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General Board Rules; These are the boards main rules, don't break them.
Topic Started: May 19 2012, 03:22 AM (40 Views)
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Hogwarts Africa is a large place, meaning that many people have the capability of joining, which means rules have to be made and enforced to ensure that everything runs smoothly. This post will also tell you a little bit about the Admins and some other important people of the site.

Administrators or 'Admins':

There are five Admins on this site, Administrator One, Administrator Two, Bliss Prior, Professor Sally Bosso and our final admin, Kyle Smith. All five admins have their seperate roles on this site and do different things that all come together, hopefully to get this site running smoothly and happily for as long as we all have time to do it.

Administrator One and Administrator Two:
Administrator One and Two handle most applications together, they are the people you will be PMing your different applications to and you will be contacted by one of these two in relation to your application. Admin One & Two are not roleplaying characters, unlike the other three admins. They are strictly administrating accounts and will most likely not reply to requests that involve having a roleplay with anyone. But please, feel free to shoot them a PM from time to time to just have a chat, they're not robots, they do like getting a friendly PM from time to time. With Admin One and Two, you can just call them One and Two respectively, or anything similar, they don't mind.

Kyle Smith:
Admin Kyle Smith handles most site problems, such as name changes, forum editing and occasionally will edit roleplays that step out of line and shoot you a PM explaining why it was done. Admin Kyle Smith is a roleplaying character and you can PM them inquiring about a roleplay, (if you've got the guts) but no promises, since Admin Kyle is quite a busy person, and doesn't really have a friendly charater to roleplay with! Admin Kyle also handles DE applications, PMs that concern the other IC schools, that are not Hogwarts Africa (so Durmstrang, Salem, Beauxbatons, etc).

Professor Sally Bosso:
Admin Sally Bosso handles most IC Hogwarts Africa things, such as Sorting Applications and class lists. If you need help because you are lost and are not sure what your character can do in the school (Hogwarts Africa) Admin Sally is the one to contact, they will tell you want you can and cannot post in the school, and will be in charge of most things that have anything to do with the school.

Bliss Prior:
Admin Bliss Prior handles roleplay watching and investigating. If they see a roleplay that appears to need admin approval, but there is not proof or marking of some sort shown by the roleplayers, this Bliss will contact the other Admins and find out whether you're allowed to be doing what you're doing. Admin Bliss will keep an eye out for any trouble makers and/or OOC problems with something to do with the board. If you have a problem, please contact Admin Bliss, or Admin Kyle if there is no reply from the other.

The Admins work as a team to keep the board in order and under control, these are not set in stone jobs for them. All Admins have the power to punish a member for breaking rules, or reminding a member of the rules. The Admins word are final, and there should not be any argument over a decision made by an Admin. Although the Admins try to make this board appear to be a democracy, by being fair and understanding, it is not, the Admins are the bosses of the site and it will remain that way. That being said, if you have suggestions or concerns, they are all willing to listen.

Applications:

Applications are nessesary. If you want something special about your character, such as a pure-blood status, or part-giant, or ghost, you need to put in an application. Applications are filled in through the application page, and are to be sent to one of the Administrators for reviewing. The Admin will then get back to you when they have time, and they will tell you whether you are allowed to do what you want to do. Abilities that will need approval.
  • Animagi transformation All Animagi must apply and will be considered 'registered' with the Ministry, in order for your characters to be an unknown animagi, you must ask for Admin approval, after you character has been accepted. Being unregisted is extremely rare, even the 'site badguy' is a registered animagi, so be ready to defend your request.
  • Metamorphmagi The ability of being a Metamorphmagi is extremely rare and unheard of. It is not nessesarily a trait that requires one parent to be a Metamorphmagi. So if your character is accepted as a Metamorphmagi, that does not mean that their parent/s have this ability, you have to apply as the parent to get the ability, same with siblings. But the fact that a close relative has the ability will be taken into consideration the Admins.
  • Parseltongue This ability is extremely rare, and an ability that is passed down through families. This being said, the Admins will not allow any family to be full of Parselmouths, as such familes do not appear to exist in Harry Potter's time anymore, so nor will it happen here. Each family member will have to put in their own application.
  • Pureblood Status Pure-bloods are witches and wizards that come from an exclusively magical family, meaning that there has never been a muggle, muggle-born, half-blood or mixed blood in the family, and if there has been, they have been removed from the line. But, J.K Rowling herself has said that there is no such thing as a pureblood family. Every wizarding family has a muggle or a few among them. Some just choose to cross them over in their family tree and pretend they don't exist and instead claim themselves as purebloods.
  • Unaided Flight1
  • Seers
  • Legilimency
  • Occlumency
  • Part-Veelas2
  • Houseelves3
  • Part-Goblins4
  • Part-Giants5
  • Ghosts
  • Werewolves
  • Creatures6
  • Professors
  • Death Eaters
  • Aurors
  • Minstry Positions
  • Quidditch Players



Manners:

Treat everyone equally. Everyone here has a love for Harry Potter, or writing, or maybe they're just here because they like Africa, you never know. But since everyone is very different from each other, and there might be age gaps and mulitiple language barriers, that means that not everyone will get along, right? Wrong. The wonderful thing about Hogwarts Africa is, that it's post-by-post, meaning that your thoughts do not appear on the screen, your words from your mouth are not heard by other members, your typing is what appears on the screen for members to read. So before you type something hurtful to someone, just think about what you're going to write, because we Admins are strongly against bullying, and we don't care who you are, or why you are bullying a member of this site. If you meant something as a joke, please make sure that a) The people you are talking to know it's a joke, and b) That it's not rude, or overly horrible, because even if you're joking, not everyone might see it as a joke and that is when things get sticky. We Admins put a lot of work into this site, and we want it to be a safe, happy place for our members, not a place where they go and get abused by other members.

Characters

Whilst we do not care how many characters you have on this site, be warned that if any characters do anything that we think should need admin approval, don't be surprised if you find yourself with a warning, a missing thread and/or a PM in your inbox. Whilst we have given you an artistic liscence, we feel that you should atleast try to do something that is not too much of a hastle to others. For example, if your character comes into a physical altercation with someone, without administrator approval, you will be contacted. Things that distrupt the normal workings of the school you will find need admin approval. If your not sure, just contact us. As we've said, we are here to help you whenever you need it.

1-Flight without aid of a broomstick or other object is a relatively rare ability. Voldemort can do this without the aid of a broom or carpet, as can Snape. This means the applicant must be exceptional as neither Harry or Dumbledore are shown to be doing it.
2-There are no full veela's on this board. In saying that, a Part-veela's parent can be full veela, however, that parent can then, not be created on the board, for the sake of other members.
3-First of all, you can not be a part house elf, you are either a full house elf, or not a house elf at all. House elves can either be in the school, or can belong to a magical family. This means that there should not be house elves belonging to muggle familes that have magical children. This is a ridiculous idea and would most likely never happen. Not only Pure-blood families can have house elves, any family with atleast one magical prson that comes from a magical line can own one.
4-As with Part-veela's, there are NO full Goblins on this board, which means you can only roleplay with Part-Goblins, so please don't ask.
5Same as with Part-Veela's and Part-Goblins.
6With Creatures, there are no Vampires, Trolls or others of that nature on this site. The only acceptable creatures include, Centaurs and Mermaids.
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