[wp-forums] Forum Rules Edits

[Micah Cooksey]

You know, after looking through the forum rules again, most of the  
existing rules wouldn't really benefit from an analogy.  I still don't  
know if one or two might not be a bad idea, but if we decide not to  
use any at all, that would be fine.

As long as the wiki is prominently linked to, I think that'd be a  
great idea.  I like the idea of placing the link to it with the  
getting started links above the search form as well.  But again, it  
would need to be easily findable because even the existing forum  
sticky is ignored, so a codex page could potentially be ignored even  
more unless it was linked to from several places.  I think even just  
the word "Codex" could be a potential turnoff for the non-techy people  
out there which is why a lot of people post questions that could be  
found easily by simply typing it into the codex.  I'm not trying to  
say it's not a good idea, because it is.  I think we should just keep  
the prominence factor first priority.
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Micah Cooksey
micah at ronnykathy.com




On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Mark Ratledge wrote:

> I like analogies as much as anyone else, but I'm wondering about  
> keeping the forum behavior request to something simple like: "Please  
> think about how you want people to act on your own site and forum,  
> and act accordingly." And continue with "Please don't bump, or post  
> large chunks of code. You could find the answer to your question  
> faster if you search the forum or the codex before posting."
>
> Or would that approach be too easily brushed off and clicked through?
>
> And what about a wiki to hammer out the new forum rules, format,  
> moderator tips, etc.?
>
> Mark/songdogtech
>
>
>
>> Since we're here and discussing things, would anyone care to share  
>> an opinion on the post i made yesterday in relation to the  
>> registration page? :) Bad? Good?
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