Rules and Administrative Bureaucracy
1.) Most importantly: this is a game and is meant to be fun. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. Players resorting to personal attacks will be removed from gameplay without warning. NO EXCEPTIONS, AND NO SUBS FOR MODKILLED PLAYERS.
Examples of behavior we do not tolerate: name calling (e.g. “shorty is being a b****”), calling other players’ play poor/bad/subpar, or personal attacks ("shorty is an insufferable toddler," "for someone with a "best reads" gif in your signature, your reads are trash").
Please note that calling someone a wolf or wolfy is not a personal attack.
I (shorty) have been VERY disappointed with some of the conduct in recent games. We understand that emotions can run high when you're literally accused of murder and lying about it, but we have a ZERO tolerance policy for personal attacks, excessive appeals to emotion (this includes whining about how you will never play again if people continue asking you questions, etc.), or open hostility. If you show worse emotional regulation than SAR's toddler, you will receive a whack over the head with a shovel and told to take a break from the thread - ONCE. If it happens again, you will be removed from the game and may face restrictions in signing up for future shorty games. Please be adults and regulate yourselves. Take a break from the thread if you feel yourself getting upset.
2.) Cycles will close at 9 PM EST (10 PM Mermaidland/8 PM CST/6 PM PST). If I am not around to lock the thread, please STOP posting at the time of cycle close. Nights will be open, with a brief locked period while I get flavor and flip posted from the day cycle.
3.) Do not discuss the game outside of the thread or your role PM. Do not open PMs with other players. There may be mechanics for PMs in this game, but PMing willy-nilly is not allowed.
4.) Please participate. We spent a lot of time building this game and by signing up, you have committed to play it. There will not be specific participation requirements this game, but if we feel you are slacking, you will get notified in your role PM.
5.) Dead players: please keep your on-thread posts to a minimum, and if you do post, please do so in ******stars******. Please do not react to strategy posts in the game once you are dead. Same goes for tots and subs - please do not react to strategy posts at all.
6.) Ties will be resolved through mass execution. Why would we change what is already perfection? 😍
7.) Please do not quote, screenshot, or copy/paste from your mod PM. Please don’t fake quotes, screenshots, or copy/pastes from a mod PM either.
8.) Editing posts is permitted, but do not delete them. Remember to unvote if you are changing your vote.
I can see if you delete a post, so don't try to be sneaky about it. #sitemod
9.) Votes must be formatted in bold or #########surrounded by octothorpes#########. Please make the mods’ lives easier by not hiding your vote in a wall of text. Please use the terms “vote” or “yeet” when placing your vote. Please undo your previous vote if you are changing it by saying unvote/unelect/unyeet [whomever], formatted the same as a regular vote.
Kindly tag the mods when you vote, please, as all 3 of us are busy and will not be camping the thread, and it's easier to make sure we didn't miss any votes that way!
10.) Do not discuss or share night results before the night write-up is posted. Strategizing between vote closing and write up is permitted, including for the person voted out.
11.) If you require a sub due to unavoidable circumstances, please contact the mods in your role PM, and do not discuss it on the thread. However, we don't currently have any subs, so that may result in dying lol.
12.) The use of village code and angleshooting will not help you in this game. Examples of what we consider village code or angleshooting:
"My role PM contains the phrase "vanilla beans are the best beans," does anyone else have that phrase?"
"All the wolves that flipped were creatures you find in the mines, so let's all role reveal and solve by role names".
"shorty hates randing wolf and she subbed out almost immediately, so I bet that slot is a wolf, let's vote it"
This is a game where assumptions are dangerous. The mechanics in this game are NOT standard.
I repeat, they are NOT STANDARD MECHANICS. You are in the twisted world of ShARty.
Assume at your own peril.
13.) Please indicate that you have read through and agree to the rules by angry reacting this post.
