Board Thread:Community Decisions/@comment-1536954-20160519054738

For quite some time now, possibly due to the increased vigilance of the administrators in recent years or due to what may be a larger influx of new users on average, there has been a severe problem concerning new users not reading the rules when they join the wiki, which has in nearly every instance resulted in them violating the quality control policy and in some instances, regrettably resulting in them being banned for their lack of compliance.

The administrators have implemented a great deal of measures to combat this, including links to the rules on every major page a user will encounter, a notification on their talk page as soon as they make an edit, quality control templates clearly assuring users to read the rules if they neglect to take them into account, and etc. Just today I edited the template:welcomemessage to have large, red font stating as clear as day to read the rules or risk a ban.

So the question I'm asking here is: why isn't it doing anything? Why aren't users reading the rules? Why is it that as soon as they get a slap on the wrist when they break them, they often don't do anything about it?

I'd really like the community at large to comment on this issue, perhaps providing your own editing experiences, suggest solutions, and etc.

This is a major issue that needs to be resolved. 