The reason people get banned is often more complex than a simple violation of rule X.
It might be, a personal attack in thread A.
Afterwards Moderator M wrote a PM to the User U and got back a message about
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But the user really was an idiot.
Than U writes a new personal attack in thread B and gets banned.
There also an issue of information assymtry when dealing with people who attempt to break rules.
Users are mostly anonymous with makes it difficult to see whether someone has a commercial interest when he posts a link.
As a result being 100% transparent increases peoples ability to trick the rules.
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Such a list might give new members a good idea of what is and what is not acceptable around here.
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I think that new members should attempt to be as friendly as possible.
Most people know what being nice is all about.
If someone doesn't that raises the question of whether this forum is the right forum for the person.