1. No despies, god moders, or what ever else they're called nowadays. Your character has to have some weaknesses.
2. Be repectful to Mods and everyone else.
3. Be creative; don't look at someone else's character and make your character off of their character. Originality is valued here.
4. Use the correct form and post in the correct area. (Don't spam on the rp threads, we have an OOC section for that)
5. Don't flame someone's board just because you don't like it.
6. Read the posts! Or, ask for a short summary. Don't just post random things that ruin a good roleplay.
8. No pressuring people to post. If they are having a bad day (writer's block, too angry to post well, upset, that kind of thing), you do not want the quality of their post to go go down just so you can reply. NOW, if they've been stalling for weeks at a time, it's okay to politely remind them to post.
10. You must post IC every 2 weeks atleast, unless otherwise stated.
11. Because it is very important and isn't emphasized enough PLEASE be respectful to everybody.
12. This is a literate roleplay site, and if you don't know what that means, you probably aren't fit to be here. No chatspeak when posting in character, thank you very much.
13. This ties in with rule number 12. For the love of (insert whatever name you want here), PLEASE do not use asteriks (**) when posting in character. It's not literate. If you can't go without the pretty stars, please reconsider where you are.
14. Proper capitalization and punctuation. Spelling can be forgiven because english can be very confusing with its rules, but proper capitalization and punctuation is a must!


Tip:
I'm not saying anyone is bad, I'm just telling you what I try to do.
600-700 characters is roughly half of the reply box. A little more or less. You might try to make that range. I said TRY, not MAKE IT EVERY SINGLE TIME NO MATTER WHAT. It's just a little idea about how long you might want a post to be. Longer that that is wonderful! I'm not limiting you, I'm just giving you some numbers to work with.

Also, if you aim for the whole box, it tends to make your posts longer just because. :)


Here is a good site you could refer to. I try.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/officialrpguide/