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Terms of Service
Even though proboards allows individuals of age 13 or older, this forum you have to be 18 or older to post and/or join the roleplay. This is to help prevent predators from grooming younger members and to also help prevent any unnecessary drama (drama will still happen but hopefully to a lesser extent). By posting in these forums, you are letting us know that you are 18 and up.
If we find that you are younger than 18, you will be temporarily banned from all platforms that we use up until the day you turn 18. If we find that you are 18 but had joined and had been posting since you were younger, you will be temporarily banned until the same amount of time has passed since your joining to all the way when you turned 18.
If we find that you joined us and had been active on our forums and other platforms prior to turning 18 and had been targeted by a predator (with evidence) we will still temporarily ban you but the predator will receive a temporary ban until an investigation has been done and, if found guilty, will receive a permanent ban.
That being said, we don't allow child-coded characters to be roleplayed in sexual situations with adult characters, even if both roleplayers are adults. Should you have any questions about the Age Restriction of our Terms of Service, please refer to the FAQ.
Fair Usage
By joining our forums, whether or not you join our Discord, you will need to follow our Terms of Service. If you break any of the rules of our Terms of Service, your account with us can be terminated regardless if you donated or not. Regardless of your background revolving around personal qualms (including but are not limited to mental disability and/or difficult situations outside of the Trans-Dimensional Era community) are not justifications and you will have to deal with consequences as fit for the rule broken. All who accept the Terms of Service are expected to abide by the given guidelines no matter the circumstance.
The following rules, if broken, can result in consequences in this order: 1 Warning, 2 Temporary Bans (of different lengths; first ban is shortest, last ban is longest), to (finally) a permanent ban. There is one exception to this system: If your allegations involve multiple people in negative mannerism, no matter the topic and depending on how things are then resolved from either side, a permanent ban will be given to the prime instigator. We do not tolerate drama, violence, or fights/arguments and we would only like the best for our community. This also includes non-T-DEra affairs. If you’re caught making others feel negatively about themselves or instigating negative thoughts about another outside of our community and we hear about it, we will also deal with such as it comes.
If a problem occurs without a Disciplinarian to moderate, the Owner is allowed to intervene. Consequences are temporary removal from the Discord Server until the Disciplinarians are allowed to view the situation and deem their verdict. We only accept proof from screenshots, voice recordings, video recordings, or livestreams if it applies.
In the case of not following our Roleplay Etiquette (see Roleplay > Roleplay Rules), each member is given 5 chances (accompanied by warnings) to properly follow our guidelines, per etiquette rule broken. After the 5 chances are up, a temporary ban is in order. Should the same roleplay rule be broken again, or another roleplay rule be broken 5 times, a longer temporary ban is required. Should the member break another roleplay rule, no matter which one it is or if it has been broken before, the member will be permanently banned.
If and when a member joins one or more of our Discords, they should keep our Discord General Rules in mind. These can always be found in the #rules-and-more channel on any of our Discords. Aside from following the Discord General Rules, they are also required to follow the specific rules of the Discord group. The link for the specific rules can be found just underneath the Discord General Rules. The same warning and banning system applies to the Discords. If a member decides to leave the forum (i.e. doesn't post their characters anymore), then they will be removed from our Discords as well.
If a member is banned, temporary or permanent, they may take their case to the Hearing Committee to attempt to redeem innocence and access back to the Discord Server / Forums if allegations pointed against them are supposedly false. Until they manage to convince the Hearing Committee of their innocence, they will be unable to participate in our Discords or our forums.
By posting in our forums, whether or not you plan on joining our Discord, you automatically agree to these conditions.
By agreeing to these terms and conditions you give consent to usage of the creations of (if you donate your ideas) but not limited to:
- Race
- Professions
- any structures that have become a part of the T-DEra Lore
Regardless if you have been warned, temporarily banned, permanently banned, or left through free will, usage of these creations will remain.
*Pertaining to structures you've created for the forums, this includes public roleplay threads and public boards. Personal roleplay threads like your character's home or personal businesses along with any private boards of your creation can be removed if you ask.
If you have any comments/concerns about our forums or Discords, you can contact our administration at any time. If you feel something has gone amiss with one of our administrators, please contact the Owner directly.
Please keep in mind if you do sign up: We're not here to tie you down and keep you here! If you suddenly don't feel the want to remain, or simply don't like how things are, you're welcome to leave at your own pace. Spewing hate about our forums or it's members (including our administrators) pertains to rules 3-B/3-C and is not tolerated behavior. If your reasoning for leaving is due to someone harassing you or making you feel uncomfortable, again - please contact a Disciplinarian or the Owner so it can be resolved.
General Rules
1. Keep everything PG-13 or below. Posts can not have:
- talk or acts of sex (especially between an adult and minor)
- descriptions or revealing pictures and videos of naked bodies or private parts
- detailed descriptions, pictures, or video of gore
- mention or use of drugs (cigarettes, drinking, and use of cigars are acceptable as long as the characters or the role players in question are not underage)
- curse words unless you sensor the vowels out with '*' like 'f*ck'.
If any of your posts break this rule, they will be deleted. If you feel the need to include anything NSFW, feel free to do so within your own role plays, conversations and chat rooms as long as it is outside of our forums and between two consenting adult members.
2. Do not share any of your private information. This means you can not give out your email, address, full name, phone number, etc. The only exceptions to this rule are Discord and any website or game that you'd enjoy playing on with another member. You may also share commission info if someone asks or through the appropriate forum.
3-A. There is no discrimination of any kind allowed. Do not spew hate over private messages and/or in our forums. Hate and discrimination towards anyone (minus in-character role playing) are not allowed. This includes race, religion, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, etc. Do not misunderstand this rule- unless someone specifically says outright that they are doing something because they are against a certain group of people, then there isn’t any proof that they are promoting hate or discrimination against anyone. We don't give anyone who discriminates a chance to be on our forums or Discord. If they are doing these things for other reasons (or no reason at all) there will still be an investigation.
3-B. Harassment is not allowed on the Discord or Forums. This includes, but is not limited too: message spam IC/OOC on the forums (too many posts in a single thread one after the other by the same person), or in our Discord to gain someone's attention. If you're asked to stop, please respect others boundaries. If you are someone who believes they're being harassed, please do not hesitate to get in contact with administration. Keep in mind this is a server full of different opinions, and not all of them may agree with yours. We ask that you communicate in a mature mannerism - even if they say something that you might not agree with. If something another individual says offends/bothers you, you're free to contact an administrator with your concerns at any time. It may likely be a misunderstanding, however if it is a topic you're uncomfortable witnessing a discussion about, we can handle it. We want everyone in our community as comfortable as possible.
3-C. Along the lines of harassment (and is included as), are opinions. Now having an opinion and all is fine and dandy. If you dislike or disagree with something that's fine. But that doesn't give you a ticket to shove your opinion down someone else's throat, especially when someone else's opinion that you are opinionated against is completely harmless.
3-D. Death threats and encouragement of suicide (whether directed towards our members or someone else) are considered harassment and are not okay to do under any circumstance. It doesn't matter what the person you hate did, don't tell them to kill themselves and don't tell them to commit suicide. Life is short and precious, regardless of what they do with that life. Believe it or not, if that person did succeed in committing suicide, you would legally be responsible for their death. It's considered murder in the United States of America.
4. Be weary of other peoples triggers. That being said, try not to be trigger-happy. Don't use everything as a trigger and a reason to get upset with someone. That's just childish behavior and insulting when you label something as a trigger when it's not. Simple disagreements are not to be considered triggers and are actually part of everyday life.
5. We politely ask for politics to be avoided within our forums and Discord. It is a personal opinion/belief similar enough to religion, and can cause unnecessary argumentation we'd like to avoid in the future. We don’t consider basic human rights to be political (a lot of us are LGBT after all).