User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Tips for being a great admin/@comment-5139498-20121025235029/@comment-20644-20121029181246

@Cruentus -- I agree that rules are needed. Just remember two important things about that:


 * 1) Be polite and fair in how you enforce them. There’s strict, and then there’s aggressive, pushy, and controlling. Be sure not to cross that line!
 * 2) Don’t have too many rules that aren’t entirely necessary. You want to avoid instruction creep, with instruction creep being the tendency to have rules for everything you may want to have some level of control over. Too many rules can overwhelm new users, especially if they’re suddenly bombarded with warnings about so many different rules.

@Dino -- good advice!