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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Good luck with this doubt it'll change anything
