowledge the weirdest elements openly. Don't try to force another handler to sell your character's teleportation ability, or pitch a tirade if your opponent's character chooses the skeptic's perspective on your gimmick.
9. No offsite links to promos, please. The reason for this is because I can lock a thread at deadline to ensure that no further changes to your work take place, but I can't do the same thing for your offsite link. If an offsite-linked rp were to ever be questioned on this front, I wouldn't be able to prove either story with backable data, so I'd prefer to avoid it coming up altogether.
10. The limit on active wrestling characters at this time is 5. This does not count managers or staff characters or worker-bee types. Tag teams do count as two since we can optionally book them separate, though.
In conclusion.
If something is questionable, bring it to me with proof of what happened (screenshots preferable) and I'll make try to make a judgment call to the best of my ability on it. If you can't trust me to do that? Then I'd assume you can't trust me to accurately gauge your writing either.
RULES
1. No bigotry. Since apparently "offensive" was too vague, I'm going to be crystal clear. If it's definable as hate speech, it's not acceptable here. I know wrestling back in the older days had a lot of garbage in it, but there's not a mainstream promotion on the market today that would dare do that stuff now. If you're not sure if something is acceptable, stop and think whether you'd want a person from that real demographic to read what you just wrote. Being that this is the internet, you should bet that someone from the demographic you're using as the butt of your joke is going to run across it.
2. No gatekeeping and no bullying. I don't care if you think someone's work sucks, because you sucked when you started at this. So did I. Nobody died and made you the fun police. Being smarter or having more experience than someone does not make you an elite class of person.
3. No IC/OOC bleedover. You are not your character. You are to keep your shots to the character's traits and not the writer's. We're here to get along OOC and keep the antagonizing stuff IC. There is no audience here but ourselves to work 'kayfabe' on-- trying to emulate it in efedding can be just plain toxic. We didn't put up with guys trying to live their gimmicks in real pro wrestling unless they were making us money, and there's no money in efedding. I also understand that in some cases, you can end up aiming for the character and hitting the writer instead, but I need a good faith effort from you.
4. "RP > Real Life" vs "Your Participation Matters"
This part always outranks the next part: do not compromise your quality of life for this game. If you've got something going on-- illness, extra work stress this week, family issues, death, other things beyond imagining-- just let me know, in whatever level of detail you're most comfortable with, and I'll take it into consideration when it comes to your participation.
At the same time, do understand that the quality and quantity of your participation matter in how you're portrayed here. Participation builds the community of an efed, and the social element of the shared experience ties into the very root of what pro wrestling is. If you're here month after month and your motivation remains as literally only generating fun for you, and everyone else can go flock themselves? You can take your ball(s) and go home, because that's masturbation.
5. No godmoding, because communication is valued. That means no using characters without the handler's permission. I hope to create an atmosphere here where people aren't too shy to check in with each other and ask if an idea is okay. If I need to bring people together or play messenger, I don't mind doing so. And on that note, if something happens in results that you view as a mischaracterization do let me know.
6. Feedback for feedback. Feedback is my labor of love. It's the kind of work that's at the core of why I as a fedhead am doing this. But it takes time, and not everybody wants it. If you want feedback, notify me-- if you know in advance of judging that's especially helpful. The public state of feedback can be a subject of a future poll.
And on the flip side of that, I can't make this place better if you don't tell me what hit the mark for you and what didn't. If you want me to put in the work to help you improve, then help me improve too.
7. If it's 1 Promo Only, then response promos get a penalty. This will go into scoring going forward, but if your opponent posts first and you come up behind and do a direct response to your opponent, that's going to be a -2 (on a 1-5 scale) to your Argument section, to mitigate the advantage you're taking.
8. Super-stuff is okay... within reason. WWH has a history of the weird and supernatural. It's fun to explore those elements. At the same time, don't use it to interfere directly with the relatively level playing field of the matches from an in-character perspective-- meaning don't write in superhuman strength, speed, et cetera as an attribute. And try to keep it on the down-low-- our settings may be some cyberpunk/arkham-fight-club tweaked realities, but like most worlds we don't acknowledge the weirdest elements openly. Don't try to force another handler to sell your character's teleportation ability, or pitch a tirade if your opponent's character chooses the skeptic's perspective on your gimmick.
9. No offsite links to promos, please. The reason for this is because I can lock a thread at deadline to ensure that no further changes to your work take place, but I can't do the same thing for your offsite link. If an offsite-linked rp were to ever be questioned on this front, I wouldn't be able to prove either story with backable data, so I'd prefer to avoid it coming up altogether.
10. The limit on active wrestling characters at this time is 5. This does not count managers or staff characters or worker-bee types. Tag teams do count as two since we can optionally book them separate, though.
In conclusion.
If something is questionable, bring it to me with proof of what happened (screenshots preferable) and I'll make try to make a judgment call to the best of my ability on it. If you can't trust me to do that? Then I'd assume you can't trust me to accurately gauge your writing either.