When a new member signs up, they should automatically get a pm telling them to go to the thread where the rules are posted with a link there.

Then they cannot post anywhere else until they have posted in that thread saying they have read the rules or pm'ed to say they've read the rules or something, or are restricted from seeing any of the other sections apart from the Introduction one where the rules are.

Is there someway to do that?

I know it wouldn't force them to read them but at least if they say they've read them then later on if they break the rules they can automatically get first warning, and if they complain they didn't know they can be told that they said they read the rules when they signed up, so can't use that they were new and didn't know as an excuse.

What do you guys think?

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Very good idea - Stops new muppets from posting spam ect. and trying to get out of it!

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Admin could easily do the auto PM, however not the post thing.

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Anything to help cut spam is a good idea, so yeah a good idea...

The hard bit is getting the members to follow the rules.

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When you join up to the forum they is aleady some terms. You need to agree before you can join! You could always edit those.

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Well yes, I see where you're coming from, but I doubt they'd really read the rules, they would open the topic then say they've looked at them - They wouldn't read them??

Let people look at the rules when they want and if you see someone breaking them, tell them to go and look at the thread

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I think it is a good idea to send them a pm with the link. When i was new i wasn't even aware that there were any rules so at least if you give them the option of reading them by making them easly accessible then i reckon it could be benficial to some. Even if they couldn't b bothered reading them then it's ok, they'll come back later when they realise that they need to read them

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well done stacface, an excellent idea to keep the forum much better and safer from spammers

In progress just deciding on what the auto-PM would contain

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