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Links to MC Feedback rules should be more noticeable!

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Highlighting links to the site rules would avoid spam and great ideas to get deleted. Right now the rules aren't highlighted at all, so people didn't try to find them. By site rules I mean: Posting Guidlines, The Super FAQ, Previously Considered Feedback and Creating Great Ideas. These sections often tell the visitors what to avoid.

How to make it?

When on main site, those links shouldn't show up lower than right below green 'Help Center' and 'Report Bugs' buttons. The heading above the links should be changed - we can't keep 'Helpful Links to get Started' because people often think 'I do not need help! I can do that myself!'. We should change it to something similiar to 'That's Important! Read it!'. Background behind these links should be changed to eye-catching colour like red or yellow.

When creating a feedback, 'Try search!' section should be changed to something alike 'Read before sharing feedback!'. Background of this section should also be changed to eye-catching colour - grey blends in.

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    This a great idea for people new to the site! we need this. maybe there can be other highlights for things like " post feedback here", it could be highlighted in blue maybe?

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    Well, posted this feedback because few of my ideas got rejected and I didn't know why, so I started looking for something that could tell me what was wrong. Honestly, I wouldn't ever think that it is put in those 4 links. People like when they receive all the rules in one post - Feedback Site messed it up a little dividing the rules into 4 posts. Highlighting the rules will help everyone because even community members who visit this site since months may not know the rules.

    I agree that 'Post Feedback' also should be more noticeable, it can be a button.

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    Honestly, what I would suggest to start is simply to add a "the" that is not underlined before the "previously considered feedback" link on the grey info box thing when you are making a feedback post, since I missed it the first couple of times because on a quick glance I thought it was part of the same article linked as the "creating great feedback" because of how the underline is barely broken by the comma.  Simply adding a word like "the" between them that isn't highlighted should break up the underline and make it more visually apparent that those are two separate links and improve the odds of people seeing it with literally just adding 3 letters.

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    Maybe they have a forced portion of some extremely paraphrased feedback rules above the player's screen appear when they start creating their first suggestion, until they disable it with a "do not show again" button. I don't think this will get everyone to read the rules, but it's a start.

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    This is actually a strategy from the devs, just saying. So when you upload a post and got rejected for unknown reason, you can't post it again because it's counted as a spam. I see you devs

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    I'm new to the site and my first comment on a post actually got deleted without explanation; I almost decided to give up on the site altogether.

    It would be useful as well to be able to see the reason your post was revoked in the place of your post here on the site, highlighting the specific rule broken or being informed of your post being merged with another or added as a comment. This would also help train persons to know what to avoid in case they forget or are unsure whether or not they're committing a faux pas.

    Also, I haven't posted anything as yet but I know of other feedback sites that let you draft a post, and use what you've written as a search query so you don't duplicate past posts. If you don't find what you're looking for, you can then proceed to publishing.