I think there should be much more of an effort to make sure posts get put in the right place. Just today I saw a post in the OIPT forum that nothing to do with it, and should have been placed in General Discussion (of course the poster should have done a forum search for the information he was after, but that's not my point). Now it occurs to me that noobs won't actually understand what that forum is all about and so just get confused. Perhaps on top of the actual rules there should be some sort of explanation of what the OWF actually stand for and what some of the less self-explanitory forums are for, and also the Oddworld Questions topic in General Discussion.
The other thing that occurs to me is that quite often people are asking the same questions over and over, and I suddenly realise that is no proper Oddworld FAQ for all these repetative questions. I can sort that out, I've written an FAQ, and I could easily update it and put it up in the TOE construction site, just so newbies can be referred to it. I can probably do that by the end of the day.
Just a couple of suggestions. They're not rules, as such, just my observations that I'm sure you can base rules around. If you agree, of course. Perhaps a new rule could be 'Oi, noob, check this FAQ out,' or just 'Read the rules, already!'.
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