Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24583896-20151228180650/@comment-24583896-20151228215551

Let's just start

Why the Rules Don't Work

As I've stated before, the rules reduce user freedom to nearly none at all. There are so many limitations that I'm pretty sure everyone's broken a rule at least once. In spite of their frequency, most violations go unnoticed (why do you think the hypocrisy is inevitable?).

General Rules

Most of these rules under this category are respectable, however, they are not implemented fairly. The least we could do here is state the consequence of violating one of them. As for rule 9, it's completely unfair and brash (and grammatically wrong)

Forum Policies

GDG is in violation of the first rule, but I don't think there's any use in having this one anyway. You're allowed to link to "your website" on userpages and on the navigation bar, we name our affiliates. As for the rest, we could be more lenient about them. You can't expect a newcomer to follow through with them after so little time. Especially as they see our admins on threads such as these

Userpage Policies

It is my honest opinion that this template is very dumb: Once a user is blocked, we shouldn't acknowledge them. Even rule breakers need their privacy

Chat Policies

Rules are broken here all the time. Specifically 'every last one of them to some degree. We should lay off on the expectations considering rules will be broken (and we usually report the major problems anyway. I did).

User Conflicts

For each one, all I'm seeing is hypocrisy at its worse. These need to be rewritten altogether