Amaranth Legacy:Rules

Everyone in Amaranth Legacy must follow these rules in all of our spaces, which include:

• our website,
• our website chat,
• our Discord server, and
• any other spaces run by us.

Rules

1. Be polite
   • Treat others with basic respect.
   • Respect other people's boundaries.
   • Avoid starting arguments and be cordial.
   • Avoid making arguments worse or contributing to them.
   • When criticising, be constructive and focus on the work itself.
2. No bigotry
   • Do not discriminate against people based on immutable characteristics, such as:
     • gender,
     • race,
     • nationality,
     • sexual orientation, or
     • age.
   • This includes what you post, what you say, what you do, and how you act.
   • However, this does not apply to creative works if it does not endorse real-world bigotry.
3. No inflammatory or offensive profiles
   • Your profile—which includes your username, picture, and user pages—can be reviewed by the moderators and must not be inflammatory or offensive.
4. No vandalism
   • Do not significantly modify other people's works without their approval.
   • This includes blanking pages, deleting pages/files, or changing the work's lore.
   • However, this does not include grammar or spelling fixes, standardization, or categorization; these do not change the work's lore.
5. Use English
   • Amaranth Legacy is a English-speaking community with English-speaking moderators.
   • We require the use of English when communicating with others and in creative works.
   • You may briefly communicate in other languages when relevant.
   • You may use other languages in pages/files as long as they are still understandable in English.
6. No AI-generated content
   • You are not allowed to post AI-generated content, either in full or as a significant part.
   • If you are unsure about your content or have any questions, contact a Community Manager.
   • Procedurally generated images are not considered AI. Some examples of programs using procedural generation are SpaceEngine, Celestia, and Inkarnate.
7. No copyright infringement
   • Do not plagiarise or use other people's work.
   • This means that you are generally not allowed to use most images from a search engine or from social media.
   • If you know the work is released under an acceptable license, you may use it. See the licensing guidance page from Wikimedia Commons for more information.
8. No rule evasion
   • Do not evade, "technically comply" with, "toe the line" of, or maliciously use a literal interpretation of the rules.
   • If you attempt to evade the rules, any enforcement actions taken will be more severe. Less leniency will be given to you.

Enforcement

1. If you break the rules, you may be subject to any of these enforcement methods by a Community Manager.
2. For minor infractions, you generally will be warned or timed out.
3. For major infractions, you generally will be temporarily or permanently banned.
4. Community Managers have discretion in which enforcement method to use for the circumstances.

Content nuances

Regarding ownership and usage by others

One of our tenets is author autonomy. This means that we will not interfere with your work or restrict your content unless it breaks our rules. Because of this, you have total control over your content, its styling, and who you choose to collaborate with.

Your content may be edited or deleted by staff if it violates our rules. If this happens, you are not allowed to revert the changes.

In terms of your lore and how it is used, everything you write is your own. Within your own Scope, you have total control over the canon and everything therein. People cannot make unwanted changes to your story or setting, nor can they reuse your content without your permission. Staff will enforce this on our websites. If you wish for any or all of your creative works to be removed at any time, staff will do that for you. Any (otherwise rule-abiding) edits by other users that aren't fixes of or for technical bugs, accessibility, standardization, spelling, grammar, or explicitly permitted collaboration will be reverted by staff. This goes for edits by staff as well.

If you wish to permanently leave our community and want continued protection over your lore, make it known that you want your content deleted. Staff will do that for you so that nobody can enter the history and steal your content. If you do not do this, it may be adopted and rewritten by other authors.

Our enforcement of these is limited outside of the community. In that case, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International applies to your content by default.

If your creative work is not under a Scope, it can be adopted into any Scope at any time.

In the vast majority of cases, you will create a Scope before publishing any of your works.

Regarding sexual and violent content

Don't publish, post, or upload any sexually explicit content, real-world violent content, or photorealistic violent content. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Visual depictions of reproductive anatomy
• Visual depictions of sexual intercourse
• In-depth written depictions of sexual intercourse
• Visual depictions of real-life injury or gore
• Visual depictions of photorealistic injury or gore

Some instances are allowed, such as:

• Anatomical descriptions of reproductive anatomy
• Non-detailed written depictions of sexual intercourse
• Written depictions of injury or gore
• Visual depictions of injury or gore in a fictional context

This is decided case by case by staff, and there is a very thin line between allowed and not allowed. The previous list is only a general overview. We reserve the right to approve or not approve your content.

Regarding fanfiction and derivative works

Ask an author before creating an alternative version of their work. As for fanfiction of existing properties, we ask that it remains on the Fandom.

Regarding templates

Templates are an easy way to quickly change the look/layout of a page. Feel free to create as many templates as you need. However, for organization and standardization purposes, please refrain from creating new infoboxes.

If you feel that no infoboxes work for your needs, shoot us a message on our website chat or our Discord server and we can talk about either making a new infobox or adapting an existing infobox.