Well, we frontpagers don't exactly keep to fixed guidelines ourselves, but your transparency idea sounds compelling: I may collect all the loose spamming, banning, ratings abuse and community policing policies onto a single page with intro text. (But certainly not before Tuesday, when I have my oral exam.)

There should be a suggestion for ´new comment´ users that jumping into a thread without reading it all, is running the risk of looking foolish and losing credibility, especially when judging, or ´correcting´ another.   The reading and staying on the appropriate topic mode shouldn´t need to be repeated.

Also sounds reasonable. Do you mean as addition to the ETiquette page, or the FAQ or NUG itself? (Again, I'd do this later next week.)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.