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View submission: Improvements to subreddit rules
Why limit it to 10 rules? A lot of subs refuse to use it because we need more than 10. And 500 characters is nowhere near enough space to explain the rule.
You can't expect wide adoption when you give us such crappy restrictions.
Comment by powerlanguage at 15/02/2017 at 20:39 UTC
11 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Basically I see this as a trade-off between defining rules that users will actually read vs all the rules that mods *wish* users would read.
As I mention in this comment[1], the goal of `/about/rules` is to have a version of the rules that people *will actually* read and that we can use throughout the site. I am aware that a lot of subreddits have very specific requirements, in which case I encourage you to treat these rules as a summary and link them to a wiki that has the detailed rules fleshed out.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/5u9yh8/improvements_to_subreddit_rules/ddsg1ir/
Comment by Bardfinn at 15/02/2017 at 21:03 UTC
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So, if you need more than ten rules, you make ten Rule Categories, with a brief description of each category, and a note that says "See the Wiki for a Full Breakdown of the Rules.".
The point of being able to show these Rules and the brief description is so that people who are wanting to contribute meaningfully to the community have a few gentle reminders, and so that people who accidentally derail the community have a path to righteousness, and so those who *intend* to disrupt the community have plenty of rooe with which to hang themselves.
Just … don't be /r/news' "Post Title must be *taken from* the article" rule, where half their moderators believe it means "Must Be Exactly The Title Of The Posted Article", and the other half understands it means "Don't Editorialise Your Title".
Edit: NVM y'all already covered it.
Comment by OktoberStorm at 07/03/2017 at 03:15 UTC
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To be honest a lot of you need to reduce the number of rules and the words in them.