I've got an idea, I could include the rules in the confirmation Email!

I have an idea what If we rename the rules to: How to get your characters in SSF2.
It will still have the rules inside but the name will change.



EDIT: What Ray said.

Stupid idea. All the idiotic newfags are going to complain when they see it's only some s*** rules.



It could work, possibly. They'd still have to actually read them, which I doubt they would do.

Question.

Who here reads activation E-mails?

Honestly, all I do is open, and look for a link.

do what ray said, except do it inside the comfirmation email

Again, if you do it in the E-mail, people will just look through for a link and be done with it.

He's got a point here.

I say this, because that means that only smart people/people who read the darn things can make it in.
Who reads those activation emails? unless you hid it somewhere and made it look like normal text, I don't see how it'd work.

You cn't define smrt people.

There should be a way to "force" them to read the rules, but how?

Yeah, that's pretty much what I do

You could add Terms and Conditions and make it say 'select I decline to continue in it' it so that unless they say 'I decline' they can't make an account, which they won't do unless they've read it. If they keep selecting 'I accept', a notice comes up which states something along the lines of "we are sorry, but reading the terms and conditions is compulsory, please finish reading them." After they have selected 'I decline' have another short paragraph which just says something along the lines of 'everything on the previous page, except for <xyz> are our rules: stick to them'

Dude, we don't need s*** like this. Who relly gives 2 f*** if someone does not red the rules?

In other words, put the Rules in the email and have the activation link at the bottom to semi-force them to read through the rules first?

That's what the topic's for, obviously he does

Even though i am new, i havn't double posted, or any of that other stuff but i guess thats mainly because i am in A LOT of forums.
But one thing i do notice, is even the people who do, nothing really happens, they sort of have their post deleted or the topic locked, and get told, "Don't do that" and i know that you can get warned, but warnings don't seem to get anywhere...

I have an idea, which unlike DVDV's (even though it is pretty funny and i have seen it before) won't be annoying and stuff like that...
I have set up forums before, and i don't know how this one is exactly, but when someone makes an account, and they fill in their information:

Username*
Password*
Confirm Password*
Email*
M/F
Are you a bot*
etc.

You could add check boxes, (default is not checked) that HAVE TO BE FILLED IN TO CONTINUE asking stuff like:

Will you not smiley spam?*
Will you not double post?*
Will you not create duplicate or unnecessary topics?*
Will you not argue with mods, or undermine what they say?*

stuff like that, not having it all in one checkbox question, but lots of them. So instead of reading the first, and going yeah whateva *tick* *submit*, they have to go through them all, or at least spend the time checking them all, therefor hopefully reading at least 2 of them.