RULES AND REGULATIONS - WORK IN PROGRESS

Dear Club Members,

Council is currently reorganizing the Rules & Regulations with the goal to make it easier to navigate the rules and find information faster, clarify contradicting statements and clean out repetitive statements.

Below you can find a summary of the work in progress and draft pages for your review and feedback. Comments and suggestions are welcome! After all, we are doing this for you! Please let us know if the new layout of the pages works better for you than the current Rules document!

PLAN OF ACTION

Split Rules & Regs into three separate pages:

-- PAGE ONE: Personas --
-- PAGE TWO: Posting --
-- PAGE THREE: Membership --

Merge the Netiquette page with PAGE THREE.

Task	Progress
Page One: Persona Creation Rules and Guidelines	draft completed and available for review Last update: 31-Jan-06
Related Discussion/Votes:
Minimum age for dolphins partnered to humans (rule addition)	voted & approved
Wherhandlers can't be dragonriders/dolphineers (rule addition)	voted & approved
Minimum post requirements for ONPCs (minor rule change)	voted & approved
Clarification of NPC/Free adoption and replacement procedures, addition of the possibility to log use approval for ongoing storylines in case of adoption (minor rule changes and additions)	voted & approved
Removal of Weyrwoman Term Limit (rule deletion) Change of Weyrleader Term Limit to remove necessity of applications if there is no challenger for the position (rule change)	voted & approved Wording of new ruling has been noted on TERM-LIMITS Forum page.
Removal of restrictions on the number of non-Impressing candidates (rule deletion)	voted & approved
PC/Ranker/Premium limits increased (rule changes)	voted & approved
Page Two: Posting Rules and Guidelines	rough outline
Related Discussion/Votes:
posting requirements - changes needed/wanted?	discussion not yet started
Page Three: Membership, Conduct and Netiquette	rough outline
Related Discussion/Votes:
Should we allow new members to lurk?	Public Forum (24-Jul-05 until 31-Jul-05) Resulting ruling: No lurkers allowed.
new members cannot join by adopting an NPC/free but have to create their own persona (previous council decision)	needs to be included in Rules
ex-members may return with one of their former premium/ranking personas if they left the club in good standing and the position is available (clarifying current rules)	confirmed by council vote, needs to be clarified in Rules
Providing they stay current in posting for PCs and with Council approval, returning members may at the rate of one per three month period bring back their own previously established non-ranking ONPCs and up to one premium ONPC, staying within the one premium ONPC limit established by the club. In addition, previously owned non-ranking PC's may similarly be brought back as ONPCs, providing the member can show evidence that the persona had been posted for at least 20 times.	voted & approved, needs to be included in Rules
Terms of Membership and Privacy Policy	voted & approved

Last updated on 31-Jan-06.

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