If you haven’t seen them, don’t worry too much! Most members of our community go their entire Envato-lives without ever seeing our rules (that is of course unless they happen to break one of them).
We’ve been thinking for a while that it’s time we updated these rules. However, rather than drafting them in our office and then handing them to the community, we want the rules that we create and enforce to ultimately reflect the type of community you want to be a part of.
To that end, we want to work with you and collaborate on what these rules should be. What do you think should change? What should we encourage and what should we work to deter?
We’ll be following a format very similar to when we did the forum restructure project earlier last year. We’ll open the form up for feedback, listen to what people say then share our insights and action points.
As a whole I think the forum is great. It would be great to be able to filter out certain topics (item feedback and celebrations) but that’s more of a forum structure issue rather than a community rules issue.
The things I’ve seen are pretty minor, but in the interest of providing feedback:
Sometimes people will go off topic on threads when they should really just create their own threads (aka review/feedback posts in this thread ).
Certain members seem to post a lot of low-effort comments that don’t contribute to the discussion. I don’t know if there’s some sort of forum level or badge given out to people who comment a lot, but it almost seems like some people just try and pad their post quantity. I think this is generally counterproductive.
Every once and a while there’s a post that’s critical of Envato, or other authors, without providing constructive dialogue. A good community rule would be “provide suggestions for improvement rather than criticism.”
It would be cool if people could limit feedback requests to maybe once a month or something.
But really, forums are good and Envato/Moderators do a good job.
I think the forum rules are sufficient how they are right now.
In general: one must be careful not to make the rules to restrictive. Then it becomes like some sort of penal system.
Maybe it’s already in the rules, but the main course must be: not to offend people, or feel offended to fast.
The option to report people that offend/infringe (which I’ve read sometimes) is maybe a necessary thing, but as a concept I have problems with this in an ethical way. My concept is more “live and let live” and help where you can. Maybe this is what the forums should (continue to) breath. This sounds (to me) somewhat soft, but I don’t know how to put it in other words (in English).
I tried to create a theme which will focus on the tracks which were rejected , because too many new topics and they clog up our forum , but I was told people will continue to create new , why not create a theme which will be seen the tracks which were rejected . For example, if the topic What is the Audiojungle review queue length now? was not one , and everyone created a new topic as soldiers track sales or monitor , if anyone has put in a new topic as he goes sale , I think we all would have gone crazy . I propose to create a theme which will be considered rejected tracks ! And Similar Topics