Cuts both ways though - you could also have a rule along the lines:
- Any newcomer who starts with an aggressive post is fair game
I'm not being flippant - people tend to continue as they started, and if someone starts in a pugnacious manner, that's how they're likely to go on. Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing: some such posters are great fun, others just end up being PITA, and clog up everyone's Ignore list.
So, erm, what I'm saying is that the
rules should be transparent to the length of time an individual has been on the forum.
Netiquette says we should be courteous to newcomers, and likewise newcomers should settle in to take the temperature of the forum. But trying to enshrine that in rules is overly restrictive IMO.
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