WELCOME ~ BIENVENUE

LHVW is a friendly community where everyone is treated with courtesy and respect.  It is a Drama Free Zone where you can connect with friends & Historical Communities from across the Metaverse.  It is not the place to work out your personal issues with other individuals or groups and we will remove people who harass others.

LHVW is a place to have fun sharing your events, products, stories, experiences, and knowledge with other History Lovers.

Site content must be SFW (Safe/Suitable for Work).

LHVW pays for hosting on a sliding scale according to disk space.  In order to keep these site costs reasonable, Media Space is limited as follows; Regular members 100MB, Supporters 200MB, Sponsors 500MB.  To help keep our costs down, please remove stale information, especially images, on a regular basis. 

Questions about using the site?  Ask them here: Site Questions

Please scroll down to see specific site rules.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 21 Oct 2016 09:51:38AM

EVENTS

An Event may be posted for a maximum period of 24 hours:
Events such as Exhibitions which will be open over a period of weeks or months should only announce the event opening.  Events which extend over a period of less than 8 days may choose to use the Recurring feature.

Extended events may also make use of the Community News, Rules & Etiquette Category of the Discussion Forum.

An Event may be recurring:
Events with a frequency of Daily must not span a period of more than 7 days.

An Individual or Group is limited to a maximum of two Events per day:
Please try to combine events for the day & group whenever possible.

Advertisements for commercial products or services are not allowed in Events.
This includes new store openings.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 08:17:09AM

BLOG POSTS & FORUM DISCUSSIONS

Blogs are used for stories, dairies (musings), informative articles etc. In Character (IC) journals are most appropriate as are articles related to our historical timeframe.  Please categorize your blog post to help people find them.

Forums are used for everything else; they often invite discussion and are categorized to make it easier to find specific subjects in the wealth of communication. 

When in doubt, use the Forums and for the sake of better communication please don't use both if you can't decide.

Posting long excerpts of written material that is copied from other people's books and articles is not allowed.  Please post a brief "teaser" text and/or image with a link to the source material.

Advertising is not permitted in either blog posts or forum discussions.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 05:12:10AM

IMAGES & VIDEOS

Images are limited to 4 per day and are all approved by site moderators.  Please be patient with the manual approval process.

If you have more than a dozen pictures of the same theme or event, you are encouraged to take those photos and make a video with them that you can post here via YouTube.  This is a wonderful way to showcase your collection of pictures without limitations.

Images are all converted to jpeg files on upload.

Images should be no larger than 1024x1024 and are regularly converted to fit that standard.

Videos links are currently limited to YouTube.  Video sourcing may be expanded in the future.

Advertising is not permitted in either images or videos.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 04 Oct 2016 04:02:52AM

MARKETPLACE

The Marketplace is restricted to products that can be used in Second Life or other Virtual Worlds. 

Merchants are asked to limit their Marketplace discussions to their own products.

Merchants are asked to limit their Marketplace discussions to a maximum of one per day.

Woohoo!!  Advertising is permitted here.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 04:17:37AM

USERS, PROFILES & GROUPS

Users must maintain at least one Profile which reflects their unique avatar information.  This Profile cannot be used for stores, companies, groups etc.  A user may mention his/her business in their Profile Biography.

In some cases a User may have more than one Profile to facilitate their roleplay identities.

Duplication of Historical Groups & Figures is allowed. However, new users are strongly encouraged to educate themselves with regard to currently used Historical Groups & Figures and adjust accordingly. Let's face it, being one of twenty "Marie Anotinettes" can lead to confusion and will probably not be as satisfying in the long run as carving out your own special niche.

Advertising is not permitted in Profile Pictures or Groups.

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site

updated by @tatiana-dokuchic: 07 Oct 2016 04:39:56AM

Questions about using the site?  Ask them here: Site Questions

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Proprietress of Tatiana's Tea Room ~ Owner of the Provence Coeur Estate ~ Webmistress of this site