This is such an underrated point. When your rules are buried in a wiki, people genuinely can't find or understand them, so they just post and hope for the best which means way more removals and modmail for you to deal with. The clearest most accessible rules always create the least moderation headaches. I mean seriously I've clicked on some rules that are just written like legal documents.

Oh is that why every sidebar is empty

Where else would they be?

There are times where I'll see someone mention something is against the dbzero site rules, so I'll spend like 10 minutes trying to find and always come up blank. Like apparently it's a site rule to tag gen AI content [GenAI], but I couldn't tell you where that's written down.

Summit user: what sidebar?

And actually follow them. Seen too many bad admins/mods that apply rules unequally or even incorrectly.

Edit: If your rules aren't valid any more or don't mean what people understand them to mean then change them, or clarify.

There's a sidebar?

Imo the best method is to make a detailed post, and have it pinned, and have a summary in sidebar linking to post. if community is on piefed, you can keep detailed in wiki, and have a pinned post and sidebar both have summaries. I am a rss feed user, and a pinned post helps there (it will likely be the oldest post that will always be served)

If I can't find your rules in the app, you don't have rules. Simple as that

I genuinely have no idea what the rules are on any instance, except that calling Putin a slag will get you banned off the tanky ones.

The solution is less rules.