rules
general rules
- Remain IC. You were accepted due to your ability to portray their character as they are generally presented, and we must insist that you remain "in character" for any post made in the main community. There are no exceptions to this rule. campfuckudie certainly embraces the redonk and cracky, but that does not mean we will tolerate rampant OOC-ness.
If you do not like the way your character has evolved while in the game, we do understand the need to "retcon" a character completely, but ask that you speak with the mods beforehand. Generally speaking, we do not approve of character resets unless there is a very good reason. However, if you drop and reapp at a later date and reset the character then, that is A-OK with us!
If there are any issues regarding being IC, we ask that the players in question be contacted first by those with an issue in attempts to resolve the problem at hand for both parties, whether through e-mail or cfud_concrit. Players are not required to have concrit posts; we simply ask that they post their contact information so other players may get in touch with them should the need arise. Afterward, if there are still problems, please contact the mods so we can discuss things further. If there are any concerns regarding your portrayal of a character, you will be talked to and/or eventually removed from the game if the situation warrants it. You have been warned!
- No god-moding. What's god-moding? Being able to pull the perfect solution for any given problem straight from your butt. "Oh no, all the characters are to be trapped on a raft for three days!" "Oh ho ho, not my character! She can swim back, avoiding all the crocodiles and tentacle monsters just like that." "This dude is all powerful, so no matter who he fights in camp, he'll always win!" "Blah blah I'm going to annoy everyone with how strong/awesome/perfect etc. my character is~! She even has the power to control other characters without their players' express permission!"
No. No. Bad monkey. >:( Your actions will probably make some higher force kill kittens in frustration. Please avoid this.
- There is no sex allowed. None at all. It is against the rules ICly, and we ask that players use common sense when dealing with this (e.g. do not orgasm onscreen, be decent, etc). If you think it's going too far? It probably is. Save it for the AUs. If you have any questions about what is going too far, please contact the mods! Biz might whip out MS Paint.
- Respect your fellow players. If you have a problem with another player, please take it outside of the community by e-mailing, IMing, or PMing the player to discuss your problems. If there is still a problem, drop a line to all seven of the mods (cfudmods at gmail.com will reach all of us). While we prefer for players to sort out their differences amongst themselves, we are more than happy to lend a hand as mediators in order to make everyone's playing experience more enjoyable.
On that note, any issues outside of the game's communities, character journals, and IRC channels are out of our hands. If there are problems, we ask that you contact the mod team with them!
- We work on a two strike system. If you are issued two strikes, we will be forced to remove you from the game. After a year, you have the option of appealing the ban. Please note that we reserve the right to refuse the repeal of any bans.
regarding activity
- You must post at least once a month or comment (about 40 comments a month), or you will risk having your character idle out. We also only allow hiatuses of one month. Please contact the moderators if there are any extenuating circumstances before the end of the first month or before the removal of the character from the character list. If you are on the character lists, then you have not been idled. You are responsible for your own activity!
Be active! We're not asking for a lot of activity, but be warned that you run the risk of being idled if your characters appear to be inactive. As a side note, we are not stringent with these activity requirements. Please play your characters and understand that if you are inactive for over a month, you risk being removed at our discretion. However, we will not idle anyone upon request if they have not been inactive! Please do not ask us to do so.
- There will be an activity check every other month. These checks will be open for a week and tend to occur at the beginning of the month. More information can be found here. Activity checks will be announced with much fanfare in the OOC comm. If you are watching that comm, there is no way you can miss the check in all its .gif-y glory.
offshoot communities
- Regarding AU games like cryfuckuwolf and fuckaudie: as moderators, we want to encourage RP at the CFUD comm. CFUW and fuckaudie were originally made as AU offshoot comms and we would prefer to keep them that way. Only relationships and prizes are allowed to be carried over.
By relationships, we mean CR that is struck up during the game and this is only allowed if both (or all involved) agree to it. The game is not to be mentioned; players may talk and figure out a camp way to convert the relationship (i.e. so-and-so was messing around in the woods and their new bff helped them! and they had ADVENTURES! and bonded. etc). Prizes may just randomly appear in the cabins or wherever the player pleases. If something is banned in camp, then it is not allowed to be carried over period. Previous carryover is fine and does not need to be retconned, but please keep your AUs to your AUs for the most part.
- The "official" communities are campfuckudie (IC, where all the action takes place), campersfuckoff (OOC comm, for announcements and other fun things), and campfuckuvote (for applications). The moderators for these communities are biztheinsane, recurrence, paralinguistic, Yzak, nekokoban, and rinkhals. All other CFUD-related communities are not required and have their own moderators. If you have an issue in one of those communities, please contact its maintainers!
WE NOW PRESENT VERY CONFUSING APPLICATION RULES
(if this is your first app, feel free to skip to the next section)
- There is twelve character per player limit in CFUD. No permission is required for the first four characters. If you wish to apply for a fifth character, you must receive approval from three of the seven mods before submitting your application by e-mailing all seven at cfudmods at gmail.com with a list of who you play. That's it! E-mail us for approval at least 48 hours before apps open. The due date for activity will always be noted in app date announcement posts.
If you apply for a sixth character or more, the mods will require evidence of recent activity from all of your existing characters. When e-mailing to ask for approval for a sixth+, please list the characters you play, followed by a list of links to threads for each character from the community that show you have been active with all of your characters from the past month (30 days). Journal posts and CFUW posts do not count as activity -- it must be in the main comm. The official standard for approval, per character, is 40 comments per month in the community. We will allow for ONE "backburner-type" character, but we greatly prefer you hit the standard for all of them. Please provide evidence of ongoing activity! We will smack you SO HARD if you send us two threads with the same character and call that "active." However, one massive thread with several people is fine. You do not need to link every single thread your character has done in the past month - only 40 comments.
If you do decide to claim a character as a "backburner," it cannot be the last character you apped. If this is an issue, please let us know; however, we expect everyone to play their new characters before apping again.
You are NOT required to actually provide a comment count with each thread (ie thread - 21 comments) when submitting activity. However, the moderators request that should you have the time to do so, they would greatly appreciate it and love you forever if you did and so on and so forth.
Permission for five+ does not carry over from round to round. If you ask for permission and then do not get the character for whatever reason (voted out, did not apply, etc), then you must ask again the following round, complete with links. You may reuse links as long as they are still from the last month as of the date you e-mail us. The mod team reserves the right to reject activity if there are concerns.
It goes without saying that the mods trust you to
KNOW YOUR LIMIT
. Before you apply to be that adorable ice-skating sports shounen-ai manga character that doesn't have much room for a lot of future fun, think it over.
- This should go without saying, but we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to plagiarism in applications. If we find that you have lifted from another app or any other work, your app will be weeded/removed immediately.
other voting / application related rules
- Along a similar vein, please do not try to sway voters via e-mail, private message, or instant message; drop anonymous comments in the voting post if the voter is giving out constructive criticism. If we receive any complaints about this, your app will be removed immediately.
- When responding to voting posts and/or beta posts, please keep "in-voice" comments to a minimum until you have a character. A few are fine -- everyone likes to play around! Even very clearly OOC joking around is kosher. However, thread-stretching with in-voice comments -- particularly with other anons -- is Not Cool when you do not even have the character yet. The voter is to judge based on the strength of your application, not your anonymous comments in any post.
- Current players applying for second, third, or more characters are not allowed to vote on their own applications.
- On dups: if we receive two (or three) apps for the same character, they will go head to head in a "dup batch" with the options of voting one of the apps in or decling all of the above. If an applicant receives 70% or higher straight out, then they will be immediately accepted. If both apps receive a combined 70% or higher, then the app that got more in votes will go up in another batch for a revote on its own.
- If four or more apps are received for the same character, then voters get to see the glory of the QUAD BATTLE or Pentabatch. If six or more apps are received for the same character, the mods will collectively sob on each other.
- Be sure to read the voting/apping FAQ for all voting/apping related... stuff. It's a bit outdated, but the advice still holds true. Remember that when voting, you cannot vote on your own app, and each player is only allowed to have one vote.
other helpful things
- Given the nature of camp, certain things are banned for the sake of character development and something for characters to whine about in posts. You can find them in the sidebar of the OOC community! These are mostly for laughs. Alcohol, while previously banned, has been re-introduced into the game and is kept to the bars only, unless there's a fairly decent IC excuse for it otherwise; we only ask that you use your own discretion when playing with this.
- We ask that all players include some form of contact (an e-mail address or something similar) in their journals, either on their profile page or as an easy to find post in their character journal.
- If for whatever reason you drop a character and have immediate dropper's remorse, please contact the moderators within 24 hours at cfudmods at gmail.com and we will see what we can do about reinstatement. We understand that circumstances can arise and we want to help as best as we can.
- This is not really a rule but for your convenience, we have handy permissions and stats memes that players can fill out. We request that players do them for their characters to make playing and communication easier! A quick, handy formatted version can be found here. (thank you, light_the_light!)
- edited October 2010; clean up and reorganization a-go-go.