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Workshop Rules - READ BEFORE POSTING

  • Member
    August 12, 2016

    The Workshop is a group for members to post their work in progress (WiP) content, either as a place to save it to work on later, or to open it up to community feedback before it is posted in full.

    Deletion

    WiPs that have been left alone for over two weeks will be deleted. Simply leaving a comment on your WiP once every two weeks is enough to keep it from being deleted. This ensures that WiPs in the Workshop are still being worked on and not abandoned. If, however, you need to leave your WiP alone for more than two weeks, let the hosts know. You can also put your content "on hold" for an extra month of protection (six weeks in total). To leave your content on hold, simply add "(On Hold)" to the end of the title. For example, "WiP Character Build: The Destroyer (On Hold)"

    Furthermore, in order to keep the group tidy, we ask that you delete your WiP from the Workshop once it's finished and posted in the appropriate group or if you decide to stop working on it. Please note that in order to properly delete a discussion on the site you need to use the top Delete button next to the Rename button, not the one below it.

    Once you've finished your WiP and posted it in the relevant group, please inform us via the Workshop Success Corner, which will give you a chance to have your work featured in the group, on the front page and in the forums. It can be a real boon to your work and give it more attention, but without letting us know that you've finished your work it is unlikely to get a Workshop Success Story. Please don't confuse this with the Workshop Feature Corner, which features ongoing WiPs.

    Title Conventions - WiP's

    To give people an idea of what you are working on please title your work appropriately for where it will be posted when it is finished. Furthermore, note that you can make certain tweaks to these titles accordingly in order to better reflect the nature of your WiP, such as "WiP Event Build: The Destroyer", "WiP Roleplay Profile: Ironbeard Fistrock", or "WiP ESO Tip: Become Super Overpowered". The hosts may adjust the title of your WiP as necessary to better reflect the type of project it is.

    TES Groups

    Skyrim Character Building – WiP Character Build: [project name here]

    The Elder Scrolls Online – WiP ESO: [project name here]

    TES Lore – WiP Lore: [project name here]

    TES Roleplaying – WiP Roleplay: [project name here]

    Skyrim Tips and Tricks – WiP Tip: [project name here]

    TES Classics – WiP [game name here]: [project name here]

    Fallout Groups

    Fallout Character Building – WiP [FO3, FNV, or FO4] Build: [project name here]

    Fallout Hub – WiP Fallout: [project name here]

    Miscellaneous Groups

    The Gateway – WiP Gateway: [project name here]

    The RPG Group – WiP [game name here]: [project name here]

    Modder's Conclave – WiP Modding: [project name here]

    The Story Corner – WiP Story: [project name here]

    The Art Group – WiP Art: [project name here]

    Title Conventions - Collabs

    As well as running WiP's, the Workshop is also the place to go (at the moment) if you want to work on a collaboration project with other members of the Vault. To keep this process slightly seperate, and to make it easier to identify whether someone is looking to Collab, there will be seperate seperate conventions for Collabs. Keep in mind, that you don't have to post a collab work in the Workshop, it's just if you'd like to make it a more open collab, rather than one with a specifc person. All other collabs can be handled in whatever way you want. 

    TES Groups

    Skyrim Character Building – Character Build Collab: [project name here]

    The Elder Scrolls Online – ESO Collab: [project name here]

    TES Lore – Lore Collab: [project name here]

    TES Roleplaying – Roleplay Collab: [project name here]

    Skyrim Tips and Tricks –Tip Collab: [project name here]

    TES Classics – [game name here] Collab: [project name here] 

    Fallout Groups

    Fallout Character Building – [FO3, FNV, or FO4] Build Collab: [project name here] 

    Fallout Hub – Fallout Collab: [project name here]

    Miscellaneous Groups

    The Gateway – Gateway Collab: [project name here]

    The RPG Group – [game name here] Collab: [project name here]

    Modder's Conclave – Modding Collab: [project name here]

    The Story Corner – Story Collab: [project name here]

    The Art Group – Art Collab: [project name here]

    Other Rules - Collabs

    Collabs do still fall under the deletion rules, but instead of a two week starting period, you get a four week starting period. This is before you put it on hold, and is just done to let you get a bit more time to see if people are interested in your project, and because it really just takes a bit more time to get a WiP started. The On Hold rule is exactly the same, you get an extra month out of it (8 weeks total) by simply adding (On Hold) to the end of your project.

    To work with the Success Stories, all Collabs that come through the Workshop will instead be sorted into a completely new Corner  so that they get seperate publicity, they are something we'd like to highlight and what better way than giving them their own corners. 

    Feedback

    To those posting a WiP: The people who comment on your work are trying to help you. They were in the same position as you once, and likely made all of the mistakes you are going to make. When they make a suggestion on how you can improve your work, they are likely speaking from a place of experience. You don't need to make changes if you don't want to or don't think it is for the best, but for your own benefit, you should approach all constructive criticism offered with an open mind.

    To those commenting on a WiP: Those who post a WiP here are looking for feedback and advice. They understand that their work is not yet ready to be posted as a full discussion. You must also understand that their work is important to them, just as your own work is important to you, and that harsh criticism will likely provoke a negative response. Please try to keep all criticism constructive, helpful and friendly.

    In General: Insulting comments will not be allowed under any circumstances. If your comment is constructive then post it, but leave any and all insults out of it. If we (The Workshop Hosts) see it happen once your comment will simply be deleted, but if it becomes a reoccurring problem then we will ban you from the group. Simply put, we like to keep things nice and relaxed in this group, so keep insulting comments and language out of it and there won't be any problems.

    For more information, check out Dragonborn's Guide to Workshop Commenting.