Board Rules
These rules are subject to change at any time so please check often. Remember you are bound by all rules at all times even if you are not aware of a change. Major changes to the rules will have a post about the change on the notice board.
- No member is related in any way to a canon character (A canon character is a character from the books). Hogwarts School of Magic is set in an alternate reality where canon characters never existed.
- In the interest of fair role playing you will play an original character who has no special abilities or powers (unless you have prior admin aproval). This includes things such as Animagus's, Legilimens, having a true invisibility cloak, elemental magic, invisibility without magic and wandless magic.
- Students may only have 1 account on the board. Multiple accounts will result in punishments being issued depending on the reasoning behind the creation. If you wish to create an account for your friend/brother/sister/mother/etc and will be using the same computer and connection you need to get admin permission before you create the account to ensure you dont get in trouble for having multiple accounts. We are not mind readers so unless you ask us and we say yes we will assume that the 2nd account is yours
- Cloning, posting in more than one non-classroom forum at the same time, is against school rules and is punishable by loss of galleons, and possibly points.
- New Members must post atleast once in the first 7 days or their account will be deleted
- Students may only earn points for their house if they have a wand
- Only 6th years, 7th years, prefects, headboy, headgirl, graduates and staff may consume alcoholic drinks (basically characters who are 16+)
- Events which occur in the IRC channel which violate school rules are punishable on the board
- Spamming and Unauthorized Advertising will result in a ban. If you wish to advertise your site/channel/other you first need admin approval
- Posts may not contain any content that would be considered inappropriate by the senior staff. This means that your posts must not contain any content that is related to intimate relations and other similar content. This will be enforced at the discretion of the senior staff. Repeated abuses of this will mean you will be permanently banned with no chance of appeal
- Students who repeatedly perform acts which are found to be annoying to members will be first asked to stop and if they fail to comply they will climb the punishment pyramid. See rules + faq for more details
Signature and Avatar Restrictions
- If you are using a banner like signature:
You may have only 1 image which does not exceed 500px wide x 100px tall
The image must be no more than 50kb in size.
You may include upto 100 characters of text along with the image.
- If you are using a non-banner type image sig (eg doll or pet pic):
You may have only 1 image which does not exceed 300x200 (or 200 x 300)
The image must be no more than 50kb in size.
You may include upto 100 characters of text along with the image.
- Avatars have a limit of 100 pixels by 100 pixels.
Things to Remember
- If there is a deadline for points submit points by the deadline or they don't get counted
- No position is set in stone
- Staff when you have marked your homework/assessments fill out the marks form
- Appeals for losing points must be made in an e-owl to appeals@…
- Appeals for being banned from HSOM must be made to bans@…
- Complaints about members of staff including the senior staff may be sent to complaints@… and will be followed up by Darkbeholder. Note: This is only for serious complaints. Any frivolous complaints will be deleted and repeated abuse of this may result in punishments.
- If you wish to Quit HSOM and be taken off the members list send an e-owl to leave@…
- Assignments are marked out of 30 with up to 20 bonus points
- The only way you can change which house you are sorted into is by making an application to changehouse@… and providing strong evidence for a need for you to change house. Not all applications will be successful and each case will be thoroughly checked by one or more of the admin. Strong evidence requires at least a number of links to the topics that have caused this need.
- If you are going to be away for a period of more than 7 days please leave a short note in the Leave list forum with how long you expect to be away so if a membership cull happens while your away you wont be deleted for not posting.
- Every 6-12 months there will be a membership cull removing all the inactive users. The cull forum (where you post so you don't get culled) will be open for you to post for atleast 4 weeks. You can hardly be an active member if you cant find 2 minutes in 4 weeks to make a post on the board.
Years
- Everyone starts as a first year and progress years based on the number of terms they have been here for. This may change in time if we find it too slow but it is an improvement over the old system that encouraged spam posting
If you have a rule that you wish to be considered email it to newrules@…
