Feedback Centralized "rules" thread

[The Noise]

The Kiwi Farms has a lot of rules, but they're currently presented in a very opaque, unclear manner for new users.

Most subforums have their own "forum guidelines" header, which is alright for establishing board-specific expectations, but bad for global community expectations; i.e, only some boards have the "hide your powerlevel" or "be civil" guidelines, even though it would make sense for those to be on every subforum's guidelines.

The Forum Discussion guidelines are probably the closest thing to a consistent set of rules for the entire forum, but they're buried in a subforum near the bottom of the page and aren't immediately obvious to newer users. There are also rules established in other threads (We have to talk about you faggots not being able to figure out thumbnails, Principles Of The Kiwi Farms, etc.) that are never mentioned in any guidelines section.

I'd like to therefore draw on old-school forum design and propose a centralized "rules" thread placed somewhere prominent, likely at the top of the front page of the site. This thread would merge all of the rules of the Kiwi Farms into one centralized location in a place where new users could easily see it and understand its purpose. For subforums that have their own unique stipulations (i.e Articles & New's title and and citation rules), those could continue using the guidelines header text.

Pros	Cons
New users can immediately and more clearly see what the general expectations of the site are Opportunity for the thumbnails tutorial to be front and center so Null's blood pressure stops rising when people insert full size images Dispels notion that Kiwi Farms is a lawless shithole like /pol/ or the ten thousand other attempts at "free speech" networks	I'm not actually sure if pinning a single thread to the front page is possible? If not it'd probably have to be its own subforum

 

[Null]

nobody fucking reads that shit.

 

[crazedaze]

Good luck with this doubt it'll change anything

 

[The Noise]

nobody fucking reads that shit.

I get your frustration with the shitters, I just think it'd be helpful to have all of it in one place instead of scattered around the website.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

I get your frustration with the shitters, I just think it'd be helpful to have all of it in one place instead of scattered around the website.

Most people fit in fine. Only spergs, retards, niggers, faggots, and other undesirables are unable to understand the forum culture from doing a little lurking.

In fact, I think not having a clear guidelines and rules pinned thread is a good thing. Consider it a filter for room temperature IQs.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

You could narrow it down to just "don't be a fucking retard" and it would still filter 99.999% of people on the Internet.

 

[Schwarzwald]

Honestly, I kind of just do as I please at all times and know that when the mods tell me to kill myself that I probably shouldn't do that particular thing again.

I thought those WERE the centralized rules?

 

[Pee Cola]

I thought KF only had one rule; thou shalt not be a niggerfaggot.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

only some boards have the "hide your powerlevel" or "be civil" guidelines, even though it would make sense for those to be on every subforum's guidelines.

There are some subs where it’s okay to dox yourself because it doesn’t count.

 

[We Are The Witches]

nobody fucking reads that shit.

I proposed something similar here:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/kiwifarms-de-facto-rules-guidelines.197089/
The idea would be to put it in the TOS page (/terms/), or in a section in /help/.

I've linked 3 that I think are important and that if/when users don't exactly remember what the rule was, they could easily check by going to the help page, (correct use of thumbnails, use of private tags, private direct messages rules), and so that they're at least aware that something like this exists.

 

[Null]

yeah nobody reads that shit mate

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

yeah nobody reads that shit mate

Could you offer some clarity on the website being adult or not? Especially recently on MATI, you aren't really giving a clear example to follow.

You'll make crude jokes about sucking cocks and anal sex, but then punish users for relatively mild avatars and comments.

What exactly is the standard?

 

[Null]

Could you offer some clarity on the website being adult or not? Especially recently on MATI, you aren't really giving a clear example to follow.

are you fucking brain damaged?



this is what i mean. dumb fucks don't read shit. it's on every single fucking page. still don't fuckin read it.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

The farms has rules? Wild. Might give them a read one day.

 

[Tablet County]

I thought KF only had one rule; thou shalt not be a niggerfaggot.

Do you know how many users break that rule on a regular basis?

 

[Londo]

Honestly, I kind of just do as I please at all times and know that when the mods tell me to kill myself that I probably shouldn't do that particular thing again.

I thought those WERE the centralized rules?

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That's definitely a Null deletion.

Don't worry about it, I think if you're around for long enough eventually you'll be told to kill yourself. It's a right of passage.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Do you know how many users break that rule on a regular basis?

One man's niggerfaggot is another man's freedom fighter.

 

[Imposteroak]

I think I lurked here at least a year or maybe two before making an account to sperg about some nonsense. Honestly you should either lurk to get a feel for the community and its faux pas or just go in dry and take your lumps until you are either doxed or become a halfway tolerated poster.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

I mean nobody even reads the warning when you register for an account, and its right there in your face.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The Kiwi Farms has a lot of rules, but they're currently presented in a very opaque, unclear manner for new users.

I am perfectly happy with the "Rules of the Kiwifarms" being akin to Roman Laws. being opaque and oftentimes hard to find or even unwritten. If a newfag is uncertain what the rules are, they shouldn't post. If they do post and break the rules, we get to have a public lynching. Either way the forum gets good content.