What's with the new resource rules?

[PurplePoot]

They're so vague that it's pretty much impossible to tell what's allowed and they give almost no specific criteria for the resources, when the resources will in fact be graded on these criteria.

 

[Zombie]

The whole new rule setting is based on some thing called "common sense".

Too bad I never really heard of it on the internet.

 

[PurplePoot]

The problem with that, other than people not actually following common sense, is that resources often have rules not generally related to common sense (copypasta rule for skins, no cJass [unless this was changed recently] rule for spells, etc). Unless all of these were removed (and I have reason to believe they weren't) this is problematic.

 

[General Frank]

Well, I always wanted to have hard fact what you are allowed to upload and what not, but we decide to make the rules more transparent.

 

[PurplePoot]

These are way less transparent; transparency means revealing how you do things, and by removing any hint of what the actual rules are you have totally removed transparency.

Edit: For reference, I see that there are more detailed pages in the background, but I am referring to these pages, which are the first I came across when looking for rules, and I didn't originally think to click "Full resource rules" since the link makes it sound like it goes to the links for model, icon, etc, rules.

 

[Deleted member 157129]

Yeah, that "summary" of the rules is ridiculous. There's no indication of what's allowed and what's not, besides it being finished, coloured and shaded. It pretty much makes it the moderators job to tell people what the general rules are.

Not to mention it looks very little serious or important. It looks like an interviewer has gone about asking people what they think are the rules for submitting skins, and then picked the most popular ones.

 

[Pyritie]

afaik it's a tl;dr version

 

[PurplePoot]

What's the point of a tl;dr that doesn't give any information and yet is misleading?

If people don't want to read the rules then they can skip the rules and suffer the consequences. I doubt those summaries will help.

 

[Ralle]

We have two threads about the same matter in this forum. I gave my answer in the other thread.