ourwwworld pilot game: player rules

The pilot ourwwworld game will run under my stewardship as moderator and financial manager from September 1 - November 30 2008. This is a private, invitation only game that players agree to play for 3 months only. When the pilot game has ended, you get to keep your blog (and 100% of any income it continues to generate), and do whatever you want with it.

During the pilot game period, we all get a share of advertising revenue generated by the content of our own wordplays; plays and diggs earn us points in competition with each other for extra cash; and 40% of everything the pilot game earns goes to Life in Africa.

During the pilot game period, we agree to play by the following general rules:

1. Two correctly completed plays per week keeps you in the game, but you may play as often as you can. You may skip a week and stay in the game as long as you completed at least 2 more than the required weekly plays during the previous weeks. If you fall out of the game by falling behind in your weekly completed plays (ie, week three is over and you only have 5 plays completed), you forfeit your revenue share for that whole month to the cash prize pool.
   
   
2. No post may include the word “click” or verbally encourage visitors to click on any link in the post or on the game blog page. Players also agree not to ever click on any of the advertisements appearing on any ourwworld game blog.
   
   
3. Keep it global. Players may not mention the name of ANY country or continent in their game posts. City names may be mentioned.
   
   
4. Players agree to only discuss game rules, procedures and strategies with each other in public, at a ned.com discussion thread established for that purpose.

Any violation of these 4 simple rules (or any other abuse of the digg.com, blogger or adsense terms of use) will result in your being eliminated from the game for the rest of the month, with your revenue share forfeited to the bonus pool for winners.