So I don't know about rules.
The only other forum I have a lot of experience with is Something Awful, which started off lawless and eventually gained more and more rules, and conversations became more and more restricted.
Recently they changed it back, and it's been a lot better. Obviously certain areas of the RPC need to be heavily moderated (no shitposting in the IC areas, no shitposting on people's events), but other than that I think it's ok to just let people go wild, and just close any thread that gets out of hand.
That's sort of been the rules we've always had here, and I would be sad if we move to a more concrete set of rules.
Edit:
Oh, and they eventually had to get rid of post counts and such, because they did just breed elitism, and encourage people to shitpost just for building post count.
The only other forum I have a lot of experience with is Something Awful, which started off lawless and eventually gained more and more rules, and conversations became more and more restricted.
Recently they changed it back, and it's been a lot better. Obviously certain areas of the RPC need to be heavily moderated (no shitposting in the IC areas, no shitposting on people's events), but other than that I think it's ok to just let people go wild, and just close any thread that gets out of hand.
That's sort of been the rules we've always had here, and I would be sad if we move to a more concrete set of rules.
Edit:
Oh, and they eventually had to get rid of post counts and such, because they did just breed elitism, and encourage people to shitpost just for building post count.
