Staying on Topic

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What This Means

Staying on topic means keeping your posts, wikis, and, depending on the chatroom, your messages pet rat related. Here in the PRA community, we want to focus most of our content on our lovely rat friends. Additionally, we do have an off-topic day in which you can post off-topic content, which will be announced. Off-topic posts and wikis include but are not limited to:

- Posts/Wiki's about other pets (without including rats)

- Posts/Wiki's featuring dead rats or rat traps (Also falls under explicit content)

- Posts/Wiki's about something completely unrelated to pet rats

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Posts and Wiki's

When you're making a post and/or wiki to share with everyone, make sure it's related to pet rats in some way. It doesn't have to just be about rats themselves, but it does have to be d with them. For example, you can post stuff about your rat cage or toys without including a rat in the post. This can be done in the title, body, or picture portion of the blog. However, make sure each post section is at least somewhat connected to each other. As such, you cannot have a post that's completely unrelated to rats in any way but include a single photograph of a rat. In fact, this post will still be considered off topic and taken down.

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Chatrooms

This entirely depends on the specific rules for each individual chatroom. Some hosts will require you to stay on the topic of the chatroom, but not all. To find out if a chatroom requires you to stay on topic check out it's welcome message. As for the official chatrooms, such as a main one, it's okay if you get off topic, however we encourage the majority of discussion in the main chatroom to be about rats. As for private group chats, it's up to the organizer to create the rules. We cannot moderate private messages and private group chatrooms, and as such the on topic rule will not be enforced in them.

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Consequences

The consequences for not following the off topic rule depend on the severity of the off topic content. If the content is explicit and violates other guidelines, you may be given a strike or even a ban. However, if the off topic content is harmless, the post will be taken down and you will be messaged privately. If you continue to post off topic content after being told not to, you will continue to have your posts taken down and punishments will gradually get harsher.

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Conclusion

Please try your best to stay on topic in this community. As mentioned above, we do have an off topic day that occurs about once a month, usually on the 10th, when you can post off topic content. As a rat centered community, if we allowed others to post off topic content we could loose content about the one thing that connects us all - rats. If you have any questions or concerns reguarding this guideline, feel free to comment or message a .

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