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Rules
Topic Started: Feb 11 2006, 08:08 PM (232 Views)
Yodaminch
Administrator
In my civics class, my teacher brought up how the US has all these laws but don't always enforce them. I feel that way about our rules. Here are the Community Chat rules. What should we do to them?

http://support.invisionfree.com/index.php?showtopic=41485
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Aaron
First Grade
I enforce them other then Sig and Avatar size unless it is 30-40ish KBs over the limite.....
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Potter
Third Grade
I think it would be nice if Seth's magic link tool was perfected as it does seem to cut-off sometimes and promoted more. :)
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Das
Second Grade
I think a main reason people break the rules is because they don't read them. They click the rules link, see all of that typing, and think 'screw this'.

I like the idea of having a quick list for those who are lazy and below it your guy's long explinations.
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Locke
First Grade
I said it once, I think within my first post around here, that I think the Rules simply need to be entirely re-written into one post. Flatten it and organize it and make it as efficient as possible; that way people can read them simply and quickly. Right now, it's a task of its own to read those rules. Accomplishing that would be quite a feat.
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Jory
First Grade
I agree, the rules are currently a bit long to fully read, but they can't get much better/shorter imo.
The problem with rules is just that its hard to get people to read them.
(Evil idea: Big red bar above the posting form and the submit button in the postform what won't go away unless you have read the rules. (6) )

What might also help is to really splitup things into different posts (in the same topic) so that (staff)members can point to it verry exactly.
(Because is they get a link go a huge topic and get told that somewhere in there, it says that they are doing something against the rules.. well.. I'd think **** ***.. :P )

And if somebody does do something against the rules, you staffies should just make a post right there, include a link to the rules stating that what the person did shouldn't be done and link to/state (potential)punishment.
Others will then see that, and probally remember it. (Especially if they see that the other offender got post disabled for a few days or such.)
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OcelotJay
First Grade
Locke
Feb 13 2006, 04:52 AM
I said it once, I think within my first post around here, that I think the Rules simply need to be entirely re-written into one post.  Flatten it and organize it and make it as efficient as possible; that way people can read them simply and quickly.  Right now, it's a task of its own to read those rules.  Accomplishing that would be quite a feat.

I agree.

I'd also probably think, to tackle the issue of finding specific areas within the rules, that the automatic jumping HTML doodad could be added by Seth (we don't have access to doHTML tags, do we?).

I refer to:
[dohtml]<a href="#1">Section 1: How to eat confetti without choking.</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a name="1"><b><u>1</u> How to eat confetti without choking.</b></a>
[/dohtml]

At the top of the rules, have a list of the sections. So we can warn someone and say "Please refer to the rules, section x." and they can jump to it. The problem I find with the HTML is that it tends not to work for IE, though it may simply be how I normally code it, so maybe it could be made compatible for all, or at least most, browsers. :unsure: I use the above method whenever I do rules on my own board and it works a treat. Makes it easier to find things too.
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DreamWiva
First Grade

ive seen this on another forum, when you do use those tags, cant you highlight a specific word? By highlight, i mean the type of highliting you get when you drag your cursor over text. This was the user can read from the selected word, would be alot eaiser than to re write the whole rules.

Im sure ive seen the code somewhere...
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OcelotJay
First Grade
I'm not entirely sure how highlighting would help...or even when it woud be used. :unsure:

Could you give an example of how or when we'd use it? I get what you mean by highlighting but I'm puzzled as to when we'd highlight something.
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Jory
First Grade
I think he means that in the link, you ad something like ?highlite=Spam is not allowed. This includes short, useless posts or excessive repeat posting

And then, on the page, that part of the text is in a <span> that makes it look different (Different background color most of the time)
Its only usefull if you with to point to a single of few words that apear on more then one place in a text tho.

About the jumping in thing:
Well, you could do that in a topic, by putting each section in a different post.
In the board rules, I beleave Seth could put <a name="blah">'s as well, if he does, linking to that would be easy.
But it probally should be made easier then forcing you guys to make different posts.
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Locke
First Grade
I really think one of the first and most important things to do is to clean this topic up, or rather trash that one and start anew. Much of what is contained within that topic is drivel and entirely irrelevant to Community Chat rules.

The magic link post and the signature/av file size post have no place in the Community Chat Rules. Those are both things that are board-wide, not just within that forum. Both are contained within the Board Rules, therefore, there isn't any reason to repeat Seth's and add Phrank's rant within a Rules thread.

From there, you can very easily combine Dan's post (minus FLUMP) and Stephen's posts into a very simply, and abbreviated format of the rules -- prohibited topics, basic rules, errata.

In my opinion, the rest is optional. Yes, it is nice to know the punishment details, but they don't have to be contained in Community Chat. The Board Rules is actually a more sensible location for those.


My point is, be brief and concise. No one should have to read the excess postage that is currently contained within that topic.
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Yodaminch
Administrator
Interestily enough, I was considering making a new topic combining everything especially now that debates go in the java hut
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