Before you start or enter a contest, please read the following rules.

Fashion Contest Rules:

1. Any players that have 100 posts or less cannot create a new contest, but are eligible to participate in contests. If you are found spamming the forum just to increase your number of posts you will be issued an official warning.

2. Stealing will not be tolerated.. This includes stealing edits/images made by other players and claiming them as your own and taking images off the web and sticking a bimbo's head on them. Anyone caught doing this will be automatically disqualified and receive an official warning and/or ban. If you see anyone doing this in a contest please inform a moderator.

3. You may have one contest open at any time. If you have more than one contest running at a time, the most recent one(s) will be closed. This means either one single round OR one multi round. Not one of each.

4. There may be only one contest of any theme at any one time. Before starting your contest, please search for similar contests already running.

5. Contest rounds may only last up to 48 hours (72 hours if 'editing' is allowed) from when you start it. Please close them at this point regardless of participation.  Edit the first post and put "Closed." so there can be no confusion.

6. The minimum time limit for contests is now 1 hour. This gives adequate time for members to create a desired look and enter if they choose to do so.

7. Results must be posted no later than 24 hours after the contest closes. After this the thread will be closed regardless. If this happens post the results and/or banners on the participant's profiles. Results must also be posted in the same thread, do not start a new topic to announce the results.

8. No inappropriate content. If you are unsure, please contact a moderator.

9. You may not offer a prize of bimbo dollars, VIB membership, or bimbo/home cred.

10. When your contest is finished, please contact a moderator to close the thread.

11. Do not "bump"  your contest or someone else's.  This means you cannot make posts such as "Come on girls, we only need three more!" and "Does anyone want to join?" and "1 hour left!" in your contest or another contest that does not belong to you. If you wish to comment on an entry do so on profiles.

12. You may not post about your contest in another thread, and you cannot start an entirely new thread to get people into your contest or to post the results of your contest.

13. Do not send private messages or profile comments asking people to participate. If someone wants to be in a contest they know where to seek them out. Contest invites are counted under the new party invites rules and are therefore banned.

14. You must always give credit if you use a pose, hairstyle or item made by another player. This means writing the name of the player and the item on the actual edit, and in no way refers to the other sort of 'credit' on this site.

15. You are not allowed to discriminate beyond the purpose of your contest. This means that you are not allowed to ban things such as VIB clothes, or players from a certain country etc. (it has happened before). However, this does not mean that you can't choose whoever you like when judging.

16. Multi-round contests are to be kept to the same thread. Edit the first post when a new round begins.

17. There is to be no use of the simulator in any contest.

18. There will be no polls in the Fashion Contest Forums. If you cannot judge a contest, do not host one.



Multi-Round Rules:

1. When naming your multi-round thread, add 'MR' after the name of your choice. Your title must also include the number of rounds you intend on having and what round your contest is on.

    For example: Top Model Contest (MR 1/3).

This would mean that you are on round 1 of a competition with 3 rounds.

2. All MR contests may not exceed 5 rounds (6 total to include casting)

3. Edit your first post whenever you start a new round or close an existing one and inform your contestants on which page number they will find the start of each round and results from the previous rounds.

Example:
Round 1 (Closed)               = Page 1
Round 2 and R1 results      = Page 4
Final round (Open)             = Page 8
Final results                        = Page 10

With multi-round contests each round itself can be a maximum of 48 hours for non-editing contests and 72 hours for editing. We do not expect you to be able to do a whole multi-round contest in 2 days.


4.Seeing as making groups in the group section for contests is becoming increasingly popular, we are now setting down a few simple rules for them.

                   A) In the first post of your group topic, it must link back to the       
                   contest it pertains to. This is to help the mods keep track of what your
                   contest is about so that we don't just close the topic thinking it is a
                   repeat topic.

                   B) When the contest is over, the contest host should pm a
                   moderator so that we can close up your group topics. This just makes
                   everything easier, since you can send one pm to have your contest
                   closed and the group topics closed in one message.


5.Please contact an online moderator between each round of your contest and when it closes to update your titles.



Signature banners:

Please put them in your "About me" section in your profile, not in your signature. Remember that the maximum size for signatures in 10 lines:

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Other Notes:
The Rules are subject to change.

If a contest violates the Rules it will be closed.

This forum is for Contests only.  There are other areas of the forum for challenges, chat, etc.

The reason for having these rules is to help keep the Contests section uncluttered and allow players to easily navigate this section of the forum.

Before you start a contest, please do a search to see if it has been done before.  You should at least be aware if it was previously done and how it went.

Please clearly post the requirements for your contest.
Example 1: Contest open for 24 hours.  Must use the Lady Slipper.Example 2: Contest open for 48 hours.  Editing only! Must wear Yellow!
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If you see anybody breaking the rules of the Contest Section please contact any online moderator.