These message boards are a forum for ElfQuest and its fan creations, as well as the people who are interested in these things. You're welcome to discuss topics that you like, related or not to elfquest and art/writing. We simply ask that you choose the right forum for your posts.
As with any public forum there will be times when we will not all get along. If you have a problem with a fellow forum-goer, please try to resolve the issue through private messages. No need to bother the others over what's basically a private squabble. If you can't resolve your differences, just ignore each others' posts. If that doesn't work, only then come to me.
If you have a problem with how I conduct these forums, please PM me
before you start a thread about it. Dirty laundry needs to be cleaned and being hush-hush about that kind of stuff isn't necessarily the way to go, but in the interest of maintaining board-peace it'd be good to try to resolve the problem before it escalates to thread-level.
Here are the rules for these boards:
!! Current sig and linking rules !!Images, Linking, And Other Stuff:- Please try to avoid excess gore in pictures and stories you upload.
- Directly link, in the forums, only pictures and other material that are work-safe. Use a text-link if you wish to share a picture or other material that is not work-safe, and clearly label what we can find at the other end of that link.
- Maximum allowed image size in forum posts is 800 pixels wide and 1000 pixels tall, and maximum file size should be 300kilobytes. This limit is enforced. If you want to show a picture larger than 800 by 1000 pixels or 300kilobytes, please link to it.
- Maximum allowed image size in the gallery is 3072 pixels wide and 3072 pixels tall, and maximum file size should be 3072 kilobytes. This limit is enforced.
- Please avoid gallery "flooding." This is not so much a rule as a courtesy: please be thoughtful about uploading large numbers (10+) of images to gallery in one sitting. The first page of "recent images" is prime real estate, and we don't want to push other artists off who only just posted their art.
Signatures and Avatars:- No solicitations in sigs.
- No animated sigs or avatars.
- No sigs or avatars with excess gore or explicit sex.
- No sigs or avatars with copyrighted content unless you have the artist's permission.
- Maximum sig size: 5 lines of text or a 500 x 150 pixels/100k image + 1 line of text.
- Maximum avatar size: 80 x 80 pixels, 25k image
The Five Easy Ways To Get Banned:- Persistently not following forum rules or respecting our authority on these boards.
- Persistently not respecting others on these boards.
- Persistently starting flame wars.
- Persistently flaming us or ElfQuest. Flaming ElfQuest or us will not get you banned. Doing so persistently will.
- Astroturfing (also see shill).
Forum OrganizationPosts are organized into different boards like so:
From the Admins - Messages from the staff.
- Guides & Guidelines - These are the enduring "how-to" and "what do I do" posts. Only Admins may start or move posts to this board.
Elfquest - All things on-topic.
- Art and ElfQuest - This is essentially the "on topic" section of this site. Anything having to do with ElfQuest or artistic endeavors is on topic, and thus is discussed here. EXCEPTION: Please put ElfQuest Fan Fiction in the Writer's Gallery.
- Writer's Gallery - A board dedicated for posting ElfQuest fan fiction.
- Holts - A place to talk about holts, look for holts, and recruit for holts
Off-Topic - The place to discuss anything not appropriate to the rest of the site.
- Chit-Chat - This is the generic off-topic section. Off-topic means stuff not-Elfquest or art.
- The Other Art Gallery - This is the place to post your non-Elfquest art. We encourage you to share your non-Elfquest creative pieces, but the gallery itself should be kept Elfquest.
- Trading Post - A place to share and to trade Elfquest stuff. Be sure to check the trading post rules. All transactions are unsupervised, and happen between individual parties. Elfquestfanart.com or its staff does not endorse any transactions facilitated by this board.
- Rants! - Wear a hard hat. Here be dragons. Abandon all hope, ye who enters here. Check any and all feelings at the door.
Site Rules:In Short:- Do not spam, or register with intent to spam.
- Respect creators' copyrights.
- Tag mature contents properly.
- Do not post non-Elfquest art or stories in the gallery. If you wish to share art or stories not related to ElfQuest, you can start a thread in the appropriate section of the forum (i.e. The Other Art Gallery).
- Familiarize yourself with the current sig, avatar, image size, and linking rules in this thread. These rules may change from time to time, so check back occasionally.
- These rules work in conjunction with the user agreement at the bottom of this page, not in its stead. You must read to and agree to these rules and the user agreement.
Forum Topics That Are Welcome:- Anything not listed below.
Forum Topics That Aren't Welcome:- Threads dedicated to flaming an individual or their efforts.
- Repeating the same thing over and over and over and over and over and..... in one thread.
- Commercial solicitations and advertisements. If you're unsure, contact the admins.
Derailed Forum Conversations:- If a topic gets de-railed from its original scope the original poster can request via PMs that we split the off-topic part into a separate thread. Doing this will help those posters who would like their thread to stay on topic, while allowing threads to evolve in the organic manner they sometimes do provided the original poster doesn't mind.
- We may, at our discretion, split topics if we think that these boards would benefit from the discussion that's off-subject in the original thread.
Briefly About Copyright:- Please keep copyright-infringing material away from this site. Thank you.
- If you use someone's photograph as a background, get direct permission from the original author and give them credit. Content from "free clip-art sites" is not sufficient: more often than not images in those galleries were taken without asking the artist. Many times I have found the artwork of friends on such sites and they had no idea their artwork had been made "free" to the public. Just because a third party says a picture is free, doesn't mean it is. You need the permission of the actual owner, whether it be by contacting them, or permission being given on their site.
- The same is true if you trace someone's artwork. You need the permission of the person you traced, and you need to give them credit.
- We know this isn't something that most people are accustomed to, but this site is intended to be a bastion of respect for others' original creations, and unfortunately this means a little inconvenience for those who do mixed media art.
- Special rules for dolls: Credit (with links) the base maker or originating doll machine. If you have not done any post-work to a doll that you created in a doll-maker (example: adjusting clothing, adding jewelry, etc), then please do not upload it here. Such dolls are so quick and easy to make that if we allowed their upload, they would push art that takes hours (even days) to make off the front page. You are welcome to share these in the forums, of course.
Briefly About Mature Content:- Mature content must be properly labeled. Image upload in the gallery has a toggle for indicating whether a picture is mature; please preface any stories containing mature content with [mature] tag in front of the title.
- Things that qualify as mature are visible genitalia, graphic depictions of sexual activities, and gore. Bare breasts in a non-sexual situation are OK. If you are uncertain, err on the side of caution and PM the admin's asking for a judgement call.
- There is a setting in your Account Settings in your profile for toggling visibility of mature content in the gallery. By default mature gallery content is not visible to you. If you are over 18, toggling this setting will make mature gallery content visible to you.
- The gallery software determines your age based on what you tell us in your forum profile. You have the option to not tell us your age (this is default), but if you do choose to tell us your age you are required to be truthful about it.
User Agreement:- You agree to adhere to the above rules. Major changes to this agreement will be communicated via an email to the address you used to register on this forum, so be sure to register with an email you check periodically.
- These are privately owned boards. If there are disputes or requests we will hear the arguments, but in the end our word is the law in this corner of the Internet. We heavily advocate free speech, but remember that free speech only applies because of the goodness of our hearts -- it is not required by an actual law in a private forum like this or others like it.
- You agree, through your use of this forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, hateful, harassing, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of any International or United States Federal law.
- By posting a picture or a story, either in the gallery or the forum, you assert that you are the copyright-holder for that piece, or are acting as an authorized agent for the copyright-holder. You also grant us a temporary, revokable license to show that material on these forums. You can revoke the license at any time by removing the material from your post or the gallery. You also agree generally not to post any copyrighted material unless you own the copyright, or have written consent from the owner of the copyrighted material, or in good faith believe that posting the material falls under Fair Use.
- Spam, flooding, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and wanton solicitations are forbidden on this forum.
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