There are ways you can get users to read the rules. Like having an automated PM sent to every new user either containing the rules, or having a link to them. And in a few I've been to, they've done something like what Blizzard does with their terms of agreement, where you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page before it'll let you proceed, sometimes with a few questions as well.
I sent shairn a PM earlier about posting the rules here, because of all the people posting in spam bot threads.
Problem is, the rules are in every forum :C
Can't start shoving them everywhere :s
We could write a plugin for the new software that attaches a copy of the rules before and after every post, and a popup window with the rules every time you load or refresh a page.
Do that for everyone with a warning level of 2 or more.
We could write a plugin for the new software that attaches a copy of the rules before and after every post, and a popup window with the rules every time you load or refresh a page.
Also make it so it sets the user's wallpaper and screensaver as the rules and changes their windows bootup sound with an mp3 of the rules :ohmy.gif:
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Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
]Also make it so it sets the user's wallpaper and screensaver as the rules and changes their windows bootup sound with an mp3 of the rules :ohmy.gif:
Don't forget setting the person's TV to show only rules, and when they take showers/baths they read the rules.
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I sent shairn a PM earlier about posting the rules here, because of all the people posting in spam bot threads.
Problem is, the rules are in every forum :C
Can't start shoving them everywhere :s
We could write a plugin for the new software that attaches a copy of the rules before and after every post, and a popup window with the rules every time you load or refresh a page.
that would be quite annoying, and might spark a mutiny.
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join off topic IRC at #otter on esper.net, there is cake*
*there may or may not be cake
I've been banned from one forum about 6 years ago. It was a temporary ban for insulting a moderator, which turned into a permaban for ban evading. In that Time I've learned to not be a ****.
And now I dont even bother reading rules because I'm not a bad person online 4chan doesnt count shut up. so I dont need to read them. I mean if a community has a reputation for having excessive rules then yeah I wont, but we dont here.
I have not read the rules here and I think I can follow them, and I've even reported people for breaking them, spam is still bad right guys?
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Look it's big red text!
Now that being said. Ponies.
Then we would just have to figure out how to make them dream about the rules.
Inception, obviously :3
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I've been banned from one forum about 6 years ago. It was a temporary ban for insulting a moderator, which turned into a permaban for ban evading. In that Time I've learned to not be a ****.
And now I dont even bother reading rules because I'm not a bad person online 4chan doesnt count shut up. so I dont need to read them. I mean if a community has a reputation for having excessive rules then yeah I wont, but we dont here.
I have not read the rules here and I think I can follow them, and I've even reported people for breaking them, spam is still bad right guys?
Spam is always bad n-n
And so is responding to it, but to a much lesser degree :3
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Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
Nope, unless they were some sort of out of the norm rules. I have been banned once from a forum, though, cause I posted my dA page in my sig when I wasn't supposed to...:`D
I say we share it and have a nice balance of some rules.
What was that?
A snide comment, hm?
Methinks this deserves a double permaban ;3
Should've read the rules, especially the last one ;3 I'm joking, if you didn't catch that :biggrin.gif:
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Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
Only one world exists on these forums. And that's citricsquid's world, and we're all just little pawns in his game of chess. I'm just here to introduce a little... chaos. *manic laughter*
Only one world exists on these forums. And that's citricsquid's world, and we're all just little pawns in his game of chess. I'm just here to introduce a little... chaos. *manic laughter.
There are ways you can get users to read the rules. Like having an automated PM sent to every new user either containing the rules, or having a link to them. And in a few I've been to, they've done something like what Blizzard does with their terms of agreement, where you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page before it'll let you proceed, sometimes with a few questions as well.
Do that for everyone with a warning level of 2 or more.
You heard that, green and red.
Also make it so it sets the user's wallpaper and screensaver as the rules and changes their windows bootup sound with an mp3 of the rules :ohmy.gif:
Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
Don't forget setting the person's TV to show only rules, and when they take showers/baths they read the rules.
Fun forum about lamps
that would be quite annoying, and might spark a mutiny.
*there may or may not be cake
Then we would just have to figure out how to make them dream about the rules.
To read the haiku that you
Just finished reading
And now I dont even bother reading rules because I'm not a bad person online 4chan doesnt count shut up. so I dont need to read them. I mean if a community has a reputation for having excessive rules then yeah I wont, but we dont here.
I have not read the rules here and I think I can follow them, and I've even reported people for breaking them, spam is still bad right guys?
Now that being said. Ponies.
Then they'll just switch to watching TV on Hulu, skip bathing, and drink lots of coffee.
Unless you drugged the coffee so they pass out and hallucinate about the rules....
You heard that, green and red.
Inception, obviously :3
Spam is always bad n-n
And so is responding to it, but to a much lesser degree :3
Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
I do like the idea of sending the users a PM with the rules in it when they sign up. Good idea. :biggrin.gif:
Good thing you're in our world.
And in our world, there are rules.
I say we share it and have a nice balance of some rules.
You heard that, green and red.
I SAY NO. Y U NO LIKE RULES.
citricsquid is our supreme ruler, and anything he says, goes. We don't have that many rules anyways, so consider it a pre-compromise.
Bu-but-t
What was that?
A snide comment, hm?
Methinks this deserves a double permaban ;3
Should've read the rules, especially the last one ;3
I'm joking, if you didn't catch that :biggrin.gif:
Do not wallow do not stall
Time waits for none at all
Your allowance may crawl,
It may fly or even vanish
But none will seem more lavished
Than time lost to all.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
Only one world exists on these forums. And that's citricsquid's world, and we're all just little pawns in his game of chess. I'm just here to introduce a little... chaos. *manic laughter*
I'll use hax then.