Make the Forum Rules easier to find

[FinalWhistle]

As a new user here, I wanted to familiarise myself with the forum rules so that I don't accidentally put my foot in it.

As a fellow forum owner running the same XenForo software, something jumped out at me when I looked for the forum rules. Clicking the Terms and Rules link at the bottom of every page just takes you to the boilerplate Terms and Rules that come with XenForo. I knew that there had to be a specific set of rules somewhere, so had a browse and found them here:

Important - Forum Rules

Ok, about time we introduced a set of formal rules for the forum: --- FORUM RULES - IMPORTANT! --- In general, we like to think that RefChat is a fairly tolerant Forum. However, there are rules and we expect you to adhere to them. Failure to do so will result in your account possibly being...

refchat.co.uk

Having to hunt for them means that finding them isn't clear and obvious to any random user, many of whom can be quite technologically challenged. Hence, I suggest making another entry under Help in the Terms and Rules section called Forum Rules that links to the above thread. This will help to prevent members from unintentionally breaking the rules through ignorance and make the moderators' lives easier with less work to do. Waddya think?

 

[Gabriel]

finding them isn't clear and obvious

No need for VAR then! But seriously, that's a good idea.

 

[Kent Ref]

As a new user here, I wanted to familiarise myself with the forum rules so that I don't accidentally put my foot in it.

As a fellow forum owner running the same XenForo software, something jumped out at me when I looked for the forum rules. Clicking the Terms and Rules link at the bottom of every page just takes you to the boilerplate Terms and Rules that come with XenForo. I knew that there had to be a specific set of rules somewhere, so had a browse and found them here:

Important - Forum Rules

Ok, about time we introduced a set of formal rules for the forum: --- FORUM RULES - IMPORTANT! --- In general, we like to think that RefChat is a fairly tolerant Forum. However, there are rules and we expect you to adhere to them. Failure to do so will result in your account possibly being...

refchat.co.uk

Having to hunt for them means that finding them isn't clear and obvious to any random user, many of whom can be quite technologically challenged. Hence, I suggest making another entry under Help in the Terms and Rules section called Forum Rules that links to the above thread. This will help to prevent members from unintentionally breaking the rules through ignorance and make the moderators' lives easier with less work to do. Waddya think?

90% is common sense 10% is understanding the Mods.

 

[santa sangria]

90% is common sense 10% is understanding the Mods.

That 10% can be tricky to navigate!

(I do like the policy of not allowing necro threads. And, as much as I might disagree with one mod from time to time, this is the best moderated forum from my years as a keyboard warrior.)

 

[RefereeX]

No need for VAR then! But seriously, that's a good idea.

Stole my joke!

 

[RustyRef]

As a new user here, I wanted to familiarise myself with the forum rules so that I don't accidentally put my foot in it.

As a fellow forum owner running the same XenForo software, something jumped out at me when I looked for the forum rules. Clicking the Terms and Rules link at the bottom of every page just takes you to the boilerplate Terms and Rules that come with XenForo. I knew that there had to be a specific set of rules somewhere, so had a browse and found them here:

Important - Forum Rules

Ok, about time we introduced a set of formal rules for the forum: --- FORUM RULES - IMPORTANT! --- In general, we like to think that RefChat is a fairly tolerant Forum. However, there are rules and we expect you to adhere to them. Failure to do so will result in your account possibly being...

refchat.co.uk

Having to hunt for them means that finding them isn't clear and obvious to any random user, many of whom can be quite technologically challenged. Hence, I suggest making another entry under Help in the Terms and Rules section called Forum Rules that links to the above thread. This will help to prevent members from unintentionally breaking the rules through ignorance and make the moderators' lives easier with less work to do. Waddya think?

Thanks for the suggestion. How do you think we can make them easier to find though? We can't change what the Terms and Rules link points at as that is for the hosting software rather than our forum. And the rules are a pinned post in the Announcements section.

Generally interested in any suggestions.

 

[OldNavyRef]

Thanks for the suggestion. How do you think we can make them easier to find though? We can't change what the Terms and Rules link points at as that is for the hosting software rather than our forum. And the rules are a pinned post in the Announcements section.

Generally interested in any suggestions.

Can you pin a post?

Make a post that is just the rules, pin it and lock it out before people start debating Zidane's headbutt in 2006 is the younger generation being too soft in the comments.

 

[RustyRef]

Can you pin a post?

Make a post that is just the rules, pin it and lock it out before people start debating Zidane's headbutt in 2006 is the younger generation being too soft in the comments.

That's exactly what we have done. It is a post that is just the rules, it is pinned, it is flagged as important, and it is locked.

 

[FinalWhistle]

Thanks for the suggestion. How do you think we can make them easier to find though? We can't change what the Terms and Rules link points at as that is for the hosting software rather than our forum. And the rules are a pinned post in the Announcements section.

Generally interested in any suggestions.

Yer welcome, RR.

You can actually add it in the styles / templates to the menu. I've done it on my forum in the Help section, for an example. This way you don't change the Terms and Rules link, but add another for Forum Rules like I've done (no limit to how many menu items you can add). When clicking on Forum Rules, ignore the wrong-looking blue colour appearing randomly, that's a weird HTML glitch that I've not gotten round to fixing yet.

Help

nerdzone.uk

You can also add a Forum Rules link to the template so that it appears at the bottom of every page, even easier to find.

 

[RustyRef]

Yer welcome, RR.

You can actually add it in the styles / templates to the menu. I've done it on my forum in the Help section, for an example. This way you don't change the Terms and Rules link, but add another for Forum Rules like I've done (no limit to how many menu items you can add). When clicking on Forum Rules, ignore the wrong-looking blue colour appearing randomly, that's a weird HTML glitch that I've not gotten round to fixing yet.

Help

nerdzone.uk

You can also add a Forum Rules link to the template so that it appears at the bottom of every page, even easier to find.

Thanks @FinalWhistle

Tagging @Ross as this is far more his bag than mine.