I hope to be wrong
But today i didn't saw much activty, maybe new rules are littel "scary" for soeme peole, i mean it's right to put them but there are many ways in doing it.
I make you an exemple i'm the mod of one big section of an italian forum on file sharing,
783645 users , and i have changed all rules in a differnt way.
Before there was only sentences like "You can't do that" "You can't write that" i instead didn't gives orders to people, i made a friendly Page whit nice images.
I didn't use any kind of words who seam "imposition", but i write down things as adivices, tring to involve people, telling them this is you forum, i don't think you like to get inside and have fights, as you don't like to have fights in real life.
People feels more at home this way, on the net nuts are everywhere, but i consider them as childs, i don't impose things to them, i try to make them understand they are wrong , if they persist or are just nuts, i press the magic BAN button
![Stick Out Tongue :p :p](/xf/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png)
and it's over whitout stress, arguing whit nuts has no sense.
I don't want to teach anything, but when you make a rules for a forum or a webpage there is one important thing to keep in mind, people don't read, i have stats that show that people read an avarage of 10 lines then close the page.
Google made a reserch only the 32% of users goes after page 1, so or goole is perfect or people want to find everthing immediatly.
Another aspect is this people don't have time, this is why when i design a webpage, like a Photoshopping service i just put a lot of image no explanation except for privacy rules , basically is the same i done whit the forum, i alredy know that people don't read a crap, so i put image i accept mistakes if the user is respectful it's fine, if not as i said BAN.
Cheers
Jack