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Is it actually forums itself that give you the rush of joy, or being a part of a community? For example, do you get the same rush when you post in Facebook or on another online group?
Either? Both? But the main point is that we need to present them at the point of engagement, not bury them in some footer links or put up a wall of text. It needs to be short, easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to implement.
These are all solid and great points, that are well understood by most people. But I also want to point out that these are actually hard to do in the real world!
One of the most misleading - well intended, but alluringly deceptive - objections that I recently read on XF regarding a feature was: we shouldn't build XYZ feature, because forum users don't like / want / need things to be different. This is a person who doesn't want to evolve because he...
This isn't a direct answer to your question, but I wanted to bring up a topic that I think we're going about our forum rules in entirely the wrong way.
There are usually two levels of forum rules:
- Terms of Use that are binding and legal - This is usually a wall of text that nobody ever...
Okay, I'm going to publicly admit this took me a lot longer than what it should have to make me understand LOL
Props to you on clever security question :)
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