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Is there any way that acceptance as a member is in some way made conditional upon reading the guidelines.

I'm thinking of the <agree> v <not agree> acceptance of downloaded software - but without all the legalese. It might give pause for thought.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:12:38 AM EST
How about a big blinking "READ THE BLOODY FAQ YOU DOLT" covering the screen the first five times you visit the site? (joke)

Though, it seems to me people tend to merely skim through the ToS, if they read it at all, before clicking accept, so I dunno how one would enforce reading the guidelines. Random pop quizzes while logged in?

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm (michael<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:20:58 AM EST
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'Please read the FAQ' is certainly a good comeback in response to an unwarranted rating.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:23:57 AM EST
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Only if the FAQ is clear enough, which I'm not sure it is at the moment.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:34:40 AM EST
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Good grief - I'd better go and read it ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 09:50:20 AM EST
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How about "Read the FAQing manual"?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 04:43:53 PM EST
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You've been reading Kant again...

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 04:55:46 PM EST
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What, on Whirled Peas?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 04:58:12 PM EST
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No, it was his Critique of Puréed Treason

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 05:11:34 PM EST
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I suppose the site could be tweaked to display the new user guide at the top of the recommended diary list if the user hasn't read it. Tweaking the rec diary list is easy, but adding the "has read new user guide" toggle would require some more intense PERL coding server-side. Front-pagers should have to ability to "reset" everyone's toggle to "unread" after a major revision of the new user guide.

Just a thought. I know it's more work that I could do right now, but I also know it's not exactly difficult to do this (just annoying: this is SCOOP after all).

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 04:47:14 PM EST
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An option requiring no coding is to make the new user guide the body of a diary, and make the new user guide link point to the diary instead of the current location. That diary could then be bumped regularly [or simply after any major edit] to appear at the top of the recent diary list. If a major revision is needed and the existing comments are stale, a new diary could be created and the new user guide link pointed to the new diary.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jun 12th, 2007 at 05:06:09 PM EST
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