RULES

- THESE RULES APPLY TO BOTH SIMS - BONDAGE RANCH & DAMSEL SIM -

DON'T GET YOURSELF BANNED!

1. NO ASSAULT, ALL CONSENT.  HONOR SL TOS.

No combat without consent, no weapons use without consent.  If being assaulted, call for help in the Deitide group channel.

If someone assaults you and you assault back instead of notifying us for assistance - you will get banned too.  Two wrongs don't make a right.  "I had no choice" or "I had to do that" is not considered reason or excuse for assault.

Prior-consent Conflict Roleplay between superheroes & villains, or kidnapper/victim, or burglar/victim, or hornyguy/victim, is acceptable.  But you must keep your battle out of the way of other folks.

Do not use the black "griefer"-style cages in your consent play, because other people (including our police) often mistake it for real griefing.

2. COOPERATE WITH STAFF

Security will have a "police" label over their head, or similar label ("sheriff), or they will be wearing a uniform.  Our staff are members of the Damsel Group and/or the Deitide group.

If our police ask you a question, tell you to do something, or tell you to stop doing something, ask you for a chatlog, etc. -- cooperate immediately.  Don't argue.  This is private land and our police are trying to keep the peace.  Note:  Their interpretation of Rule 5 overrides your interpretation.

If an altercation occurs, and you think you "didn't do anything wrong", but then you are rude, resistant or uncooperative with ranch police who are investigating, you will get banned.  If you're asked for a chatlog and you don't provide it, or you provide an edited chatlog, or you don't confirm the request while you delay sending the chatlog, you might get banned.

Chorazin Allen and Ally Boyle own and run these sims.  If you are not 100% cooperative with an island owner at all times, you will most certainly get banned.  We didn't blow all that money on private sim costs just so that strangers could come and use our free playspaces and argue with us.

3. NO ADVERTISING

Do not advertise nor promote anything on our islands. Our playspace's purpose is not for you to use the space to make money -- in any way, shape, or form.  Do not ask for money, do not offer services for money.

Do not troll for partners in a promotional manner such as placing signs or yelling "slaves apply to me" etc.

ADDENDUM TO RULE #3:  No avatar can have the word "beach" appearing above their head or on their outfits.  (If necessary, change your group tag before arriving at the ranch.)  We should not have had to put this in writing, but some people keep trying to use Bondage Ranch as a promotional location, and this is the only way to make it clear that it's inappropriate.  Our playspace areas are for social use, not advertising.

4. READ PROFILES BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS

Before you ask a person any question, or proposition them, you must read their entire profile -- every panel.

This is so that people who already have partners, or who aren't there to play, or don't play in certain ways, don't have to answer questions all day long of "are you Dom or sub?", "will you play with me" etc.

5. BE NICE.

Keep the peace. Your actions should not impede other's enjoyment of the playspace.  For example, there is a difference between occasional scene-related soundfiles and annoying overused overloud soundfiles.

Be civil.  If you don't get along with someone, just stop chatting with them.  If two people really want to argue with each other, consensually, do it in IM so as not to mar the ambiance of the area.

No name-calling.  Doesn't matter if the other person "started it first"; attack-back is not allowed..

No prejudice.  Do not discriminate based on fetish or appearance or anything else.  BDSMers, Furries, Goreans, Nudists, Newbies, Roleplayers, Poorly Dressed Avatars,  etc. etc., must all be treated with civility.  Yes, you can banned for making a prejudicial statement.  (See below for Force Park addendum)

Interaction is based on consent.  No pushing without consent, no physical contact without prior consent, no clicking-activating others' attachments without prior consent.

Do not proposition anyone more than once, and do not ask people to play with you more than once. This includes a general request to the group for a play partner. Do not whine, complain, or badger if no one feels like playing with you.  Be careful how you word your availability to play... don't ask over and over "does anyone want to abuse me?" etc.

There are some kidnap/nonconsent/rape roleplays here. Sometimes it's fun for a stranger to join in. Check for interest first by IMing. It's ok to turn down an offer or be turned down -- don't take it personally.

High-traffic areas are naturally laggy. Don't contribute to lag by using heavy-script items. Don't fly in and out with helicopters, space ships, floating skyboats, whatever... and don't park them in the sim.

No harassment, no stalking, no spying, following or logging without consent. These are private islands, run by private ownership, and the island owners have authorized their representatives to log chat for security reasons. Things you say out loud may be saved in chat logs. Visiting our private land and then engaging in chat is your choice and your consent to having your activity logged here.

***We especially do not allow the following:
People who think everyone should behave submissively to them.
People who think that roleplaying a "dominant personality" means they can be rude to people who aren't in-scene with them.
People who tell subs that they should be a certain kind of sub, or should only learn to become "submissive" subs (roleplaying as a reluctant, resistant captive is just as valid as being "submissive").
People who tell men to put away their penises.  Unless a man is bumping into you with his penis out, he has every right to walk around wearing a penis!

6. REZ RULES

Rez rules:  Pick up after yourself.  Don't rez big objects.  Don't rez objects that will interfere with others' enjoyment of the ranch.  Don't rez inappropriate objects, nor rez objects in inappropriate places.  Don't rez laggy objects (particle items, soundmaking items, heavily flexi items).  Don't rez and unpack boxes and products you bought, because the appearance of the commercial packaging will make our ranch police think you're trying to sell something.  Don't build (don't create/assemble objects).

Examples of appropriate items to rez:  bondage furniture, thrones, kneeling cushions.

Lorelei Mission wrote the below info many years ago, when running an IRC chat channel.  Please think about this when dealing with problems.  Annoying naive newbies are not the same kind of problem as an assaulting griefer, and the two should not be treated the same way.

PROBLEM PERSONALITIES:

There are usually two types of people who violate chatroom rules: Clueless, and Hostile. It's usually pretty easy to figure out which type a rule-violator is.

Clueless people do want to have a positive communicative experience in a chatroom -- they just don't know how to go about it correctly. Gently providing them with information and explanations will often result in their complying with the room rules. Do everything you can to help the Clueless become functioning members of cyber society. If you can get through to them, you not only will be helping them, but also the others in the room AND hundreds of other people who will encounter this person online in the future.

If your gentle attempts to guide the Clueless don't work, stop responding to the Clueless person and let a Moderator or Operator take over the problem.

Hostile people's goals are not in concert with the room's goals. Hostile visitors enter chatrooms in order to fulfill personal needs such as expressing power by getting negative reactions from other people, or expressing power by manipulating people (pretending to be someone else, etc). Since their primary goal is not compatible with the room goals in the first place, you will usually find it impossible to work with them or give them guidance.

As soon as you recognize a Hostile person, do not respond to them and don't dialogue with them.  Notify a Moderator or Operator and let them deal with the problem either through dialogue or by escorting them from the room. Please note, if you do not stop responding to or dialoguing with a Hostile, a Moderator or Operator may decide to escort YOU from the room too.