I’ve always like the the pithy advice “you have to know the rules to break the rules” which I do consider valid in many domains.
Before I let users break generally good rules like “explain what your point it up front”, I want to know that they could keep to the rule before they don’t. The posts of many first time users give me the feeling that their author isn’t being rambly on purpose, they don’t know how to write otherwise (or aren’t willing to).
I’ve always like the the pithy advice “you have to know the rules to break the rules” which I do consider valid in many domains.
Before I let users break generally good rules like “explain what your point it up front”, I want to know that they could keep to the rule before they don’t. The posts of many first time users give me the feeling that their author isn’t being rambly on purpose, they don’t know how to write otherwise (or aren’t willing to).