Some highlights of the guidelines changes:
- I've gone into a little more depth on the inappropriate content guideline.
- The filter that prevents some inappropriate words from being posted now flags triggering posts for further review. This is partly to help me get a sense of how often the filter is triggered and partly because I think the "don't bypass" rule is one of the most often broken rules. I hope this will give me a better sense of how these rules work with the community.
- Consolidated the anti-spam rules
- The emulation rules are more concise
- More depth on the disrespect/inflammatory rule
- Separated and added much more depth on the copyright infringement and plagiarism rule. The plagiarism rule in particular is subject to further revision based on community input.
On enforcement policies, very little has changed but a few things are stated more clearly. The biggest change is that I have recently begun using a new warning system. It is a little more generalized than I would like, but I'm going to try it out for a while because it may save me a little work. It gives everyone a "warning count." The warning count is just how many warnings you've received in the new system (older warnings are still noted elsewhere).