These are the site rules by completing your registration you affirm that you have read

these rules and agree to abide by them.

 Failure to do so will result in consequences.

If you have any questions about any of these rules do not hesitate to contact us at: whisper@whisperingrealmschat.net

1. Admins, Mods and Room Owners

The rules listed below in the Basic Site Rules (B.S.R) Pertain to everyone. But more so with admins, mods, and owners. IF anyone under this is caught breaking any of these rules it can lead to Removal of position, removal of room and possible banning.

2.  Language, Verbal Abuse, Harassment, Stalking and Lurkers

2A. Language and Verbal Abuse.

Sometimes in the heat of an RP strong language and violence can happen in character but please keep this in character.  Any OOC abuse on Whispering Realms will not be tolerated and the user will be banned without a warning, we have and enforce a zero tolerance policy on this, so be aware there is NO wiggle room on this. If there is an OOC issue between players please take it off site. If rude or vulgar language is used to describe how you wish to harm someone or what you wish would happen to them you will be banned from Whispering Realms immediately. 

2B. Harassment and Stalking.

We as well have a zero tolerance for harassment, and stalking. If a player comes on the site with the intent to harass someone and proof has been given to us, You will be banned from the site. If a player feels that another player has followed them from site to site to harass them, they have the right to ask the room owner they are playing to banned the offending player (Room owners have the right to ban anyone for any reason they do not need proof of the harassment), if that player goes to another room and pms the player to harass or talk, this will lead to a site banned. To add if we find that someone has been harassing someone from room to room we as the site have the authority to find that proof then decide what to do next.

We have let our administrators know that if this happens, to ban temporarily the person(s) involved and then we will figure out where to go from there.  Our administrators are under this rule as well!

2C Lurkers (undwanted lurkers)

3. Spamming, Flaming, Recruiting, and Visiting Site Owners (Owners from other sites)

3A. Spamming, Flaming, and Recruiting

IS not allowed at Whispering Realms, we also do not condone, nor encourage recruiting at other sites to Whispering Realms.  Please understand that talking to your friends, family members, and acquaintances on YOUR Live Journal, Zanga, MySpace, Instant Messenger System, or E-Mail about Whispering Realms is not considered recruiting, these are systems that are not affiliated with Whispering Realms Chat and are registered to the individual user, these are your personal communication methods and are outside of our control.  However, if you enter a room solely to get someone's offsite information, with intent to recruit this is recruiting, especially if there was no previous contact between yourself and the person in question is considered recruiting. OR asking someone from one room to go to your room, is not only rude but will not be tolerated. Flaming of any site will not be tolerated on site at all, we are not interested in inter-site drama so please keep your opinions of other sites to your personal communication methods such as the ones listed above.  Whispering Realms does allow site wide messages for certain occasions, new room openings, new story lines being launched, and other important updates that users should be aware of.  Please feel free to politely ask others on site to join you in your RP, but do not pressure them, Whispering Realms wants to provide a fun and light environment to role play in, such pressure does not create that environment.   We have a zero tolerance policy on this, failure to comply with this rule will result in a temporary or permanent site ban.

3B. Visiting Site Owners. (Owners from other sites)

Please if you are another owner from a site, you are more than welcome to come and play on Whispering Reams Chat, but please do not come to Whispering Realms Chat and talk about your site on our site or the role plays that have happen on our site. Again there are plenty of instant messengers that can be used for that.

4. Sexual content, Images and Tagline Content

4A. Room content

Rape scenes are not allowed at all if any user is caught doing a rape scene the user will be warned three times then severe consequences will be enacted.  These consequences include but are not limited to, temporary site ban, permanent site ban, or removal of your owned realm.  It takes a lot for Whispering Realms to remove a realm but this is one instance where we would consider removing the realm.  Graphically detailed sexual scenes are also not allowed in public, we do not wish to seem prudish, however we also understand that a lot of users access the site at work, or at home in the presence of children so please keep your RPs tasteful.  We do this because we have no real way of monitoring age and it would be unfortunate for a user to be banned because their mother caught them RPing out a sexual act and they were a minor, this would not be good for the person caught, the parents involved, the site, or you the chatters so please keep this in mind while playing.  Though we have rooms rated 18+ understand that this is due to language and violent content, NOT sexual content. (IF anyone has any questions on this, room owners or players please contact the site owner BEFORE you go on with your rp.)

4B. Images.

While we understand that images help give the other player ideas about the character, their personality, and of course their looks we also understand that as said above some users access the site from work so please no frontal nudity, or full butt shots, side shots are acceptable but make sure the important bits are covered.  Men can have bear chest, but not women, basically if you would wear it to the beach with your grandmother and her bridge club it is probably acceptable in a picture.  If you are struggling to find a picture that is suiting for your character, or you have a character picture but need it covered please email us at PictureFinder@whisperingrealmschat.net and we will be glad to help you.

4C. Tagline Content.

Keep your tag line clean, we have had to ban people due to the obscenity in their tagline. We do not mind some cussing in them, Just keep it to a low roar. IF you have anything about rape, killing babies, or anything else that would be considered as obscenity. Keep it clean use your best judgment again if you are not sure ask the site owner or one of the admins.

5. Site and Room Banning. *2B

Once you have been banned, from either a room or the site, you cannot make another handle so you can log in again. If you have been ban from a room and create another handle to come back in the room you will be site ban. IF you circumvent that site ban

we will contact your ISP and file a harassment compliant.  (Read Rules on 2B)

7.Canon Handles.

Canon handles must be cleared with the room owner, we understand that there is appeal in playing some of your favorite characters but someone else may already be playing that character, please show some courtesy and make sure it is alright BEFORE creating the handle. Do not just go into a room and start taking up handles that you may never end up RPing. We can not take every canon handle out there! To request a canon handle you simply need to email the host/hostess of the room you would like to play it in and ask. If you break this rule you will be given a warning and a chance to remove the handle. You will get 3 chances, and 1 week total to remove the handle, failure to do so will result in the administration removing the handle for you and could result in a temporary site ban.  If you have any questions regarding this rule, please email us at whisper@whisperingrealmschat.net before creating the handles in question. 

7. Room Requests, Process, Splash Page Content and Copy Writes

7A. Room Requests

If you have a room idea we would love to hear it please feel free to email us at this email address RoomRequest@whisperingrealmschat.net.

Emails need to be in the following format:

Subject: (Realm Name)

Your Name:

Email:

Do you own a room on another site?

If yes, what site?

WRC Login ID:

Realm Genre: 

Realm Mods (we need their Login names to give them proper access):

Realm Description:

7B. Room Creation Process.

Once we have received your room request and have agreed to put it up, it will be put in hybrid status until the room owner has everything set up and working correctly. Once this is done the room will be moved public  status.

7C. Splash Page Content.

Story line

Rules

Canon handles

Contact information.

7D. Copywriting

Theme rooms, if a room is from a movie like Lord of the Rings or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and you use any images from those films or shows you must have copy write credits some where either on your splash screen of on the footer of your page. It is the law if you use their concept and art work they have to have this. If you are using an artists images please email them and if you can not at least put their link on your splash, it is not necessary but always nice to show you do care about the artists.

(If the room is a theme room and the author / artist requests that we remove the room we have to comply due to copyright laws.  We do not do this to be mean but we too have laws and rules we must comply with.)

8. Room Removals or Name Changes.

8A..Room Removal.

Breaking the site AUP and BSR repeatedly or bad enough will cause you to be banned and therefore your room to be removed. We are not the Gestapo but we can not have you all walking over us.
If you request us to remove the room (All requests should be done by email) we will of course remove it right away.  It is your room and you have the right to move it if you wish.

One main thing, if you open a room it is yours we will not take it down, unless absolutely necessary, if you decide to take it down however, we will not set it up again with out a  $50 fee. (Unless it is discussed with WRC admin, if you have to take your room down due to personal reasons) (This fee goes to support the site and help keep it open)  We do not do this to be mean but we do want to discourage people from bouncing from site to site and back again. So again think twice before you take your room down.  If this fee is a problem for you, but you are still interested in re-opening your room this fee MAY be waved ONCE, contact whisper@whisperingrealmschat.net with information regarding your situation and it will be discussed.  We are not going to ban you or be mean and ignore you just be aware that all actions have consequences. We would love to have you at Whispering Realms but we are not going to beg you to stay either, we think that the atmosphere on site and the friendliness will make you want to stay. If you do get a room Stats are not going to be a big issue. That is how we are as well different from other sites. Stats do not mean much to us we know sometimes life interferes in our RPing so again stats are not going to mean much in aspect of you not keeping your room.

8B.Name Change.

If you wish to change your room name please let us know, again it will be put in hybrid till the owner gets all the information and images up, then it will be put to public status.

9. Room Programming.

We have onsite room programmers and they will make you anything from your splash page to your com panel, buttons and all. Please if you need them ask that is what they are there for. We as well will do images for your room. If  we do the images they are the property of the person who did them, this means if you decide to leave Whispering Realms you cannot use the images unless you have discussed it with the person who did them. Not all sites use the same code so if you try to copy and paste the code it might not work on that site or on ours from a different site.

Again any questions can be mailed to us, please give us 24 hours to answer them due to the fact we do work.

Whispering Realms Management

If you have any further questions about the site before joining please send your questions/concerns to whisper@whisperingrealmschat.net

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