Broken rules?

Mike, I've long known that new folks tend to get a little miffed and then realize the rules exist for a reason when you explain things. A very few get nuts, but they're easily dealt with.

The real problems are longer term people who simply ignore the rules, or don't give a rat's tail. Or the morons who get banned and come back in under another name, looking for a fight. Those groups are the ones who waste everyone's time.

So, I've posted the explanations above, and have prepared a boilerplate to use when someone does this. If they argue after reading the boilerplate, they'll just get a brief layoff. Regardless of how long they've been a member.

Someone argued with me earlier today about being asked not to paste a signature file into his comments in the WSO section. My response was to inform him that the price of doing that in the future would be the deletion of his most recent 25 posts, every time it happened.

If this stuff hadn't already been explained clearly in rules posts, I could see the questions as possibly being valid. I'm usually pretty patient with that stuff. But when someone who's been a member for 5 years or more argues about a clearly posted rule...

Screw 'em. They get to waste their time. Not mine.

And I get to point them back to this post for an explanation.


Paul