Claims / chat rules

How does this chat thing work?

 * When you sign up you fill out a rather extensive form. Based on this form the mods are pairing people off to groups with people who are interested in the same ships, length of stories and genres / tropes.
 * If you after signing up would like to change something, reach out to a mod and we will change things for you.
 * The chats are hosted in slack. There is a guide to slack available for you here (LINK).
 * You get an extended weekend to chat with your potential partners. Please make sure you are available to chat on that weekend before signing up.
 * Once the weekend is over you fill out a form, rating your partners depending on how much you’d like to work with them.
 * The mods then pair people off based on the overall scores and you get an email with your partner(s) and their contact info.

Rules

 * You have to log in with your assigned secret name at latest 24 hours before chats are set to start to be eligible for this round. Failure to log in will count as you having dropped.


 * The mods have access to all the chats at all time to ensure people are behaving via a mod account.
 * Behave. Talk nicely. No phobic talk towards people, races, gender, sexuality or the likes. No hitting on your partner.
 * If you have a partner who makes you feel uncomfortable, reach out to a mod ASAP.
 * You cannot tell people who you are in the chats. You cannot share identifying details. you cannot share your chat name with anyone but the mods and only if explicitly asked to do so.
 * Talking in general is OK (“I usually like to write heavy smut” or “my speciality is dark art and I usually work digitally” is fine) and there is no penalty if you partner accidentally guess who you are.
 * You have to message all your partners at the least once during the weekend.
 * Standing up a match by not communication with them at least once will result in banning from this round of WHC.
 * You cannot tell people how you plan to rate them, even if you may have found a partner you’d really like to work with. Give everyone a fair chance, you might change your mind.
 * If you’d like to work with something emotionally heavy or potentially triggering, make sure to mention this in the chats so your partner know what they sign up for if choosing you.
 * Keep the rules in mind in terms of writing underage and real life events / catastrophes.
 * It is permitted to ask a chat partner to change topic entirely if they go on about something you have no interest in. Please do so in a nice way.

While we are a bang for every pairing in the Supernatural fandom, we cannot guarantee that a rare-pair person gets a partner. We are going to try our hardest, but keep that in mind.

This page was last updated 2nd july 2020