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Community Guidelines of Rostil [Read First]

The Region of Rostil

Rostil is a world-building and roleplay setting with a fusion of modern, light postmodern, and fantasy tech. Rostil is a collaborative experience built by its members and their contributions to it. Founded originally in mid-2011, it is just shy of ten years old and over that period has had many and few members. As a vibrant, but relatively aged community, the style of leadership of Rostil has changed a lot over the years; from a pseudo-dictatorship under its original founder to a democracy under its current founder. Passion for the project of Rostil’s nations has ebbed and flowed for all of is members from the founder and the ‘old guard’ of Rostil to newer members; as is to be expected with such things. The Region, as with other communities, has a set of rules and guidelines to abide by while one is a member. Disregard for these rules will lead to ejection from the region. The argument of 'NationStates is a game' will not be accepted, games, and communities within games, have rules, these are ours, they are neither unreasonable nor particularly demanding.

  • 1. There are two defining versions of Membership to Rostil, there are Officers and there are Members. Officers fill roles of Regional Officers that oversee aspects of the community and world of Rostil; these positions range from being in charge of regional history and meshing the various national histories into one overarching one to being the Regent, someone appointed to head the region in absence of the Founder who acts as an Administrator and who is the final authority on regional issues. Of Members there are two subcategories, A Member is someone who writes on NationStates/The Rostil Forum, and a Contributor is someone who does not post very often but takes part in world-building.

  • 2. Obtaining Membership to Rostil occurs on an application basis. A potential member applies to Rostil, and one of Rostil’s Officers or the Founder approve or deny on the application after thorough examination of the applicant. Potential Members who are denied may reapply at a later date. Potential Members who are accepted will be ‘upgraded’ to Member after the completion of a Basic Factbook which provides a moderate amount of info on your basic national data, such as a short summary of it's history, population, basic description of how the government works and a basic description of the culture.

  • 3. Membership to Rostil comes with expectations of activity; including posting activity on the NationStates Forum and/or the Rostil Off-Site Forum. Failure to meet activity expectations will result in ejection from Rostil, which may be appealed once per infraction. Waivers for activity exemption due to life circumstances such as illness, housing, finance etc. are granted and last thirty days. An extension due to extenuating circumstances may be granted. There is no limitation on waivers; we understand that sometimes life simply gets in the way. However; waivers of activity are not excuses to be inactive, and are only given out to people who actually need them.

  • 4. Members who are deleted by NationStates for whatever reason (inactivity, moderator action, et cetera) are no longer members of Rostil. As you must be a member of NationStates to be a part of our community, if you are not a member of NationStates, then you are not a member of Rostil.

  • 5. Membership Posting Requirements are as follows: 1 post per week per thread involved in; a post constitutes at least two paragraphs of well edited text and may be carried out in any thread covering any topic. The Rostilian Compendium is a repository for short stories which do not fit the requirements for a full thread. The Rostilian News Wire is about events in your nation, past or present and do not fit the requirements for a full thread.

  • 6. With respect to IC activities, there is to be no god modding, wanking, meta gaming, actions of deceit, etc. There is no "Ignore Cannon" on Rostil and no legitimate action can be ignored. Illegitimate action such as aforementioned god modding, wanking, meta gaming etc can be addressed to the community for discussion and if need be dispensation of moderation.

  • 7. You are expected to be cordial and respectful at all times with regards to your fellow members. We encourage discourse and discussion and believe in the freedom of speech, but will not tolerate disrespect, bigotry or similar dissociative speech.

  • 8. Please feel free to join our Linkofficial discord, it is where the members of Rostil come together to discuss ideas, stories, plots, etc as well as general discussion. Note: You require a valid email address with the Discord service to join our server due to security concerns. If you're not familiar with Discord, it is a freeware text-based and VOIP application that is available as a browser page, as well as desktop and phone applications. Please take the time to read the rules, as well as announcements for the code of conduct, and any regional announcements that might not be found gameside.

The rostilian caretaker

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