Tl;Dr. I suggest changing the rules and offer to help.
Hi, I'm SellOut and you're listening to rants-about-rules. Have you ever joined a server with tons of rules that are hard to read? Me too. It sucks. That's why I decided to stop complaining and start suggesting! This isn't trashing your rules it's fixing them, this isn't changing the community, it's tying the community together, this isn't deleting all your rules, it's making them clear and understood.
Your rules are too long, too repetitive, and for me, hard to read. How do we fix this? Well, we need to cut down on the number of rules. Your official rules currently have 30+ rules, 6 total posts (including the main one). That's 15 too many! Maybe even 20 too many. I'll be laying out my idea for the rules then after that I'll explain what I did differently and why. I've been trying to figure out a way to explain it but I think showing would be the best.
CHAT RULES
- Respect staff, players, and the server.
- No bullying, homophobia, sexist, racist vulgar comments or rape jokes.
- Keep things civil
- Do not abuse chat
- This includes flooding chat, bypassing filters for chat, cussing an extreme amount, abusing chat related commands, spamming chat, commands, TPs, warps, or log spam
- No advertising in any form.
- This can include; advertising social media(FB, SC, Twitter, Insta, etc.), advertising other servers by giving out the IP, name, or saying "let's join that other server" - it doesn't have to be by name.
I just did all the chat rules I could find in the rules. I tried my best to keep them short, clear and with explanations where need be. I thought the civil part may be a bit unclear however I'm not sure. If it does need further explanation then I would've just said something along the lines of "Do not argue in public chat and keep political talk to a minimum." The "abuse chat" part sort of broadens the term more than most may like however I felt having the "this includes" part is enough instead of making each one separate.
While I disagree with something like advertising (and it was the hardest to do since it has so many forms) this thread isn't for removing rules it's for making them easier to read and understand, and cutting them down.
I didn't get to all the rules like I was planning before making this but I hope this gives staff an idea of what I am suggesting. I'd be happy to help in any way with the rules if you guys need that if not then I'm happy to just suggest taking a look into making them easier to read for players.
Also for the love of God and all things holy NUMBER THE MAIN RULES, BULLET POINT THE ONES THAT GO TOGETHER. Thank you.
-S3llOut
