Individual Player Rules

• Nothing is to be sold on the site for real money.
  1. Buying or selling Horse Phenomena accounts and/or currency is not allowed. The Horse Phenomena staff will occasionally sell game currency and game accounts.
  2. To sell upgrades, please do so on the upgrades page. You are not allowed to sell upgrades anywhere other than the upgrade page. Players are not to sell upgrades for other games on HP.
     
  3. You are also not allowed to trade HPD for another game's currency. Certain sites do not allow you to trade their currency, therefore we cannot either.
• There are five basic accounts allowed per person, a person may own as may upgraded accounts as they choose.
• Basic accounts cannot host private shows, and shows they may have marked private, anyone is allowed to enter. Upgraded players may host private shows, and others must go on a waiting list to enter, they may accept and/or deny anyone they so choose to.
• Impersonating any of the Horse Phenomena staff and/or it's moderators will result in immediate banning of all accounts.
• Having money animals is not allowed on the game, game money can be transfered through the bank, all money animals will be deleted. This includes picture animals as well.
• Any outside scripts or programs used to cheat, steal, hack, or play automatically will result in the offender being banned.
  
  

• Please keep all pages and comments made anywhere on the game (including talk, and messages, as well as emails sent to admin@horsephenomena.com) appropriate at all times.
  
  1. No sort of swearing or foul language will be permitted on Horse Phenomena. Words such as heck and dang are not considered foul language, acronyms such as LMFAO or WTF are also not considered foul language.
  2. Filter dodging is considered swearing (filter dodging includes purposely misspelling a word or putting random punctuation in so the filters don't catch it).
• There is no sexual or cyber talk permitted. Please keep it appropriate at all times.
• Role playing is not allowed anywhere on HP
  1. You may: link to appropriate role play sites on your page and in your name.
  2. You may not: role play on the talk boards, role play in messages, advertise specifically for role plays (this means you can have an ad like "Selling Horse tickets, Two private Dog shows for sale. Also, message to role play", but you may not say "any one interested in role playing message me")
• Any inappropriate talk (drugs (including alcohol), violence, politics, religion, etc.) is not allowed anywhere on Horse Phenomena. Any racist, homophobic, or otherwise intolerant comments will result in immediate banning and deletion of account.
• Asking anyone for their login and password, or for cheats, scripts, or hacking information, or any of their personal information is not allowed.
• Slanderous and libelous talk is not permitted anywhere on game. This includes talking badly about another player in chat too, so don't do it.
• Harassment of any player on the game is not permitted.
  1. Repeatedly messaging a player with advertisements, slandering another player, or continuing to contact a player after they have asked you to stop is considered harassment.
  2. Respect for other players, including mods and admins is required. If you can't have respect for your fellow players, you shouldn't play.
  3. Speaking rudely and/or disrespectfully towards or about another player (including me and the mods) is not permitted. You can't speak to your teachers at school like that, don't talk to us like that. This includes in response to a punishment.
• Gross or graphic talk of horse slaughter, or any animal cruelty is not allowed.
• Please type in coherent sentences, acronyms are allowed but if player on the game chooses to type like this, they will get kicked out of talk or banned. (CH00Z3Z T@ TiiP LYC3 DiiZ TH3Y Wi77 GiiT KiiCK3D 0U7 0F 7A1K N BANN3D.).
• Purposefully scamming other players or linking to scam sites it not allowed on Horse Phenomena.
• No trolling, this means doing things to purposefully start a fight. (Remember freedom of speech is limited, you cannot yell "I have a bomb in my suitcase!!!!" in an United States airport without getting in trouble any more than you can talk about your politics and slam the president or another religion without getting banned from the game.)
• Do not flood the talk boards, this means more than two consecutive posts in one talk room, especially those that repeat the same message (make sure your previous posts are off the page first, scroll down!!!!). Do not advertise in non advertising channels. Chat channels are for talking, and advertising channels are for advertising.
• Scamming, hacking, stealing, or telling other players how to cheat on the game is not allowed, nor is attempting to do any of these.
  
  

• All photo manipulations must have full picture credits, not giving credits to the photographer will get the image removed from the site. Please respect this in all animal photos, layout photos, anything that you are linking to, or selling on the game. Repeat offenders may be banned.
  1. Every photo, drawing, all lyrics, poems, quotes, or text taken from somewhere must have full and accurate credits on the picture.
     
  2. This does not include fonts and brushes where the creator does not require credit, and does not include crediting the program that was used to make the art.
     
  3. All photos used in a photo manipulation must be stock photos and allowed to be used on SIM games. This means celebrity and movie photos cannot be used unless they are stock photos. If you are unsure if you are allowed to use a picture, contact the photographer. You may also ask a mod, they may know.
     
  4. If you use your own pictures, credit yourself please.
     
  5. For digital paintings, please credit your references.
• Coverup layouts are only allowed if they correctly link to ALL of the links normally in the navigation (excluding upgrade only links and mod only links).
• The stealing of any photo manipulations or the use of photos without permission is not permitted for any purposes. This includes using stock that you don't have permission to use.
• Showing inappropriate or pornographic pictures or linking to inappropriate or pornographic sites is not allowed on Horse Phenomena.
• Layouts with gore, including "light gore" are not allowed.
  1. Any graphic that shows any animal in pain is considered gore (including blood). "Skeleton" animals are not considered gore.
  
  
  

• Please keep all topics and responses relevant to the thread and forum that you are posting in. It is not a place to hold conversation, that is what the talk boards are for, keep it relevant as in "Yes, I have seen that" or "No, but I would like to go there" rather than "What's up?" or "How is the weather where you are?"
• No double posting. USE the edit button. This also means no bumping topics. There must be at least one post (by someone else) between your posts in a topic.
• The same rules apply there as anywhere else in the game, and if you are banned from HP we will do our best to keep you banned from the message board as well.
• Please make certain that all topics are appropriate, there will be no topics allowed on this board that would not be permitted on HP. (NO alcohol, drugs, sexual discussion, violence, politics, religion, etc) Anything that is offensive or does not belong will be removed and you will be warned if not banned from the forum.
• Any racist, homophobic, or otherwise intolerant comments will result in immediate banning from both HP and the message board along with the deletion of all accounts belonging to the user.
• Chat speak will not be tolerated on the forums. Please continue to use plain English, please do not post in other languages.
• One person per account. You must use your HP name when registering on the forum and you must have your main account number in your signature.
• Please respect other people and their opinions. Even though you may not agree doesn’t give you the right to say anything like “you are such an idiot there is no way that’s possible” do not put down other players.
• Harassment, Slander, Libel will not be tolerated on the forum. If it is found you will be warned or possibly removed from the forum if you continue to harass others.
• There will be no trolling allowed (no personal attacks, no posting topics just to start a fight with other members) 9. Please respect other people and their opinions. Even though you may not agree doesn’t give you the right to say anything like “you are such an idiot there is no way that’s possible” do not put down other players.