Community Guidelines

This subreddit is about creating a world together, where everyone can contribute and take from, where everyone can write stories in any genre without making it an 'alternate universe'-story. For this to work we have established the following Community Guidelines:

Everything posted and contributed to this project becomes Creative Commons licensed.
While some content creator rights are retained with regards to addition, expansion or modification of content as detailed here, you otherwise allow anyone else to use the content you contribute under a Creative Commons, Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) license. This allows people to share your work as long as they accredit you, and create derivative works for non commercial purposes. More information can be found here.

This project is not necessarily limited to reddit.
The current hub of this project is this wiki and our subreddit but this project could potentially spread to other forums, a website of it's own, blogs, etc. and might even continue to exist when reddit shuts down. People are free to publish their stories outside of reddit, be it in form of a blog entry, an ebook or even physical copies.

However, all contributions have to be checked to prevent conflict with Canon, and all edits to Canon have to follow the formal procedure.

Don't be a 'No, but'-person, be a 'Yes, and'-person.
The attitude of this project is one where people should accept what others bring to this universe and accept what has or has not been canonised. We expect people to take established canon and build off it rather than fighting it.

Criticism should be both given and received respectfully and politely.
Conglomera is a place of creative contribution and collaboration. As such, all criticism should be constructive rather than tearing down others' ideas. Likewise, content creators should be aware that everything must serve the community as a whole. Individuals must not cling to their personal ideas at the expense of the greater canon. In the face of receiving constructive feedback, the content creator should explain why he/she thinks his/her idea should be considered canon in a short and precise manner. All criticism and discussion should be made regarding the submitted idea, and never directed toward the content creator him/herself.

Collaborative universe does not necessarily mean collaborative stories.
Although the community is working together to build this universe, stories can (and will often be) the work of a single author. In individual stories the author has the last word what the story will look like, but the community has the last word whether or not they will accept the story as canon.