Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-3058106-20150302020250

As mentioned previously in the New Years Resolutions thread, we were going to make a post about changes to the character policies. Seeing as how it's been forever since then, we decided it was time to actually do that. Anyway, this thread is completely up to discussion, but us three admins have discussed possibly character policy changes regarind temporary characters. We've noticed that some characters seem to be around only to save the faceclaim and are never actually used. Also, we think categories besides just "Temporary Characters" would be important to use. Below is what we've decided on so far.

Policies about Temp Characters
Also, along with these changes, we were thinking of doing changes based on mature themes. We know that a lot of the users here are at about the age of thirteen or fourteen, so we do not want to much mature content here. Sure, they know all about that stuff, but we want to create policies on things like that.
 * 1) Inactivity rule - if not used for one month, the FC becomes available for other people to use. The temporary character is given one more month of inactivity before being marked inactive.
 * 2) A new section will be added to the temporary characters page listing which character(s) they were created to be RPed with. They are allowed a maximum of five permanent characters on this list before they will be considered as a fulltime character. If they RP with other characters not on this list, you will be asked to resubmit them as a permanent character.
 * 3) A new category will be created for temporary characters to keep track of who RPs which character. Similar to the "Username's characters" category, this will be called "Username's temporary characters" and it will be a subcategory of your characters category.

Policies about mature themes
Now, my view on the last rule about the mature themes is that I agree with it. However, I think we can be like mature about this stuff and just create a warning template about mature themes and list what those themes are. Like, as soon as it starts getting mature, just like put that warning template in the first of the replies so it'll be floating around when viewers click on the thread. I don't know entirely about that though. I guess it just all depends upon what people think. I'm fine with either way that you do things. 
 * 1) Characters with face claims under the age of eighteen cannot partake in an RP (including AU RPs and story-style RPs) which explicitly roleplays and/or describes sex of any kind.
 * 2) Characters under the age of sixteen cannot partake in an RP (including AU RPs and story-style RPs) which explicitly roleplays and/or describes sex of any kind.
 * 3) In these instances, sex may be mentioned, alluded to or implied, but NEVER explicitly roleplayed.
 * 4) Due to the young demographic of the majority of users here, we actively discourage explicitly sexual stories/RPs/AU RPs. It is important to keep in mind that information on wikia is highly visible by anyone (including younger users without accounts). Should you wish to pursue these sorts of RPs and stories, we suggest you take them to another platform (e.g. a side wiki or tumblr).