Having a welcome message explaining some of the rules will help a lot and stop a lot of people getting banned and mods wasting their time on handling things that people should be aware about.
As I'm sure you know (since you posted in the thread), theymos wrote a welcome message months ago (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5036308.0). I'm not sure why it hasn't yet been implemented. I also made the suggestion in that thread that the message should include both a link to mprep's rules thread, as well as advice to read the stickied threads on each board.
Also, I don't think the software would need to be modified to display warnings either as we already have (or did have) warnings at the top of Investor based games (I think it was there, but doesn't seem to be anymore).
The warning is still there, but you have to actually open a thread on Investor-based games to see it.
Yeah, you're right. Thanks. Shows you how long it's been since I clicked a thread in there. A welcome message should be made a priority as it will save a lot of time from staff and also a lot of users from being needlessly banned. I think theymos' proposed message should be trimmed down with only the most important rules and the rest of the info being linked to in another thread so people can read that if they wish. I think in addition to having those warnings shown all in red in each sub board as a reminder would also help a lot. Nobody would have excuses for breaking the rules then. Maybe once you hit a certain rank then you can toggle them off if people find them annoying.