Oh I didnt think you were proposing them as some kind of hard set of rules that had to be followed hon.

As others have allready stated, your going to get a hundred different responces as to what different groups and partners like for this and whats most important is that you and your partners all agree on everything prior to play.

I even put some of the ones my owner has me follow in the "being kajira" thread found in the submissive's couch section of the forums.

You will however find some common ground when it comes to real life protocols despite everyone wishing to think of themselves as individuals and being unique. At least when participating at conventions, munchs, and public dungeons where there are established conducts to be followed, sometimes these are exactly the same as in everyday vanilla settings and assumed to overlap and others made specifically by the organizers of an event to prevent mishaps. Like not interupting a dominant in mid play with his submissive unless your one of the apropriate staff for that task etc.

Most of them are well rooted in common sence too.

Private affairs may have some different protocols that the groups participating in them have pre-established and I am sure will want to cover with anyone coming in to their arrangment as a guest. For instance the House in which I recived some of my early trainning had strict rules on just when and where on the property they used for communal activities one could make use of a submissive in any kind of overt sexual fashion which varied depending upon one's status within their group. Or how some of us only use the word Master as a form of address with the one who collared us until told to do otherwise.

The most common online roleplay orientated contrivances I have seen for this kind of stuff ussually vary depending upon the site they are used on. Most involve some form of distinguishing a persons status, such as lower case letters for begining a name for submissives and uppercase for dominants. probabely becuase the participants in a chat room cant see each other. Some incorperate some kind of typing style where one address everyone with A/a format. Others insist that those self identifying as submissives are not allowed to speak in chat until recognized by one of people pretending to be a dominant gives them permission to enter etc etc.

The third person speach is commonly utilized by online goreans as some kind of misguilded defualt setting. (it was originally only invented by Norman to be an example of the different ways the gorean language worked, like with japanese social status in the fictional settings of the Gor books used differing formats of speech) though I have also seen it used in real life on occassions by both real life adherents of gorean philosophies and other non-goreans alike who may or may not have adopted it from Gor to begin with. They way in which I was tuaght, it was used as a tool to different degrees in training and as a temporary punnishment, but to my knowledge it was never intended to be used exclussively or universally by anyone all the time (not even by the slaves in the Gor series), though I am sure someone out there not only thinks it was, but does so with zeal all the same becuase it suits them.