MediaWiki:Community-corner

Community Message

Special Announcements
THE LAST DAY FOR SUBMITTING YOUR PIECE IS 11:59:59 PM CST OCTOBER 20th!

A few reminders about this site

 * Please contribute as much and as often as you want. Any help is welcomed.


 * Don't create wikidrama


 * Pointsgaming (that is posting solely for the achievements) is discouraged, however if it it a valuable contribution go ahead, earn some points. This includes, but is not limited to adding several unneeded, made-up, or previously non-existent categories to pages.


 * Don't add categories that don't already exist/are not on the Genre Listing.


 * Don't troll the users, if you're going to troll make it into a pasta and add it to the Horrible Troll Pasta category.


 * OC is valuable, please contribute as much as you may have.


 * You MUST add any pages you create to the Article Listing page. Failure to do so will result in your page(s) being removed and your account suspended from editing.


 * Check the Genre Listing for rules about categories.

Penalties for rules violations:

 * First offense of wikidrama/trolling is a warning on your profile page.
 * Second offense: One week ban


 * Third offense: Permab&

Penalties for defacing a page

 * First offense: One week ban


 * Second offense: Permab&

See the listing of site rules for more information, or contact any of this site's admins with any questions, comments, or suggestions you may have.

Chat Rules

 * 1) Same rules apply in chat as they do on the site (No drama, trolling, etc.).
 * 2) No spamming.
 * 3) This is a wiki devoted to horror/the paranormal. Please keep your topics centered around such things.
 * 4) If it doesn't belong on the site, it doesn't belong in chat.
 * 5) See the people with stars by their name? Don't piss them off.  They're admin/chatmods.
 * 6) Chat boring? Moving too slowly?  No one talking?  That's not a free pass to start spamming to get people to talk.
 * 7) Want to get chat moving? There are 1,000+ pastas on this site.  Surely you can find something to discuss.
 * 8) Want to talk to a certain user? Like, in private?  Click their name and select Private Message.  NOTE: Private messages are unmoderated.  If a user is being abusive, click their AVATAR and select BLOCK PRIVATE MESSAGES.  Do NOT bring private message issues into the main chat area.  PM a mod and/or block the user from sending you further PMs.
 * 9) Want to talk all off-topic like? Private message someone to do so.
 * 10) There is only one chat, and no more rooms can be made at this time. Please keep that in mind when chatting.
 * 11) Do not spam emoticons for ANY REASON. There's no need to test emotes.  Go check out MediaWiki:Emoticons for a list of emotes.  There's also no need to post two or more in a row.  No, not even (stop) (ban).  If you are going to post two emotes together, put a space between the two like I did.
 * 12) When a chatmod/admin asks you to stop doing something in chat, STOP DOING IT. You will be kicked the second time you disobey their request.
 * 13) If you do "test" emoticons, you will be kindly asked the first time to not test. Failing that, you will be demanded a second time to stop.  Spamming emoticons a third time will result in you not being able to chat for 3-5 days.  Emoticons are an interesting addition to chat but cause server strain at high volumes.  Spamming emotes crashes chat globally, and not just on this particular one.

Penalties

 * First violation: Kickban from chat for a day or so.
 * Second violation: Kickban until we feel like it. Seriously you should have learned.
 * Third violation: Kickban permanently and site ban.

Remember, all penalties are subject to the admin's/chatmod's discretion. If you kick someone, please leave a message on their talk page with the kickban message, an explanation, and your signature WITH TIMESTAMP. There are no kick logs currently.

If you wish to appeal a kick, leave a message on the talkpage of the person that kicked you or an admin in chat.