- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: x Foman123 x
I agree with Qbix. Sadly, users don't read the stickies now, and they would not read a page that simply looks like another "obstacle" to them posting as quickly as possible.
Except for those of us who happen to enjoy reading contracts and such, I doubt that you read End User Licensing Agreements when installing software -- right? You want to just use the software as fast as possible and you've seen these kinds of things 1000 times before. Well that's the same idea, I think.
It also seems like this kind of thing would be too little, too late. There are already 500,000-and-growing active members here, and they already have their own posting culture and style. This idea would essentially be telling a new user that he or she should obey certain norms, and then setting him or her loose into a forum where he or she is immediately bombarded with thousands of posts that, for the most part, completely ignore those norms.
The better idea is to change the posting culture of the busier forums by fixing to any extent possible the problems with the current users and forums. New users would then conform to the better culture inherent in the forums that they visit first. This would, in my opinion, be much more effective than having a generic introduction that most new users would skip over as quickly as possible.
while your are rite about the part where its too little too late, this idea may not be a bad one (my words not yours) the part where you said
The better idea is to change the posting culture of the busier forums by fixing to any extent possible the problems with the current users and forums. New users would then conform to the better culture inherent in the forums that they visit first. This would, in my opinion, be much more effective than having a generic introduction that most new users would skip over as quickly as possible.
that's a good idea but then when the flood of new members join after that (assuming this is implemented before the release of halo 3), they will also need guidelines to go by and this message odmichael is suggesting could help the problem, it may not solve it completely it could still help non the less.
this problem with spammers and such cant be solved with one thing, it will need many different things to take care of it altogether and this i believe is a very good way to help it.