Table of Contents:
1. General Battle Rules
2. Voting Related Rules
3. How to Set Up a Battle
4. Definition of Terms
5. Stupidity
6. Where do I arrange battles?
7. Complaints of rule breaking?
Breaking most of these rules is bannable or DQable or both. The rules found in this thread apply to this and other battle forums (where appropriate), and override conflicting rules.
General Battle Rules
1. No ghostwriting. If someone else writes lines for you, you are banned. Ghostwriting is plagiarism. Penalty: Lifetime ban.
2. No Biting. Biting is stealing lines from other people. This is also plagiarism. Penalty: Lifetime ban.
3. NO SWAYING. Swaying is making comments about your opponent's verse, or bitching about votes. Penalty: DQ and maybe Ban.
4. No Freeposting. Freeposting is any post which isn't a check in, a verse, your 5 up's, or a vote. Penalty: ban.
5. Five up's are allowed. If you up your battle more than 5 times you are banned. If you post more than twice (counting check in's) before both verses are posted, we will count that as an up.
6. Saying "Return the favor" and other similar comments are not going to be tolerated. After your vote include your link at the end, with no other comments. Penalty: Bannable
7. Voting rings = banned for life. If you have a group of "AIM buddies" or "PM Pals" that you ask and get votes from, you are banned and they are banned.
8. If you post a link without voting, mods will follow the link and DQ you. Possibly Ban as well.
9. Do not ask anyone to vote on your battle, except by providing them with a link at the end of your vote. Do not PM, AIM, or otherwise ask anyone to vote on your battle. That is unfair
10. Do not do anything that would provide you with an unfair advantage. Penalty: Banning.
11. Don't vote on no showed battles. Penalty: banned
Voting Related Rules
1. No unexplained votes are allowed. If your vote is not at least three lines long, and the full length of the posting space, then it is not explained well enough. And our mods aren't stupid, if we see a vote which was bullshitted with filler such as "you both had good flow but I feel that since only one person can win a battle, and obviously McGunitSoldier was that one person here, although this was a decent battle and was pretty close, I am giving him my vote" that contains absolutely no feedback on the battle verses, we will ban you and DQ your vote. Also, if you quote the voters "good lines" that is ok to do, but that does not count as feedback. An explanation is necessary, if you just quote lines, or say "punches - XXX, flow -XXX, etc" then your vote will be DQ'ed and you might be banned. You can do those things but you must also explain your vote. Penalty: DQ and possible ban.
2. No crew votes are permitted. If you are in someone's crew, you are not allowed to vote on their battle. Penalty: DQ and possible ban.
3. After you vote just leave a link to your battle with no comment. Do not make a separate post and leave the link in that post, you will be banned for freeposting.
4. Do not post a vote on one name, come back, quote the vote, say you are that person, and poll the vote on another name. Penalty: Banning.
5. Do not after leaving your feedback on a battle leave your link and say "I will poll my vote after you hit this" or anything along those lines... After feedback you poll your vote... Penalty: You Will Be DQ'ed In Your Battle