
Originally Posted by
Damiz
Actually I am sure the mods appreciate the help forumites give by highlighting the rules to new members. Of course some people take the term forum police to the extreme, but nevertheless, anything that helps reduces the mods workload (who are of course volunteers) can only be a good thing.
The report button is of course there for a reason, but if there was a blanket ban on forumites pointing out and directing member to the rules and instead simply pressing the report button, the mods would soon be overrun with report requests.
More often that not, the person you are pointing the rules out to is generally grateful to receive an informal notice rather than being pm'd by a mod...