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You know, I just joined the Kerbal Space Program forums and they use IPBoard too. But it amazes me how much more constructive the community is there. In these forums we have only 1 forum topic that explains the guidelines, which in contrast to the like, 6 pages of KSP guidelines it really baffles me.

Not only they explain obvious stuff you shouldn't do (spam, post pornography, racism), but it also explains the user-to-user relationship that is expected to come from any person joining the website. Completely normal things here can result in a warning point in the KSP forums. If you were to post something like "ew... fad... please don't post this" then that would result in a warning point. If you were to post something like "nice", then that would get deleted by a moderator. The forums expect you to write something much more constructive and descriptive than just "nice wallpaper" and to be nice on the way you say things (AKA don't be rude), something that is so common in here and most people get pissed off when newbies don't react in the nicest way. And of course, discussing politics over there is completely prohibited. You can't share your opinions because it's explained it's not the place to do so and it often results in walls of text of arguing.

Things like "dude please don't post more than 2 statuses at a time" would also get you a warning point, and basically adressing any spam INSTEAD of completely ignoring and reporting it will result in punishment, something that doesn't often happens here. 

They basically tell you to shut up and be nice in your own way. Most problems we have on the forums here are adressed in those guidelines and guess what, their community is much more past those problems.

I find it interesting.