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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
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pixeldesu
The wording is probably really bad for this, but I try to explain it as good as I can.

By now we have it that some forums are flooded with content that just ends up being marked as invalid or dying down anyway, creating clutter. A good way to prevent that would be guides/warnings on specific forums either pointing out a short summary of rules directly or linking to the guideline-post in the specific subforum.

An example would be Github, which allows repository-maintainers to create a file that includes guidelines for reporting stuff and people are asked to read it with an alert popping up at the top of the issue/pull request form:


I'm not sure, but I think I saw a post regarding this here already, or it was a discussion in one. If you can point me to it I'll gladly reply there, but after searching for quite a while I couldn't find anything.
Stefan
for usual the stickied threads does that already but people don't get triggered by reading them so your suggestion may or may not help.










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pixeldesu
Well, that's the point. Stickied posts are a step to that already, but having a direct information on the post page might be even more obvious to that. Yet, there still might be people ignoring it.
Pawsu
There is a request for a warning before necroing a dead post, other than that I don't think this is needed. There's always going to be those kind of people who don't read, linking the guidelines and/or directing them to the appropriate thread and locking is sufficient.
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