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Metafawker wrote:

That's the response to the first part. They're notified the moment they make their first edit on their talk page via an automated message.

As far as making the rules stricter than CP, that's something I want to avoid, if I can. As far as rules that are really long, our rules, hell, even Creepypasta Wiki's rules are extremely light.

After first becoming an admin, I gave the rules a good old fashioned overhaul. More rules were added, yes, but mainly, existing rules were specified and clarified. The reason they seem to be stricter is because it's no longer vague as to what constitutes what.

As well, upon violation of a rule, we often do only give warnings, unless it is something such as adding admin only categories or Pointsgaming.

My issue lies in what often happens after warnings. Or when people violate a rule multiple times over that is a no warning. For example, three people in three days have been blocked for pointsgaming. Two of the three had a large history of doing so and both have been told they will be barred permanently if they do so again.

Now, that may not seem like a big number. But, it is. People emulate people. Their actions could say to another new user "Hey, I'm allowed to do this." Next thing you know, we're in a desperate need to clean up, again. I personally think that some people won't even pay attention to the system message stating the rules, so I had been thinking of something that can stop em' from not reading the rules.

Now I remembered: people will recieve a large message when they come to the wiki for the first time, which it usually appears to everyone who makes it for the first time. If they had not read the rules, a warning message would appear. Here's a trick: the user may go to the rules, but when they make it to the page, then they will instantly go to a different page in this wiki, not minding the rules, so there is a time period setted up in case the user ingores the rules.

Now that I am thinking more into it, I feel it's a stupid and horrible idea, I do not even know why I wrote this... It would require a lot of user right changes, at least, and it's also unnecessary.

On top of the System message, the rules are posted generally all over the place. That means users are, plenty a time, reminded to read them.