It's the long-time users who should know best how GAW is moderated. Being surprised or disappointed when these well-known policies are applied to them is illogical. What is your definition of 'policies'?

We don't issue 3-day bans for first offense/honest mistakes. We apply this policy in a sensibly selective way; if the frog is new and doesn't have a lot of usernotes, we'll do exactly what you said—we'll nicely ask them to move it to daily chat. But if they're long time anons with solid reputations but still somehow for some reason can't grok what they absolutely 100% know are the long-time rules or policy around here, we just give 1-day vacations, with this well-intentioned note:

DON'T PANIC, frog! We are running out of ways to help frogs realize that low effort, low info shower thoughts like the one from your post just now belong in Daily chat please.

It's unreal how many frogs can't seem to grok this basic policy. As it is, we still allow a LOT of text-based posts. We only apply this rule to the most eggregiously low-quality, low-effort posts.

Hopefully this new "Weekly Chat" idea will mitigate this.

Want polarizing? Try your comment. It's dishonest and inaccurate.

We don't issue 3-day bans for first offense/honest mistakes. We go through phases; if the frog is new and doesn't have a lot of usernotes, we'll do exactly what you said—we'll nicely ask them to move it to daily chat. But if they're long time anons with solid reputations but still somehow for some reason can't grok what they absolutely 100% know are the long-time rules or policy around here, we just give 1-day vacations, with this well-intentioned note:

DON'T PANIC, frog! We are running out of ways to help frogs realize that low effort, low info shower thoughts like the one from your post just now belong in Daily chat please.

It's unreal how many frogs can't seem to grok this basic policy. As it is, we still allow a LOT of text-based posts. We only apply this rule to the most eggregiously low-quality, low-effort posts.

Hopefully this new "Weekly Chat" idea will mitigate this.

Want a polarizing post? Try your comment. It's dishonest and inaccurate.

We don't issue 3-day bans for first offense/honest mistakes. We go through phases; if the frog is new and doesn't have a lot of usernotes, we'll do exactly what you said—we'll nicely ask them to move it to daily chat. But if they're long time anons with solid reputations but still somehow for some reason can't grok what they absolutely 100% know are the long-time rules around here, we just give 1-day vacations, with this well-intentioned note:

DON'T PANIC, frog! We are running out of ways to help frogs realize that low effort, low info shower thoughts like the one from your post just now belong in Daily chat please.

It's unreal how many frogs can't seem to grok this basic policy. Hopefully this new "Weekly Chat" idea will mitigate this

Want a polarizing post? Try your comment. It's dishonest and inaccurate.

We don't issue 3-day bans for first offense/honest mistakes. We go through phases; if the frog is new and doesn't have a lot of usernotes, we'll dop exactly what you said—we'll nicely ask them to move it to daily chat. But if they're long time anons with solid reputations but still somehow for some reason can't grok what they absolutely 100% know are the long-time rules around here, we just give 1-day vacations, with this well-intentioned note:

DON'T PANIC, frog! We are running out of ways to help frogs realize that low effort, low info shower thoughts like the one from your post just now belong in Daily chat please.

It's unreal how many frogs can't seem to grok this basic policy. Hopefully this new "Weekly Chat" idea will mitigate this