Suggestion: Please change/update the rules a bit

Question

So if you're in the Discord server, you'll know there was just a conversation about dupes and stuff. It was asked if there was anything about dupes in the rules- I just read them and couldn't find anything about it.

As everyone probably knows, there has been a lot of BA-selecting by the Mods. BAs are an important part of Pokebase from what I've seen, and adding selecting a BA to the Pokebase rules would probably help this. This is currently the only thing about BAs in the rules as far as I can tell:

You can also select one answer as the best by clicking the tick icon. This would usually be the highest-voted answer but it can be whichever you feel answered your question best or explained things more clearly.

So I humbly ask Pokemaster to add these things to the Pokebase rules/general netiquette:

1. No duplicate accounts. Moderators will automatically ban any duplicate accounts and you will be given a warning to not make any more.
2. If an answer helped you, you must select a Best Answer by clicking the green checkmark in the top left. Choose the answer that helped you the most.

If anyone has any more suggestions/detail or anything, please leave a comment.

Comments

Oh here’s another idea:
Mabye put something along the lines of “don’t swear too much” in the rules

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I dont see why swearing would be a problem, however I 110% agree with the rules KyogrePulse suggested

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this page has started to get an influx of "younger" users, so I can understand where primal is coming from

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Perhaps something about buddyvoting as well. I think that'd be useful, and I don't recall seeing it in the rules page.

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What I’m actually talking about is when it’s been said multiple times by multiple users and I’m pretty sure mods to “chill on the swearing” when users swear too much.

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I have a very long post that I've been sitting on for months on this very topic. I want to run it through the others before I do anything with it. Stay tuned.

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Making Best Answers a rule implies that failure to select one will result in a warning/ban which is super unnecessary. Especially because plenty of questions go without having a definitive answer to call best. Forgetting to select it isn't an issue that needs to be fixed and you should be allowed to intentionally leave it blank because there's a reason that "No Selected Answer" is a browsable tab.

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Yeah I should mention that I don't agree BAs should be part of the rules either. I think it is good to make the feature more visible (which we'll do by hopefully linking https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/tag/sgt in the rules), but there shouldn't be pressure from the rules list.
I've mentioned before that I think the asker should have control, and we'll step in when it seems somebody simply doesn't know the feature exists (or hasn't returned to PokeBase since asking the question).

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I like dupes but not ba,s

I feel that would seem to force new users to select things that didn't help them or were not completely done etc. Just cause they don't wanna break the rules