General Guidelines

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If you have questions or comments on any of these topics, please feel free to email us.

Membership Changes

Renaming Journal

If you use a rename token on your account, please Page-a-Mod, PM the moderator journal, or email us to let us know. This ensures you remain a member of the community with your new name.

Leaving

Members may choose to leave the challenge at any time, though we would appreciate if you would Page-a-Mod, PM the moderator journal, or email us and include a note stating your reasons.

Deleting Journal

If you need to delete your journal temporarily, let us know. It can be confusing to wonder if a member is really gone or planning to return after a few weeks.

Communicating

Moderators ask questions and send notifications related to community membership and check-ins via email. The email you sign-up with is the email we will use throughout the year. A reminder for the current check-in along with community news will be sent once a month.

Grounds for Removal

There aren’t many ways you can find yourself kissing the pavement outside our walls, but there are some.

Check-In Strikes
If you miss three* check-ins in a row, you will be removed from the community. If you miss more than six of the twelve check-ins over the year, you may be removed from the community. From our experience, a member who is motivated and committed to making their goal will remember to check in. Members who fail to check in or communicate with the moderators about why they will miss a check-in tend to have lost interest and are no longer working toward their goal with the community.

*For the remainder of 2020, we are allowing up to four missed check-ins in a row to accommodate for the general disruption that is a global pandemic.
No Progress by March
If you have not submitted some number of words or some number of days worked by March 31, you will be removed from the community. The goal of this community is to write year round, not in one burst at the end of the year.

Plagiarism
If we find out someone in our group has plagiarized a work, be it fanfic or original, that person is out and banned.
Sharing Website Password
If someone forgets the password, it is linked within the sidebar at the community.
Severe Behavior Issues
This includes belligerence, flaming, harassment, hate speech, disrespect of the community, and the like. We expect there to be occasional disagreements and a few personality clashes, but we also expect everyone to behave like adults and treat the community like it’s a community space, not your private domain. Members removed for behavioral issues may also be banned.

Really, It’s Okay!

To ease your mind, we’d like to highlight two things that will NOT get you kicked out.

Being Behind in Your Pledge
Excepting the 0-Count requirement for March listed above, we will not kick you out if you’re behind your pledge pace or fail to meet your pledge.

Missing a Monthly Check-In
We won’t kick you out for missing a monthly check-in. If you miss one or two (in non-consecutive months), there won’t be any action.