Rules

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Latest Rule Revision: March 8th, 2012


Please note that all rules are to be followed and the moderators have the discretion to change the rules at any time, if there is reason to do so. By commenting on the meme, you agree to follow the rules below.

• Warnings Required
  
  
• Prompt Posts - General Rules
  
  
• Prompt Posts - Prompting
  
  
• Prompt Posts - Filling
  
  
• Community Posts
  
  
• Reaching a Mod

Warnings Required

• Spoiler Policy - SPOILER and the episode number must be in the title of any prompts that disucss information from the current screening episode, and any future episodes - speculated or confirmed. Any comments that do not have a Spoiler warning will be screened immediately without warning.
  
  For canon outside of Glee, we also strongly request that you warn for anything that has been published/screened in the last 2-3 years. We will not moderate on this, but please, as much as you can, be courteous to your fellow members.
  
  
• Trigger Policy - Trigger Warnings are required on the meme to allow people with triggers to scroll past a prompt, prompters and fillers need to warn for trigger in the subject line of their prompt. The following are required to be warned for:
  
  
  • Abuse - to be separately identified as either physical, emotional, sexual, or any combination of these three, with an added warning if it involves relationship abuse.
    
    
  • Child Abuse- to be separately identified as either physical, emotional or sexual child abuse or any combination with these three, with an added warning if it involves a family member, e.g. “Trigger Warning: Parental physical child abuse”, “Child emotional abuse”
    
    
  • Animal Cruelty
    
    
  • Attempted and/or Successful Suicide
    
    
  • Character Death
    
    
  • Food & Body Image issues - please specify any Eating Disorders, and Self-Harm behaviour.
    
    
  • Incest
    
    
  • Mental Illness- to be identified out as either PTSD, Anxiety or Mental Illness Disorder
    
    
  • Physical Assault
    
    
  • Sexual harassment and/or sexual assault, and/or Non-consent/Dub-con
  
  
• Prompters - Any trigger warnings must be in the subject title of the prompt. If a prompt has these triggers and there is no trigger warning, the prompt will be screened immediately and it is up to you to repost. . Contact us if you require a copy of the prompt to repost.
  
  
• Fillers - We are flexible as to where the trigger warning is. The title would be preferred, although if the warning is at the beginning of the chapter and can be clearly seen before the story content beings, this is still acceptable.
  
  For fillers with long fills, we understand that a fill may have a trigger in only one part of the fills and you may not know whether a trigger is involved when starting a fill. Therefore for fillers of long fills, we ask fillers to place a trigger warning on the part that involves the trigger only. If your fill leads up to this trigger, we ask you to be conservative and place the trigger warning where you feel the lead-up starts in your story.
  
  If your fill does not have a trigger warning anywhere, it will be screened immediately, and we will comment to ask you to contact us to discuss what warnings are appropriate, and where to place them.

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Prompt Posts - General Rules

• Be respectful - Prompts & Fills involving issues such as sexual orientation, gender identity and various traumas do occur to people, and not just the desired characters you write or ask for. Please keep this in mind when you phrase your prompt, and be respectful to the fact that some people have been through, or are going through what you wish to see in your prompt.
  
  
• IP Logging - IP logging is on for anonymous users.
  
  
• Identifying problems - No personal insulting or calling of wank comments. Any comments that are of personal insult to the OP or to any other commenter, or are comments that call "troll" or "wank", will be immediately deleted and the thread will be frozen. This includes comments of self moderation. If you see an issue that needs to be addressed, please make use of the contact options provided at the bottom of this post and let the moderators know.
  
  
• Avoiding Wank - No troll or wank prompts or fills are allowed on this meme. While such comments are difficult to determine, we are mainly looking at prompts that appear to be particularly offensive and will cause significant upset among the meme. If your prompt appears to be a particularly offensive one, please provide an adequate explanation to eliminate (or at least reduce) the potentiality of wank. The Moderators reserve the right to delete the prompt if there is no or an inadequate explanation, and the prompt will cause upset within the meme.
  
  
• Scroll On By - Sometimes there will be prompts that you don't like or whose premises you disagree with. Sometimes you will be tired of reading posts related to a trope, couple, character, or episode. Assuming the prompt does not actually violate any rules, in which case you should contact a mod, the answer is always: scroll on by.
  
  
• No Character or Personal Bashing - Avoid using language in your prompts and comments that is hostile toward the characters and especially toward others in the fandom. This does not mean that you can't point out characters' flaws, but neutral, non-judgmental phrasings go a long way toward avoiding arguments. Please ensure that any negative comments towards a character is explicitly in-character and easily explained, and not a personal opinion as the OP.
  
  Rule Exemption: Due to the nature of the meme, we respect that characters may be perceived in a negative light - such as Kurt being raped, and Puck is the rapist. We accept these prompts, however still enforce that the negative light is to explicity in-character, and not the person opinion of the prompter, commenter or author. It is encouraged that if your prompt places a character in a signficantly bad light, it may be wise to mention this in your header to help the scroll-by policy.
  
  
• Discussing Prompts - While minor discussion regarding a prompt is natural, fic posts should be the only comment threads to grow very deep on this meme. Although the meme has made use of a dedicated discussion post in the past, we will be more rigorously enforcing its use from this point out to keep the prompt post more focused.
  
  If your comment to the prompt post falls into one of these categories, it is fine to post at the prompt post:
  
  
  1. Prompts
  2. Seconds/Thirds
  3. Questions for the OP
  4. Short discussions
  5. Fills
  6. Comments about fills
  
  
  However, if you are looking at a longer discussion, you should take your discussion to the dedicated discussion post. Although there is not a hard and fast line, just remember: the prompt post is for prompting and fills. Any discussions need to be short, and directly relevant to events in a potential fill. If you're scrolling down the page and see a deep comment thread, you would naturally assume it to contain fic, not sociology discussions.

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Prompt Posts - Prompting

• Stay Current - Only the present meme post is to be used for posting prompts and prompt posts will be closed at 6000 comments, with a weekend freeze in between the opening of another post. Fills and comments to fills are always allowed on closed prompt posts.
  
  
• Reposts - Reposts are allowed on unfilled prompts that are over a year old only, which as of March 8th is Meme One, Two, Three and some of Meme Four. Please provide a link with your repost, or your prompt will be screened.
  
  
• Seconding prompts - You can second. You can even third. We understand that people don't always notice a prompt until this happens, and it's a good way of helping a prompt get noticed among the sea of prompts. It's also good for the OP because if discussion occurs, it not only increases visibility, but it helps potential fillers by giving more information. However please do not dog-pile and say "fourthed" or "NEED THIS NOW", the prompt has had enough attention & is likely to annoy email trackers.
  
  
• Hijacking prompts - Most OPs are happy with added suggestions, particularly when it's a comment that takes a sentence and speculates in line with what they want in their prompt. This speculation, especially if the OP agrees, gives more information to help a potential filler outline their fill. However there comes a point when the speculation reaches "hijacking" category. This side of speculation is purely subjective, with no defined rules, but we have some definitions we will be moderating with:
  
  
  1. If you ask for a different ending when the OP has already specified or indicated an ending, then this is hijacking & the comment will be deleted.
     
  2. If you take a sentence out of the OP's prompt and speculate on it, to an extent that what you want to see happens is substantially different to the rest of the OP's prompt, then this is hijacking & the comment will be deleted.
  
  This is reasonably subjective and we do not want to discourage discussion about prompts, but what we are mainly trying to crack down on is suggestions that are reasonably different to what the OP is wanting, implied or otherwise. If you like an OP's prompt but wish it were different somehow, please make your own prompt.
  
  
• OP Courtesy - Filling a prompt takes considerable effort. If someone is kind enough to fill your prompt, please be kind enough in return to offer thanks!

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Prompt Posts - Filling

• Fill Labels are required - All fills MUST be titled Fill + (Optional Story Title) + Characters & Relationships involved + Trigger warnings in the subject title of ALL comments of your fill.
  
  When trigger warnings are not involved, you will be simply reminded to use this label next time. If the fill involves trigger warnings, and does not have them in the first line of all fill comments, your fill will be screened, and you will be asked to repost. If your fill is a long fill and involves trigger warnings that will occur later in the story, but not straight away, please refer to the Trigger Warning Section for more information of how to handle this situation.
  
  
• Where to Post - There are two ways to post your fills: in the comment thread to the prompt or in an off-site location. While you will see a lot of prompts being filled in the comment fields here, it is absolutely fine to post a link to a page on your journal/fanfiction.net account/etc.
  
  
• Types of Fills - Art and Comic Fills are allowed, however please post a link to your art, hosted on either Tumblr, Tinypic, Deviantart or personal site, and not embed the art/comic in your comment.

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Other Community Posts

• Discussion Post - The Discussion Post is welcome to all discussion, including off-topic discussion. Please keep any discussion about episodes under spoiler protection (see Spoiler Policy above) on the S3 Discussion Post, however any previous episode/series discussion is encouraged on the Discussion post.
  
  
• Fic & Prompt Searching - All fic searches/prompt searches are to be posted in the fic search thread of the discussion post, and not the meme prompt post. Any comments found in the prompt post will be immediately deleted and it will be up to the commenter to re-post the comment in the fic search thread.
  
  
• Abandoned Fills - If you wish to abandon a fill and put it up for adoption, we have an Abandoned WIPs for adoption thread that will allow you to post and advertise your abandoned WIP. . All abandoned fills put up for adoption are at the author's discretion only, you can not ask an author if they want to have the fill put up for adoption.
  
  
• Heated Discussions - We understand that certain discussions will turned heated due to the subject matter and subsequently, straddle the link between heated discussion and wank. In these particular circumstances, as long as the discussion is kept to a heated discussion about the subject matter with no insulting of OPs or other commenters, such discussion is encouraged. We reserve the right to screen any comments that push this line too far.

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Reaching A Mod

Please use the PSCQ post to contact moderators about threads that require mod action -- this will garner a quicker response.

If you wish to ask a question or offer a suggestion, we can be contacted on the PSCQ post or feel free to PM gammods if you wish to keep the discussion private. For any questions about any of the Rules or the meme itself, we can either be contacted by the methods detailed above or in the discussion post.

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Thank you,
Glee Angst Moderators