The Rules of the Road

Hello Team SOG!!!

Before you jump right into the fun here, I would like to lay down a few ground rules to help ensure and maintain order and prevent chaos.

''NOTICE: Rules subject to change on a moment's notice. Check back frequently to make sure that you get the most updated list.''

The Rules of the Road -- Updated:   12 December 2013 -- 1556 Hours (US CST)
1) LEGAL - Discussions of ROMs and Emulaton are ok, posting links to it or suggesting sites for it are  NOT . Also included in this section here are instructions on how to commit illegal activies and giving reference/source material for them such as hacking, piracy, and emulation...DON'T DO IT! Many of us on here already know how to do these things anyway, so discussing how to do it is unecessary and it's best to just keep it under the cuff, especially when the legality of these acts is questionable. Do  NOT  post anything considered taboo to society. For example: Inbreeding, Bestiality, Pedophillia, etc.

2) AVOID RELIGIOUS AND/OR STRONGLY POLITICAL TOPICS - These create nothing but chaos and huge flaming/trolling wars among users. Besides, they really have no place in a video-game-and-creepypasta-centric wiki anyway.

3) PORNOGRAPHY - I hope I don't have to explain myself. Any graphic, explicit details or phrasing on sexual activities is absolutely, positively FORBIDDEN, and WILL result in instant deletion of comment and banning of account.

4) YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FALLOUT FROM YOUR WRITING - Although we don't tolerate trolls and flamers and will do anything in our power to stop them, if you post something that can clearly give cause for argument and you get into a conflict with one or more users on what you posted, you are subject to the same punishment as the trolls, which is comment deletion and/or banning.

5) PROPER ENGLISH IS THE KEY - I don't know how many times I've seen poor spelling/grammar and those damned walls of words, please learn proper English/Grammar/Spelling if you are going to post here. Also under this rule are outrageous fonts. Use the site's default font/formatting. Do  NOT  use ALLCAPS, colored text, or EyEcAtcHinG FoRMaT, also don't use ALLBOLD, or ALLITALICS. Refrain from using extra spacing, LARGE LETTERS, and use minimal CAPS and extended words, I.E "Loooooooooooong", "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", etc.  Please also try to avoid using span style source code, although we understand that sometimes wikia adds it automatically for certain copy and paste operations. One more thing on here, a friendly reminder, we are an ENGLISH SPEAKING WEBSITE. FEW of us know how to speak anything but, so, ENGLISH ONLY!!!

6) UPDATE YOUR CREEPYPASTAS TO THE LIST!!! - This is  VERY  important, and is critical that you follow this rule. For one, the downside to you personally from not updating the list is that your pasta will be forever lost in the ocean of pages here and will not receive any visitors. The downside to the community as a whole is that we run into difficulties in trying to maintain the quality of the site. Also, make sure that the creepypastas are ordered appropriately, users have spent hundreds of hours keeping everything neat and tidy, you are expected to continue this trend.

7) CATEGORIES - Do not add nonexistent categories. Adding categories that are relevant to the content of your creepypasta is perfectly fine and, in fact, recommended. However, if you add nonexistent categories, it just makes a mess of things. As a piece of advice, type the first few letters of the word you want to add, if it doesn't automatically appear on the drop-down menu as an option, odds are, it doesn't exist!!! NOTE: as an extension of this rule. If you fail to add categories (EXISTING, mind you) to your creepypasta, you WILL be banned for no less than three (3) days. Also, if you post a creepypasta based on a game series, add the series' generic title, DO NOT ADD THE GAME TITLE . EXAMPLES: A creepypasta about Super Mario 64  WILL NOT  be given a category of "Super Mario 64". It will be given a category of Super Mario. With The Elder Scrolls, instead of categorizing a creepypasta about Daggerfall with "Daggerfall" or one about Morrowind with "Morrowind", use the generic The Elder Scrolls (series), category for both. If a creepypasta is about Spyro, instead of categorizing with the individual game's name, just add the generic category of Legend of Spyro (series) (yes I know that technically The Legend of Spyro series is independent from past series...but its a case that I compare to Zelda. Although Legend of Zelda is independent of other series, it will be Zelda's generic title), and finally, a creepypasta about a Facebook app will be given the generic category of Facebook, instead of an individual category for each app (FarmVille, CafeWorld, Zoo World, FishVille, etc.)

A guide to adding categories is here.

8) TROLL PASTAS ARE NOT ALLOWED - This is a site dedicated to quality stories that have the opportunity to be read by Mutahar. If you deliberately post a trolling creepypasta, such as one with extremely bad English or one filled to the brim with cliches, these crappypastas take away from the experience, and the majority of people on here do not want to be exposed to these. Crappypastas in need of major work will be given warnings by the admins under a special category. Sometimes, users will attempt to fix these issues for you, but do  NOT  post a crappypasta with the expectation it will be fixed. After awhile, according to moderator/administrator discretion, creepypastas that are not fixed will be given another special category, 48 Hours to Deletion. By receiving this category, it does  NOT guarantee that your pasta will be removed! You still have 48 hours, give or take, before it is to be removed. If the creepypasta is reposted after being deleted, the creepypasta will be deleted again, and the user/IP will be banned for a period of up to three (3) days. If a story is a BLATANT troll pasta, as in, one that is obviously designed to troll or to test the tolerance of users, it will be INSTANTLY DELETED, with or without warning from the administrators. 'Note: In the event that you are temporarily banned for a short amount of time, the time limit will resume after your ban is up. Permanently banned users, however, will have their crappypasta deleted, unless a user on here, within the space of 48 hours, decides to adopt your pasta and fix it up themselves.'

9) THE PLACEHOLDER PLAGUE - I might have not been very clear on my How to Post Your Pasta on the Listing topic, but if you have placeholders and/or section headings that you will not be using...DELETE THEM! They are nothing but an eyesore and tend to give a creepypasta the appearance of a poor quality crappypasta. Because there are tons of creepypastas posted every day, reading each and every one of them is very difficult to achieve, especially since we all have lives outside of our computers. If a creepypasta contains placeholders, our users are authorized to fill them for you as they see fit. If there are excessive amounts of placeholders, unneeded headings, or any of the above mentioned issues, the page may be defaulted into the Troll Pasta and/or 48 Hours to Deletion categories.

10) BE RESPECTFUL OF OTHER USERS - This is elementary, guys. We all come to this site to read good creepypastas and just to hang out. If you come on here trying to pick fights, you take away the experience for everyone else. Trolls and Flamers apply under this section as well. Follow that legendary Golden Rule: TREAT OTHERS THE WAY YOU WANT TO BE TREATED. If you further disturb the peace and tranquillity here despite all the warnings you receive, you will be banned.

11) BE ONE PERSON AND ONE PERSON ONLY - You don't have a split personality, or even if you do, learn how to control it. We don't want fifty different user accounts all by the same person on here. A few of us use the number of users on here to gauge how much the community is growing, if you have fifty different user accounts all belonging to a single person, it throws off our data. If this is discovered, all accounts will be banned, no questions asked.

12) DO NOT SPAM - We don't need worthless packets of information to clog up the site.  Point-gaming falls under this rule as well.

13) DO NOT SHARE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION - We care as much about security and personal safety as anyone else, but we can only do so much. The majority of the maintenance of security and anonymity relies on you, the user. Don't give away any personal information, such as your name, address, phone number, etc. We want you to be safe, but we can only help you as much as you help yourself. Do not share your account information, I.E your password, to anyone. This gives a window of opportunity for someone to hack your account and not only result in your account being deleted, such as if said hacker decides to spam and raise hell, but it also gives the hacker the opportunity to extract ALL of your personal information. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORD OR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO ANYONE!

14) DO NOT ADD MULTIPLE PARTS TO A STORY - It wastes space on the creepypasta list, as well as wikispace. If you can't write a story all in one sitting, then type it out in a word program, such as OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word, then copy and paste it to here. OpenOffice I KNOW is free to download, and offers almost all of the same benefits as a Microsoft Office package.

15) DO NOT WRITE WORKS IN PROGRESS (WIPs) - It creates confusion, wastes a reader's time, and hinders our administrative duties when these are written. There is some leniency for this rule...for now...but if you, as a writer, decides to make every creepypasta you write a work in progress, we will take action. Please refrain from using these, or if you are writing a WIP, finish it within a timely fashion or it will be deleted, half-finished pastas that sit for a year and a half are not really a good thing, and just waste space.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">16) DO NOT POST FROM AN iPHONE (Or any mobile device) - Posting from your phone is a big no-no. Even if the pasta is good, the format will be wrong. If found to have been posting from any mobile device then you will be banned depending on the scale of the format errors.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">17) PLEASE SIGN YOUR CREEPYPASTA - This is a newer rule here, but to help us in identifying the author of a creepypasta, such as if you make it to Haunted Gaming or you win Creepypasta of the Month, it helps us to reward you properly. To sign is easy enough, just type four (4) tildes (~) at the bottom or the top of the creepypasta.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">For example  (Remove the spaces between them):

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">"~ ~ ~ ~"

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">18) PLEASE DON'T MIGRATE A PASTA WITHOUT CREDITING THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR.  Actually you don't have to if the author is anonymous.  For example, if the pasta is posted on 4Chan, the pasta is fair game.  But if the author can be identified please give him or her credit.  And even if the author is anonymous, please say so on the page.  Also, please ask permission from the author first if possible before migrating the pasta.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">19) TO DELETE A CREEPYPASTA OR NOT TO DELETE - IF for whatever reason you want a creepypasta deleted (users can only request THEIR OWN creepypastas to be deleted, but may, if they find one they think might be deserving of such, give it a category of Pending Review, and an admin and/or highly respected user will decide whether or not to place the 48 Hours to Deletion category). PLEASE REMEMBER: If a creepypasta is given the 48 Hours to Deletion category, it does  NOT  mean that said creepypasta  WILL  be deleted, it means that it has 48 Hours, give or take, before an admin will decide whether to delete it. As mentioned already, when a creepypasta is given said category, the author has forty-eight (48) hours (that's two (2) days) to bring their creepypasta up to wiki standards. So if you find your pasta is given forty-eight (48) hours, you better get started on fixing it! If you want your creepypasta deleted,  DO NOT CLEAR THE PAGE , contact an admin (list at the bottom of the page) and we'll do it for you. The penalty for clearing a page  WILL  be a temporary account ban.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">'''Warning: If your pasta is deleted for reasons other than your own request,  DO NOT  just reupload it with no significant changes, or it will be deleted again immediatly and you will be blocked. Also, do not remove the "48 Hours" category yourself, wait for an admin to do it.'''

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">20) TIME LIMITS ON CREEPYPASTAS IN DESPERATE NEED OF WORK - Since our Needs work category listing is growing pretty damn big, and few of the creepypastas in said category are actually being fixed, a time limit is necessary and will be implemented.  CREEPYPASTAS GIVEN THE NEEDS WORK CATEGORY WILL HAVE A TIME LIMIT OF ONE (1) MONTH . If a creepypasta shows no sign of improvement in that month's time, it will be defaulted into the 48 Hours to Deletion category, thus giving the author a final forty-eight (48) hours to bring a creepypasta up to wiki standards before it will be deleted.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">'''NOTICE: Please do not add or remove the "Needs work" or "48 Hours to Deletion" categories unless you are a mod or admin. If you think a pasta should be added to the latter, add "Pending Review" instead. If you have improved your pasta and want either category removed, contact a mod or admin to have them remove it for you.'''

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">21) VANDALISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.  Editing another person's pasta in order to fix spelling errors and grammatical mistakes, formatting issues, etc. is perfectly fine and even encouranged, but please refrain from actually changing someone else's story without permission unless it has been put in "Needs work" (in which case it is actually encouraged).  And especially do not vandalize.  If you vandalize you will be blocked and possibly permabanned depending on whether the page you vandalized was an actual pasta or another type of page such as a category page.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">22) THIS WIKI IS NOT JUST FOR GAMING PASTAS.  Although SOG has a focus on gaming pastas, pastas of all subject matters not proscribed by the rules are allowed.  In fact some of the best pastas on this wiki are non-gaming pastas.  Therefore, please don't chastize someone for uploading a non-gaming pasta.

<p style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;">23) HAVE FUN!!! - This is a fun website where you can enjoy an unpleasant, nightmare-inducing story as well as be an active member of a growing community!

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<p style="font-size:14px;">ATTENTION ALL NEW USERS: DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH A CHRONIC SPAMMER AND VANDAL, WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO PUT THIS WIKI ON LOCKDOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. THIS MEANS YOU CANNOT SUBMIT CREEPYPASTAS FOR THE TIME BEING. HOWEVER, RETURNING USERS CAN, AND NEW USERS CAN STILL COMMENT ON PAGES AND USE CHAT. IF YOU ARE A NEW USER AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBMIT A PASTA, LEAVE A MESSAGE ON AN ADMIN'S PAGE WITH A LINK TO THE STORY. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

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