Chat rules / guidelines

Chat guideline

 * When you sign up you fill out an 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 would like to change something after signing up, reach out to a mod and we will change things for you.
 * The "secret" 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. Read more about this in claim rules / guidelines.
 * The mods then pair people off based on the overall scores and you get an email with your partner(s) and their contact info.

Chat rules

 * You must log in with your assigned secret name at least 48 hours before the chatroom meetups in order to be eligible for this round. Please aim to be logged in by that Wednesday. Failure to log in will count as you having dropped.
 * Behave. Talk nicely. No phobic talk towards people, races, gender, sexuality or the likes. No hitting on your partner.
 * The mods have access to all the chats at all time to ensure people are behaving via a mod account.
 * 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 your partner accidentally figures out who you are.
 * You have to message all your partners at the least once during the weekend.
 * Standing up a match by not communicating 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 knows what they are signing up for if they choose 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, gen included, 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 updated 2nd july 2020