-StickyMations-

All the rules were why I decided not to join the public KSP community. It's bureaucratic in my eyes. Rollo's points sum up my opinion very well, the forums function well as they are. They aren't exactly the nicest place in the world but that's what you get when half the oldies bail and the community is rebuilt from a completely new group of people, creating a really jarring juxtaposition between the opinions of each side. Also, it gives us less work to do. 

Granted, for a large community, where its model is based around commercial and marketing reasons, I do feel like strict guidelines would work in that sense. Both to keep order and keep a solid reputation as a company. As well as age mentality.

However as an animation forum, where everything is basically art, opinions and criticism is accepted^(Somewhat), I feel like hiding, warning and deleting comments like the above examples would feel like censorship, and questions like "Where's the line drawn for an opinion?" "What is considered spam?" "is some opinions spam here then?" would be asked. I'd rather the forums didn't turn out like that.

And to quote Rollo "They should feel like the forums are for more than just sharing your own creations.", I think that is 100% correct. I know plenty of members here feel like home & have made friends both internally and externally here.

I also believe the forums here are actually quite lenient compared to other communities. I'm sure we all could name a few where if you broke certain rules over there, you'd get instantly banned or get your account terminated, where as here you'd get a point or 2 for that same rule. I think this system works. (Feel free to disagree, we're always open to suggestions)

On the topic of the guidelines, not enough people read the rules as it is, I feel like fleshing out the rules to much will just have people skimming it, or not even reading them.

I also disagree with with some of their guidelines, mainly 3.3 and 4.1.
Mainly the latter, while understandable, if someones account got compromised by any means here, rather then simply saying "Your responsibility, not our problem ", we'd work to prove account ownership, changing emails, passwords etc in order to give them their account back. Which I have helped with once a twice here for members.

If there's certain things in their guidelines you'd like to see here, we're happy to discuss them. And tell our reasons either for or against them.

Good discussion nonetheless. Always open to new ideas here, even when it comes to the rules.
That's allowed here.

@Emunator That's a fantastic reply. Good read. This status was mostly for a comparison between two communities that function under different rules, it's interesting to see how things work in other ways for the better or for the worse. 

Not really my intention to suggest any rule changes but it is indeed pretty cool to see how open arms and communicative the staff is and that's a good thing to appreciate. And I mean, not that surprising coming from a small community, but I guess that's also something we gotta appreciate.