newbies. Options

[*not_your_average*]

There are many, many issues to address when it comes to n00bs and newbies. That is the purpose of this thread. What different issues are we talking here? Well, for starters, I think we should impose a limit on how many posts a person can have before they can be warned. I don't think many people read the community guidelines. I know I didn't when I came in.

That's where the People Staff comes in. If a newbie has committed an offense in a topic (chances are they probably won't know it), a person on People Staff can PM them the community guidelines. After reading them over, the newbie can PM the staff member back and not only feel welcome in cB, but also establish rapport with a well-known member.

Another issue is the way newbies are treated. To be quite blunt, many cBers can be extremely rude to new people, especially if they unknowingly do something wrong. We need to clearly point out that mistreatment of newbies will NOT be tolerated, and that anyone who does mistreat newbies will be warned.

Anymore?

[racoons > you]

so is the issue here on a sort of week's leniency for newbies?

that's nice and all, but the join date for members only says what month they joined... no one is going to be able to remember exactly when every nesbe joins... that's a hellish job.

i dont see what there actually is that we can vote on here... i dont see a way to actually pin down the issue

perhaps we should just include some prefunctory in the BLs in the section dealing with warnings saying 'mods will use their discretion when applying rules and consequences to new members of the site'