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 Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:11 am
Welcome to the Common Room, the Wizarding World of Gaia's casual word games and character memes subforum. Hosting "Avatar Above You" games, riddle/puzzle threads, picture challenges, and meme and character quiz threads, the Common Room offers a plethora of fun topics that provide members with a necessary break from normal guild activities.
For additional guidelines, please read the following posts BEFORE making a thread!
• Avatar Above You Threads
• Word Games & Battles
• Meme & Quiz Threads
• Story & Poetry Games
• Picture Games & Challenges
• Riddles/Puzzles
• Random Statement Threads
• Miscellaneous Games
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:12 pm
Avatar Above You Threads
One of the most common thread games is the "Avatar Above You" game. These threads ask posters to make a judgment or statement about the person who posted before them. For example, asking you to list something you'd like to steal from their avatar, or produce a random reason as to why you might have murdered said avatar. They usually contain Avatar Above You abbreviated as "AAY" in the title.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:42 pm
Word Games & Battles
General word games are usually threads that have a running theme from post to post. For example, A to Z games may ask posters to name objects from Harry Potter, starting with the first post at A for Azkaban, to twenty-five posts later when someone posts Zabini for Z. Other such games may ask that you pick a word starting with the last letter of the word posted before you (Snake, Earth, Heart), or using less or more letters overall than the word before you. Word games may also have point systems, allowing posters to battle to reach a certain score.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
• If points are accumulated, you are responsible for tracking them and rewarding posters accordingly.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:48 pm
Meme & Quiz Threads
Quizzes and memes are a sequence of questions asked about yourself or your characters. Such threads may ask that you answer questions one at a time, building up the thread with dozens of posts, or that you answer the questions all at once to share them with others. The creator may have written the questions themselves, located the questions elsewhere to repost, or the rules may dictate that you yourself ask the next poster a question.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
• If points are accumulated, you are responsible for tracking them and rewarding posters accordingly.
• If your questions are borrowed, please state the source, unless it is unknown (such as a chain e-mail.)
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:56 pm
Story & Poetry GamesFiction and poetry games are typically adventure-as-you-go threads, where posters are invited to add bits of their own story to an ongoing series, with rules making posting more difficult. For example, a thread may ask that posters write posts no longer than fifteen words, detailing the story initiated on the first page of a prince traveling to Iceland. This genre of game also includes drabble-writing threads, where a poster suggests a prompt, and the next poster writes it and also suggests a prompt for the next writer.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
• Thread creators must be particularly mindful of posts' content; material that is sexually explicit or pornographic, or depicts excessive violence or gore is not permitted on Gaiaonline, according to its Rules & Guidelines.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:19 pm
Picture Games & ChallengesExamples of picture-based games/challenges include caption challenges (posting a picture and asking the next poster to provide a caption for it), posting related pictures (such as Caturday’s cat theme), Where’s Waldo?-esque threads, and dozens of others.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
• Thread creators must be particularly mindful of posts' content; material that is sexually explicit or pornographic, or depicts excessive violence or gore is not permitted on Gaiaonline, according to its Rules & Guidelines.
• Thread creators should encourage posters to host their own images - hotlinking is unacceptable!
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:24 pm
Riddle/Puzzle Threads
Riddle and puzzle threads are games in which the thread creator poses some manner of conundrum and asks posters to solve it. They are sometimes chains - where posters then initiate their own riddle/puzzle - or oneshot games, where the thread is locked after being solved.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
• If your questions are borrowed, please state the source, unless it is unknown (such as a chain e-mail.)
• Notify a guild moderator if your thread requires locking.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:27 pm
Random Statement Threads
Random Statement threads aren’t really games (unless their rules dictate some kind of theme), but instead ask posters to make proclamations such as the song they are listening to, their current activity or emotion, or some other aspect of their day.
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
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Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:30 pm
Miscellaneous Games
Game threads in this subforum do not have to conform to the examples provided in this Sticky - thread creators are welcome to initiate new games of their own invention, or challenges not featured in the former posts. Don’t be shy, now!
These types of threads must conform to the following guidelines:
• Provide clear, comprehensible thread instructions.
• You should have a correlating title that appropriately represents the thread's contents.
• Include any applicable rules in clear view. Keep them brief and understandable.
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