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Odd questions that I was considering and popped over to thedonald to see what their thoughts of us comming onboard; the reception seems mixed at best.
One valid point that was brought up was that we need to consider how we are going to determine rules? do we have a timeline for when the temporary rules are revised? Have we discussed a system by which the community will be involved in those rules coming about?
Another question; with KiA being present we need to consider that we will draw more attention to this domain; which means we may be making problems for them as people with a ideological axe to grind try hard to get the domain cancelled - so we need to consider how to deal with that not just as mods but as a community.
I don't know maybe I am rambling but we really need to start thinking proactively because reactionary responses brought us here and generally got peoples knickers in a knot.
Are you going to roll out the revised rules all at once, or update the ones you're done working on first?
Considering first impressions and all that, the latter approach might have some merit.
Our initial rule post has the first draft of the rule adjustment. Several rules have already been thinned down, and as we get things sorted out and worded properly internally, we will likely make a couple updated posts to clarify what has changed and (when possible) why. Given that we don't have too many rules by number to further update, we will likely make announcements of updates either in collective batches, or in stages (Rule 3 may take a few revisions as we see what needs changing, what we may have failed to account for, etc.).
While we do want all the rules in one easy-to-find place, a big thing holding us back a bit is that we need to do some additional legwork behind the scenes to get our CSS, sidebar, and potentially a working wiki setup for more detailed rule explanations where people can just click one link to read them more fully for those who want to understand what the rules are and why they are written the way they are. Just having a sticky post at the top of the sub with the rule changes edited in isn't nearly as effective at it might seem, given that any updates/changes will not necessarily be obvious to someone who is skimming the front page.
That sounds good. As far as the sticky goes, can you edit the titles of threads here? If so, having a revision number in the title could help until you have the rest set up. If not, might be a good idea to suggest that to the .win admins, considering how that was a problem at times on reddit.