Compulsory reading of the F-ing rules before posting...

[Stiivais]

What angers me the most...
For instance, we have a suggestions forum.
I hate opening it, just to see most new posts about very similair topics discussed before, like 4 or 5 times and search option clearly left out, just as a decoration of forum page.
Now, could we please have some sort of popup, or tooltip, or some compulsory string of data that gets shown to user, which states, THAT THEY SHOULD USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION BEFORE POSTING???
Please?

Edit: Can we also have added functionality to search function,
e.g. search only in topic's title, search in topic's replies...

[Bandage]

Ex - freaking - cactly. We need some moderating within' these threads, even though some of then seem to be quite potential and whatnot. Just a closing of a thread and a link to the prefered, right thread in the end of it. It can continue on over there with their own version of it.
A polite reminder of the rules could be nice, too.

[Fluttershy]

Just a closing of a thread and a link to the prefered, right thread in the end of it. It can continue on over there with their own version of it.

Someone already tried that and it annoyed everyone despite being in good intentions, my question stands, how do you propose that we enforce this? Simply drawing a line in the sand and putting a sign up that says "you have to read the rules before posting" wont work.

[Pulchritude]

Admins could force you to read a topic before entering a section.


They have it on vBulletin.

[Gorman]

Oh, this would be like how you have to read the ELUA/Terms of Service before you use a program/forum! Very good suggestion!

Except that I just click "I accept" on them without reading :P

[Fluttershy]

Admins could force you to read a topic before entering a section.


They have it on vBulletin.

Because that works for the ToS. Unless theres a quiz or something afterwards.

[Pulchritude]

Well you know they'd have to read it in the post, and then you could just infract them for not following the rules. :)

[Defaulter]

Hey pulch,

In relation to the suggestions section:

Iv talked with ben about making the archived version of the old old old forums public, so i should be able to get the "Do not suggest thread" over here, and re-stickied.

I think it seemed to work some-what back on the original forums,

Other then closing threads which repeat the same topics over and over (which i dont exactly think is the best solution perhaps) there isnt much that can be done.

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On the whole i agree with your OP.

- DE

[tunaspirit]

Most people just scroll down the rules and click the "I've read the Rules and Terms of Service" box.

[Gorman]

That being the case shouldn't you instead ask for a specialised system in the Suggestions subforum?

I assume we have the feature "threads posted in X subforum have to be approved by a moderator before they become public", so why not use that? If the thread is already existing then merge their post to the end of the thread (and leave a redirect)

EDIT: I like how DE supports the suggestion despite not reading the rules himself XD

[Frostified]

Suggested this already, it would be inaffective.