Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5961377-20150816043324/@comment-27980194-20160810224340

Bumping this topic both for the sake of continuing discussion on the current rule revision (assuming of course it still needs to be discussed, though it looks like for all intents and purposes the discussion's dead) and to perhaps propose some more revisions I'd like to see made.

One rule i'd like to suggest a revision to is the whole thing concerning personal information. I understand not being able to ask for personal information, however the whole second part of it, which states that you should not give out your own personal information just seems out of place. The fact that's it's pretty much disregarded by just about everyone I met on the chat (at least in terms of giving out real names) makes it seem like that it's more or less a recommendation to not give out your own info rather than a hard limitation. However given that it's placed alongside other rules such as "don't spam" and "don't flame", which are absolutely hard limitations, it can become confusing and even misleading, especially to newer users. My proposal would be to either seperate the two clauses and make it a reccomendation that you don't give out your personal info, or just to remove it entirely for the sole purpose of clarity.

Another change I'd like to propose is concerning the embedding of images and videos. While there's nothing really intriniscally wrong with embedding images and videos, it can be difficult to realize just how much space they actually take up for some users, along with it being hard to realize that even a small number like 2 images being embedded can come off as being ridiculously obtrusive and disruptive. For the sake of clarity, I'd like to propose either a seperate rule, or just append something along the lines of "Don't embed images or videos in bulk." to our current spam rule.