Hand holding is oft required..

Guess who didn't read the FAQ :P

Yeah it's so dumb to have it right at the top of the forum where people go and ignore it and ask their stupid question anyway.

If we really want people to read the rules, we should enforce some law or social norm requiring people to familiarize themselves with how a site works and what is allowed/disallowed before using the site.

We could call it common sense. (=

Ignorance of the rules doesn't mean that people are exempt of them.

The staff of Steamgifts can't literally force everyone who signs up to read the rules, even if they made a dialog box that popped up when you first sign up that forces you to scroll through all the site rules people still wouldn't read them and then they'd complain when they get suspended for breaking a site rule.

It's the same on basically every other forum/site that I've ever been to (and over the last 15+ years of me moderating different sites that is A LOT of sites).

Ignorant people will never change, the best we can do is mark rule breakers and move on, posting about it directly at them does little to remedy the situation, it usually makes it worse/causes a flame war to erupt. Just treat them like the children they are and completely ignore them.

JERRY?