URL for community rules / welcome

[afuna]

Title:
URL for community rules / welcome

Area:
communities

Summary:
We recently added a feature where community moderators could designate a specific entry to show to community members when they join the community. I'd love to have a canonical URL, consistent between communities, to review this link.

Description:
I think that the most common use case for welcome entries like these are to put up posting rules, so http://examplecommunity.dreamwidth.org/posting-rules or http://examplecommunity.dreamwidth.org/rules would be the most logical place for me. However, it may need to be more generic, so maybe http://examplecommunity.dreamwidth.org/welcome could also be suitable.

If the posting rules are on the profile, we should either link there, or just pull in the bio text.

I think that this URL should be consistent for all communities. If there's nothing designated, then just have a friendly note to look at the bio or any administrator posts.

I'd like the post-join link to point to this suggested URL, as well, because it would be easier to go back to, for new members.

We could also link to here from the profile, but only if there's a value for the posting rules entry url.

We could maybe add a link to this from the update page, if you're updating the community using http://www.dreamwidth.org/update?usejournal=examplecommunityname

Poll #1840 URL for community rules / welcome

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Should be implemented as-is.
28 (70.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (7.5%)

(I have no opinion)
6 (15.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

+1