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View submission: Limitations of rules
The "rules" block as it currently exists was around before the redesign, but it was on its own page and you had to specifically link to it in your sidebar if you wanted anybody to see it. So most people didn't know about it, didn't use it, and did their own rules list free-form in the sidebar.
As it is, in old Reddit you still have to manually copy them into the sidebar if you want them there. CSS helps with making them collapsible like the rule box in new Reddit.
You *can* still ignore the provided rules block and stick to free-form rules, but using the block does allow for selecting from that list when reporting a post/reply and when banning a user.
Personally, I use the block as much as I can, but I also direct users to a wiki page for a more complete description of all the rules and reasons for them.
BTW, any admins reading this, u/redtaboo etc., the other day someone had an issue[1] with the 500 character limit coming up as 1800 characters present, and I discovered that the limit has been expanded to 2000 in *new* Reddit but still is at 500 in old Reddit.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modhelp/comments/fhw4li/cant_update_rules_max_500_characters_but_i_have/
Comment by justanediblefriend at 18/03/2020 at 18:02 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm aware that the block was around before, and used it before new reddit was ever a thing for reports. It is just annoying to have them be presented on the side. If there's an option to disable that, I'm down with that too.