Requests

The Requests forum is where users openly ask others for content. Nowadays, virtually all of these transactions are conducted through "shops," which, despite what the name implies, does not involve any sort of payment. Federations also run threads in this forum.

The rules for what topics are allowed in this forum is rather straightforward: anything not related to asking for content from others is not allowed here. Although the Collaborations forum serves a similar purpose, that forum is for creating projects together with no ordering or any shops involved. The standard rules for bumping and necroposting apply here, with rarely any exceptions.

Terminology

 * Customers: Users who seek others to provide them with art, coding, or so on.
 * Closing: This one is obvious: it's when shops close. Sometimes federations use this term for when they close as well.
 * Disbanding: Usually federations use this term to refer to their organizations closing.
 * Employees: Users who offer their expertise in a given field (usually art, coding, and so on) usually after accepting a form.
 * Federations: Organizations that group up shops and provide them with services.
 * Forms: Most shops require customers to fill out these so that they can understand what the customers want.
 * Mergers: Sometimes shops or federations merge with another and combine forces.
 * Shop: A thread that has employees which take up forms submitted by others.
 * Terms & Conditions: Some shops go as far to have terms and conditions for customer and employee conduct.